Dan Owen, HMI Dan Owen HMI, Specialist Adviser for school inspection policy, discusses how inspectors evaluate off-rolling on school inspections. Off-rolling has received a lot of interest from the press...
...does this mean for parents? In schools, inspectors will look at how a school contributes to pupils’ broader development, including development of their character, good citizenship skills and resilience. Inspectors...
...and harassment between children in schools and colleges. We have given more recent training to inspectors on the risks to children online, including bullying. We train all our inspectors to...
...not to do fundamental research or to rack up academic publications. We intend for our work to be practical, policy-focused and accessible, and that is reflected in how we publish...
...However, in other ways, each inspection is as unique as the school inspected. That’s why we particularly want to tailor our inspections in small schools. So, what should small schools...
...context, and how comprehensive and compelling the data is. Inspectors use the published data to shape their conversation with leaders in their pre-inspection call, and to consider which inspection activities...
...to be working a bit more normally too – going back into schools and having conversations with leaders and teachers on inspection about how they’re helping children to catch up....
...get to more schools as the inspection period progresses. This means that a typical good-rated school inspected just before the pandemic is likely to be inspected 1 year later than...
...training providers and the potential risk to quality, Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Amanda Spielman, announced in November 2017 that inspectors would carry out early monitoring visits to a sample of...
...a three-year lead-in programme to get our inspectors up to speed on what they need to know and look at when inspecting something like the curriculum. We’ll also be running...