We're happy to invite you to hear directly from Ofsted in our summer webinars. We wanted to start by thanking everyone who attended or watched our schools webinars in spring....
...Ofsted Inspector (OI). I enjoyed inspecting primary, special and independent schools for six years. In 2019, I was particularly inspired by the introduction of the education inspection framework (EIF), so...
...about the timing of inspections, particularly of the new short inspections, and I understand that some schools may be anxious about where they are. When we introduced short inspections of...
...dedicated teachers can once again help them to progress in their learning and develop valuable personal and social skills. However, for a small number of pupils and parents in England,...
...Education also provides support for schools to improve attendance, including through their: toolkit for schools on communicating with families to support attendance new data visualisation tool which makes it easier...
...shown by overall prior attainment here too, because this is used in calculating progress. This helps inspectors to identify how each prior attainment group contributed to the headline progress scores....
I’m a member of a seven-strong team on this inspection of a general further education college. We report to the lead inspector and inspect different aspects of the common inspection...
...used to make judgements about individual schools. We are not looking to catch anyone out. We want to understand what teachers and leaders are doing to protect their young people...
...moved on considerably in schools across the country in the last decade and a half since I started inspecting. While in the early 2000s chair-chucking in schools in special measures...
...can see why. However, many people did not realise that this is exactly how it is set out in law. Ofsted has no legal basis to include these schools in...