Dear Parents and Carers, OFSTED Inspection Following our OFSTED inspection last term – our first since we became an all-through academy – I am writing to share the outcomes with you.  I am pleased to say that inspectors judged the overall effectiveness of our school as ‘Good’, with key areas ‘Outstanding’:  This inspection was carried out under a new framework very different to that used for our last full inspection in 2013.  Whilst the previous judgement was ‘Outstanding’ in all areas, OFSTED’s own national director of education has said of the new framework that if “a school that has been judged ‘Outstanding’ a good many years ago is inspected again and judged to be ‘Good’…that doesn’t mean that the school has declined in recent years, in fact the opposite can be the case.” We know that this is true of Sydney Russell – we have undoubtedly continued to improve year-on-year since our previous inspection. I am therefore delighted that the report fully recognises the incredible strengths of our school. Read the FULL Parent Letter here