Beis Ruchel Girls School

Overview: Beis Ruchel Girls School has a positive culture where pupils attend regularly and feel safe, with leaders communicating expectations around attendance well to the school community. However, the school needs to improve in several areas, including teaching of English language and communication skills, personal development, and addressing unmet independent school standards.

Strengths:

• Leaders have established a positive culture where pupils attend regularly.
• Leaders communicate their expectations around attendance well to the school community.
• The school's values promote respect for others.
• Pupils are reassured by the way in which staff consistently set expectations for their behaviour.
• Pupils are encouraged to think about their own actions, and this strategy has enabled them to focus on their learning during lessons.
• Leaders check on pupils' progress regularly to inform and adapt their approach to helping pupils achieve.
• Staff are positive about the way in which their wellbeing is managed by leaders.
• Pupils have positive relationships with one another and with staff.
• Pupils feel safe in school because of the nurture that they receive.
• Pupils approach their learning with enjoyment and excitement and gain confidence through wider opportunities such as singing, acting or reciting poetry.

Areas to improve:

• The teaching of English language and communication skills, including phonics, is not significantly improved in the early years.
• The statutory early years foundation stage learning requirements are not met.
• The school's provision for pupils' personal development does not meet the Department for Education's statutory relationships and sex education and health education guidance.
• The unmet independent school standards are not addressed effectively.

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.