Ofsted Parent View – looking more closely
...more information in our updated toolkit for schools. The new questions will be available for parents to answer from September. They will not change during the academic year 2019/20. Though...
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Changes to the way Ofsted inspects and reports
...for your child, they’re going to give a real flavour of what it’s like for the child at nursery, with a childminder or in other day care. Here’s what an...
Early reading and the education inspection framework
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Gill Jones, Deputy Director, Schools and Early Education, Posted on:
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early years, education inspection framework, reading
...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."...
Making curriculum decisions in the best interests of children
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Sean Harford, National Director, Education, Posted on:
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curriculum, education inspection framework, inspection
...of a three-year KS4, a school will simply pull GCSE teaching forward, stretching a two-year course over three. This means that for some pupils, choices made at the end of...
Geography in outstanding primary schools
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Iain Freeland HMI, Ofsted’s subject lead for geography, Posted on:
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curriculum, geography
Iain Freeland HMI, Ofsted’s subject lead for geography, discusses our geography subject inspections. Studying geography is so important for children, regardless of their age or stage of learning. Geography helps...
What does high-quality curriculum and teaching look like in further education and skills?
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Paul Joyce, Deputy Director, Further Education and Skills, Posted on:
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curriculum, further education and skills
...in further education sets them up well for life. We will continue promoting improvement through inspection this year and we hope to see an even higher proportion of providers being...
Short inspections: 10 things you need to know
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Sean Harford, National Director, Education, Posted on:
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further education and skills, governors, inspection, leadership, schools
...conclude that particular areas are weaker than they were before, they will give credit if this has been identified and if effective leadership is moving the institution forward. For example,...
Chatting with the SLT about teacher workload
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Sean Harford, National Director, Education, Posted on:
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leadership, OfstedMyths, schools
...across the UK that Sunday. For those who are interested, here’s a quick roundup of the discussion on our Storify channel. In future, I look forward to even more debate...
Latest school inspection handbooks published
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Sean Harford, National Director, Education, Posted on:
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common inspection framework, governors, schools
I hope you've all had an enjoyable break over the summer holidays. In preparation for back to school we have published our updated Section 5 and Section 8 school inspection...
Steve Tucker, HMI reflects on a further education and skills inspection
...team looks at these. We agree a grade for them, along with grades for all the different aspects of the inspection. We then tell the college. The lead inspector still...