Darul Madinah Rochdale Ltd

Overview: The school is likely to meet all the independent school standards when it opens.

Strengths:

• The proprietor has written a suitable curriculum policy that aims to provide pupils with access to a broad range of academic and vocational subjects.
• The proposed school has established schemes of work for each subject it intends to offer, which are sufficiently detailed to enable teachers to understand what knowledge pupils should learn.
• The proposed school has plans in place to support any pupils who are at an early stage of reading.
• The proposed school has appropriate plans in place for pupils’ careers education.
• The proposed school’s relationships and sex education (RSE) curriculum is well designed and meets the requirements of the statutory guidance.
• The proprietor has developed an assessment policy which sets out how pupils’ progress and attainment will be monitored and recorded.
• The proposed school has put into place a range of processes to ensure that all pupils with an education, health and care (EHC) plan have their needs reviewed and updated accordingly.
• The proposed school has ensured that there are appropriate health and safety policies in place, including for first aid.
• The proprietor has ensured that procedures are in place to ensure compliance with the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.
• The proposed school has a suitable risk assessment policy in place.
• The proprietor has put in place an electronic single central record.
• The proposed school has a written statement of its aims and ethos.
• The proposed school’s website will contain all relevant and required policies and information required by the standards.
• The proposed school has a clear format for reporting termly pupils’ progress and attainment to parents.
• The proposed school has a complaints policy which is available to parents and will be published on the school’s website.
• The proprietor shares a clear and ambitious vision to provide an inclusive and inspiring education for the pupils the school intends to admit.
• The proprietor intends to recruit a suitably qualified and experienced individual to the role of headteacher before the proposed school opens.
• The proprietor is committed to ensuring that all the standards are consistently met.
• The proprietor will ensure that staff have suitable qualifications and experience to carry out their roles effectively.
• The proposed school is likely to meet schedule 10 of the Equality Act 2010 if it opens.

Areas to improve: The report identifies no significant areas for improvement.

Safeguarding: The proposed school has a safeguarding policy which reflects current statutory guidance, and the proprietor is suitably skilled to ensure that pupils are kept safe while they are at school.