...views about how we might make inspection more supportive – as well as calls for us to stop making changes and allow people time to get used to current frameworks....
...easier to groom. Gangs are taking advantage of this by, for example, getting children to take a knife into school or to break another rule which gets them excluded. This...
...iceberg. We will continue to work closely with the DfE, local authorities and other agencies to identify and disrupt these places. But we need the support of the public too....
...favourites. That weekend, the top topic (getting 285 votes) was: How can we avoid Ofsted making extra work for teachers? Of course, I was very keen to hear thoughts on...
...are to progress in this subject and go on to university or into the world of work?’ Well-ordered curriculums We know too that effective teachers also think carefully about the...
...to offer a two-year KS3. It’s a mark of how good the curriculum on offer is in these schools – inspectors thought it better than some schools with a three-year...
...to them about timings and what to expect. I tried to put them at ease and remind them not to do anything special for me – to keep to normal...
...their lives. It’s also about learning to manage relationships with people, learning to make decisions and become independent and finding out what makes you tick. How schools prepare pupils to...
...understand how many students carry out meaningful work-experience, so will need to follow this up tomorrow. First thing next morning I catch up with the lead inspector to see if...
...children spent learning remotely. This is because their parents simply had less time to help them. Thinking towards the summer term Leaders have been working hard to understand what children...