![]() The Department for Education is expected to respond to Sir Michael Wilshaw, Ofsted’s chief inspector. ![]() Ofsted is to publish the inspection reports of the schools, along with a letter of advice to the education secretary, Nicky Morgan, on Friday. It’s a sensational school and Haydn has been a role model to us all.” He’s taken it from one of the worst schools in London into an absolute beacon of academic excellence. I’ve been in this borough since 2006 and what Haydn Evans has done since 1995 is quite extraordinary. “We know what a strong school this has been. Mark Keary, headteacher at Bethnal Green academy, Tower Hamlets, said colleagues in the borough were distressed by the news about the Sir John Cass school. If I was one of the kids, it would not be doing anything for my British values.” “To put a school in special measures … what that does to a school and the community will only be negative. The governors don’t want to take over the school. Parents, kids and staff will be up in arms. It’s a good school with a good track record. Kenny Frederick, a former headteacher at George Green’s secondary school, in Tower Hamlets, who retired last year, said Ofsted’s intervention at Sir John Cass appeared politically motivated and was at risk of doing more harm than good. ![]() “We remain committed to addressing the leadership, management and safeguarding issues raised in the report and will in future weeks be assessing necessary action to return the school to an outstanding rating,” said Tony Mullee, its chief executive. The school’s trustee, the Sir John Cass Foundation, said it was greatly concerned by the inspection result. The teaching and results of this school remain good, which they have been since 1999, and my priority now is to address the issues that have been identified and work closely with the local authority and the diocese to return the school as quickly as possible to an outstanding school.” Haydn Evans, the school’s headteacher since 1995, said: “We are surprised by the outcome of the Ofsted inspection, as we have always taken safeguarding very seriously. The only maintained school involved, Sir John Cass, in Stepney, is to be downgraded from outstanding to Ofsted’s lowest rating of inadequate, primarily over Facebook activity by sixth formers linked to extremist material, and existing segregation between boys and girls in school areas. ![]()
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