A clear vision for raising standards has led to an improvement in a village school’s Ofsted rating.

Newington primary was found to be satisfactory in May 2013.

Fast forward two years and after a two-day visit last month, inspectors have graded it a level 2 which means it has been judged as ‘good’.

The report says: “Since the previous inspection, the executive head teacher [Cathy Walker], together with her senior leadership team, acted quickly in starting to improve the school.

“Together they have the expertise and determination to drive the school forward. As a result, they ensure that all pupils make good or better progress. Leaders provide clear and decisive leadership and have created a culture in which teaching and good behaviour flourish.

“Pupils’ attitudes to learning are consistently positive. These positive attitudes are linked to the improved quality of teaching across the school.

“The clear improvements in the teaching of literacy, reading and mathematics ensure that pupils are making good progress.”

It adds that there is a ‘positive ethos’ throughout and that the presentation of written work in mathematics is ‘immaculate’.

Head of school Trudi Godfrey said: “We will now continue our hard work to reach ‘outstanding’.”

Mrs Walker added: “The staff and pupils have worked extremely hard during the past two years to achieve this result and we have seen a rise in pupil achievement and an increase in pupil numbers in the process.

“I would also like to thank the governors, parent/carers and the community for their continued support.”

The school now needs to improve the quality of teaching to ensure more pupils make better than expected progress by giving them opportunities to practise and develop reasoning and problem solving skills.

It needs to develop successful strategies to engage parents so they can support their child’s learning better.

In addition it must also ensure that provision for early years children is well planned to provide children with increased, rich and varied learning opportunities which reinforce their learning.

The number of pupils on the school roll, aged between four and 11, is 184.