Rosh Pinah Primary School in Edgware has restored its reputation as a good school less than a year and a half after inspectors branded it "inadequate" .
Ofsted praised the “resilience and hard work” of its governors in tackling previously identified weaknesses in a new report this week.
Andrew Rotenberg, the chairman of the state-aided primary with 443 pupils, said “I’m obviously delighted – but not surprised. We’ve been pushing for a new inspection for months and I took the unusual step of formally requesting one.”
Governors turned to outside education agency Lilac Sky in March 2014 , which brought in head teacher Angela Gartland, to help run it.
Mr Rotenberg said that the “staff have been working extraordinarily hard with Lilac Sky to do their best to implement the changes we were looking for”.
Ofsted said that “a culture of high ambition and rigorous accountability” had been restored at the school.
Children made good progress in the early years and nearly all became proficient in phonics – the sounds that letters make – by the end of their second year.
Teachers provided “consistently helpful and comprehensible guidance” to pupils, while disadvantaged children often made better than expected progress as a result of additional funding.
Mr Rotenberg said that he was pleased that the school also did “much better” than the Barnet borough and national average in its recent SATs results.
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