Sikh Heritage Girls School

Inspection of Sikh Heritage Girls School Guru Maneyo Granth Gurdwara, Middle Green, Slough SL3 6BS

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Inspection dates: 16 to 18 September 2025

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Overall effectiveness Good

The quality of education Good Behaviour and attitudes Outstanding Personal development Outstanding Leadership and management Outstanding Overall effectiveness at previous inspection Not previously inspected

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Overall effectiveness Good

Does the school meet the independent school standards?

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Yes

16 to 18 September 2025 SENSITIVE-RECIPIENTS ONLY

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What is it like to attend this school?

Pupils relish the incredibly calm and highly supportive environment they experience at this school. The daily warm welcome sets a positive and respectful tone that pervades throughout. Pupils are proud to treat each other as ‘sisters’, willingly helping each other to focus on learning and to achieve well. This helps pupils to feel happy and safe.

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What is it like to attend this school?

Pupils are encouraged to achieve their very best. Adults strive to empower pupils to be successful. Pupils learn to be kind, resilient and resourceful, ready to make a positive contribution to society. They demonstrate highly positive attitudes to learning and a real determination to succeed.

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What is it like to attend this school?

The school’s motto, ‘Born to Love, Live to Do’, sits truly at its heart. Pupils learn the importance of giving back to the community to make life better for everyone. They learn important social skills which enable them to speak eloquently to a wide range of people. For example, prior to visiting a local care home, pupils learn how to strike up conversations with the residents.

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What is it like to attend this school?

A wide range of deliberately planned additional opportunities enrich pupils’ learning. For example, all pupils attend all extra-curricular clubs and learn to play the violin. In addition, trips to places of interest such as museums and local landmarks successfully enhance the curriculum.

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better?

The school has designed an ambitious and well-structured curriculum. This identifies the important knowledge and skills that pupils need to be taught in all subjects. Recent curriculum improvements have refined the content that pupils must learn. This is to enable them to develop deep and detailed understanding of fewer concepts rather than a shallow understanding of many. Generally, staff routinely check how well pupils are learning. They identify gaps in pupils’ understanding and address these straight away. In many subjects, pupils have plenty of opportunities to revisit and apply their understanding before moving on to learning something new. This helps pupils to deepen their understanding, remember their learning and achieve well. However, on occasion, pupils complete work that does not enable them to really show what they know and can do. When this happens, pupils do not achieve as well as they could.

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better?

Pupils love reading. They talk enthusiastically about the books that they read, discussing their ideas with confidence and clarity. The school is currently refining its approach to teaching pupils at the earliest stages of reading. This is to make sure that pupils consistently read books that align with the school’s chosen phonics programme. 16 to 18 September 2025 SENSITIVE-RECIPIENTS ONLY

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better?

The school has a well-considered approach to meeting the needs of those pupils who need additional help to learn. Careful adaptations to tasks enable these pupils to access and learn the curriculum. The school does not currently have any pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) on its roll. However, there is an appropriate policy in place which details how the school will identify and meet the needs of pupils with SEND.

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better?

Pupils’ behaviour is exemplary. They show consistently high levels of respect for others and equally high levels of self-control. Pupils routinely assist each other to do the right thing without any fuss. They understand and follow clear, consistent routines. Pupils are highly motivated to learn. They show respect right from the beginning of the school day, throughout their lessons and when moving around the school. Attendance is very high. Pupils want to be in school, so they are rarely absent.

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better?

The school’s work to promote pupils’ personal development is exceptional. Pupils learn the knowledge they need to prepare them well for life in modern Britain. They have a strong understanding about healthy relationships. They know the importance of equalities and valuing difference. Through their positive attitudes and respect towards others, pupils demonstrate this understanding incredibly well. The school meets the requirements of Schedule 10 of the Equality Act. Pupils have a strong sense of social responsibility. They are resolute about their responsibility for ensuring that everyone, not just themselves, benefits from basic human rights, such as the right to food. Pupils appreciate how the school helps them to remain physically and mentally healthy. They enjoy a range of outdoor pursuits, including outdoor learning activities and playing various sports. In addition, pupils practice daily meditation to help with their mental well-being and readiness for learning.

