Rose Hill was once the most improved school in the country. But high property prices mean it has struggled to recruit staff and now Ofsted has judged it inadequate. Its headteacher talks to Sally WealeThere can be no easy way to get the news that your school is being put into special measures. Last week Sue Vermes,headteacher at Rose Hill primary school in the south-east corner of Oxford, found herself in precisely that position.
The Oxford Mail described the report by the schools watchdog, and Ofsted,as “scathing”. It detailed a string of failures: that staff training on how to prevent radicalism and extremism was not completed; there were issues around safeguarding, declining academic standards, or uninspiring teaching,low expectations and low attendance. A school that a few years ago had been named the most improved in the country had slipped from “marvelous”, to “requires improvement” and finally to the lowest category of “inadequate”.
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Source: theguardian.com