This comes after the school was visited in a spot check in 2018 and was told “priorities for improvement” were found. St Mary's CofE Primary School in Hadleigh.

Firefighters battled a blaze at a North East school involving its solar panels. Smoke was seen rising from Shanklea Primary School in Cramlington, Northumberland on Saturday (July 5) afternoon.

One teacher left St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Primary School in Sudbury in April, while four more have confirmed they will be leaving.

This is why we’ve revisited at the top-performing primary schools across the North East of England different local authority areas, based on our own unique metric. The key figure it’s based on ...