Primary School Improvements

I was at County Hall this morning attending a Children's Services Scrutiny Committee, but took some time out to speak in favour of Charlton Primary School's proposals to expand to a 2-form entry.   You can read the full report here.  This has been covered before in my blog but after the consultation process there had to be formal approval.  The next stage will be to seek planning permission.  I will keep you posted.

Meanwhile it was an interesting morning sitting in the Select Committee style review which was looking at Key Stage 1 Performance last year.  It has been known for some time about Oxfordshire's underperformance in some of the county's schools and this meeting was trying to address the problems.  In fact,  schools in Oxford City scored lowest of all districts in England in Key Stage 1 assessments.  Things must surely only get better!  We did hear about some good practice which has been brought in to address the problem and this has already been making a difference to some schools.  The full report is available here under 'addenda'.  Very interesting reading.