Published:
10:18 AM September 27, 2022
The head teacher of a top girls’ grammar school in Hampstead Garden Suburb has expressed her disappointment after receiving a downgraded rating from education chiefs.
Clare Wagner, newly installed headteacher at the Henrietta Barnett School, in Central Square, has accused Ofsted as being “not fit for purpose” after submitting an appeal to the grading result which was subsequently “dismissed”.
The school has been downgraded from “outstanding” to “good” overall, with all categories including leadership being “good” and only attitudes and behaviour keeping the “outstanding” rating.
At its last full inspection as a voluntary aided school in 2007 Henrietta Barnett was rated “outstanding” and did not change following a monitoring visit in 2019. In 2012 the school became a single trust academy .
Clare Wagner, head teacher of Henrietta Barnett School in Hampstead Garden Suburb
– Credit: Henrietta Barnett School in Hampstead Garden Suburb
Inspectors gave the school a glowing report saying it was “well led and…
