STAFF and students at a Droitwich’s Witton Middle School are celebrating after the school was given a ‘good’ rating by Ofsted for the first time in more than a decade.
Inspectors deemed the leadership as ‘outstanding’ following an inspection in June and were complimentary about improvements to leadership, governance, pupil outcomes, teaching, learning and assessment.
Pupils were praised for being courteous and polite to visitors and each other and, inspectors said, had a positive attitude to learning.
They added the way students progressed from year five to seven made them ‘well prepared for transition to high school in year eight’.
This inspection was a complete contrast to the previous one in 2013 where the school was deemed to ‘require improvement’.
The current leadership team had only been in post for six weeks when that happened.
Since then staff, pupils, parents and governors have been able to turn the school’s fortunes around.
Deputy headteacher Hannah Walsh said: “We have all worked really hard as a team to make the improvements that our pupils deserve.”
Headteacher Cath Crossley said thanked staff, pupils and parents for their continued support and chair of governors Barbara Humber who, she said, had ably led the school’s team of governors.
“All of the schools in Droitwich have now been judged as either good or outstanding overall, which indicates the level of confidence shown by Ofsted in our three-tier education system,” added Mrs Crossley.