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better?

Pupils really appreciate the benefits of this practice.

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better?

Leaders act swiftly and decisively to continue to improve this school. The school’s culture is one of a strong determination to succeed in all aspects of school life. There is a shared strong vision for success. Since the school opened, staff have benefitted from thoughtful, tailored training. Leaders’ highly reflective and evaluative approach to school improvement has led them to review this offer to improve the provision for pupils further. The proprietor ensures that the school continues to meet the requirements of the independent school standards (‘the standards’). They have effective systems in place to make sure that the premises are well-maintained and that all statutory health and safety requirements are met. The school has a comprehensive approach to risk management. The proprietor understands the importance of providing a safe and secure environment in which the pupils can learn.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective. 16 to 18 September 2025 SENSITIVE-RECIPIENTS ONLY

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(Information for the school and proprietor)

 At times, the curriculum is not taught as the school intends. Sometimes, pupils do not learn all that they could. The school should support staff to develop their expertise further so that they can deliver the curriculum consistently well in all subjects and support pupils to achieve highly across the curriculum.

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How can I feed back my views?

or to find out what other parents and carers think. We use information from Ofsted Parent View when deciding which schools to inspect, when to inspect them and as part of their inspection.

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How can I feed back my views?

The Department for Education has further guidance on how to complain about a school. 16 to 18 September 2025 SENSITIVE-RECIPIENTS ONLY

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School details

Unique reference number 150865 DfE registration number 825/6052

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School details

Inspection number 10375016 Type of school Other Independent School

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School details

Annual fees (day pupils) £15,600 inclusive of VAT

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School details

Date of previous inspection Not previously inspected 16 to 18 September 2025 SENSITIVE-RECIPIENTS ONLY

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Information about this school

 This was the first standard inspection of this newly registered school. The Sikh Heritage Girls’ School opened in September 2024.  This school operates from one site at Middle Green, Slough SL3 6BS.  The school has a Sikh religious character. The proprietor body is Guru Maneyo Granth Gurdwara, 221 Bath Road, Slough SL1 4BA.  The school is not currently using any alternative provision.

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Information about this inspection

Inspectors carried out this inspection under section 109(1) and (2) of the Education and Skills Act 2008. The purpose of the inspection 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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Information about this inspection

The school meets the independent school standards. These are the requirements set out in the schedule to the Education (Independent School Standards) Regulations 2014.

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Information about this inspection

 Inspections are a point-in-time judgement about the quality of a school’s education provision.  During the inspection, the inspectors met with the headteacher, senior leaders and representatives from the proprietor body including the chair of proprietors.  The inspectors carried out deep dives in: English and early reading, mathematics, art and design and physical education. For each deep dive, the inspectors discussed the curriculum, visited a sample of lessons, spoke to teachers, spoke to some pupils about their learning and looked at samples of pupils’ work.  The inspectors also visited lessons and considered documentation and pupils’ work from some other subjects.  To evaluate the effectiveness of safeguarding, the inspectors: reviewed the single central record; took account of the views of leaders, staff and pupils; and considered the extent to which the school has created an open and positive

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Information about this inspection

culture around safeguarding that puts pupils’ interests first.  The views of parents and carers were considered through their responses to Ofsted Parent View. The views of pupils and staff were gathered through surveys, interviews and discussions conducted throughout the inspection.  The inspectors reviewed a range of the school’s documents, including self- evaluation reports, minutes of management meetings and behaviour incident logs. They also considered evidence of how the proprietor body ensures that the standards are met consistently. 16 to 18 September 2025 SENSITIVE-RECIPIENTS ONLY

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Inspection team

Sue Keeling, lead inspector His Majesty’s Inspector

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Inspection team

Carl McCarthy His Majesty’s Inspector 16 to 18 September 2025 SENSITIVE-RECIPIENTS ONLY

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Inspection team

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