Creating a "buzz of excitement" around school lessons has paid off for St Anne’s Infant School in Brislington as their Ofsted inspection found the school to be ‘good’ up from ‘requires improvement’ in 2019. Headteacher Anna Sutherland said the entire school community was “absolutely thrilled” with the latest Ofsted findings, which rated all areas of the curriculum as ‘good’.
The 2019 inspection found five areas requiring improvement, with only ‘personal development, behaviour and welfare’ being found as good. It also found that pupils with special needs or disabilities (SEND) did not make enough progress in reading, writing and mathematics - but inspectors found that improvements have been made since then.
Mrs Sutherland said: “There’s been a huge amount of work, it was always going to be a difficult journey and throwing Covid into that, we are absolutely thrilled.” She added that the whole school community got behind improving the school, adding: “the children have done brilliantly well, they have reached for the stars.”
