Have name changed for this as I think school could guess who I was on other name.
Basic dilema is that dd has a good teacher in yr 1 and seems happy enough at the school but I have real issues with the ethos and management of the head teacher, basically she is not able enough to run the school and its run apallingly, staff management is terrible, they get no support, results are terrible, ofsted is terrible, events at Christmas and summer ect ect are really badly run, children rarely go on trips etc and she is very often quite rude and sometimes even quite aggressive in her manner with parents, I have actually heard her threaten social services with a parent who complained about her head teaching!
The children dont achieve their best as she doesnt seem to have a clue how to manage despite being a head for years, she is basically running what was a good school into the ground and school now in special measures.
The staff are obviously not happy either as during the summer holidays they have lost 8 members of staff inc 4 teachers from the infant department alone.
DDs alone class have lost 5 children in the last 6 weeks of school time (2 since going back and 4 in the four weeks before summer holidays.
DD seems happy enough but she is the sort of child who despite being bright would happily go through school and do nothing. But the teacher seems good and not the type to let that happen. However she will only have this teacher for one year and the teacher she would go up to is lovely but a bit of a softy (would be fab in reception!) but not strict enough for dd.
So would you leave your child were they were
as she is happy or would the head teachers running of the school make you look elsewhere?