...return to school. In such cases, the trust-wide training and support for staff were praised for their quality, speed of response and adaptability. However, ensuring that children learning remotely are...
...duty to inspect every school back into force. We are glad to be seeing what’s happening for children, having conversations with teachers, and building on what we learned through our...
...focus on what is most important for pupils’ life chances. Ofsted inspection deep dives focus on what is most crucial for a quality education: that is, quite simply, whether pupils...
...for inspection. The guidance for sixth form colleges is in our further education and skills handbook. This year’s SATs and exam data The EIF focuses on what teachers intend pupils...
...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...
...found that parents believed that preparing for tests was cutting into their child's learning time. Why is this happening? Undoubtedly, some schools are teaching too much to the key stage...
...and we’re confident that the resulting new MAT summary evaluations, as they will now be called, will improve the inspection experience for MAT leaders, their academies and for inspectors. Ultimately,...
...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...
...information/data? Yes, of course it is, although that information will never tell you all or even most of what you want to know. But what is not a worthwhile use...
...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...