Photo of school buildings behind a closed gate.

Celebrations as Stoke Lodge is now officially rated a ‘good’ school

Staff and parents of children at a local primary school are celebrating the award of a ‘good’ Ofsted grading following a 6-year period during which the setting was deemed to be in need of improvement. Inspectors who visited the school last November have rated it ‘good’ in all five categories of assessment, marking a big step forward from the previous inspection in January 2019.

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Photo of the entrance to Stoke Lodge Primary School, in School Close.

Disappointment at Stoke Lodge Ofsted verdict

Senior staff at the Olympus Academy Trust have expressed disappointment at the latest Ofsted report for Stoke Lodge Primary School, which has been given an overall grading of ‘requires improvement’ for the second time in just over two years. Inspectors who visited the school in early January once again judged its Early Years provision to be ‘good’ but rated the

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