The leadership team has maintained the good quality of education in the school since the last inspection. Your tenacious, uncompromising yet supportive and enabling leadership has ensured that the challenges faced by the school are addressed with resolve. In partnership with the local authority, and in your role as a national leader of education, you are regularly called upon to support other schools. This work ensures that you are up to date and very well informed about current educational practice. You skilfully use this knowledge to support improvements within your own school. Similarly, your chair of governors as a national leader of governance makes sure that the governing body is knowledgeable, well informed and suitably trained. This enables governors to provide leaders with a very good balance of challenge and support. Leaders and governors celebrate the school’s successes, but are also quick to identify areas that need improvement. Any weaker areas are tackled swiftly and there are rigorous checks of the progress being made against tightly focused improvement plans. Access to high-quality training opportunities for staff has contributed significantly to improved teaching and leadership. For example, you actively encourage staff to do as you do, to look outwards, to embrace change and to learn from others. To this end, you and your staff have welcomed reviews of the school’s work, conducted by senior leaders from other local schools, and are quick to act on any recommendations made.