ANOTHER Warrington primary school has converted to an academy.

Bradshaw Primary School is the latest school to become part of the Omega Multi-Academy Trust.

Other local schools within the trust include Burtonwood Community Primary, Chapelford Village Primary and Great Sankey High School.

A conversion letter signed by the national director of education, Lee Owston, and published by Ofsted, stated that under the Academies Act 2010, the Bradshaw Lane school in Grappenhall applied to the Secretary of State to convert to academy status.

Mr Owston said: “On conversion to academy status, the existing school closes and a new school opens in its place. Although little may have changed, the academy converter is a new legal entity.”

The letter also confirmed that while an Ofsted inspection may not yet be available since the school converted to academy status, the Ofsted portal still holds the former inspections that school received prior to its conversion.

This last Ofsted inspection of Bradshaw Primary School was a short inspection dated back in 2017, which the inspector stated, ‘this continues to be a good school’.

However, this link to the predecessor school will be removed, Mr Owston informed, adding: “The link to the predecessor school will be removed when the school has been closed for either three or five years depending on the date of closure, and removed from the reports website.”

He continued: “It is important to note that, as the academy converter is a new school, which may not yet have been inspected, the inspection judgements of the predecessor school and any associated Ofsted logos are not those of the new academy.

“However, Ofsted takes into account the most recent inspection judgements of the predecessor school for the purpose of scheduling the first inspection of the new academy converter.”

For more details on the academy conversion or to find any Ofsted reports visit reports.ofsted.gov.uk/