Ofsted report defies logic

en staff  |  UK & Ireland
Date posted:  1 Mar 2015
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Ofsted report defies logic

Grindon Hall Christian School

Ofsted has been described as being ‘at war’ with the Government regarding the evaluation of ‘British values’ as further school reports in the North East of England in mid-January saw a top school placed into Special Measures and another told to close.

Grindon Hall, a Christian school in Sunderland with some of the best exam results in its area, was given the worst possible grading by Ofsted in a report blasted as ‘defying logic’. The report stated that its performance is inadequate and a draft version of it also included a paragraph attacking the school’s Christian ethos. This paragraph was removed by Ofsted in the report it eventually released.

Formal complaint

The principal of the school, Chris Gray, had recently written a formal complaint to Ofsted because of the inappropriate nature of questions asked by inspectors. These included pupils being asked ‘what do lesbians do’ and whether they felt ‘trapped in the wrong body’.

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