Second Chasidic school in a week achieves good Ofsted

Visits to the Royal Courts and Parliament helped promote British values, while a drama production achieved “impressive” results.

Ofsted noted that the school - which is associated with the Belz Chasidim - was taking more pupils than its official maximum of 500.

But there was less happy news for another Stamford Hill school, the Wiznitz Cheder for boys from two to 13.

Its latest visit was the “fifth consecutive inspection in which leaders have failed to ensure compliance with all the independent school standards,” Ofsted said.

Its English teaching, while improving, was “still not good enough”.

It also failed to comply with equality requirements, Ofsted found, because its leadership was clear that “making pupils aware of sexual orientation and gender reassignment in year seven goes against the school’s Orthodox Jewish ethos”.

Ofsted also found an “unclean shower and toilet facilities and a cluttered medical room”, and said electrical devices such as heaters had not been checked by a qualified professional for some years.

Although vetting of staff and proprietors was being carried out, this was not always being properly recorded on the central register.