Madani Academy

Overview: Madani Academy is a thriving Islamic all-through school that provides a high-quality education underpinned by the school's Islamic values. Pupils are committed to learning, behave exceptionally well, and demonstrate impressive attributes such as respect and tolerance.

Strengths:

• Pupils behave exceptionally well and are a credit to the school.
• The school ensures it opens its doors to the community, with charity at the heart of what the school does.
• Staff set very high expectations of pupils both academically and in their wider development.
• The school's curriculum builds coherently from key stages 1 to 4, with subject planning identifying suitably ambitious end points.
• Teachers demonstrate strong subject knowledge and show enthusiasm for their subject.

Areas to improve:

• Pupils at the early stages of reading are not consistently reading books that match the planned phonics curriculum, which hinders their progress in learning to read.
• The monitoring and evaluation of the implementation and impact of the curriculum is underdeveloped, meaning leaders and governors are not always clear enough about how strongly the teaching of the curriculum contributes to pupils' knowledge retention.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.