Beth Jacob Grammar School for Girls

Overview: Beth Jacob Grammar School for Girls is a girls' secondary school with an Orthodox Jewish ethos. The school provides a kind and nurturing culture, where pupils are happy and safe. However, the school has failed to meet the independent school standards, specifically in relation to the curriculum, relationships and sex education, and safeguarding.

Strengths:

• Pupils appreciate the school's kind and nurturing culture.
• Pupils behave with great maturity and look after each other well.
• The school successfully develops a love of reading in pupils.
• Pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) receive effective support to learn the curriculum.
• The school fosters a culture of high aspiration and encourages pupils to be confident and speak up for themselves.

Areas to improve:

• The school does not meet its statutory obligations to ensure the independent school standards are met securely.
• The provision for relationships and sex education does not include compulsory information about different types of relationships.
• The school does not provide pupils with information on the legal rights of all the protected groups under the Equality Act 2010.
• The proprietor and leaders do not ensure the school meets the standards consistently and securely.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.