Ofsted gives first look at new school inspection reports
Education / Mon 3rd Feb 2025 at 08:10am
OFSTED has provided a first look at its new report cards for school inspections.
The schools inspectorate for England is consulting on the new system after it scrapped single-word judgements last year.
Ofsted boss Sir Martyn Oliver said the new system – to be introduced in the autumn – would help parents to better distinguish between schools across areas like attendance, inclusion, behaviour and leadership.
Under Ofsted’s proposals, the old one or two-word judgements, ranging across four grades from “Outstanding” to “Inadequate”, will be replaced from the 2025 autumn term by a report card describing what inspectors have found on key aspects of each school, including:
Quality of education
Behaviour and attendance
Personal development
Leadership and management
There will be five possible grades for each area, which are also one or two words in length: “causing concern”, “attention needed”, “secure”, “strong” and “exemplary”.
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Nostradamus
2025-02-03 10:03:23
OFSTED is not fit for purpose; peroid. It has failed in its' basic mission any appearance of success is a mirage because the education system has been warped to fit the OFSTED model of big stick blunt instrument approach. There's a lack of awareness that if you apply any external measuring tool to any system it becomes impossible to measure whatever you set out to measure: such measurement distorts the system. It's a kind of real world equivalent of the Heisenbergs Uncertainty Principle. OFSTED literally smashes into a school and expects to see everything "normal" in an OFSTED version of a reality. It don't work. Education, schools and learning work on collaboration a mutually day by day developmental supportive process of evolution over time. Prior to the National Curriculum and OFSTED and particularly in the 1960s and 70s when LEA advisors led development, teachers and schools worked collaboratively and we saw radical and positive changes. Comprehensive schools were created and there were massive strides forward in the curriculum that actually worked. However, certain politicians wanted absolute control from the centre, they didn't like the rise in creativity and development of the working class. Comprehensives were a threat to the class barrier reinforced by Grammar Schools and private schools that were ill equipped to respond to the "white hot" development of technology and so they smeared the development as being a process of a left wing indoctrination of children by a left wing/ communist teaching profession. Teachers couldn't be trusted was the slogan, a cry still heard from the ruling class and people like Gove who introduced so much rigor into the exam system that death of education via terminal examinations and rigor mortis were accelerated. Private schools are exempt and the performance of the non private schools can be judged by the rush by parents to home schooling. Labour unfortunately has little idea of the fundamental flaws in our education system and is making the colossal mistake of driving hard down the Tory track in the belief that more of doing the wrong thing is going to produce a different set of outcomes. As Einstein said, the first sign of madness.
Nostradamus
2025-02-03 10:05:40
To add: the new system changes nothing and is simply window dressing equivalent to rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic
David Forman
2025-02-03 13:05:22
The Times newspaper reports criticisms from a range of interested parties: 'Natalie Perera, chief executive of the Education Policy Institute think tank, said there were concerns about the capacity of inspectors to cover such a wide range of areas in two days, which is the time allotted to inspectors to complete their assessments. Pepe Di’Iasio, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said that the expanded ratings would “create a set of hurdles which will be bewildering for parents and teachers”, while Professor Julia Waters, Ruth Perry’s sister, called the reforms “a rehash of the discredited and dangerous system it is meant to replace." Ruth Perry was the headteacher who committed suicide following an OFSTED rating of 'Inadequate'.'
Maria Devlin
2025-02-03 23:01:50
I went to school in the olden days (80s) and local council use to inspect the schools and labels were banned back then we were all human and adults were just adults all to be treated equally and children were just children all to be treated equally and a person's sexuality religion and mental health were nobody's business, labels were banned and I went to a mainstream school but had problems so the class I was in was called multi skills and it was for kids who couldn't cope in the classroom and we went to the local college a few days a week to learn skills like mechanics ,catering , wood work conservation and attendance was a 100 per cent and we could leave school at 16 and enrol in the college and finish the course we liked the best , school qualification were not important, nowadays kids are medicated just to make them sit still and behave so they can go to a mainstream school and they are easier for the teachers to deal with , The education system is failing children just to get a good Ofsted report
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