Winterton school taking "effective action" say Ofsted's education inspectors
WINTERTON Junior School has had a monitoring visit by Ofsted, after being told it required improvement last year.
Ofsted inspectors concluded that the school had begun to take "effective action", after being given the "requires improvement" rating in November 2012.
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Headteacher Cathy Logan at Winterton Junior School
The school, on West Street in Winterton, was visited by inspectors on January 21 this year to see what action had been taken to improve the school.
During the visit, meetings were held with the headteacher, deputy headteacher, literacy leader, a school improvement officer from the local authority, the Chair of the Governing Body and two other governors.
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In the monitoring report, Ofsted wrote: "The headteacher and other senior leaders are well aware that in order to raise achievement the quality of teaching needs to improve.
"Leaders and governors have begun to take action to improve teaching through general professional development covering aspects such as assessment, marking and pupil target setting. However, improving the quality of teaching and learning does not appear as a stand-alone priority in the school's development plan.
"Senior leaders and governors have begun to take effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement identified at the recent section 5 inspection."
2 Comments
by me_again1
Thursday, February 14 2013, 9:21PM
“Dear me, sounds like Truth11 has an axe to grind -albeit a little blunt and crude.
Truth11 knows all about edited highlights he/she has effectively cherry picked statements. The fact that the report says "Senior leaders and governors have begun to take effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement" has been selectively removed from Truth 11's comments and dare I say mind.
The rest of the report in no way suggests that the local authority is having to teach some the teachers how to teach, nor is there any reference to the leadership needing help with assessing. Oh dear dear how can that be?
People like Truth11 are not happy when people are making progress -and they aren't responsible for it. Rumour has it that Truth11 also blogs under the nom de plume 'El Narcissist' but that is only rumour and I couldn't possibly be quoted for saying so.
Still it isn't surprising since it appears that Truth11 [an oxymoron if ever I heard one] would delight in seeing Winterton Juniors run down rather than cheered.”
by Truth11
Tuesday, February 12 2013, 12:37PM
“Wow! Talk about putting a positive spin on things. Selective quoting of the very short report from Ofsted (about one full page of text) seems to be the order of the day. Well just to level things up a bit; the report also says: -
"This [teaching requiring improvement] has been the case for too long and has impacted adversely on pupils' progress."
"current strategies designed to tackle ineffective teaching lack rigour and do not hold individual teachers sufficiently to account"
"As a consequence, the monitoring of teaching by the senior leadership team lacks purpose and does not help to drive improvement as well as it should"
"Ofsted will continue to monitor the school until its next section 5 inspection."
The rest of the report suggests that the local authority is having to teach some of the teachers how to teach and that the leadership need help with assessing what makes a good lesson. Looking at recent job adverts and talking to parents in Winterton it would seem that there have been a number of vacant posts at the school in recent times...read into that what you will....rats and sinking ships springs to mind....”