OFSTED grade schools having once inspected them and grade them under one of four rankings. Grade one, or outstanding, is the highest score that can be achieved. These schools are exempt from routine inspections, unless they re nurseries, special schools or Pupil Referral Units (PRUs). Grade 2, or good, receive a one-day short inspection every three years, or a full inspection if the school’s performance has changed dramatically. Grade 3, or requires improvement, is awarded to schools that will require another full OFSTED inspection within two years in order to monitor their progress. Lastly, schools can be awarded a grade four, which means they re defined as inadequate . Schools graded as inadequate will receive regular OFSTED inspections.
Dr Ambily Banerjee s daughter Aditi, 15, is a pupil at Langley Grammar School. Aditi lives with her mother, her dad Subhranil and grandmother Dolly in Langley Road. Dolly, 69, who is clinically vulnerable and registered disabled is a well known figure in the village, having founded Living in Harmony wellbeing group and run it for five years. Dr Banerjee works for a pharmaceutical company and says the whole family have been shielding since March because they fear passing the Coronavirus onto Dolly, She says Langley Grammar School reacted by referring her daughter s case to Slough Children s services. She said: As a parent I have been made to feel awful, accused of being abnormally anxious, for being cautious during a pandemic.