#Ofsted

Ed Finch

MrEFinch

Any school leaders out there asking staff to fill out daily reports on what they've done to account for working hours? I'd love to hear your rationale - do you

Humanists UK

Humanists_UK

This again illustrates the difficulty regulators have with holding religious schools to a rigorous and universal educational standard: wherever they fall short, there are those willing to excuse and bat

Michael Merrick

michael_merrick

Imagine being the first Head to guide your school thtough this and then having Ofsted rock up and call you inadequate. What an absolutely bonkers system. 'Oh we know you've

Michael Merrick

michael_merrick

This last few months really has given lie to the myth that the difference between schools in affluent areas and deprived areas is just curriculum and if you make the

Warwick Mansell

warwickmansell

New: government confirms it is ploughing on with academy conversions, despite coronavirus: https://www.educationuncovered.co.uk/news/146286/government-confirms-it-is-ploughing-on-with-academy-conversions-despite-coronavirus.thtml The situat

Jonathan Simons

jonathansimons

The thing that I simply don’t understand about the fuss over Ofsted in the Autumn term is that the dispute is over such a small thing. Both sides - inspectorate

Michael Merrick

michael_merrick

With regards to online learning, it seems unwise for the government to create a law that schools simply cannot follow, and which schools in the most deprived areas will find

Sam Strickland

Strickomaster

Concerns for when we return.....What will happen to accountability given Yr 5/10/12 will have missed huge chunks of time that cannot be made up for by online/distance learning. Surely 2021s

Amy Gibbons

tweetsbyames

I'm reporting from @NASBTT's Annual Conference today on behalf of @tes, bringing you all the latest news from the teacher training world. Tune in for updates throughout the day

Ian Dickson

IDickson258

1. I have no link with, nor am I sponsored or supported by any group, business or charity to take a particular point of view. My focus is always to

Mrs O 🙋‍♀️

kateowbridge

A thread on self evaluationEvery summer term the wider SMT get together to self evaluate our provision. For the last few years we have used this toolkit from Eire. https://assets.gov.ie/25262/f4a6f2a21e1c4c26a55234511085d5a3.pdfIt

NGA school governance

NGAMedia

New findings of the #SchoolGovernance2020 survey on pupils, communities and accountability including governors and trustees experiences of pupil success and wellbeing, vision, strategy and ethos & stakeholder engagement. /1Read the

CrimeGirl

CrimeGirI

I didn’t know about this extraordinarily brutal killing until Frances put it on my timeline last night. I then spent some time reading into the evidence from the inquest. I

The Autistic Send Mother Uncut #tonsofanarchy

SEND_PLIGHT

Thread. Interviewing a new school. Based on lots of costly mistakes here follows questions I would now ask if I was interviewing a new school because make no mistake that

John Roberts

JohnGRoberts

I don't know if its age, lack of sleep or just how endlessly busy education news is right now but waking up again on a Saturday morning feeling like the

Dr Mary Bousted

MaryBoustedNEU

So to be clear. In our meeting with @Ofstednews last term myself and @cyclingkev made it absolutely clear that it was the @NEUnion position that Ofsted should not make visits