Beis Rochel D'satmar School

Overview: Beis Rochel D'satmar School is a thriving school community where pupils love to come to school and behave exceptionally well. They feel safe and develop a strong sense of individual character and collective responsibility. The school has made improvements in its curriculum, particularly in secular subjects, and provides a range of enrichment opportunities that match pupils' differing talents and interests.

Strengths:

• Positive relationships between staff and pupils are the cornerstone of the school community.
• Pupils experience an increased range of secular subjects, including mathematics, English grammar and comprehension, science, and history.
• Teachers have strong subject knowledge and adapt their teaching to address knowledge gaps or misconceptions.
• The school provides a range of in-house therapies to support pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).
• Children in the early years enjoy an engaging and well-thought-out curriculum.

Areas to improve:

• At times, teachers do not check what pupils have remembered from their previous studies with enough care, hindering how well pupils remember their learning and build connections between different pieces of knowledge.
• Pupils do not have access to a variety of high-quality reading texts in English, limiting their exposure to a range of different authors and genres.
• Some opportunities that pupils have to learn deeply about views and beliefs different to their own are reduced when activities offered to pupils are limited to their own community.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.