Infant and junior schools run separately on the same site are to merge to form a single primary.

White Bridge Junior Primary School in Greensted Road, Loughton, will amalgamate with White Bridge Infants in time for the next academic year, with premises enlarged to increase places from 210 to 480.

The junior school was told in required improvement following an inspection in October.

Concerns were raised about the teaching of writing, with basic errors uncorrected.  

Julie Witteridge, headteacher of the infant school, was made acting executive headteacher for both schools following the resignation of Katherine Ward in 2013.