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Enstone Primary school gets top Ofsted rating
Tuesday, 10 November 2009 13:04
A PRIMARY school in west Oxfordshire has been rated ‘outstanding’.
Under Ofsted’s new, tougher inspection framework, Enstone Primary School, near Chipping Norton, was given the highest rating.
Leadership, pupils’ behaviour and the school’s creative curriculum were all praised.
Headteacher Lindsay Daulton said she was “absolutely over the moon” as the school was rated only ‘good’ in its last report.
She said: “We have worked really, really hard to move the school from good to outstanding.
“We really feel every child matters and you’ve got to provide for every child and develop their potential in whatever way you can. I firmly believe a happy child is a successful child.”
The school has 18 after-school clubs, in everything from dodgeball to knitting.
Mrs Daulton said: “There’s lots still to be done obviously.
“The one thing that has come out is that our children are not as multiculturally aware as they could be, maybe because of the locale they are born in, and that is something we are actively targeting and will continue to develop.”
The school is currently in the middle of an international week, with activities geared at teaching youngsters about different parts of the world and their cultures.
Of the parents of the 94 children at the school, 59 responded to an Ofsted questionnaire.
All said their children enjoyed school, felt safe there, teaching was good and was preparing their children for the future.
Mum Zoe Lock has two children at the school, Hannah, nine, and Millie, seven.
She said: “It has gone from strength to strength and the headteacher is very good at keeping us informed as to what’s going on and providing after-school activities. My children enjoy school and I’m delighted the school’s strengths have been acknowledged.”
Jo Cooney’s son, Daniel, eight, attends the school and her two daughters, Rachel, 17, and Harriet, 14, are former pupils.
She said: “Since Lindsay’s been there she has brought the standards up and brought more to the school – the teaching has always been outstanding but she has added to everything else.”
There are three nurseries, 22 primaries, four secondaries and five special schools rated as outstanding in Oxfordshire out of 290 state schools.
Dog dies after being left in car "as hot as an Aga"
Tuesday, 10 November 2009 13:02
A dog left in a car by a married man as he visited his mistress died from overheating after the vehicle was parked in direct sunlight, a court had heard.
James MacDonald was fined £574 and banned from keeping pets for a year after admitting locking his Rottweiler in his BMW last August.
The pet died after an agonising two hours in the heat during which time MacDonald, visited his girlfriend at a bed and breakfast guesthouse in Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire.
The 42-year-old had taken the dog on the trip from his home in Whitton, Middlesex.
Prosecuting Paddy Roche told the court at Banbury, Oxon how the landlady of the B&B noticed the "distressed" female dog panting heavily in the back of the car and contacted the RSPCA.
He said: "The parking space was in the sun and it was a hot afternoon. The landlady went past the car and realised the dog was a Rottweiler and it was in distress.
"It was panting badly with long drawn out pants. Only one of the rear windows was open and it was open by two inches."
The RSPCA alerted the police who smashed a window to access the vehicle which they described as hot "like an Aga oven".
Four hours after the dog's body was found it had a temperature of 43C – five degrees above normal.
MacDonald told police he "loved the dog so much" and "wished he could turn the clock back".
He admitted a charge of causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal.
Sentencing MacDonald magistrate Eileen Bussell told him: "While we accept it was not a deliberate act, you acted in complete negligence."
By: Metro.co.uk