Ofsted and DfE set to extend the statutory window in which schools must be inspected by two more years, Tes understands
Re-sharing this today followingthe tragic news about Ruth Perryand her family’s assertion that her suicide was linked to her school’s Ofsted inspection. Everyone knows suicide is complex.. but here people close to her make a direct link and that has to be heard and thought about really v...
Experience: ‘My school was named on Everyone’s Invited’ Related: Ofsted to visit schools at the centre of sex abuse scandal “The children and young people we spoke to were seldom positive about their RSHE and PSHE lessons,” the report adds. Ofsted’s findings on sexual hara...
@user97533676‘The call’ is when Tribal/ other Ofsted coordinator company call a school to notify them that they will be inspected the next day. At least I think it’s the next day. Then after that, the lead inspector will schedule a longer call with the head teacher which happens that...
Any notion that Ofsted supports school improvement is entirely belied by this fact. I know. I worked in one until my health was robbed by the experience. Where are the inspectors that ought to be inspecting the uninspected so-called "outstanding" schools? They are entirely occupied informing,...
All schools - state and independent - would be inspected every three years, under her plans, and the current four grades would be replaced with “good”, “requires improvement” and “requires support”. And it is this latter grade that perhaps gives a better sense of the area where the ...
Michael Dillon, headteacher at Birch Hill Primary School, in Bracknell, Berkshire said that he had been inspected twice as a leader, most recently in March 2015. He said: “The last time was in 2011, under the previous framework. Both were difficult but good. “The second inspection, I ...