Latest performance tables show nearly all schools in the Braintree and Witham area achieved more than Government targets in their Key Stage Two results.

The benchmark is 65 per cent of pupils achieving level four or above in reading, writing and maths - an increase on 60 per cent last year.

Children aged ten and 11 took the SATs exams in the summer.

All 51 Year Six pupils at Powers Hall Academy in Spa Road, Witham, achieved 100 per cent.

And the first ever Year Six cohort at Chipping Hill Primary School in Witham achieved an 82 per cent pass rate.

* See this week's Braintree and Witham Times for the full results.