Jamia Al-Hudaa Residential College

Overview: Pupils experience a warm and welcoming environment at this school, where they enjoy learning and behave well. The school is ambitious about what pupils can achieve and has made significant improvements to the curriculum and wider offer.

Strengths:

• Pupils are confident in their learning and demonstrate respect and courtesy to one another and visitors.
• The school has developed the breadth and ambition of its curriculum, with pupils studying a broad range of subjects during key stage three.
• Teachers have secure subject knowledge and use strategies to check how well pupils are learning the curriculum.
• Pupils are polite and mature, valuing their education and taking pride in their work.

Areas to improve:

• In some subjects, the curriculum and the way in which it is taught do not routinely provide high-quality opportunities for pupils to deepen their understanding.
• The scope of the extra-curricular provision for pupils is not as broad as it could be, with pupils not developing their talents and interests as well as they might.
• The school does not yet have an accurate overview of the impact of its actions in some areas, such as behaviour and attendance.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.