12:40pm Sunday 14th June 2009
A VILLAGE school has improved significantly, according to Ofsted inspectors.
Goodrich Primary School is marked as good to outstanding in its latest report.
It was praised for making learning fun, which leads to pupils’ “outstanding personal development” and the school’s council was deemed “exceptionally strong”.
Inspector David Driscoll said that standards in English and maths were continuing to improve and were well above average by the time pupils left the school.
But Mr Driscoll said that improvements could be made in science, especially as the most able did not always reach the level that they were capable of.
“Parents are full of praise for the school, with one describing it as offering ‘more of an adventure than a standard education’,” he said.
Headteacher Tony Griffiths said that the report was best summed up by the letter that Mr Driscoll sent to the pupils, which said that the school was getting better and better and everyone at the school knew what they could do to improve it.
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