London Islamic School

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 11 June 2024

Pupils are proud of their school and they enjoy their learning here. They study hard in their lessons, and they look forward to putting their learning into practice on several educational visits. For example, pupils were excited about a recent visit to the Greenwich Observatory, where they applied their recent learning in science. Pupils form good working relationships with staff from the start of Year 7 and this helps them to feel safe at school. The school has high expectations for all pupils. In addition to their Islamic studies, pupils study a broad range of subjects. In each subject, the school designs its programmes of study thoughtfully, building in the aims of the national curriculum. Pupils also take great care over their work and, overall, teaching approaches ensure that they remember what they learn well. For example, Year 7 pupils had excellent recall of the Norman Conquest learned earlier in the year in history. Pupils in Years 10 and 11 study a range of GCSE subjects and they achieve positive outcomes. Pupils behave exceptionally well. In lessons, they are focused on their learning and disruptions are rare. Out of lessons, pupils are polite and calm and enjoy spending social times with one another, for example the breaktimes organised by the school at a nearby park. Pupils manage their own behaviour extremely well.

What the school should improve

• In a small number of subjects, the knowledge pupils need to learn and remember has not been planned with as much coherence and clarity as other curriculum areas. This means that pupils do not build up their knowledge as effectively over time in these subjects. The school needs to ensure that all subjects are consistently well planned and sequenced to develop pupils' knowledge and skills so that pupils fully achieve the school's ambitious aims.
• The school's techniques for assessing what pupils know and remember of the curriculum are new and not consistently applied in all subjects. This means that in some subjects, pupils develop gaps in their knowledge or misconceptions that are not corrected. The school should complete staff training so that pupils' work is assessed consistently well across all subjects so that errors are corrected as they occur.

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