Pinxton school rated good with outstanding features first time in 25 years

Kirkstead Junior Academy, on Kirkstead Road, has been rated good, with outstanding leadership and management in its newly published Ofsted report.

Melanie Bentley, school assistant headteacher, said: “I cried when I heard the news. In fact, I could cry now telling you this.

“It’s pride, because we have worked so hard. We have been on a journey of improvement, but this year, and in a short space of time, everything came together in such an amazing way.

“It brought a real team effort back to the school long before Ofsted visited, and across all three sites of the Pinxton Village Academies.”

According to the report, Kirkstead Junior has become a great place to learn. Leaders have brought the staff and community together to create a team that is ambitious about what pupils can achieve. The inspectors have noticed that the parents praise the transformation and are ‘really pleased by the improvement in this fantastic school.’

Anne Ingle, headteacher at the Pinxton Village Academies of Longwood Infant, John King Infant and Kirkstead Junior , said “I am incredibly proud of our Ofsted report where inspectors recognise we are a good school with elements of outstanding.

“This is the first time in 25 years that this school has been good. This is a significant moment in history for the school and education in the community of Pinxton.”