The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education in the school since the last inspection. Leaders have an accurate understanding of the school’s strengths and priorities for improvement. In autumn 2016, leaders launched ‘learning communities’ as a way of identifying and sharing the best teaching practice. You decided to use coaching and mentoring to encourage and support staff in sharing their expertise. Training for teaching and support staff is personalised to match what they need to improve about their individual teaching. As a result, teachers and supporting adults are becoming more skilled at matching activities to pupils’ needs and abilities. This is ensuring that pupils are making good or better progress from their starting points, particularly in English and mathematics. Almost all staff who completed the Ofsted survey strongly agreed or agreed that their training was both challenging and supportive. You recognise that the work of the ‘learning communities’ in developing best practice needs further time to become embedded across the school. The local authority decided to move the education for pupils who have more complex needs back into local authority schools, including CCfL. To help your school manage this process, there has been improvement in the school’s facilities and resources, enabling the school to offer a wider range of accredited courses for pupils. This includes courses in catering, health and fitness, and hairdressing and barbering. The facilities and training provided to staff are helping the school to meet effectively the increasingly complex needs of some pupils attending the school.