The Gateshead Cheder Primary School

Overview: The Gateshead Cheder Primary School requires improvement in overall effectiveness and the quality of education. Pupils enjoy coming to school and are enthusiastic about their lessons, but the school needs to improve its curriculum and teaching to ensure that all pupils achieve well.

Strengths:

• Pupils genuinely enjoy coming to school and are enthusiastic about their lessons.
• Pupils are happy, secure, and eager to contribute, with a strong sense of safety and belonging.
• Staff know pupils and their families well, and parents appreciate the care shown to their children and the positive relationships that underpin the school’s ethos.
• The school has a strong and consistent approach to helping pupils learn to read, with children in the early years benefiting from the phonics programme.
• Pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) receive the necessary support, and staff have the information they need to assist these pupils.

Areas to improve:

• The school has not ensured that all teachers have sufficient knowledge of the subjects they teach, leading to inconsistencies in how well some subjects are taught.
• In the secondary phase, subjects do not consistently build on the knowledge pupils have gained in earlier years, sometimes leading to gaps in pupils’ knowledge.
• The school does not ensure compliance with the standards related to the protected characteristics, and pupils are not given opportunities to develop a full understanding of diversity, inclusion, and the rights of others.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.