Top marks! School rated outstanding by Ofsted
Outstanding...head teacher Nora Parker celebrates the ofsted results with Henry Reynolds, Rachael Phillip, Caitlin Roper, Rachel Young, Jacob Smith and Bridie Lacy outside Lutterworth High school. (Picture: Andrew Carpenter/001396-20)
PUPILS and staff at a school in Lutterworth are celebrating after a successful Ofsted inspection which ruled it ‘outstanding’.
Inspectors visited Lutterworth High School in mid-January but their report – in which the school scored the highest possible marks in every category – was only published this week.
Head teacher Nora Parker said the achievement was made all the better because the team of four inspectors were operating under more stringent Government guidelines than they had in previous inspections.
She added: “I am so pleased that we have had formal confirmation from Ofsted of what we have known for some time now, namely that Lutterworth High School is outstanding.
“It is not outstanding because of any one individual; rather it is outstanding because there is a real sense of community allied to a culture which centres on setting everyone involved in the school the highest professional and personal standards.
“Particularly encouraging for me was the way in which the whole school came together and worked as a unified and enthusiastic team to ensure that the inspectors were as impressed as they clearly were.”
Karen Pearce, chairman of the school governors, added: “We all know that Lutterworth High is a great school but it is so nice to get such positive confirmation from Ofsted.
“As governors we were so proud of the way the school responded to the challenge of the inspection and so delighted that the outcome was as good as it was.”
The inspection team said that students make ‘excellent’ progress at the High School and leave for the next stage of their education – usually at Lutterworth College – ‘very well prepared’.
They also praised students’ punctuality, attendance and literacy skills.
The inspectors highlighted only a few areas for future improvement, namely enabling students to develop their initiative, leadership and communication skills as well as closing the learning gap between girls and boys.
Students heaped praise on the school after the outstanding report was released.
Bridie Lacy, from Year 8, said: “Every lesson is fun and the teachers are friendly and understanding.” Fellow Year 8 student Caitlin Roper added: “I love the facilities we have here. They help make the lessons interactive.”
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