Ofsted has reported that Moorlands Junior School is improving at a satisfactory rate. Inspectors visited the school before Christmas as part of a monitoring visit to see what progress it had made since last July.

The school has a new head teacher Damian Knollys, a new deputy head Sarah Biss and inspectors feel it is on the right track for making improvements. The latest Ofsted report said:

Teaching is increasingly more consistent. Almost all is at least satisfactory with some good lessons developing. The leadership team has set about improving the school steadily and systematically. They have successfully ensured that lessons are consistently appropriately planned and that the pupils are aware of the success criteria in each lesson. The school benefits from good support provided by the local authority which has worked closely with the outgoing leadership team to ensure that the first steps of progress have been solidly constructed, based mostly on the local authority plan of action. The work with the school improvement partner has also had a positive impact.

This is great news for out local community and we both thank the hard work of the pupils, teachers, management team and the governors of the school.