Kippax Ash Tree Primary School, located in Gibson Lane, Kippax, was rated Good in all five inspected categories – the quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management and early years provision. It completed a ratings turnaround for the school, part of the Brigshaw Learning Partnership, after it was rated as Requires Improvement during a 2021 inspection. The education watchdog said: “Pupils in this school ‘stride with pride’. They are proud to learn...
All Stars Childcare, located on Coal Hill Lane, Farsley, was rated Inadequate overall in a new report published by Ofsted. The nursery scored Inadequate in the categories of personal development and leadership and management, but Good for quality of education and behaviour and attitudes. It was a second successive downgrade for the nursery, which was rated Requires Improvement in 2023 - having previously been rated Good since 2013. Richard Christopher, Director of All Stars Childcare, said: “We...
A Sheffield nursery that two years ago was branded ‘inadequate’ by inspectors is back in Ofsted’s ‘good’ books. Teddies Nursery, in Kenwood Park Road, had been rated ‘good’ for nearly 15 years until a report in late 2022 stripped it of its record and handed it the lowest grade possible. In a scathing report, the Nether Edge daycare was told the education it offered was poor, its safeguarding measures were slack and that children’s safety was “compromised”. Now, 18 months later, in a new report...
These Sheffield schools and nurseries came top of the class last month after all of them were rated ‘good’ by Ofsted. Subscribe to The Star’s newsletter for all the latest news in Sheffield delivered straight to your inbox. New figures show how every Steel City classroom visited by the education watchdog in April was given a thumbs-up by inspectors, with all of them being upgraded or maintaining their ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ grade. None of them slipped down to ‘requires improvement’ or...
Ofsted has hinted that it could be 'outstanding' when another more detailed inspection is carried out
Grange Farm Primary School in Finham has improved their curriculum since the last inspection
The preschool spent three years in temporary accommodation following the fire
A Dunstable school given an inadequate rating by watchdog Ofsted begins a High Court challenge.
Teaching unions share family’s disappointment after government says system has ‘significant benefits’Ofsted’s controversial single-word judgments are here to stay, the government has ruled, in a blow to campaigners who hoped they would be scrapped after the suicide of the primary school headteacher Ruth Perry.Perry’s sister, Prof Julia Waters, reacted with fury to the government’s statement, published on Thursday in response to an inquiry into Ofsted by MPs on the Commons education committee,...
The school said they were disappointed, but working hard to ensure they have a positive rating next time
Moortown Primary School, located in Shadwell Lane, Leeds, was rated Outstanding in all five inspected categories – the quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management and early years provision. It marks a second successive Outstanding rating for the school - having previously received top marks from Ofsted in 2011. The education watchdog said: “Moortown Primary School is a special place to learn. It is both academically ambitious and deeply caring....
Barr's Hill secondary school has achieved top marks in its latest Ofsted report