The quality of his leadership comes in for praise. So that we've not only got targets for all our year groups, but for individual classes but also now for individual pupils. That's the most important thing. The targets are small and attainable - learning the eight times table, perhaps, or remembering always to use capital letters and full stops in sentence writing. Each child improves, the whole class improves, and so on up.
Teachers are on their feet teaching.
It's hard work and the staff are exhausted but the results are there for all to see. As a new project, children are getting diaries in which to record their work, which are also a form of liaison between school and home. A lot of the parents are very supportive once you get them across that barrier that school wasn't perhaps such a great thing for them.