STAFF and pupils at Wilton and Barford Primary School are celebrating after an improved Ofsted inspection report.

Inspectors visited the school last July and gave a notice to improve after rating the school’s achievements, quality of teaching, learning and curriculum and overall effectiveness as inadequate.

However, this year’s inspection gave them an improved rating of satisfactory, much to the delight of headteacher Jan Nock.

“We want to be ‘good’ though,” she said. “We are still working hard to make sure next time we get a ‘good’ rating.”

She had only been at the school a term when the initial notice to improve was given, and said it was very disappointing and resulted in the closure of the Barford site.

“The school had already started to work towards the improvements that I recognised we needed to do when I started,” she said.

“It has been a busy, busy year. We have now raised the standards, we have improved the quality of teaching and learning, the children are making at least satisfactory progress across the school and we have changed the curriculum.”