'Inadequate' Shrewsbury primary making headway
A church school in Shropshire that was rated 'inadequate' last year has made good progress and could be out of special measures soon, it has been claimed.
Inspectors from government education watchdog Ofsted found serious failings at Shrewsbury Cathedral Catholic Primary School in Shrewsbury and gave it the worst possible rating.
It was also placed into special measures which meant the school in Castlefields would be regularly monitored to make sure improvements were made.
But the Dean of the cathedral, Canon Jonathan Mitchell, said a year on it was being turned around in a positive way.
He said: "We have what we call an IEB, an Interim Executive Board, in place, which has replaced the governing body, and we have an acting headteacher, Kerry Lewis, who we share with Condover Primary School.
"Through the hard work of the staff, and pupils, we can say that now really all the lessons, all the teaching, is rated as good.
"So we are looking towards coming out of special measures rather soon."
The original Ofsted report, published last October, found that the governance of the school was inadequate. Inspectors said standards were not high enough in key stage two, pupils were making insufficient progress and standards at the end of key stage one were slowly declining.
The report also found that teaching did not challenge the more able pupils and teaching assistants did not help pupils enough, which meant that pupils were not able to fully participate in lessons Inspectors recommended that the school, which has 148 pupils aged four to 11, should not appoint newly qualified teachers.
