RIVERSIDE Pre-School in Chippenham has been upgraded to Outstanding status by Ofsted in the inspectors’ most recent report.

The pre-school and Owls After School Club, based inside the grounds of Monkton Park Primary School in Sadler’s Mead, was rated Good in 2010 but is now named as Outstanding across all areas.

Leaders at the school have comprehensively addressed the recommendation from the previous inspection, according to Ofsted’s report, which also found teaching to be of a consistently very high standard and described children's behaviour as exceptional.

Pre-school manager, Lucinda Weston, said: "We are absolutely thrilled, its fantastic news. Over recent years it has become increasingly more difficult to achieve an outstanding judgement so this is a huge achievement for us.

“The committee and staff would like to thank all the parents and children for their support in achieving this fantastic result."

"We have fabulous staff who work very well together and who have worked very hard in addressing areas of improvement highlighted in the previous report".

Riverside Owls is an After School Club which is open every week day in term time and caters for children between the ages of four and 11 years old.