Inspection update Briefing for schools

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Inspection updateBriefing for schools
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Inspection updates

• Change to inspections from September 2015
• Inspection workforce will be much more schools
  based (70 )
• Current process of selection and training in
  place
• One day inspections for good schools (piloting
  now)
• New framework for September 2015 likely to
  include personal development, possibly
  curriculum. Publishing in June inspected to be
  trained in July, August.
• Run by Ofsted in- house.

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Inspection updates

• A lot of Southwark schools are waiting!
• Current focus British values, safeguarding as
  well as everything else!!
• Sir Robin Bosher now head of training.
• Ofsted (HMI) view Southwark in a very positive
  way currently!!

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BRITISH VALUES

• Can you define? ( 7 key points)
• Its tolerance, decency and a determination to
  talk about the weather on all occasions and a
  tendency, when a stranger stands on ones foot,
  to apologise.Martin Bell, MP
• (But he could not bring himself to say he loved
  her not in so many words.) Virginia Woolf, Mrs.
  Dalloway
• Oh, to be in England, now that April 's there.
• Robert Browning.

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British Values

• In Britain, a cup of tea is the answer to every
  problem. Fallen off your bicycle? Nice cup of
  tea.
• Your house has been destroyed by a meteorite?
  Nice cup of tea and a biscuit.Your entire family
  has been eaten by a Tyrannosaurus Rex that has
  travelled through a space/time portal? Nice cup
  of tea and a piece of cake. Possibly a savoury
  option would be welcome here too, for example a
  Scotch egg or a sausage roll.
• ? David Walliams, Mr Stink

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OFSTED GOOD OR BAD?

• Two recent surveys of headteachers views
• The Key State of the Nation report
• Ofsted school leaders views on the impact of
  inspection
• Documents are contradictory!!!!!!

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THE KEY

• 60 of school leaders think that Ofsted is poor
  and should be replaced.
• 75 are against no-notice inspections
• Very unpopular policies are Free Schools, forced
  academisation, published league tables, testing
  regime.
• Considerable concern about teacher workload,
  changes to assessment.
• BUT 46 think education is improving (18
  getting worse).

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OFSTED

• 92 of school leaders thought that the demands of
  being inspected were reasonable and the
  judgements were fair and accurate
• 82 thought that the benefits of inspection
  outweighed the pressures.
• 56 thought the dialogue with inspectors was
  useful
• 73 though inspection would help their school
  improve
• Difference in response depending on the grade you
  received!!!
• PLUS WATCHSTED

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