On Monday, October 7, at 9:30am, Rosanna Reilly’s deputy appeared in the doorway to her key stage 1 classroom and Ro, as she is known to her colleagues, immediately knew the news she had come to deliver.
Inspectors would be visiting on October 8 and 9 to give their verdict on the quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management and, of course, safeguarding provision at St Nicholas Chantry CE Primary School in Clevedon.
Following well publicised reforms to inspection last year, Ro and her staff were well aware that there would be no grade for overall effectiveness.
Each graded inspection report now clearly states that an overall outcome is no longer listed on the report’s first page. Instead, the list of individual judgements is clearly visible.
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