Wendy Ratcliff, HMI, reflects on an early years inspection
...the quality of what we observed. I am reassured and agree with her assessment of the strengths and where teaching can improve. We then go together and observe what’s happening...
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Getting all pupils reading
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Lee Owston, National Director, Education, Posted on:
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Categories:
early years, education inspection framework, inspection, reading
...finding sufficient time for extra teaching and practice, is crucial. This means that: leaders will need to think carefully about staffing, pupil grouping and timetabling pupils may need to miss...
School inspection update September 2023 - changes to how we inspect schools
Posted by:
Lee Owston, National Director, Education, Posted on:
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education inspection framework, inspection, schools
With pupils and teachers now returning to school for a new academic year, this blog gives an overview of some of the recent changes to the school inspection handbook and...
Improving school attendance
...needs to be reinforced too by the medical profession (especially GPs and pharmacies) helping parents get the right perspective and balance and avoid an overly risk-averse approach to keeping children...
Birthday celebration ... and life after levels
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Sean Harford, National Director, Education, Posted on:
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Categories:
common inspection framework, OfstedMyths, schools
...pupils know, understand and can do that they didn’t or couldn’t before. The key then is how the school uses the information, in whatever form suits the school and its...
Jonathan Jones, HMI, Specialist Adviser, SEND, on how Ofsted engages with parents
...settings, health services and social care meeting the needs of their children? Every experience of parents and their children is valid and important. However, Ofsted cannot investigate individual cases. We...
Teachers’ professional development remains a work in progress
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Alex Jones, Director, Insights and Research, Posted on:
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Categories:
teacher training, teachers
The ongoing professional development of teachers is fundamentally important for education quality, and has been shown to improve teacher satisfaction and retention. Teaching practice based on an up-to-date, and deep...
New academic year, new start for education inspection
Posted by:
Sean Harford, National Director, Education, Posted on:
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Categories:
common inspection framework, early years, further education and skills, schools
...inspection framework, short inspections for good schools and further education and skills (FES) providers, and the first inspections to be carried out by our new Ofsted Inspectors. Next week also...
Inspection outcomes for further education and skills (FE and skills) initial teacher education programmes in the current ITE inspection cycle
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Helen Matthews, Senior HMI for Teacher Development, Posted on:
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further education and skills, initial teacher education, ITE, teacher training
...leads to too much variety in the quality and consistency of mentoring received by trainees. Of particular concern are a small number of providers promoting and delivering FE and skills...
Early years inspection and registration from April 2017
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Gill Jones, Deputy Director, Schools and Early Education, Posted on:
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Categories:
common inspection framework, early years
...schools and further educations and skills (FES) inspections. We now directly contract and train Ofsted Inspectors, the majority of whom are serving practitioners, to carry out inspections and work closely...