Suffah Primary School
Independent School
Purpose and scope of the inspection
This inspection was carried out by Ofsted under section 162A of the Education Act 2002, as amended by schedule 8 of the Education Act 2005, in order to advise the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families about the school’s suitability for continued registration as an independent school.
Information about the school
Suffah Primary School is an independent Muslim school for children aged 4 to 11 years. It opened in 2001 and it is situated within a mosque complex in the London Borough of Hounslow. It serves the local community of mainly Bangladeshi, Moroccan, Pakistani and Somali heritages. At the time of the inspection, there was one pupil with a statement of educational need and the majority of pupils were either bilingual or at advanced stages of learning English as an additional language. The school seeks to teach all subjects of the National Curriculum, as well as Arabic, Islamic and Qur’anic studies. It aims to ‘provide opportunities for all pupils to learn and to achieve within a conducive Islamic environment; to promote pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development and to prepare all pupils for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of life as appropriate to the Qur’an and Hadith.’ This is the school’s first published inspection report.
Evaluation of the school