Yesodey Hatorah School is an independent Orthodox Jewish day school in the London Borough of Hackney. The school caters for boys aged five to 16 and girls aged five to 11. The school’s last standard inspection took place in November 2018, when the school was judged to require improvement. Independent school standards in parts 1, 2 and 8 were unmet. The school had a progress monitoring inspection in June 2019, when some of the unmet standards were met. The school operates a policy of segregation by sex across the early years, key stage 1 and key stage 2 because girls are taught separately from boys. Boys do not have access to the library facilities in the girls’ section and girls do not have access to the facilities in the new building. Girls and boys do not have Inspection report: Yesodey Hatorah School 5–7 November 2019 6 opportunities to learn together in classes or socialise with each other at breaktime and lunchtime. The policy constitutes direct discrimination contrary to the Equality Act 2010. Leaders’ plans to register the boys’ and girls’ sections of the school as two separate single-sex schools are well advanced but had not been finalised at the time of the inspection. A new headteacher for the boys’ primary school and a headteacher for the boys’ senior school have recently been appointed. The boys’ school site has an entrance on Amhurst Park at the school’s registered address. The girls’ school site has an entrance at 153 Stamford Hill, Hackney. The senior boys’ school uses Sobell Leisure Centre in Islington for physical education.