Wath school fighting back from special measures

The school was placed in special measures by Ofsted last year but after a visit in December  inspector John Rutherford said: “Teaching, overall, has improved since the previous visit.

“A much more interesting curriculum underpins this improvement. For example, pupils’ enthusiasm and progress in writing have been increased because their work is linked to such topics as evacuees in the Second World War, Greek myths and visits to Wath Woods.”

Head teacher Ruth Bessant has set up two teams to support achievement through the Sandymount Road school, Wath.

Mr Rutherford said: “The leadership team has introduced a new system for ensuring that teachers have a detailed knowledge of the learning needs of the pupils they teach so that they can plan better lessons.”

Improving pupils’ progress in maths is among the schools targets.