All schools prepare Self Evaluation documents/forms (SEFs) to health check their schools, with the twin goals of being ready for inspection and to inform their school development planning (SIP/SDP). The new Ofsted framework, in place since September, requires old SEF…
1. Plan the observation together In order to be truly developmental, observations should be 'done with', not 'done to'. Select a pre-determined area of focus based on prior knowledge of an individual's practice and/or the school's focus for that term.…
Objective Setting is Changing Talking to our partner schools in England and Wales it is becoming clear that many schools are moving away from very specific and narrow quantitative, target-based objectives and towards objectives that are more aligned to the…
Ofsted has been very vocal recently about the disjointed nature of MATs, both in terms of their leadership and management, and in terms of the way they are held to account. Ofsted’s key issue is that the MAT as a…
Prompted by the new focus on the Quality of Education and in particular the intent, implementation and impact of the curriculum, Ofsted have now published a document 'Inspecting education quality: workbook scrutiny'. Background Workbook scrutiny is seen as a contributory…
The new Ofsted Education Inspection Framework (EIF) comes into effect this month. Ofsted have published an explanatory document related specifically to lesson observation and how it will be used in the new inspections - “an important inspection method within an…
The new Ofsted framework is now in operation. It sets out how Ofsted will inspect: state schools; further education and skills providers; non-association independent schools; early years settings. Four points for schools to bear in mind are: 1. A four-point…
SATs results and scaled scores Year 6 pupils Key Stage 2 results have been released today (9th July 2019) on the NCAtools website together with the high level summaries of each schools results. National curriculum tests are undertaken in Reading;…
The Department for Education is looking for committed headteachers who would like the opportunity to contribute to national policy through the Primary Headteacher Reference Group and the Secondary Headteacher Reference Group. These groups of primary and secondary leaders act as…
The 2019 SATs are complete and now the wait begins to see how your pupils have done… How long do you need to wait? Not long at all as test results for 2019 will be available at 7:30am on Tuesday…
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