Inspection S48

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Inspection S48

• The Catholic Life of the School and Religious
  Education

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Diocese of Hallam

• CfBT (based in Skelmersdale) Ofsted contractors
  for the region
• Diocesan website
• www.hallam-diocese.com/schools..
• School self-evaluation heart of inspection
  process in evaluating quality leadership
  management schools capacity to further deepen
  the quality of Catholic education

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Purpose of inspection

• Evaluate and Judge overall effectiveness
• Identify
• strengths
• areas requiring further improvement
• Progress since last inspection
• Provision standards achieved in
• The broad Catholic life of the school
• Religious Education curriculum

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Process

• Catholic life worship
• Provision, work, achievements in RE
• School self-evaluation
• Update SEF on annual basis
• Primary School one inspector for 1½ days
• Secondary School one inspector for 2½ days

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Approach

• Judgements about standards progress based on
  schools assessment procedures (ex. Exams)
• Quality of teaching all factors not just lesson
  grades
• Inspection designed to support school as an
  activity of the Church

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What is inspected

• Overall effectiveness
• Efficiency - of the provision of Catholic
  education in meeting learners needs
• Effectiveness - steps to improve since last
  inspection
• Capacity to further deepen the quality of
  Catholic education

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Six areas of school life to be addressed

• The effectiveness of the leadership management
  in developing the Catholic life of school
• Quality of Collective Worship
• Learners achievements
• Teaching learning
• The effectiveness of the RE curriculum in meeting
  the needs interests of learners
• The effectiveness of the leadership management
  in raising achievement supporting all learners
  in RE

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Inspection judgements

• Grades
• Outstanding
• Good
• Satisfactory
• Inadequate

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Pre inspection

• Liaison with Ofsted Sec 5 contractor Contact
  school name inspector
• Confirm date of inspection documents required
  after school has been inspected by S5 inspector
• Obtain SEF48, previous S23 report S5

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Pre-inspection phone call

• Initial call
• One hour
• Headteacher
• Email confirmation

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Day one

• Meet HT, RE Co-ordinator/ HOD
• Share PIA
• Self-evaluation
• process
• Inspection
• strategy
• focusing on
• evidence collection

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Evidence

• Lesson observation
• 30 mins
• 10 mins across groups
• Not all teachers observed
• Work scrutiny
• Discussion
• Pupils
• Staff
• Governors
• Parents
• Others

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• Tracking school processes self evaluation,
• Joining meetings school council, management etc
• Analysing learners records e.g. SEN
• Sharing celebrating Acts of Worship

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Obtain views

• Learners, parents/carers, chaplains others
• Learners does the school seek act upon their
  views?
• Parents/carers, does the school seek act upon
  their views?
• Others involved in the Catholic life work of
  the school if they wish to be interviewed

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Judgements

• Joint observations
• Teacher confident for joint observation to take
  place
• Strengths, actions for improvement
• All recorded on EF
• Discussion judgements HT/SL inspector
• Feedback to teacher by HT/SL

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Feedback after lessons

• Offered after every lesson observed
• Immediately or a mutually convenient time
• Brief judgement on overall quality
• Across group observation feedback to
  individuals
• Where teaching assistants are observed in
  teaching roles receive feedback too

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Feedback HT RE Coordinator/HOD

• Inspection findings discussed during inspection
  process
• Leadership Team feedback shortly after inspection
  finishes

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Outcomes

• Oral feedback SLT Chair Governors
• Written report no surprises
• Inspection findings schools self-evaluation
  basis for moving forward

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Report

• Max 1500 words (much shorter!)
• Draft factual info to school within 5 working
  days - check factual accuracy (ins mentor)
• Draft emailed - to be returned to the inspector
  within 24 hours
• Within 7 working days report sent to DSD by ins.
• DSD arrange for report to be proof read
• School receive hard copy electronic version
  within 3 weeks of end of inspection via DSD
• Schools have 10 working days to distribute report
  to parents carers, before report appears on
  Diocesan web site

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Governors

• The Inspection report to be discussed and acted
  upon at the next full governors meeting

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Responsibilities of GB

• Send copy report parents/carers
• Copies available members of public
• Copies to parishioners/ parishes served
• Ensure findings used to inform School Development
  Plan/future SEFs
• Thank, Celebrate, Consolidate, Move Forward