Letter: Something stinks here

King Edward VII School (KES) in Broomhall was shocked when Ofsted graded the comprehensive school as inadequate back in January in an dispute with the school's leadership.

Regarding your article, King Edward VII School in Sheffield could join Brigantia Learning Trust after shock Ofsted report. This has now been edited to remove the link to the Agenda in question.

But I thought it was interesting that the agenda insists that questions are sent no later than five working days before the meeting.

However, if you look at the document properties it wasn’t created until four working days before the meeting.

Something definitely stinks here. Please stay on the story.

Many schools around the country allow their puplis to leave the site at lunchtimes, particularly schools with a split site (like KES where pupils need to move from the upper school to the lower for games etc) it wouldn’t normally be a reason to rate a school RI with no opportunity given to make changes.

I have three daughters in the school. All three are happy and being well educated by committed staff and feel it is a safe environment.

I have previously served eight years as a school governor and been through several Ofsted inspections. For two of these inspections the school was rated RI and we were given time to remedy the issues and bring the school back to good (which we did).

The inspectors I encountered were all very reasonable and understanding so I fail to see why King Edward’s is not being given a similar chance to remedy what seem like “trumped up” issues.

George French

Sheffield, S10