Madaniyah Foundation

Overview

Madaniyah Foundation is an inclusive early years setting where children are “happy and enjoy their time” and feel safe due to “trusting relationships” with staff. The school meets the “expected standard” across all evaluation areas, with leaders demonstrating a “secure understanding of the strengths and areas for improvement” and a clear capacity for ongoing development.

Strengths

• Children make “sustained progress” across all areas of the early years framework, developing “secure basic skills” that prepare them well for future learning.
• Staff foster a “positive learning environment” through “warm and caring relationships,” resulting in rare incidents of conflict and high levels of concentration.
• The curriculum is “broad and suitable,” with a “sharp focus on developing children's communication and language” and highly effective phonics sessions.
• Leaders provide “bespoke and individual support” for vulnerable children, including those with special educational needs, ensuring barriers to learning are effectively reduced.
• Parents and carers are “very positive about the provision” and would recommend the school to others, reflecting a strong sense of community.

Areas to improve

• Leaders should ensure the intended learning for planned activities is “consistently clear and precise” to support knowledge development.
• Assessment procedures need sharpening to “more precisely and consistently identify” gaps in learning, particularly regarding writing skills.
• Provision should be developed to further promote children’s “independence and resilience,” reducing over-reliance on staff for tasks like hanging up coats.

Safeguarding

The safeguarding standards are met, with leaders establishing an “open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility” and concerns actively identified and managed.