Ofsted Parent View – looking more closely

...working closely with schools and parents over the coming year to explore and test our ideas for a new service and will provide updates on this blog and on our...
...working closely with schools and parents over the coming year to explore and test our ideas for a new service and will provide updates on this blog and on our...
...move up to the next ‘stage’. Ofsted grades will reflect the areas that matter most to parents: quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, and leadership and management. What...
...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."...
...content, structure and sequencing, and implemented it effectively – then it’s likely inspectors will judge their curriculum favourably. We’ll also be looking at whether the curriculum is broad for each...
...their locality, the wider world and phenomena, such as the weather and seasons. Pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities were fully included in the provision for geography. Teachers and...
...discussing work. For example, we may ask if a young child can read simple words, identify letters and sounds and count. We talk to pupils and look at their work....
...new framework meets the needs of the further education and skills sector and that Ofsted continues to be a force for improvement through intelligent, responsible and focused inspection. Paul Joyce...
...part. It can do this by offering courses and apprenticeships that give students relevant qualifications in new and expanding industries, both in their locality and across England. Since the funding...
...discussing broader developments across the periods they had studied, and drawing on secure and well-organised knowledge of events and periods. Support for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND)...
...for teachers and inspectors alike, I think. As ever, with something new comes the inevitable industry in inspection-focused courses and consultants selling silver bullets, each one offering advice about what...