This week, Dr Neil Hawkes assessed Aylestone Business and Enterprise College and Clehonger Primary School in Herefordshire, to be outstanding values-based schools. Neil congratulated both Headteachers and staff on their outstanding leadership which have made their schools so successful and great places to be. Aylestone is one of a growing number of secondary schools that see the importance and centrality of values as a way of creating a climate for learning that empowers both staff and students to raise academic standards and develop as great citizen.