"When we work through it next week we will have some very good teaching points, " he said.

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"I found the way the school was managed day to day, the lack of a structure to maintain discipline and enable good teaching practice, very stressful, " Mr A said.

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The curators don't do a particularly good job teaching art history, but this is nonetheless a very handsome show, installed with great sensitivity to harmonious visual groupings.

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Mr McCarthy was brought in specifically to improve the schools' results but stressed that it was very much a team effort, driven by the slogan "good teaching is not good enough".

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"It's very heartening for someone like me, teaching the next generation of journalists, to see a good old-fashioned newspaper turf war erupting here in Gloucestershire, " he said.

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