IT LOOKS like whoever made this lettering for Burnt Ash Primary School needs a few more spelling lessons.

Letters spelling the name of the school were put on the railings at the front gates in Rangefield Road, Downham.

But due to the error these had to be taken down almost as quickly as they went up after the installers noticed the problem.

Headteacher Leah Crawley says it was a mistake by the manufacturer and corrected very quickly.

She said: “It was a piece of fencing in the new railings we have had put in the school.

“When people put it up they realised the mistake but did not have a piece to correct it right away.

“It was up for about three hours then it was back to a blank railing before the correct one was put in.”

Mrs Crawley says inside the gates the teaching is great with pupils achieving the school’s best ever set of results in the last academic year.

And the school, where David Bowie was a pupil in the mid-1950s, has just been rated good by Ofsted inspectors with two outstanding areas.

The outstanding areas were judged as leadership of the school and the behaviour of the children and their attitudes towards learning.

Mrs Crawley added: “The majority of children leave Burnt Ash Primary having made outstanding progress, which is well above standards in other schools.

“As well as making fantastic progress our children also attain exceptionally well.

“In reading, maths and science every child attained the expected level four, with only four children falling just below this level in writing and grammar.

“We are particularly proud of our very high level five results showing children attaining well above average, especially when compared to all the local schools.”