Pikuach, the Board of Deputies-run inspection service for Jewish studies, has stopped using single grades to classify schools’ overall performance.
This will bring it into line with Ofsted, which has also ditched headline grades for inspections.
Janine Rose, Pikuach’s executive director, said that following a review last year it was decided to “remove the overall effectiveness grade” from this September.
The change would ensures that the three key elements of the report — on quality of Jewish education, Jewish personal and spiritual development, and leadership and management — “all receive the full attention they deserves, rather than being overshadowed by a single overarching grade,” she said
