Beis Hatalmud School

Beis Hatalmud School is an orthodox Jewish independent school for boys aged 11 to 16. This was a progress monitoring inspection in April 2026, following a July 2025 standard inspection and a January 2026 evaluation of the school's action plan. The school still does not meet all of the independent school standards checked. Its main strengths are in welfare, health and safety: safeguarding remains effective, and previously unmet standards for fire evacuation procedures and admissions and attendance registers are now met. A new board of governors has been established, and the proprietor and leaders have strengthened oversight of education, though governance is still in its infancy. The most significant concerns remain in leadership and management, quality of education, and pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development. The Part 8 leadership standard remains unmet because the proprietor has not ensured all standards are consistently met. The Part 1 education standard also remains unmet: curriculum plans and schemes of work are still being developed and are not yet in place across the full linguistic, technological, physical, aesthetic and creative curriculum, so improvements are too early to have affected pupils' learning. The Part 2 standard remains unmet because pupils do not learn about all protected characteristics and are not fully prepared for life in modern Britain. The school has also made little progress on the protected characteristics and relationships, sex and health education requirements. The RSE curriculum does not meet statutory guidance, and there are no resources showing that all statutory aspects of RSE and health education are ready to be taught to secondary-age pupils. Some useful work is underway, including a suitable curriculum policy and external support for curriculum development, but the school has more to do to secure compliance across the unmet standards.

Strengths

• A new board of governors has been established with relevant expertise and experience to support and challenge the school.
• The proprietor and leaders have strengthened oversight of the quality of education.
• The proprietor and governors hold leaders to account to maintain the pace of school improvement.
• A suitable curriculum policy is in place.
• External support is being used to help leaders develop curriculum plans and schemes of work.
• Curriculum planning in Year 7 and Year 8 mathematics and key stage 3 science sets out the building blocks of knowledge pupils should learn.
• Safeguarding remains effective, with a suitable policy, appropriate staff training, timely reporting and appropriate action.
• Fire safety compliance is robust, including a link governor, fire risk assessment, completed remedial work, staff training and well-understood evacuation procedures.
• Attendance oversight has been significantly strengthened, including use of an electronic system and statutory maintenance of the admissions and attendance register.
• Policies are available to parents and carers on request.

Areas for Improvement

• The school still does not meet all of the independent school standards checked during this inspection.
• The Part 8 leadership and management standard remains unmet; the proprietor has not ensured all standards are consistently met over time.
• The Part 1 quality of education standard remains unmet because curriculum plans and schemes of work remain underdeveloped across the full curriculum.
• Curriculum improvements are at too early a stage to have had an impact on pupils' learning.
• The Part 2 spiritual, moral, social and cultural development standard remains unmet.
• Pupils are not fully prepared for life in modern Britain because not all protected characteristics are taught.
• The relationships, sex and health education curriculum does not meet statutory guidance.
• There are no resources demonstrating readiness to teach all statutory aspects of RSE and health education for secondary-age pupils.
• Limited progress has been made against previously unmet protected characteristics and RSE standards.
• Governance remains in its infancy, though new governors have relevant expertise.
• The previous action plan was not acceptable and lacked detail on addressing protected characteristics, RSE and curriculum weaknesses.

In 2025–26, 0.0% of pupils at Beis Hatalmud School were on SEN support (nationally 18.4%) and 0.0% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 7.9%).

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded independent school schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

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What is Beis Hatalmud School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Beis Hatalmud School is Inadequate, from an inspection in June 2026.

When was Beis Hatalmud School last inspected by Ofsted?

Beis Hatalmud School was last inspected in June 2026.

How many pupils does Beis Hatalmud School have?

Beis Hatalmud School has 145 pupils on roll.

What age range does Beis Hatalmud School cover?

Beis Hatalmud School for pupils aged 11 to 16.

Where is Beis Hatalmud School?

Beis Hatalmud School is at 62 Wellington Street West, Broughton, Salford, Lancashire, M7 2FD.