A NEW leadership team at a Hampshire school has focused on what the pupils’ value about their education as they strive to improve.

Following their last Ofsted inspection Oliver’s Battery Primary School was deemed to be in the “requires improvement” category.

Inspectors said that more decisive action was needed to ensure improvement and progress was made by the school. Last year a new leadership team was appointed.

Since they took up their new posts at the Austen Avenue school in Winchester, the new head teacher Fey Wood and deputy head teacher Carly Thompson have made one of their first priorities to work with the children to create a school charter.

They have helped the children to create their own school charter which focuses on what the youngsters thought was important to them in their learning journey.

The charter was developed from assembly conversations around vision and what is important to them and their school and will also form the rules of the school, which has 176 pupils aged 4 to 11 on roll.

Miss Wood, who took up the headship having been acting head teacher at Siskin Junior School in Gosport, said: “When I joined Oliver’s Battery I was keen for the children to set the school’s vision and direction. In essence they are the school. I gave three questions: What do you like about your school? What do you dislike about your school? What would you like your school to be?

“In three whole school assemblies all the children from Reception to Year 6 discussed the questions and gave their responses. The Year Six pupils took the information away and spent an afternoon formulating all the ideas into Our School Charter.”