...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...
...schools have been judged to require improvement because they are not teaching reading well enough. For example: "Early reading and phonics remain areas for improvement, particularly for pupils who struggle."...
...for your child, they’re going to give a real flavour of what it’s like for the child at nursery, with a childminder or in other day care. Here’s what an...
...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...
...counteract some of the market forces that can pressurise schools to force up attainment in a way that does not embed children’s long-term learning. Involving school leaders We’ve spent the...
...issues raised. CLT as part of the learning sciences CLT forms one part of the evidence we looked at from the learning sciences. Other learning science aspects we used included...
...distribute the information to their members. These organisations include organisations such as, the Council for Disabled Children, the National Network of Parent Carer Forums and the National Deaf Children’s Society....
...framework. This includes 16 to 19 study programmes and adult learning programmes. I’m responsible for inspecting two key judgements: the quality of teaching, learning and assessment, and personal development, behaviour...