...staff behaviour policy. This is sometimes called the code of conduct and should include, among other things: acceptable use of technologies staff/pupil relationships and communications the use of social media...
Helen Matthews, our Senior Her Majesty’s Inspector (HMI) for Teacher Development, clarifies how and when Ofsted will inspect further education and skills (FES) teacher training programmes through the initial teacher...
...receive are around safeguarding concerns, and around one-third of these complaints will contain an aspect of bullying. We carefully consider all of these concerns and decide if they need to...
Ofsted is the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills. We inspect and regulate services that care for children and young people, and services providing education and skills...
...begun in England, and so have the usual calls to reform the school system. Exams should be scrapped, say some. Others demand curriculum changes. But my concern is more practical....
...and language and what inspectors look at including the use of phonics and early reading. We'll explore what a reading deep dive is and share what we understand from inspection...
...last year. It was fantastic to speak to so many of you directly. We hope we have addressed and clarified the areas of inspection that interest you and provided some...
...about the timing of inspections, particularly of the new short inspections, and I understand that some schools may be anxious about where they are. When we introduced short inspections of...
...leadership team is different. And so no experience of inspection is identical to any other. HMI and Ofsted Inspectors (70% of whom work as senior leaders in schools) will put...
...a strict code of conduct and all inspections are carried out without bias, regardless of any refreshments offered. Staff can offer inspectors hot drinks if that is their normal visitor...