{"id":34601,"date":"2025-10-01T16:30:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/?p=34601"},"modified":"2025-10-01T16:30:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:30:24","slug":"heres-where-educating-manchesters-harrop-fold-is-today-after-a-serious-visit-from-ofsted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2025\/10\/01\/heres-where-educating-manchesters-harrop-fold-is-today-after-a-serious-visit-from-ofsted\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s where Educating Manchester&#8217;s Harrop Fold is today after a serious visit from Ofsted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you watched <a href=\"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/2025\/09\/30\/mr-povey-bluntly-speaks-out-after-being-banned-from-teaching-since-educating-manchester\/\">Educating Greater Manchester<\/a>, you\u2019ll definitely remember Harrop Fold School. It was the backdrop for all those emotional moments and heartwarming stories, but behind the scenes, things weren\u2019t quite as rosy as they looked on TV.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, the school was actually slapped with a pretty brutal Ofsted rating and put straight into &#8216;special measures&#8217;. So, what went wrong, and what\u2019s happening there now?<\/p>\n<h2 data-start=\"599\" data-end=\"657\">Harrop Fold was once deemed &#8216;inadequate in all areas&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Emotional Moment Convincing Student To Take Her Exams | Educating Greater Manchester\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NQk4Wa2xpVU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"659\" data-end=\"849\">Back in 2018, Ofsted came in and basically said Harrop Fold was failing across the board. Their report was harsh, describing &#8220;serious and wide-ranging weaknesses&#8221; that couldn\u2019t be ignored.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"851\" data-end=\"1219\">One of the biggest issues was safeguarding, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-manchester-46344601?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a>. Inspectors found that pupils could literally walk out of school without staff noticing, and there were &#8220;off-the-books&#8221; exclusions happening too. That actually ended up being the reason the school&#8217;s headteacher, Mr Povey, was <a href=\"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/2025\/09\/30\/the-shocking-real-reason-mr-povey-was-indefinitely-banned-from-teaching-after-educating-manchester\/\">banned from teaching<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"851\" data-end=\"1219\">Attendance records had also been reportedly messed with. Some students were marked as present when they weren\u2019t, or temporarily wiped from the register, especially around census time.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1512\" data-end=\"1766\">And then there was leadership. Headteacher Drew Povey, who fans of the show will remember, was suspended just before the report was released. He and a few staff members were investigated for those admin &#8220;errors&#8221; including the dodgy attendance figures.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1768\" data-end=\"1962\">With all that in mind, it wasn\u2019t a huge surprise that Ofsted decided to put Harrop Fold into &#8216;special measures&#8217;, meaning it needed serious intervention and close monitoring until things improved.<\/p>\n<h2 data-start=\"1969\" data-end=\"2005\">Where is the school these days?<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DPME0IdiHOS\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:640px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<div style=\"padding:16px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DPME0IdiHOS\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" background:#FFFFFF; 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In its most recent Ofsted inspection, published in February 2024, The Lowry Academy was rated Good in every category.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2528\" data-end=\"2956\">Inspectors said safeguarding is now effective, behaviour has improved, and leadership is strong. 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