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I'm still struggling to understand why @Ofstednews feels it has anything of value to contribute to schools dealing with the pandemic crisis. It has no experience nor do its inspectors. To even think it has a right to enter the arena shows remarkable institutional arrogance.
Heads and staff have been through the mill. Schools HAVE kept whole communities going, kept children and staff safe and healthy. Schools HAVE kept learning on the agenda, many in creative ways. Ofsted has nothing to bring to the debate except a haughty indifference.
How big of inspectors not to insist on a list of things. Very magnanimous that. But don't get too relaxed because you get a day's notice before you get kicked when you are down. There is an ugly sense of power jealousy at work with Ofsted having to to exercise its ego once more.
Ofsted is likely to be the straw that breaks many a HTs back. The sensible, rational and humane strategy would be too either back off for a year or come in and help with the cleaning. An inspector adds nothing of value to our current crisis...
...but simply serves to suck valuable energy from the system. I have felt for some time that Ofsted is the tail that wags the @educationgovuk dog and this proves it. You are an inadequate school dealing with the most difficult scenario of your life...ring ring. Ofsted here.
