Great expectations of pupils key, says head
Pauline Gavin has run St Bartholomew’s CE Primary School in Armley, Leeds, for a quarter of a century.
Despite the challenges of teaching at a school in a deprived community where the numbers of youngsters who qualify for free school meals is well above the national average, it has emerged in league tables as the best in the country in the value added to its pupils’ performance.
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Hide AdMrs Gavin has attributed the outstanding success of the school to hard work and having high expectations of pupils, with the school team working together to improve every youngster and identifying those needing extra support.
The school operates a non-exclusion policy and has seen numbers of pupils on its roll increase from 300 to 500 in under three years.