Looking at the recent state of affairs at University Academy Keighley - formerly Greenhead High School a number of major questions have been left unanswered.

It is among the 200 worst performing schools in the UK and currently lags at least 20 percentage points behind other Keighley secondary schools in an examination pass measure.

One view could be - and probably the right one - that there’s little to be achieved by treading over all ground - just as long as any lessons to be learned have been identified and acted on.

What must happen now - and there are some brave words coming from the new tough-talking head - is that the school fully accepts, adapts and moves on.

Experienced trouble shooter Gareth Dawkins has been open with his comments such as promises made have not been fulfiled and that parental expectations have not been met. He says the kids need a better deal - indeed they do.

Mr Dawkins, no stranger to Greenhead, says that achievement will double at UAK within two years. Leadership, teaching and ultimately learning would improve and outcomes for some students would broadly double.

All the ingredients for success are there he says. Perhaps the most important ingredient - which to a large extent has been missing - is a greater input from the parents. It is superb that they are genuinely ambitious. That needs to apply to the majority and not just a few. Hopefully families will step forward and ask what role they can play in moving the school forward.

Along the same lines the students have a similar responsibility. They must do all they can to showcase all that is good at UAK.

We wish Mr Dawkins and his team, along with pupils all the very best in this determined bid to reverse the educational fortunes at this school.