STAFF and children at a Great Sutton primary school are celebrating a much improved Ofsted report.
A recent report of St Saviour’s Catholic Primary School said it no longer requires special measures and is now a ‘strong, good and rapidly improving school’.
St Saviour’s became subject to special measures in July 2010 but improvements were still judged to be inadequate 12 months later.
Last September headteacher Keith Powell and deputy headteacher Sacha Humphries moved to the school, initially on a temporary basis in a bid to turn the school around.
By Christmas they were so enthused by the pupils’ passion for learning and continued support of parents that they resigned from their previous posts to take up permanent positions at the school.
Mr Powell said it had been a ‘long and difficult year’ but the school has now become ‘vibrant and successful’.
He said: “Staff and children have worked incredibly hard – so much so that by June, progress in reading for example, was five times greater in four months than it had been in the previous 12 month period.
“The children now enjoy a vastly improved array of learning, and Ofsted have identified the breadth of the curriculum as a strength of the school.”
He added: “All the children have specialist teaching in PE, performing arts and French, with a variety of music projects taking place.
“This is all underpinned by a rigorous focus on the basics of reading, writing and maths and overarching everything the strong spiritual and moral ethos of a school rooted in faith.
“We have much to be proud of and are absolutely delighted that St Saviour’s is now a vibrant and successful learning community.”
You can read the full Ofsted report at www.ofsted.gov.uk/inspection-reports/find-inspection-report and type in St Saviour’s.
