Ben Davis is head teacher at St Ambrose Barlow RC High in Wardley, Swinton.
On a 12ft high maroon pillar at the entrance to the school is embossed the school crest and extracts from an Ofsted report from 2008. It says: "The excitement and buzz for learning is immediately apparent to any visitor to this outstanding school."
When that comment was written the school was actually based in the middle of Swinton. That building is still standing, but now used as a set for the school TV drama Waterloo Road.
