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Overview: Beis Medrash Elyon is a voluntary aided Orthodox Jewish school in West Hendon, London, where pupils feel safe and valued. The school has a lively community with a sincere love of learning, but teaching does not consistently ensure that pupils retain what they have learned or build on it successfully.
Strengths:
- Attendance rates are high, with a new system in place to track attendance and target support for families and pupils.
- Staff are deeply committed to the pastoral care of pupils, and pupils' views are valued.
- Pupils take on a range of leadership roles, making a substantial impact on school life.
- The school environment is pleasant and welcoming, with pupils enjoying achieving rewards for their excellent behaviour.
Areas to improve:
- Pupils' achievement in national examinations is variable, with most pupils taking up to five GCSEs and typically achieving most highly in mathematics and Biblical Hebrew.
- The curriculum and teaching in secular subjects need improvement, with limited opportunities for pupils to explore and make sophisticated links between different pieces of learning.
- The school has not ensured that the education provided encourages respect for others, with particular regard paid to the protected characteristics.
- The provision for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) is not consistently adapted to suit their needs.
- The curriculum and teaching are not consistently adapted for pupils with SEND.
- The school has not ensured that staff consistently benefit from helpful and well-targeted professional learning which draws on the most up-to-date and evidence-informed practices.
- The school has not ensured that all aspects of relationships and sex education statutory guidance are followed, and that pupils learn about and can demonstrate respect for the full range of protected characteristics as defined in the Equality Act 2010.
Safeguarding: The safeguarding standards are met, with leaders and/or those responsible for governance and oversight fulfilling their specific responsibilities and having established an open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and concerns are actively identified, acted upon and managed.