Tashbar of Manchester

Overview: Tashbar of Manchester is an Orthodox Jewish day school that has met all the independent school standards. The school provides a positive and safe environment for pupils, with a strong focus on their welfare, health, and safety. Pupils enjoy coming to school and achieve well, with a particular emphasis on reading, writing, and mathematics.

Strengths:

• Pupils achieve well in reading, writing, and mathematics, with high-quality work produced.
• The school ensures that children in the early years are well prepared and have the skills they need for the demands of Year 1.
• Pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities are well prepared for the next stages of their learning.
• The school has a safe and nurturing environment where bullying and discrimination are seldom seen.
• Staff provide caring support and encouragement to help children start the day ready to learn.

Areas to improve:

• Leaders should ensure that those aspects of the key stage 2 curriculum which are not implemented as well are further strengthened so that the curriculum is delivered with greater consistency.
• Leaders should maintain their focus to further improve the attendance of all pupils so that consistently higher levels of attendance are sustained over time.

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.