TURLIN Moor Community School is a “good” school having improved since its last Ofsted inspection.

Delighted with the boost from “satisfactory” to “good”, headteacher Jim Williams who was appointed in January this year said: “It’ll be ‘outstanding’ in two years time, that’s the plan.”

Rated satisfactory in June 2010, the 290-pupil school for five to 12-year-olds, in Hamworthy, Poole was inspected again in September.

“The school has improved since its last inspection and is currently improving rapidly as a consequence of good leadership and management,” said the report.

The large majority of pupils learn well and make good progress, early years foundation stage children have outstanding opportunities to work in a practical fashion and induction and parental involvement is excellent.

“Teaching and learning are good with some outstanding lessons being seen,” said the report. Pupils behave well, feel safe and have good attitudes to work and attendance is above average.

The three-strong inspection team attended 14 lessons and four phonics sessions over two days and each of the four inspection judgements – the achievement of pupils, quality of teaching, behaviour and safety of pupils and leadership and management – were rated “good”.

“We’re absolutely delighted,” said Mr Williams. “The school has moved on apace. It gives a level of confidence to the whole community who are a real part of the school.”

To improve further the school needs to ensure pupils have a clear picture of the next stage of their learning, and iron out inconsistencies in how teachers support and reinforce pupils knowledge of linking sounds and letters.

“Those are things we acknowledge anyway,” he said. “This gives us a real good basis on which to make these developments.”

Mr Williams said they would be discussing with the children their “appropriate rewards” for such a “good” report.