A NEW headteacher has been appointed to take charge at a South Bucks school which had been criticised in an Ofsted report.

Elaine Kilner, who is currently deputy headteacher of Little Kingshill County Combined School, will take charge at St Mary and All Saints C of E Combined School in Maxwell Road, Beaconsfield, on September 1.

She has been teaching at Little Kingshill for three years.

Mrs Kilner said she is looking forward to working with the new team at the school which was put on special measures after a critical Ofsted report last year.

She added: "I'm very excited about the appointment.

"I'm really looking forward to meeting the children and their parents and working with the people at St Mary's."

Mrs Kilner has been a teacher in Buckinghamshire for about ten years, and has also taught in America, where she spent a number of her formative years.

Bob Aylott, education advisory officer for the Chiltern and South Bucks Area, said the local education authority had drafted in two headteachers after the retirement of the former head, Sheila Doig, in December last year.

The current leading headteacher, Margaret Wright, who has been in charge of the overall strategy of the school, working there for three days per week, will go on to a new post.

Also leaving St Mary's will be headteacher Colin Le Good who has been in full-time charge of the school since December. The key appointment of a replacement deputy headteacher has yet to be finalised.