A POOLE school placed in special measures more than a year ago is failing to make the changes demanded by government inspectors, according to a report.

Talbot Combined School in Wallisdown has been visited several times since the damning report in January 2010.

But after the latest visit in March inspectors branded progress inadequate.

Last year inspectors said the Talbot Drive school, which has 436 pupils, was failing to give children a satisfactory education, that it had declined significantly and that the majority of children had “inadequate achievement.”

It said “most pupils’ progress is not good enough” and gave most areas a grade 4, the lowest grade possible and meaning inadequate.

After the latest visit the Early Years Foundation Stage was said to be improving at a satisfactory rate but progress with leadership and management and the effectiveness of provision were rated inadequate.

Inspectors noted that some pupils were now making better progress but said attendance was still low and behaviour in Key Stage 1 “remains a hindrance”.

A new head teacher is due to start at the school in September this year.

Stuart Twiss, Head of Children and Young People's Strategy, Quality and Improvement, Borough of Poole, said: “Since being inspected by OfSTED in February 2010, Talbot Combined has had three visits from HMI and has been identified as making at least satisfactory progress at each of these visits. “The last visit by HMI in March 2011 identified that the school needed to improve in order to come out of special measures in Key Stage 1 teaching and learning in particular.

“The report identified that this could be done ‘by implementing the current plans put in place by the affiliated headteacher’, Mrs Arbon, who is already working with the prospective headteacher, from September 2011, Mrs Curtis, to bring this improvement about.

“The governing body has responded positively to the report and the local authority have identified targeted funds to support continued progress.”