I share Peter Stanford’s frustrations (30 November) with the myopic and tediously trite tick-box approach to quantifying the religious, or educational, effectiveness of any school by attempting to measure or calculate it in terms of curriculum percentages. I know at our school we fall short of the 10 per cent standard but I am not remotely concerned. We have, and have had, the best religious studies GCSE results in the country for several years. We have over 60 pupils studying theology at A level. The annual Lourdes pilgrimage is over-subscribed. We raise impressive amounts for charitable causes every year. Our pupils are compassionate, caring and loving. Yet we too would fail to be rated as “outstanding”.The ethos, so valued by many Catholic schools, is not formed or ge