Kerem Shloime

Overview: Pupils are happy and safe at Kerem Shloime, with warm relationships and a clear understanding of the school's expectations. However, the school requires improvement in several areas, including the quality of education and personal development.

Strengths:

• Pupils are happy and safe, with warm relationships and a clear understanding of the school's expectations.
• The school has developed a consistent approach to teaching phonics, which is now embedded from the early years and pupils learn to read well.
• Children get off to a strong start in the early years because the curriculum is well organised, and staff know children as individuals and plan learning based on their interests and abilities.
• Pupils across the school share, take turns, communicate effectively and resolve conflict with ease.

Areas to improve:

• The school has not identified the most important knowledge for pupils to know and remember in some subjects, and the sequence of learning in some subjects does not support pupils to build knowledge well.
• In some subjects, teaching is not informed by pupils' prior knowledge, which means that pupils are unable to learn what is intended in the curriculum.
• Pupils' knowledge of how different people live is limited, which means that pupils are not prepared well enough for life in modern Britain.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.