...pre-inspection preparation remotely the day before they turn up at a school. We’ve been told for some time that the initial contact between an inspector and a school leader can...
...sure that trainee teachers are prepared for the classroom. In June last year, we introduced a new framework for inspecting ITE partnerships, which puts a much greater emphasis on the...
...be a focus on the core subjects and another focus on, for example, vocational subjects. We might focus on a specific aspect across these subjects. For example, perhaps a school...
...far, groups have met for history, modern foreign languages (MFL), English, mathematics and science. We have more groups planned for the near future. The first groups (history and MFL) were...
...We’ve worked with the inspection service providers for more than five years and in that time they’ve delivered well for Ofsted. I’m grateful to both contractors for their role in...
...that they carried out some form of preparation for key stage 2 SATs, which meant curtailing or postponing the teaching of other foundation subjects. SATs are important in reflecting how...
...more information in our updated toolkit for schools. The new questions will be available for parents to answer from September. They will not change during the academic year 2019/20. Though...
...in further education sets them up well for life. We will continue promoting improvement through inspection this year and we hope to see an even higher proportion of providers being...
Iain Freeland HMI, Ofsted’s subject lead for geography, discusses our geography subject inspections. Studying geography is so important for children, regardless of their age or stage of learning. Geography helps...
...of a three-year KS4, a school will simply pull GCSE teaching forward, stretching a two-year course over three. This means that for some pupils, choices made at the end of...