Isle of Wight education

With the support of the local community and hard work of the students of the Blue House of The Bay CE School, over £1,000 has been raised for CLIC Sargent's Young Lives v Cancer campaign.

The Isle of Wight council say that an individual wait of 1,005 days for a finalised Education and Health Care Plan was an exceptional case and that the majority of cases are finalised within the 20 week deadline.

An investigation by the BBC found that the Isle of Wight had the third longest individual delay for finalising a support (EHC) plan for those with special educational needs.

After being rated Inadequate by Ofsted in 2012 the government insisted IWC partner with another authority's Children's Services and after teaming up with Hampshire, five year's later the IWC's social care service is now rated as Good.

Parents of children at this Isle of Wight primary school say the teachers and pupils do not deserve to start the new school year with this terrible action of vandals.

The Ofsted inspection found the manager and senior leadership team of this Isle of Wight nursery have a shared vision for excellence and are constantly seeking ways to improve. Read the full report here.

In a mixed picture, more than a quarter of state-run schools on the Isle of Wight don't have enough funding to pay their outgoing, DfE figures reveal, as schools asked to do more.

Inspectors said the partnership had established an excellent reputation for providing high quality teachers at Isle of Wight schools, with the two Isle of Wight tutors having achieved outstanding ratings twice in less than two years.

Teachers, support staff and other school employees were recognised at the inaugural Isle of Wight Education Awards.

Ofsted's South East Director said schools like Cowes Enterprise College have managed to turn themselves around, but the Island is still not doing well enough for children who need extra support, such those on free school meals and those with special educational needs.

The inspector said teaching was not good enough and ‘confused’ pupils did not make enough progress, but the Executive Headteacher said that staff and pupils had worked extremely hard and the inspectors recognised the strengths in the school.