Yesoiday Hatorah Girls Academy

Overview

The report describes a school where pupils are “happy” and “bound into the building each and every day filled with sheer joy.” Leaders have established a clear vision to broaden pupils’ minds, resulting in an environment described as “orderly and safe” where pupils become “respectful and tolerant citizens.” The school is judged to be outstanding across all main inspection categories, with early years provision rated as good.

Strengths

• Pupils demonstrate “exemplary” conduct and “mature attitudes,” working hard and excelling across the curriculum with a “thirst for knowledge.”
• The curriculum is “ambitious” and “carefully set out,” enabling pupils to build a “rich body of knowledge” and strong connections between topics.
• Staff are “skilled” at helping pupils remember prior knowledge and promptly addressing gaps, ensuring pupils “know more and remember more over time.”
• Reading is prioritised from the Nursery, with staff delivering phonics “with fidelity” and providing prompt help for those with gaps, leading to “confident and highly competent readers.”
• Pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities access the same ambitious curriculum and receive “highly effective support,” achieving exceptionally well from their starting points.

Areas to improve

• In the early years, teachers sometimes select activities and resources that do not help children learn all aspects of the curriculum effectively, meaning children do not “deepen their knowledge and understanding as well as they might.”

Safeguarding

The report states that “the arrangements for safeguarding are effective.”