Teachers’ well-being and workload are important to the entire education sector, including Ofsted. Concerns about the well-being of teachers are well founded: Teaching was one of three professions with the...
...basis of data alone – but the data can help suggest areas of focus to be discussed between inspectors and leaders. Data also helps establish the context for inspection. Under...
...published by 30 November 2018: 20% had at least one insufficient progress judgement 63% had a reasonable progress judgement for all 3 themes the remaining providers received at least one...
...or a person employed by the school at least one of the children is a registered pupil of the school. If your school’s provision does not meet all these criteria,...
...what we’ve learned from the first 2 years under the framework, and the 54 inspections we’ve done. Those inspections included surveys with a total of over 67,000 responses. Of these...
...on-site inspection begins, we’ll have an extended phone conversation with you. This phone call is about working out what we need to do during the on-site inspection to get the...
...do not expect schools to change their curriculum just for inspection purposes. But we’re also realistic. We understand that some schools might want to hone or develop their existing plans....
...ask for more information. Our handbook for accreditation visits lists the subjects we will need more information on. One of the items is the curriculum policy, plans and schemes of...
...making sure that our approach is sound. We’ve done 14 pilot visits, covering a range of providers at all grades, across each of Ofsted’s regions. We visited independent learning providers...
...there was very limited communication between primary and secondary schools, and little sharing or shaping of grammar, phonics and vocabulary between settings. Clearly, more focus on progression across the key...