Published: Thursday, 31st July, 2008 12:00
Progress for troubled school
By Annabel Williams
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A TROUBLED school put on special measures in January is making “satisfactory” progress in its bid to shed its problem status.
Battle Primary was judged by Ofsted inspectors to be seriously failing its pupils, and after headteacher Alex Long left in May, governors put Shelly Hancock in charge as acting head.
Earlier this month it was announced that Sarah Parish, head at Caversham Park Primary School, would spend a year in charge of Battle from September to raise standards.
In a monitoring visit, Ofsted inspectors judged the west Reading school to be making satisfactory progress, but their report said: “Action for improvement took place after the last inspection but was initially too slow.”
Other points included:
*The quality of teaching and learning has improved but is too varied across the school, mainly in relation to how well teachers gauge pupils’ grasp of new material lesson by lesson.
*The school has worked effectively to establish some essential and previously underdeveloped systems through which standards and achievement can be raised.
The report also revealed that “the school is clearly about to experience significant changes in leadership and staffing” because “a third of the teachers are leaving at the end of the summer term”.
It added that “most” of the vacancies have been filled.
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