A focus on St Anne's Catholic Primary School, Streetly.

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00:00I'm Trish Johnston, I'm the headteacher at St Anne's Primary School in Streetley.

00:05I've been headteacher here now for seven years and it's a wonderful school to be part of.

00:15When I came to the school there was lots of things that needed some work which didn't

00:20involve the teaching and learning that was always of a very high standard here but a

00:25lot of the fabric of the building, the classrooms, the equipment and resources, so we've worked

00:32very hard, myself and the governors, over the last seven years to attract over a million

00:37pounds worth of investment into school which included the building of a new classroom.

00:43So we now finally, after 50 years of school being open, have enough classrooms for every

00:49year group which we're very proud of.

00:53Over the last few months we've been very busy at school. In October we had our Catholic

00:59Schools Inspection which is on a five year cycle, very similar to Ofsted, and we were

01:06thrilled and delighted that our rating went from being a good Catholic school to an outstanding

01:12Catholic school. Although we don't really put a lot of stead by one word, single judgements,

01:19it was lovely to have recognised the amount of work the children do, how the children

01:25are as people and particularly the effort and the experience and the wonderful dedication

01:32of the staff at St Anne's. So that took us through October and we have been waiting for

01:38an Ofsted inspection since 2013. Under the old framework school had been judged as outstanding

01:46and obviously lots and lots of changes have happened since. Over the last seven years

01:51we've worked really hard on our curriculum, our enrichment, making sure we've got a broad

01:56and balanced curriculum with children having access to music, to art, to PE, French on

02:03a weekly basis. Our outcomes in English and Maths are outstanding, it always puts us in

02:11the top 5% of the schools in the country, but it's equally important to us that our

02:18children get that broad and balanced curriculum. So Ofsted came in to us, they called us on

02:24the first day back after Christmas and came in and we had a two day inspection and again

02:31we were really thrilled that they recognised what was happening in school. They called

02:36it an inspirational school where our children go on to flourish and for us that's the most

02:43important thing, is what we do for our children. Not the judgements that come, but that it

02:48was recognised that the children themselves achieved so much, but actually again that's

02:54down to the wonderful dedication of the staff and the amount of commitment they have to

02:59the children. And we were really pleased as well I think with one other comment in there

03:04mentioned that St Anne's is truly a family school where everybody has their say and that

03:11was really important to us. The governors were equally commended for their wonderful

03:17contribution to the life of St Anne's, offering challenge to myself as a head teacher as rightly

03:23they should and ensuring the direction of Travellers St Anne's is always looking to

03:29develop, to make things better and we have no complacency here.