CHILDREN and staff at Lady Modiford?s Primary School in Walkhampton welcomed the chief inspector of schools last Friday. Christine Gilbert visited the school to congratulate everyone on their recent ?glowing? Ofsted report and to sample the award-winning food by the school?s chef Anne Hext-Williams, who won the Devon School Chef of the Year title. Mrs Hext-Williams is soon to take part in the regional finals of the national culinary competition to find the School Chef of the Year 2008. Ms Gilbert asked to visit the school after corresponding with headteacher Gavin Hamilton about the Ofsted report. Pictured are children from Lady Modiford?s School with the basic skills quality mark and (left to right) teaching assistant Pat Crossley, teaching assistant Jane Ellis-Morgan, administrator Kath Dyer, teacher Clare John, teacher Soraya Pajouheshnia, teacher Nicky Wilson, teacher Dorne Brownlee, chief inspector of schools Christine Gilbert, headteacher Gavin Hamilton. Picture by James Bird
