Gateshead Jewish Boarding School

Overview: Pupils at Gateshead Jewish Boarding School benefit from a warm, inclusive and increasingly aspirational environment, rooted in deep community connections. Pupils are happy and appreciate the positive relationships they have built with staff. Staff know the pupils and their families very well, which helps to ensure that pupils are safe.

Strengths:

• Pupils are happy and appreciate the positive relationships they have built with staff.
• Staff know the pupils and their families very well, which helps to ensure that pupils are safe.
• The school has a renowned choir, where pupils receive expert tuition in solo and choral singing.
• Pupils experience a range of educational trips, including a car manufacturing plant in Sunderland and Helvelyn in Cumbria.
• The school's careers programme is embedded from Year 7 to Year 10, and pupils see a genuine partnership between themselves, the school and their families in considering next steps.

Areas to improve:

• The school does not ensure that pupils have a depth of understanding of all aspects of life in modern Britain.
• The school does not currently teach pupils about how to manage the physical and emotional changes associated with growing up, including the processes of physical, neurological and psychological development that leads to sexual maturity and reproductive capability, or about the protected characteristics of sexual orientation and gender reassignment.
• The school does not offer pupils enough opportunities to explore wider opportunities to broaden their horizons.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.