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Inspection
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Before, during & after inspection
- Be ready for Ofsted: checklists Whether you’ve just got the call from your headteacher or your school's expecting an inspection this year, use our checklists so you're ready for Ofsted.
- How to clerk an Ofsted feedback meeting Is your school due an inspection? Be clear how to clerk an Ofsted feedback meeting so you can capture everything the inspector says. Find out what you should do before, during and after the meeting.
- Ofsted inspection: providing governing board minutes You're required to produce your minutes for inspection if asked to do so. Understand what inspectors might look for and how they might use them, as well as specific considerations you should have when producing your minutes.
- Ofsted's 'Improving governance': an overview We outline the main points from Ofsted's 2016 report 'Improving governance'. We focus on the recommendations for the governing bodies of maintained schools, academies and multi-academy trusts.
- Post-Ofsted action plan: governors' role Find out how you can support your school leaders to develop an action plan after an inspection, and what happens if your school’s been judged inadequate.
- Questions Ofsted might ask governors Free sample Find out what Ofsted inspectors might ask you during inspection, and what evidence you can use to support your answers.
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The inspection framework
- 2019 Ofsted inspection framework: what it means for your school Ofsted inspection is changing from September 2019: you've read the headlines, now find out what to do.
- How governance is inspected Learn how Ofsted will inspect governance under the 2019 inspection framework, and what your role is on inspection day.
- How Ofsted inspects 'behaviour and attitudes' Ofsted's 2019 inspection framework landed in September. Be clear on how 'behaviour and attitudes' will be inspected in your school.
- How Ofsted inspects 'leadership and management' Ofsted's 2019 inspection framework landed in September. Be clear on how your school's leadership and management will be inspected.
- How Ofsted inspects 'personal development' Learn how Ofsted inspects 'personal development' under the 2019 framework, including how spiritual, moral, social and cultural (SMSC) development is considered.
- How Ofsted inspects 'quality of education' Ofsted's 2019 inspection framework landed in September. Be clear on how your school's curriculum will be inspected under the 'quality of education' judgement.
- How Ofsted judges 'overall effectiveness' Find out how Ofsted measures 'overall effectiveness' so that you're clear on how your school will be inspected under the 2019 framework.
- Ofsted inspection: pupil premium spending Understand how Ofsted will inspect your school's use of pupil premium. Doing so won't just to prepare you for inspection, but also inform your strategic plans as well as how you monitor and challenge the effectiveness of your pupil premium spending.
- Ofsted inspection: role of link governors If you're a link governor, inspectors won't be formally assessing your role. But if you do speak to them, here's how you can demonstrate how you're effectively monitoring your school.
- Ofsted inspection: safeguarding UpdatedUnderstand what Ofsted expect to see in your school's safeguarding arrangements, and what evidence they'll collect during an inspection.
- Ofsted inspection: SEN provision Understand how Ofsted will inspect your school's SEND provision. Doing so won't just to prepare you for inspection, but also inform your strategic plans as well as how you monitor and challenge that provision.
- Ofsted: latest updates UpdatedStay up to date with all things Ofsted, including its plans for on-site monitoring inspections in the summer term.
- Section 48 inspections If your school has a designated religious character, you're responsible for organising section 48 inspections on top of standard Ofsted inspections. Be clear on what these inspections are and how they work, so you can be confident in fulfilling this duty.
- Section 8 inspections for 'good' schools Find out what happens during a section 8 inspection under the 2019 Ofsted framework, and what your role is as a governor.
- What’s changing in the new Ofsted framework? Find out about the key changes to Ofsted's inspection framework, which comes into force in September 2019.