Howden School and Technology College has been placed into ‘Special Measures’ by OFSTED following the recent inspection. As an ex-pupil and a parent whose daughter is to start her secondary school education there in September I was shocked to hear this. I have frequent contact with the School both as a Councillor and as a member of the Gilberdyke School Governing Body whose pupils feed into the School.I recognise the problems, but I am reassured that the measures being put in place by the Local Education Authority will see the rapid improvement, we have seen in other schools who have been in a similar situation, and that Howden School pupils will benefit from this almost immediately.
The Local Education Authority has acted quickly and appointed a new Executive Headteacher and Acting Headteacher, and I have every confidence in the School’s ability to move forward quickly and to move out of special measures within a year.
I look forward to my daughter and her fellow pupils who start the School in September, as well as present pupils, receiving an excellent education as I did all those years ago.
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Being a parent of 2 children in year 9 at howden school I realised certain aspects of howden school where not as good as they should be but it nevertheless came as a big shock that the school was so bad as to be placed in special measures which is a view shared by a good number of parents that I have spoken to.Tonights meeting was a positive one with the new executive headteacher and acting headteacher.Lets hope the school improves soon.
The ofsted reports states that the school has been in decline for 3 years and information on a respectable website I looked on says a school in special measures usually takes 4 to 5 terms to come back to a respectable standard.
It seems to me that my children will have had a very mixed education with a poor one at howden school in contrast to a very good one at gilberdyke primary school.
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