A SCHOOL which parents fear is to be forced into becoming an academy against their wishes has been put into special measures.

A controversial recent inspection at Bisham C of E School, on the river near Marlow, has returned a conclusion of ‘inadequate’. 

And the news comes only six months after the last on-the-spot inspection found the 115-pupil school on Church Lane to be ‘good’.

In an email sent to the Free Press, Alison Alexander, director of Children’s Services at the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead said a meeting with parents will be held on Wednesday.

She said: “The Local Authority and the Diocese will attend the meeting and confirm our commitment to ensure the school is improved, as quickly as possible.

“It is important that we turn around the Ofsted judgements on leadership and management; behaviour and safety of pupils, quality of teaching, achievement of pupils and early years provision of inadequate to good.”

A Parents Action Group was formed last month after rumours the school could be forced to make the switch to an academy.

As reported in the Free Press, parents want to have a say in the future of their children’s school, rather than lose control to an Interim Executive board of governors.

September’s inspection was held on the day when the headteacher Jim Cooke and many of the pupils were on a school trip, which parents say was unfair.

The group says Local Education Authority RBWM has an agenda against the school and is determined to see it make the academy switch.

But RBWM insists it had no such plans, saying it just wanted what is best for the school and its pupils.

The Ofsted report was published to the school this week, but will not go on general view until next week.