Transformed school is ‘town’s best-kept secret’!

Castle View Primary

Editor Barrie Farnsworth visits his old primary school – and is delighted to find an ‘amazing’ transformation in its fortunes.

A MATLOCK school has made remarkable progress since it was thrust into ‘special measures’ by Ofsted inspectors less than six years ago after they concluded that leadership, teaching and pupil progress was inadequate – and so was pupil behaviour…