Assessment – what are inspectors looking at?
Sean Harford, HMI, National Director, Education, puts assessment into perspective.
Sean Harford, National Director, Education
Sean Harford became National Director, Education in September 2015. Sean was appointed Her Majesty’s Inspector in 2003. Since joining Ofsted he has worked in school improvement, school inspection policy and organisational restructuring. His previous post in Ofsted was Regional Director (South).
Before joining Ofsted, Sean was a teacher and a successful senior leader in a secondary school in the East of England, as well as associate adviser for a local authority.
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Changes to the school inspection window
Updates to inspection handbooks reflect changes to the timing of inspections.
What’s an inspection judgement based upon?
Sean Harford, National Director, Education, on complaints and data and the criteria behind inspection judgements.
Ofsted’s new arrangements for short inspections
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From January 2018, we will convert a short inspection to a section 5 inspection (normally within 48 hours) if there are serious concerns about safeguarding, behaviour or the quality of education.
Ofsted’s findings about the school curriculum
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Sean Harford, National Director, Education, on Ofsted's research programme about the school curriculum and the preliminary findings so far.
Tackling workload together – a new question for staff at the point of inspection
Sean Harford on workload and a new question about it that inspectors will ask via the school staff questionnaire that's completed at the point of inspection.
Summer round-up
Sean Harford welcomes readers back from their summer break. He writes about recent events, such as the Festival of Education and about Ofsted's curriculum survey.
Progress, but a lot of work still to do
Sean Harford, National Director, Education, on the impact of Ofsted’s mythbusting campaign.
Changing our approach to short inspections: your views wanted
Sean Harford explains the purpose and rationale for two proposed changes to the way Ofsted carries out short inspections of good schools.
Clarifying primary prior attainment bandings
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It has come to my attention recently that there is some misunderstanding around the differences in the prior attainment bandings used in the Inspection dashboard, RAISEonline and FFT data for key stage 2 (KS2). This was highlighted in Jamie Pembroke’s …