Governor's praise after Gungrog School is upgraded

Governors, staff and pupil at Gungrog Road Church in Wales School were celebrating this week after being upgraded in a Welsh Government report on school performance.

Results of the Senedd’s latest National Schools Categorisation review showed that Gungrog School improved from amber to yellow in the coloured grading system of green, yellow, amber and red.

Jennie Wilson, Gungrog’s chairman of governors, praised staff and pupils for achieving the improvement. “Gungrog School has been rated yellow after a huge amount of hard work and dedication from everyone – but especially from the teaching staff, the head and the children themselves,” she said.

“Gungrog was previously rated amber and is now very comfortably yellow and continuing to work towards becoming a green school.  It does make a huge difference from being amber and needing improvement to being yellow and judged as effective.”

Oldford Nursery & Infants School has a top rating "green", Adrwyn Nursery & Infants "yellow" while Ysgol Maesydre, Leighton  and several other area village schools were judged to be in the amber group.

Welshpool High School received a yellow grading but both Llanfair Caereinion and Llanfyllin High Schools received amber grades.

Powys Council cabinet member for education, Cllr Arwel Jones said: “Many aspects and indicators are considered when agreeing the support category for schools, for example new leadership, experience of leadership or a newly established school.

"The categorisation of schools is a system to enables schools to be provided with correct number of support days needed by schools and not a system just to rate school performance."

Check out how your school performed at www.mylocalschool.wales.gov.uk