Pupils at an Islamic faith school have told inspectors that they felt being segregated in separate classes of boys and girls did not prepare them "for life in modern Britain", a court heard.

The inspector gave evidence to the High Court in a legal battle over a controversial Ofsted report, which the school governing board says should be quashed.

The court heard that one female student said segregation is "dumb", but not all pupils at the school, which cannot be named for legal reasons, had agreed with that view.

The inspector was giving evidence at the beginning of a challenge brought by School X's interim executive board over findings in the Ofsted report that it was an "inadequate school" and required special measures. The report criticises its policy for the segregation of boys from girls.