Afifah School

Overview: Afifah School is a good independent school that provides a broad and ambitious curriculum for pupils aged 2 to 16. Pupils enjoy coming to school, behave well, and achieve well in most subjects. The school has high expectations for what pupils can achieve and provides a range of opportunities for pupils to develop their skills and knowledge.

Strengths:

• Pupils enjoy coming to school and get on well with each other and with staff.
• The school provides a broad and ambitious curriculum that spans the early years to Year 6.
• Pupils typically achieve well in most subjects, including in national tests and GCSEs.
• The school has a clear overview of the impact of the curriculum on pupils' learning over time.
• Pupils who may have SEND are quickly identified and provided with adaptations to enable them to learn the curriculum successfully.

Areas to improve:

• In a small number of subjects, the curriculum does not contain enough information about all of the smaller components of knowledge that pupils need to learn, especially in key stage 3.
• The school's work to understand the impact of the curriculum in a small number of subjects is at an early stage, especially for key stage 3.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.