Concerns raised with 14 primaries after SATS results List of schools told to improve is revealed

The list of city primary schools which were told to improve following last year’s SATS results can be revealed.

Peterborough City Council issued informal letters of concern to 12 schools and formal warning notices, which are more serious, to two primaries.

The names of the schools have only now been revealed after a Freedom of Information request to the council.

Peterborough finished second bottom out of 152 authorities last year at Key Stage 2 level - the same position it had occupied the year before.

The schools issued with informal letters of concern were:

• Barnack CE (Controlled) Primary School

• Castor CE Primary School

• Discovery Primary School

• Hampton Vale Primary School

• Northborough Primary School

• Norwood Primary School

• Southfields Primary School

• St Botolph’s CE Primary School

• St Michael’s Church School

• The Beeches Primary School

• The Duke of Bedford Primary School

• Wittering Primary School. The council said: “The local authority has a statutory duty to take action where maintained schools are not achieving outcomes which are as good as they might be.

“These informal letters of concern are early and preemptive, positive action to raise awareness that standards could be improved and encourage the schools to work with the local authority to bring about improvement.

“There could be a wide number of reasons why results are not as good as they could be, and at least some of these are out of the control of the school.”

The schools issued with Formal Warning Notices were:

• Braybrook Primary School

• Paston Ridings Primary School.

Braybrook had 34 per cent of pupils reaching the expect-

Braybrook Primary School