LETTERS: Greenhill Primary School - ‘school testing’ by Ofsted needs investigating

From: A Braddock, Horbury
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Regarding last week’s page 13 article “School handed scathing report”.

From your news item I see that, despite the 2019 failure of the Wakefield School Academies Trust the Conservatives School Acadamisation Team (aka Ofsted) has already resumed work on Wakefield schools.

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The Greenhill Primary School has enviable previous results but has suffered lately due to the effects of the Covid-19 epidemic.

Greenhill was given the lowest possible ratingGreenhill was given the lowest possible rating
Greenhill was given the lowest possible rating

This damning, nit-picking and biased report is clearly seeking to be able to declare the school a failure in order to transform it into another loss-making Academy at public expense.

These inspections themselves need to be investigated before their politically biased approach to ‘school-testing’ causes more damage to our education heritage.