A NEW principal has been appointed as part of plans to improve Barnsley’s worst secondary school.
Astrea Academy Trust moved swiftly to replace outgoing Netherwood head Toby Eastaugh with its own deputy director of education, Andrew Redfern, less than six weeks after the Wombwell school joined the trust.
Mr Redfern was appointed with immediate effect this week, with the trust saying Mr Eastaugh ‘has decided to leave in order to seek different opportunities and new challenges in education’.
Mr Eastaugh had been principal at the £35m school since it opened in 2012 but at a parents’ evening this week, parents were told Netherwood is currently in the bottom three per cent in the country.
And in this year’s secondary school league tables for Barnsley, Netherwood came last.
An independent inspection from Astrea - previously known as Reach4 Academy Trust - found the school was inadequate across all the main areas that Ofsted considers when carrying out formal inspections.
Read more in this weeks Barnsley Chronicle
