According to an Ofsted monitoring inspection report, St Mary's Church of England Primary School, in Burton Latimer, had made 'good' progress since the last inspection.
The school went on special measures in July 2008, but since then both the teach
ing and progress of students has improved.
Ofsted inspectors visited the school on June 16 and 17 and, according to the report, the curriculum now promotes more active and independent learning for pupils and teachers more consistently look for ways to make learning interesting and more meaningful.
Consistent strengths throughout the school are relationships with pupils, the support provided by teaching assistants and the sharing of learning objectives at the beginning of lessons to ensure pupils understand the purpose of their activities.
Click here to read the full report.Headteacher Tony Collins said: "More than anything else this improvement has been down to teamwork. Everyone is pulling together in the same direction and has done what we set out to do.
"We've also had great support from our parents and the community and the support from the local authority has be more focused and appropriate to our needs.
"This outcome is the best we could hope for and we're overjoyed as it shows we're on the right path."
According to the report, although one teacher has been on long-term absence and a teacher and long-term supply teacher have left, numerous supply teachers have been employed to cover the classes affected and
staffing is now much more settled.
A recent parent survey shows increasing confidence in the ability of the school's leadership and management to secure a good quality of education for children.
Although some are understandably concerned about the high number of different teachers their children have had since the previous inspection, the majority inspectors spoke to felt that there had been improvements in recent months.
Inspectors felt assessments made to monitor pupils' standards are now accurate and teachers have been trained to measure progress pupils are making.
Pupils progress in writing, science and mathematics have all improved.
The report said: "On the previous visit, a third of lessons were inadequate, but now all teaching is at least satisfactory and a third of the 18 lessons observed were good.
"This is a significant improvement."
According to the report, there is not yet enough good teaching to ensure that pupils are progressing as well as they can and there is still room for improvement.
Mr Collins added: "We've still got work to do but we know what needs to be done and are confident we will be able to move the school forward very quickly.
"If we continue to improve at this rate, I hope we will be taken off special measures during the next inspector's visit."
