Rawdhatul Uloom

Overview: Rawdhatul Uloom is a school where pupils and children in the early years flourish, with staff having the pupils' best interests at heart. Pupils are happy, safe, and proud to belong to this welcoming school community. The school has a strong standard in attendance and behaviour, with pupils attending school well and demonstrating exemplary behaviour.

Strengths:

• Attendance is above the national average, with steady year-on-year increases.
• Pupils' behaviour is exemplary, with a palpable love of learning.
• The school has a well-developed offer for pupils to develop their interests, with regular activities such as gardening club, programming club, and outdoor cookery.
• The school builds pupils' social skills particularly well, with leadership roles such as the school council and reading buddies team giving pupils real responsibility.
• The school has a comprehensive set of experiences that help to reduce social disadvantage, with pupils regularly experiencing enrichment activities that broaden their perspectives.

Areas to improve:

• Leaders should make certain that pupils secure the necessary accuracy and fluency in handwriting and spelling in readiness for their next learning steps.
• Leaders should ensure that all staff have the subject knowledge and expertise they need to deliver some foundation subjects' curriculum content consistently well.

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.