Madaniyah Foundation

Overview: The Madaniyah Foundation provides a high-quality education for children aged 3 to 5, with a strong focus on developing their communication and language skills, and preparing them well for their next stage in education.

Strengths:

• Children make sustained progress across all 7 areas of the early years foundation stage statutory framework, regardless of their vulnerabilities or needs.
• Staff develop positive relationships with parents and carers, and know each individual child and their family very well.
• The school provides a broad and suitable curriculum, with a sharp focus on developing children's communication and language, and prioritises reading.
• Staff are positive role models for children's behaviour and have high expectations of them, creating a positive learning environment where children treat each other kindly and show sustained concentration in their activities.
• The school prioritises staff training so that they have the expertise needed to put suitable adjustments and adaptations in place, ensuring that children's needs are met effectively.

Areas to improve:

• Leaders should strengthen teaching by ensuring that the intended learning for planned activities is consistently clear and precise and in turn supports children to develop the knowledge that the school expects.
• Leaders should sharpen assessment procedures so that gaps in children's learning are more precisely and consistently identified, enabling more targeted support to be quickly put in place, including in relation to children's writing development.
• Leaders should develop the provision so that it further promotes children's independence and resilience.

Safeguarding: The safeguarding standards are met, with leaders and/or those responsible for governance and oversight fulfilling their specific responsibilities and having established an open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and concerns are actively identified, acted upon and managed.