The Village of Wark

On Wednesday last week, Wark School hosted a visit from 12 Libyan academics. The group of university staff from across Libya met pupils and staff and talked to them about life in Libya. The head of the group, Prof. Hussein Ageli was very excited by the opportunity to see how a British school operate and how the children learn. Once again, the Wark school gave the visitors a wonderful reception.

In further news about the school, you might know that the school had its Ofsted inspection in late June and the report, which was published last week, made very good reading.  Once again the school achieved ‘good with outstanding features’ and I have been asked by the Governors to thank Mrs Henry and the staff for all their hard work. The result was all the more pleasing given the new, tougher, assessment framework. This is a wonderful way to celebrate the end of the academic year and to say goodbye to Mrs Henry who leaves the School at the end of this term. It is also a nice way for Mrs Lewis, who joins the school as Headteacher in September, to start her new role.    

I understand from talking to Ann Hutchinson, the Chair of the Parish Council, that the Parish is preparing to organise work to improve the road round the Green.  As many of you will know, the road is a long-standing issue: it is not an adopted road and most of it doesn’t have a known owner.  The plan is to scrape the top and then to lay a new layer of stone and roll it.  A newly-laid surface will definitely an improvement and with a bit of luck it will last for a good while.

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