Cambridge Muslim Secondary School

Overview: Cambridge Muslim Secondary School is a small, happy school that provides pupils with an effective faith-based and secular curriculum, enabling them to learn to value themselves and others equally. Pupils are proud of their culture and faith, whilst respecting and learning about others.

Strengths:

• Pupils enjoy learning and are increasingly independent learners, producing high-quality work.
• Pupils progress well from their starting points, with many exploring and developing their interests.
• Staff teach a coherent curriculum, and pupils learn how to communicate their ideas accurately and for different audiences.
• Pupils develop mathematical knowledge securely and use correct procedures when calculating.
• Pupils are courteous and polite, with positive relationships and friendships established since the school opened.

Areas to improve:

• Leaders should ensure their monitoring enables them to identify where to provide staff with the training and guidance they need to develop their subject and pedagogical expertise.
• Leaders should ensure that their use of assessment provides them with the information they need to identify suitable curriculum pathways for pupils in key stage 4.
• Leaders should broaden the range of extra-curricular opportunities, such as trips, for pupils.

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.