Governors’ Annual General Report 2007-2008

Another year has gone and again it was full of events! Mrs Holt started in Class One and has had a great first year at Churchstanton. Mrs Griffith could not, however, keep away and continued to come in for three mornings a week to teach Year 2. Mrs Burtchaell left us for two terms to take up a secondment with Somerset Behaviour Support Services and Mr Beney joined us in Class Three until the end of the Summer Term.

After a very successful subject inspection in 2007, Ofsted joined us again in February for a day! The report stated that we were a popular and improving school that provided a good education for its pupils and had some outstanding features. One of the main strengths was the high regard staff had at all levels for the personal as well as the academic needs of the pupils. An unusually high percentage of the parents responded to the questionnaire sent out by the inspector and wrote comments such as:

‘Churchstanton is a fantastic school. My children are getting an excellent education. I cannot rate this school high enough.’

‘My child has had the best primary school care in the world. He has been helped to become a well rounded and happy little boy.’

I would like to thank parents for their continued commitment and support shown over the years which have helped contribute to our success. The school also retained its Investors in People Award, reflecting our tremendously motivated team of staff that share an enthusiasm for developing the children in our charge today into conscientious and responsible adults for tomorrow.