Primary league tables: Clenchwarton is top
CLENCHWARTON Primary School has been celebrating a year of terrific success after its outstanding results saw it ranked at the top of the county's league tables.
Every one of the 35 pupils who sat the Key Stage Two tests in May achieved a level four rating – the expected minimum standard – in the core subjects of English, maths and science, making it the top performing school in Norfolk.
The school's value-added score of 103.8, a measure indicating the level of progress between the ages of seven and 11, was also the best in the county and among the top ten nationally.
Deputy headteacher Miss Cara Sahy told the Lynn News: "We are absolutely ecstatic. The team work we have is probably the key to our success.
"We have fabulous teachers and classroom assistants who are committed to the children and we have very supportive governors and parents.
"We are also over the moon with the value-added score, which puts us seventh best in the country.
"We have a happy school where pupils aim high and achieve their goals and we are absolutely thrilled to be at the top."
The news was less encouraging for staff at St Edmund's Foundation School, in North Lynn, where 39 per cent of the 23 pupils taking the tests achieved the minimum standards in English and maths.
However, the value-added score of 100.2 shows pupils did make improvements during their time at the school.
Fairstead Primary School also saw fewer than 50 per cent of pupils achieving the minimum standard in English and maths, while a value- added score of 98 showed a below- average improvement in youngsters between the ages of seven and 11.
Mr Martin Sale, a member of the school's interim executive board, said: "Our school has been placed in special measures, but I want to assure people significant steps have been taken to improve the school.
"The staff, supported by parents, have taken massive steps to ensure that every child is well educated and we will see that continuing in the future."
Despite the success at Clench-warton the results in the county's schools as a whole saw Norfolk remain among the bottom third nationally, ranked 107th in a list of 150 local authorities.
However, education bosses at Norfolk County Council have insisted standards are improving.
Primary strategy manager Mr Chris Snudden said: "At Key Stage Two the county has achieved its best-ever results in maths and science, and has come extremely close to the 2005 record in English.
"Norfolk's overall improvement in maths at level four has been greater than the improvement nationally. In English and science the results have also gone up slightly but we would like to see improvements in these subjects at a much greater rate."
THE TABLE SHOWING HOW LOCAL SCHOOLS DID IS PRINTED IN THE LATEST EDITION OF THE LYNN NEWS.
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