The last of our spring conferences for school inspectors took place on Friday 20th April. In total, around 1,600 inspectors attended the four conferences, with two held in Nottingham and...
...well to government initiatives over time, including expectations around physical activity and healthy eating. But it was not clear that the specific interventions that schools make could, in themselves, overcome...
...inspection has helped them to challenge their thinking and how to improve the school even further. More information is available in the School inspection handbook. You can keep up-to-date...
...‘an insight into the mental life of the children’. When it comes to inspection, inspectors are looking to see that a school’s assessment system supports the pupils’ journeys through the...
...However, in other ways, each inspection is as unique as the school inspected. That’s why we particularly want to tailor our inspections in small schools. So, what should small schools...
...are to progress in this subject and go on to university or into the world of work?’ Well-ordered curriculums We know too that effective teachers also think carefully about the...
...groups. For instance, 29% went to an unknown destination in year 9 to 10 versus 51% in year 10 to 11. This may be a sign that in the younger...
...to them about timings and what to expect. I tried to put them at ease and remind them not to do anything special for me – to keep to normal...
...that short inspections are a ‘positive change’ in the way we inspect. It’s early days, but we’ve more work to do to spell out to professionals what the new arrangements...
...intelligence to this information. If all of this leads us to believe that a short inspection would be very likely to convert, we will carry out a full inspection straightaway...