A London Charedi school which organised a residential trip to Wales in summer put pupils at risk, Ofsted has said. 

Beis Medrash Elyon, an independent secondary boys’ school in Hendon, took 73 pupils for two nights in Llandudno, in North Wales in July.

Leaders explained they had organised the visit “to improve pupils’ health after a long period of lockdown”. 

But Ofsted said this had been in clear breach of government guidance at the time, which advised against domestic trips for children under 18.

The school’s leaders said that pupils had been organised into year-group bubbles with no mixing between groups and there had been a number of health and safety checks.

But Ofsted said “the risk to pupils of catching Covid-19 or transmitting it to others unknowingly was not given sufficient consideration”. 

As a result, pupils were placed “under unnecessary risk, which could have had serious consequences”. 

Ofsted was asked to carry out an emergency inspection of the school – which was rated inadequate two years ago – by the Department for Education after it learned about the trip.