Beis Malka Girls' School

Overview: Beis Malka Girls' School requires improvement overall, with good quality of education and outstanding behaviour and attitudes. However, the school needs to improve its leadership and management, and personal development.

Strengths:

• The school builds professional, supportive bonds with pupils, parents and carers.
• Pupils behave exceptionally well, with older pupils enthusiastically supporting younger pupils.
• Pupils take pride in looking after each other and are happy and safe in the school.
• The school provides a wide range of help and support to pupils and families if they struggle.
• Pupils receive effective support to speak and communicate in English proficiently.
• Pupils who struggle with early reading receive additional support to help them catch up.

Areas to improve:

• The school does not ensure that secondary-age pupils receive all the required information about respectful relationships.
• Pupils do not receive teaching about the legal rights of people protected under the Equality Act 2010.
• Occasionally, subject knowledge in the primary phase is not sequenced clearly, which can leave pupils unprepared for their learning in the secondary phase.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.