St Helens Primary School has been awarded a ‘good’ rating by His Majesty’s Inspectorate – with an ‘outstanding’ in personal development. Ofsted visited the East Wight school over 2 days in October and found all areas to be good, including the quality of education, behaviour, leadership and overall effectiveness. Inspectors found that pupils are polite and cheerful and arrive at school excited for the day ahead. They demonstrate the school’s value of respect in all they do. Furthermore, pupils behave well and live up to the school’s high expectations and are keen to learn and achieve well. It was also noted that the school ensures that all pupils experience a curriculum that prepares them for their next stage of education and beyond. There is clarity about what pupils need to learn and when. However, the school needs to make sure that curriculum tasks always have a clear enough focus on the intended learning. Overall pupils learn well but there are times when learning moves on too quickly. This means that in a few subjects, pupils’ misconceptions are not identified and addressed as well as they should be. The attention given to pupils’ personal development and wider opportunities is said to be impressive, which has led to an ‘outstanding’ rating. Headteacher Carl Wake has said he is delighted with the result which reflects the team effort from the whole school community. He has stressed the importance of the staff, pupils, parents, governors and the St Helens community in general for their continued efforts.
OFSTED SAYS ‘GOOD’ ACROSS THE BOARD FOR ST HELENS PRIMARY SCHOOL
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The Tories will read this and use it as an excuse to cut founding.
News for you. They don’t need excuses.
As long as they keep greasing the palms of their dodgy millionaire chums and keep the geriatrics happy with the “triple lock” they can do what they want to ordinary working people.
They just create a bogeyman to target (the EU, migrants, benefit claimants) and make a big song and dance about it then the gullible will continue to vote for them. Despite 99% of our woes having nothing to do with those bogeymen.
Just the opposite, in fact, considering the damage Brexit has done. Predictably increasing immigration. Maybe that was the plan? Give them more bogeymen to point at to distract from their own greed and incompetence.