The inspection was changed from a one-day to a two-day inspection. At the end of day two, school leaders were told that the school was being downgraded from good to requires improvement. Then a phone call came from Ofsted to inform our headteacher that the judgment had been further downgraded. We were devastated. Disbelief, anger, confusion, embarrassment and a myriad of other emotions followed. What would the parents say?
How could it have gone so wrong? They all said we were good; Ofsted begged to differ, quite drastically. In the aftermath, there was some inevitable fall out. The rest of us remained. We have rallied and supported each other. But any teacher worth their chalk knows how to learn a lesson from any situation. Quick read: 5 lessons from an inspection under Ofsted's new regime Quick listen: The truth about mental health in schools Want to know more?
Ratings are not at random An Ofsted rating may be harsh but they are never entirely undeserved. Change is on the way Change can seem threatening, especially if your confidence has been knocked, but it is undeniably necessary in this situation. Training days are here again Schools have been ridiculously underfunded over the past few years, and for many teachers days off to attend courses have become a thing of the past.
But now your line managers will be motivated to bring in new ideas and try new things. Your work-life balance is even more important now Teacher mental health is reaching crisis point nationally, with excessive workload a contributing factor. And at school? Things can only get better.
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Find out how here Lessons from the farm — Building confidence and curiosity in the classroom Outdoor Spaces. A school judged as requires improvement at its last inspection is a school that is not yet good but overall provides an acceptable standard of education.
The school is inspected again, under section 5, within a period of 30 months. If a school has been judged as requires improvement at 2 successive inspections, it will be subject to monitoring from inspectors to check its progress. We will inspect it again under section 5 within a period of 30 months of the publication of the previous section 5 report.
When we judge a school as inadequate, we place the school in a category of concern. This means that we judge the school either to have serious weaknesses or to require special measures. The Secretary of State for Education will issue an academy order to a maintained school judged inadequate and placed in a category of concern. The school will then become a sponsored academy. We will not usually monitor the school unless there are safeguarding concerns or there is a delay in the school becoming a sponsored academy.
If an academy is judged inadequate and placed in a category of concern, we will monitor the school. If an academy is judged inadequate and is rebrokered to a new multi-academy trust to become a new sponsored academy, we will not usually carry out any monitoring inspections.
If an academy is judged as having serious weaknesses or requiring special measures, and if it is not rebrokered to a new multi-academy trust, we will monitor the school to check its progress. If a maintained nursery school or a non-maintained special school that we inspect under section 5 is judged inadequate, we will monitor it in the same way as an academy judged as inadequate that is not re-brokered to a new sponsor trust.
We will normally notify the school of its inspection between We can inspect any school without notice, if judged appropriate. In these cases, the lead inspector will normally telephone the school about 15 minutes before arriving. We provide schools with a letter to tell all parents of pupils at the school about the inspection and options for providing their views. We also ask schools to notify other relevant bodies, including those providing alternative provision for pupils, of the inspection.
This leaflet lists the information and documents that inspectors will need to see before and during the inspection. You will need to submit some of this information through the provider portal. Inspectors will look at Ofsted Parent View to see the views of parents. Inspectors will also take into account the results of any past parent surveys, or other surveys, carried out by the school. The inspection will normally last 2 full days. Inspections of good primary schools and good or outstanding maintained nursery schools with less than pupils will normally last for 1 day.
The number of inspectors on the inspection team will vary according to the size and nature of the school. Inspectors will spend most of their time observing lessons and gathering evidence to inform their judgements. Inspectors will make their final judgements when they have collected and considered all the evidence.
The lead inspector will meet the headteacher regularly throughout the inspection and will ensure that the headteacher and senior staff:. Inspectors will also invite the headteacher to attend the final team meeting at the end of the inspection.
Our approach to inspection will take into account the COVID pandemic and the disruption it has caused to schools.
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