Getters Talmud Torah

Getters Talmud Torah 86 Amhurst Park, London N16 5AR

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Main inspection findings

Part 3. Welfare, health and safety of pupils Paragraph 15  The admission register does not meet requirements. A single column is allocated for recording the names of pupils’ previous schools and/or their future destinations. Furthermore, only the names of these places are given. No addresses are given, as required by regulation. Some destinations recorded are vague – for example, simply that pupils had gone ‘out of country’.  Only one parent is named on the admissions register for each pupil, rather than the names of every person known to be the parent of the pupil, as required by regulation.  All but one of the attendance registers are maintained in accordance with regulations. The exception is the register taken for a class of three- and four-year-olds, which is taken daily on loose-leaf sheets.  The number of pupils currently on roll, as recorded on the admissions register, correlates with the number of pupils shown on the attendance registers. The number

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Main inspection findings

of pupils on roll breaches the terms of the school’s registration with the Department for Education.

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Compliance with regulatory requirements

The school does not meet the requirements of the schedule to The Education (Independent School Standards) Regulations 2014 (‘the independent school standards’) and associated requirements that were checked during this inspection, as set out in the annex of this report. Not all of the standards and associated requirements were checked during this inspection.

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School details

This inspection was carried out under section 109(1) and (2) of the Education and Skills Act 2008, the purpose of which is to advise the Secretary of State for Education about the school’s suitability for continued registration as an independent school.

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School details

Annual fees (day pupils) Voluntary contributions

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School details

Date of previous standard inspection 20–22 March 2018

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Information about this school

 Getters Talmud Torah is an independent, Orthodox Jewish day school. All of the pupils are boys. The school is situated on a single site in the Stamford Hill area of North London.  Nearly all pupils speak English as an additional language. There are no pupils who have special educational needs (SEN) and/or disabilities.  The school is open for six days a week. The secular curriculum is available for all classes for at least an hour a day. All other teaching time is devoted to the Jewish studies curriculum.  In January 2017, parents signed an agreement with the school indicating that they would be responsible for all aspects of the secular curriculum except for mathematics and English. Leaders told inspectors that parents are able to request that the school teach their child the rest of the curriculum, but currently no parents have made this request.  The children in the early years attend full time. The main language used in lessons is

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Yiddish. None of the children is in receipt of funding from the local authority.  The school does not have any additional off-site provision.  The school’s last full inspection was in March. At this time, the school was judged to be inadequate, and a number of independent school standards in parts 1, 2, 3 and 8 of the regulations were found to be unmet.  The school is closing on 19 July 2018.

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Information about this inspection

 This inspection was conducted with no notice. The Department for Education commissioned Ofsted to check the school’s compliance with one of the independent school standards, prior to the school’s closure in July 2018.

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Inspection team

Mark Phillips, lead inspector Her Majesty's Inspector

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Part 3. Welfare, health and safety of pupils

 15 The standard in this paragraph is met if the proprietor ensures that an admission and attendance register is maintained in accordance with the Education (Pupil Registration) (England) Regulations 2006[13]. guidance 'Raising concerns and making a complaint about Ofsted', which is available from Ofsted's website: www.gov.uk/government/publications/complaints-about-ofsted . If you would like Ofsted to send you a copy of the guidance, please telephone 0300 123 4234, or email enquiries@ofsted.gov.uk .

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