Fourth ‘outstanding' inspection report in a row for Frank Barnes School for Deaf Children
Ofsted rule exceptional standards have been kept up despite head's retirement and move to King's Cross
Thursday, 1st June 2017 — By Geoffrey Sawyer
A SCHOOL for deaf children has been rated “outstanding” – the highest rung on Ofsted’s scoring chart – for the fourth time.
Inspectors said the new management team at Frank Barnes School for Deaf Children, which moved from Swiss Cottage to new purpose-built premises in King’s Cross, had carried on exceptional standards after the retirement of long-serving headteacher Karen Simpson.
The school also received the outstanding grade in 2006, 2009 and 2012 – but this was the first inspection at the new site. Dani Sive, the acting headteacher who will be made permanent in the role in September, said: “I am very pleased and proud that we have achieved this result at a time of a much tougher Ofsted framework.
The staff, pupils, parents and governors have given so much support during the transition to an interim school leadership structure for which I am very grateful. It is no surprise that our commitment and dedication to bilingual practice in deaf education is a reason that our pupils achieve so well, academically, linguistically, socially and emotionally.”
