School Ofsted Reports Post Reply

[LauraBrown]

I'm sure individual school circumstances differ but taking Trinity St Mary's as an example, 71% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last 6 years, so I wouldn't imagine that many parents have had free money for tutoring.

http://www.education.gov.uk/cgi-bin/sch ... urn=101047

[livegreen]

Last year externally marked tests were added for punctuation, spelling and grammar so this could account for some changes. There was also a change to teacher assessment on SATs. However individual schools should be able to explain their results if there has been a fall - it is true to say that the trend was always upwards in previous years and remains so across all schools.

[headshrinker]

Ok so can someone explain the following to me re the results on the recent league tables.

If people actually want questions like this answered then perhaps NVN is not the best place to ask. Why not talk to the schools or the LEA? With the best will in the world all you can ask for in this environment is people's individual experiences of schools. The rest is speculation surely?

(Don't mean to single out Cronut, just offering an example)