 In September 1999, Graham Robb became headteacher of Drayton School, with a mission to remove Drayton from special measures and for the school to go through a successful Ofsted inspection.Throughout the Special Measures period, the school received regular visits by Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools (HMI), who monitored progress closely.By 2001, weaknesses in the curriculum and in teaching and learning had been addressed and HMI judged the school to have improved enough to be removed from Special Measures.