A School Inspector Calls

<p>Two primary schools face each other across the river; one <em>outstanding</em> the other inclusive.</p><p>At precisely 8am Margaret Jones' hire car draws up outside Marsh Street Primary. The beleaguered inspector is being quality assured by two senior colleagues who defend the outdated inspectorate with vigour.</p><p>Jill Grimly the dedicated acting headteacher teeters precariously between failure and success assisted by one of her devoted pupils Ayiesha a girl with special needs.</p><p>The inspection slides into a fiasco; who is the blackmailer and who is the fool in the school?'</p><p class=ql-align-center><strong>'It was like my heart & my whole experience of teaching were captured in this book'</strong></p><p class=ql-align-center><strong>'The story highlights absurd bureaucracy in inspection and how outcomes can be manipulated so that the final report ends up not reflecting the school at all!'</strong></p><p class=ql-align-center><span>?</span>A cracking read: entertaining sharply-observed and warm-hearted... it is book which should be read by all those involved in the teaching of children and in particular those who inspect schools. <em>Gervase Phinn</em> </p>