Strictly Orthodox girls' school criticised for refusing to teach about Christmas, evolution or sexual reproduction

Pupils were prevented from gaining a “full understanding of the world” because books were redacted.

References to Christmas in a story by children's author Michael Morpurgo had been covered up, Ofsted reported.

In science, school leaders “redacted photographs of men and women with bare skin. Information on animals, the properties of rocks and the dangers of alcohol had also been covered up.”

Beis Chinuch avoided topics such as reproduction, evolution and the scientific origins of the universe.

Pupils showed a “sound understanding” of British values and understood that other people may have different opinions and beliefs.

But leaders had not ensured they promoted respect for all groups protected under the Equality Act, which includes people of same-sex orientation.