Herts and Essex High School has lived up to its motto of ‘Reach for the stars’ by retaining its ‘outstanding’ status with Ofsted. The Bishop’s Stortford secondary made the top grade in the five criteria of: quality of education, students’ behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and sixth-form provision, and was ranked outstanding for its ‘overall effectiveness’. The report, released last week, followed a two-day inspection by a team of five in mid-November – the school’s first fully-graded inspection for 14 years and its first routine inspection since Covid-19…