Pardes House Grammar School

Overview: Pardes House Grammar School is a Jewish school that has made significant improvements in attendance, behaviour, and inclusion. However, it has not met the independent school standards in leadership and governance, particularly in personal development and wellbeing, and the quality of leadership.

Strengths:

• Attendance is high, with leaders closely tracking and analysing attendance patterns.
• Leaders have revised their behaviour policy and approaches to tracking attendance.
• There is a purposeful atmosphere in classrooms, with pupils behaving well and interacting positively.
• Pupils develop their understanding and use of subject-specific vocabulary, and demonstrate clear progression in their learning.
• The school's secular curriculum focuses on mathematics and English, while also providing opportunities for pupils to develop creative, technical, and physical skills.
• Lessons are characterised by positive relationships between staff and pupils, with teachers providing clear explanations and using questioning effectively.
• The school has a suitable accessibility plan that meets the requirements of the Equality Act 2010.

Areas to improve:

• The school has not met the independent school standards in leadership and governance, particularly in personal development and wellbeing.
• The proprietor has not ensured that the standards relevant to some aspects of pupils' personal development and wellbeing are securely and consistently met.
• The school's provision for pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development does not include learning about all the protected characteristics set out in the Equality Act 2010.
• The proprietor does not ensure that all statutory elements of relationships and sex education and health education are covered.

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.