LEADERS and managers at Callington Community College are not taking effective action to come out of Special Measures, a report has revealed.

Education inspectors from Ofsted visited the college in December for its second monitoring inspection since the school was found to be failing last Spring.

The report said that although many of the right things were being done, there was not enough urgency to bring about a more rapid and sustained improvement.

The report highlighted that the students’ behaviour had deteriorated since the inspection in March last year and little had been done to address weaknesses in the culture of safety, pupils’ welfare and safeguarding. Too many pupils were not yet showing enough respect for others.

In 2014 PE teacher Luke Maslen was jailed for four years for having sex with two pupils at the college which triggered a safeguarding inspection at the school early last year. The college went into special measures in May 2015, three years after it was rated as ’outstanding’.

As well as inadequate leadership and management and safeguarding procedures, the college was found to have considerable variation in the quality of teaching.

The latest inspection revealed that overall pupils’ achievement was broadly in line with that seen nationally but expectations in some areas were not as high as they should be. Leaders were developing new approaches to tackle weaker teaching.

In a letter to parents Principal Sean Morris said the staff vision for Callington was for it to be recognised again for its excellence.

’The road will not always be smooth and there will be occasional setbacks but we have the determination to get there as soon as we possibly can,’ he said

He said the college community needed to work together to ensure that all students understood that swearing in a public place, including the college, was entirely inappropriate and would not be tolerated.