Assessment – what are inspectors looking at?
Sean Harford, HMI, National Director, Education, puts assessment into perspective.
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Changes to the school inspection window
Updates to inspection handbooks reflect changes to the timing of inspections.
Dan Lambert, Her Majesty’s Inspector, on an ungraded inspection
Dan Lambert, HMI, recalls a recent section 8 inspection and writes about the day.
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.
Sarah Hubbard, Her Majesty's Inspector, and National Lead for English, reflects on the English curriculum
Sarah Hubbard, HMI and National Lead for English, on the English curriculum and the findings of Ofsted's recent research into it.
What Dan Owen, Her Majesty’s Inspector, looks at on a short inspection
Dan Owen, HMI, on conducting a short inspection of a school with a significant number of pupils who speak English as an additional language.
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.
Ann Pritchard, Her Majesty’s Inspector, takes us through a short inspection
Ann Pritchard, Her Majesty's Inspector, shares her experience of a short inspection of a good school. She takes us through the day's events.
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.
Progress, but a lot of work still to do
Sean Harford, National Director, Education, on the impact of Ofsted’s mythbusting campaign.