DEVON?s school chef of the year will be serving lunch to a very special visitor on Friday. The chief inspector of schools, Christine Gilbert, is visiting Lady Modiford?s Primary at Walkhampton to meet pupils and staff and will be sampling school chef Anne Hext-Williams? award-winning food. Ms Gilbert asked to visit the school after corresponding with Lady Modiford?s headteacher Gavin Hamilton about his recent glowing Ofsted report. The school received the excellent report just over a year after being told to make significant improvements. The inspectors found almost every area of school life was good with a number of outstanding features, including the Reception class. In the meantime Mrs Hext-Williams won the Devon School Chef of the Year title and Ms Gilbert will be sampling her food. In the contest, Mrs Hext-Williams cooked salmon in a lemon and parsley-flavoured breadcrumb crust with a summer citrus pudding with oranges, rhubarb and evaporated milk in a sponge base ? all with ingredients costing just 90p a person. She will now take part in the regional finals of the national culinary competition to find the School Chef of the Year 2008. Mr Hamilton said: ?I praised the inspection process in my letter to Ms Gilbert. ?I told her the inspection was a very difficult but useful process which was very much a partnership and the results have enabled us to improve teaching and learning even more. ?I also want to use the occasion to impress upon the Chief Inspector how much better we could do if we had more resources.? The latest Government funding announcement for Devon sees the county sinking from 144th to 146th out of 149 local authorities. Every child in Devon is worth £337 less than the national average.