A headteacher who followed in his father's footsteps to lead a city school has turned its fortunes around.
St Nicholas’s Catholic Primary School in Orthes Street, Liverpool has been praised by Ofsted as a Good School – with inspectors saying that it has high expectations and that its pupils succeed. The transformation of the school comes less than six years after St Nicholas’s was rated Inadequate by Ofsted.
In 2017, just after that inspection, Martin Davies was appointed headteacher of the school – following in the footsteps of his late father Frank Davies, who led the school from 1968 to 1990 and who inspired his son to go into the teaching profession. Frank was the youngest headteacher in the city when he was appointed, aged just 33. Mr Davies’ mother Maureen was also a teacher, who was awarded a CBE in 2000 for services to education.
