Assunnah Primary School

Overview: Assunnah Primary School is a good independent Muslim day school where pupils arrive highly motivated to learn, are warmly welcomed by staff, and achieve highly. The school has made significant efforts to address previous weaknesses in the curriculum, and pupils are already experiencing the positive impact of these changes.

Strengths:

• Pupils are happy and safe, with staff having high expectations and expecting the very best from all pupils.
• Pupils show enthusiasm and enjoyment when learning, and achieve highly.
• The school has a clear and well-established process for identifying pupils' needs, and works closely with the local authority and external professionals to ensure effective support for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities.
• Staff encourage pupils to consistently follow the school's behaviour policy in their daily practice, and the school works closely with families to keep pupils' attendance high.
• The school has thoughtfully developed a programme to support pupils' personal development, building on the foundations laid by the school's ethos and enriched through assemblies.

Areas to improve:

• In a few subjects, the curriculum is not ambitious enough, and the school's curricular thinking does not provide opportunities for pupils to review, revisit and deepen their understanding.
• Some activities in lessons are not well suited to support pupils' understanding of important subject content, limiting pupils' learning of important subject-specific knowledge and skills.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.