...junior, infant or lower middle school, you should be aware that the new EIF includes a reading deep dive. The reading deep dive is a mandatory part of the new...
...statistics would show – understandably so. These are new inspections, so interest in the grade profile is natural. Firstly, the proportion of all schools that have been judged good or...
...carry out inspections safely, taking account of the latest public health advice and the specific precautions taken in each school. There’s now a new section setting out how our inspections...
Chris Russell, our National Director for Education, discusses this new area of our work. Today, we have published our new framework and handbook for inspecting lead providers of the early...
...all pupils. Principle 2: Rigorous ‘keep-up’ reduces ‘catch-up’ later If schools make sure that all pupils keep up with phonics from Reception and Year 1, only new arrivals may need...
...skills providers. Second, we’ve been testing new shorter, frequent inspections for good schools and further education providers. But that’s not all. We’re also busy selecting and training a whole new...
A belated happy new year – I hope you all managed to have some rest at the end of last year, and like me, are fully refreshed for this new...
...hope you find this information useful and I look forward to working with you in this new academic year. You can also keep up to date with Ofsted news...
...shown work submitted by their apprentices. I check the quality and the new skills that they’ve acquired. I also look at how much progress they've made, comparing this to the...
I hope everyone enjoyed their summer holidays and that you are all now comfortably settling into the new academic year. This is often a time for introducing fresh ways of...