A HEADMASTER of a Ledbury school has shared he is "proud" for retaining a good Ofsted rating.

In 2017, John Masefield High School in Ledbury was judged to still be a good school by the school inspectorate Ofsted after its most recent full, graded inspection in 2013.

Once again, Ofsted has now revisited the school, in Mabel’s Furlong, to carry out an ungraded inspection – saying it continues to be good.

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Andrew Evans, headmaster of John Masefield High School, said: "We are really proud of retaining our good Oftsed rating. Working in education, we often see a lot of schools around us being downgraded so I think retaining the good rating is statemented to the work of the staff, our range of opportunities and good behaviour from the pupils.

"I think it also says a lot about the community around the school and the greater community around Ledbury which is a truly lovely community."

Inspectors Antony Edkins and Janet Lewis said the school, with 889 pupils aged between 11 and 18, made pupils feel happy and safe, with staff making time for students, listening to their concerns and rewarding them for hard work.

It was also said school leaders, under headteacher Andrew Evans, have built a rich and engaging curriculum and were ambitious that all pupils could access and learn from a broad range of subjects.

However, inspectors said senior leaders had not checked that all pupils in key stage four were learning enough in information technology (IT).

As a result, only pupils studying GCSE computing learned and developed specific digital and media skills. Leaders were told to check the provision for information technology across key stage four, which is years 10 and 11 (14 to 16 years old).

In response to the IT comments, Mr Evans said: "We believe that the report was a thorough, professional and vigorous process and with every Ofsted report there always has to be somewhere for improvement and development and we take that into account with IT."

"We have already started to work on this with our revised curriculum. Overall I am really happy with the results."