Awards celebrate excellence in Warwickshire schools

Some of the best and brightest schools gathered for an awards evening at Stoneleigh Deer Park Golf Club last month to be recognised for their recent Ofsted achievements.

The headteacher, Chair of Governors and pupils from each school attended the Excellence in Warwickshire Awards ceremony on Wednesday 9th November. The awards recognised all schools inspected by Ofsted during the 2015/16 academic year who have improved their performance from their previous Ofsted inspection or maintained their ‘outstanding’ or ‘good’ grade. Many of these schools improved from a previous ‘requires improvement’ judgement to a 'good' judgement, and one moved from ‘good’ to ‘outstanding’.  

Schools enjoyed a performance from the Warwickshire Music Suzuki group, who delighted with their violin playing.  Some of the pupils there to receive awards also spoke very enthusiastically about their experience of education and why they think their own school deserves to be good.

These schools have played a big part in increasing Warwickshire’s percentage of good or better schools, which went up from 83% to 89% during the 2015/16 academic year. This took Warwickshire above the national average of 86% of good or better schools.