A HAMPSHIRE school is celebrating coming out of special measures after making a dramatic turnaround in just 12 months.

This time last year Netley Marsh CofE Infant School was blasted for giving children an "unsatisfactory education" and told standards were too low.

The school was placed on Ofsted's special measures list and ordered to stick to an action plan for improvements or face being shut down by the government.

Inspectors have now declared that the school, founded in 1855, has been removed from their bad books after it underwent a radical shake-up.

A taskforce of new teaching staff was brought in to spearhead the battle following a period of successive acting heads.

Last September new head teacher Laura Dickson arrived with assistant head Claire Spence to work alongside existing staff and governors to get the school back on track.

They had three key issues to address - leadership and management, teaching and learning and developing the curriculum.

Inspectors making regular visits to the school over the last year saw rapid progress being made.

Miss Dickson, said: "This recent visit confirms the staff, children and parents view that Netley Marsh Infant School offers a good standard of education to its children. The team are dedicated and committed to raising standards and the children make good or better progress."

The school is now vowing that this is only the beginning for continued improvements after emerging triumphant at the end of such a difficult and challenging journey.

Chairman of governors, Linda Dawson, added: "Our children are receiving a good quality education and we know that the school will go from strength to strength."