The success story of a Bradford school which came out of special measures is being screened on television to inspire other teachers.

Carlton Bolling College in Undercliffe was condemned as failing by Government inspectors in September 2002.

But the school was taken out of special measures in December last year as both pupils' and teachers' performance was praised by Ofsted standards inspectors.

Now the school's transformation is the subject of a television programme called Escape from Special Measures, which is being screened this week on the digital channel Teachers' TV.

Head teacher Nigel Jepson said he hoped the programme would help other schools which were in the situation Carlton Bolling College faced three years ago.

Camera crews visited the school earlier this year to film the programme after Carlton Bolling had been taken out of special measures.

In 2002 Ofsted inspectors said the school needed to raise the performance of its pupils at 14 and 16 years old, improve the quality of teaching, leadership and management at the school and improve pupils' attitude towards learning, attendance and punctuality.

The documentary shows how staff set about the challenge of coming out of special measures.

To improve punctuality senior staff meet latecomers at the school gates and keep a record of how much time pupils have missed.

Any pupil who clocks up more than 30 minutes of time missed in two weeks has their parents contacted by the school and those who fail to improve are placed in detention.

The programme features footage of deputy head teacher Rachel Kidd challenging pupils who arrived late.

The documentary also looks at the work which has been done to improve the standard of teaching at the school.

To share best practice Carlton Bolling College identified the success of newly qualified history teacher Zari Grist's lessons and videotaped one of her classes which was then played to other teaching staff.

In the programme Mr Jepson said: "There is a certain amount of fear attached to failure. It can seem daunting and the road to recovery can seem a long way off. But, in fact, very much the opposite is true, creating a culture of success is exhilarating not daunting."