BY courtesy of your paper I reply to Matthew Perry (July 10) referring to St Anthony's School, now in special measures.

St Anthony's has always been regarded as the very best in infant and junior education in the Forest.

I was a teacher, sometimes in the Gloucester area, for many years and when my granddaughters moved into St Anthony's several years ago I was delighted.

Behaviour, teaching and moral values have always been the best in that school.

My daughter went there at five-years-old and the values taught at St Anthony's have remained with her all her life.

I read the Ofsted report and was, honestly, totally shocked. After only two days of inspection, 11 pages of report ensued. I suggest boxes were ticked.

The head was referred to as a 'leader'. No, she is not a 'leader' she is head of St Anthony's School and the criticisms of her were a travesty of justice.

The other staff I have known a long time and they must be totally in shock.

Tell me why the queue to enter St Anthony's School was so long in 2013 when it became a free school.

I'll tell you why – St Anthony's offered an excellent education where children were treated as children and expected to behave well.

No Mr Perry, the head of St Anthony's has no reason to look at Forest View or Steam Mills schools.

– Margaret Wardle, Ruardean.