We're In The Paper! Amazing Turn Around At Broadford Primary

The Romford Recorder contacted us yesterday as they were 'staggered by the rate of improvement' at our school.

Broadford in Harold Hill is celebrating a reversal of fortunes after it jumped from 53 per cent of pupils getting Level 4 in both subjects, to 82 per cent.
That increase takes it up 20 places from the borough’s lowest-performing school to joint 27th.
Malcolm Drakes – who had been the school’s fourth head in 12 months, but is now entering his third calendar year at the helm – said the improvement was down to a number of factors.
“The pupils have gone from a crumbling, leaking, freezing 1952 prefab to a state-of-the-art facility,” he said.
The school, which was taken off special measures in March, hired consultants to work with staff and improve teaching, invested in extra-curricular activities, and gained a new £5m building.
But Mr Drakes added the challenge would now be to sustain that improvement in coming years.

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