Talmud Torah D'chassidie Belz

Overview:

Pupils love their happy, friendly school, where they develop strong and positive relationships with staff. The school sets high expectations for pupils' achievement, and they typically achieve well, including those with SEND. Staff design learning for pupils that is interesting and engaging, helping pupils to stay focused.

Strengths:

• Pupils enjoy their lessons and develop strong and positive relationships with staff.

• The school sets high expectations for pupils' achievement, and they typically achieve well.

• Staff design learning for pupils that is interesting and engaging, helping pupils to stay focused.

• The school has made reading a priority, with staff checking pupils' prior phonics knowledge and providing prompt help for those who need it.

• The school communicates effectively with parents, carers, and professionals to ensure that pupils with SEND receive expert support if they need it.

Areas to improve:

• In a small number of subjects, the curriculum does not contain enough information about the knowledge that pupils need to learn, limiting the ability of teachers to make sure that pupils are taught the knowledge that they require for subsequent learning.

• On occasion, there are inconsistencies in the way that staff teach the phonics programme, when this happens, some pupils do not receive the support that they need to remember and apply their phonics knowledge to their reading books successfully.

Safeguarding:

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.