Our highly experienced team offer advice and support services to any school that receives a call for an Ofsted inspection.

Support includes:

• Advice and guidance during an inspection
• Speaking to the lead inspector during the inspection process
• Attending Ofsted feedback .

   

When you get a call please call Naureen Kausar for primary schools,or Georgina Masefield for secondary schools (see contact details on right)

Please email the school improvement service if you have any questions or for further guidance.

Useful Ofsted documents

• Education Inspection Framework - September 2019
• Early Years Inspection handbook - September 2019
• School Inspection Handbook - November 2019
• Guidance for Schools - September 2019

“Education should be about broadening minds, enriching communities and advancing civilisation. Ultimately, it is about leaving the world a better place than we found it.”

Amanda Spielman

Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector

2019 marked the introduction of the new OfSTED framework. For leaders, this marked an emphasis upon:

• Leadership values, vision and ethos and how well this is embedded and implemented across the organisation
• How staff are developed professionally, including being at the forefront of current thinking and pedagogical debate
• How leaders are tackling well-being and workload in a meaningful manner
• How Governors are integral and impactful, beyond surface convention and process
• A continued emphasis on safeguarding considering how leaders:
  • identify issues
  • help and take timely action
  • manage their statutory duties to prevent children and young people being placed at risk
• How curriculum is used to make meaningful difference to the lives of children and young people including:
  • the intent
  • the implementation
  • the impact
• How leaders ensure children and young people develop:
  • positive behaviours and attitudes – including attendance, behaviour and attitudes to learning
  • personally – including understanding of Fundamental British Values, character, citizenship, careers and healthy attitudes to life