Tarbiyyah Secondary School for Boys

Overview: Tarbiyyah Secondary School for Boys is a happy, tight-knit community where pupils and staff work well together, and pupils like to learn. The school has high expectations and provides effective academic and pastoral support to pupils.

Strengths:

• The school is a happy, tight-knit community where pupils and staff work well together.
• Pupils understand the clear rules and expectations set out by the school and behave sensibly and respectfully in class and around the school.
• The school provides effective academic and pastoral support to pupils, including teaching that checks and consolidates important concepts.
• Pupils have high pass rates in their GCSE examinations and are prepared for the next stage in their learning.
• The school provides a range of personal development opportunities, including cooking, debate, and Arabic clubs, and encourages pupils' resilience through residential outings.

Areas to improve:

• Processes to check the school's work, including some minor arrangements for safeguarding, are not as robust as they could be.
• Sometimes, activities in class do not support pupils to deepen and strengthen their knowledge of subjects as effectively as they could.
• The school has identified that leaders' actions are not overseen by the proprietor body as thoroughly as they should be, and has plans to expand the capacity of the proprietor body.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective, but the proprietor body has not assured itself as thoroughly as it should that the school is following its policies, and the records of the actions that the school takes do not accurately reflect all that it does.