A look at leadership at Kingsfield Primary School, an amalgamation of two schools in the market town of Chatteris in the Fenlands, Cambridgeshire.
Levels of attainment are well below the national average when children first enter Kingsfield, and 32 per cent of pupils have special educational needs.
Headteacher Susan Dowling has put a range of strategies in place to deal with both behaviour and attendance issues, in addition to the particular needs of a proportion of pupils who come from the local community of travellers.
Professor John Macbeath, chair of educational leadership at the University of Cambridge, offers his insight into the circumstances of the school and the way problems are being tackled.
