This course is appropriate for school leaders in all phases and includes resources to help school leaders prepare for the phone call prior to inspection.
- Your school’s response to Covid-19
- Essential information to have ready for the phone call
- Questions and answers – using evaluative language
- Questions asked during the pre-inspection phone call
- Summarising key data from ASP/IDSR
- Preparing staff and governors
- How to write to your SEF – what to include
- Gathering evidence to support SEF
- OFSTED myth busting
In addition, this course outlines the revised inspection process and the changes to the school inspection framework and handbooks:
- Inspecting the curriculum – evaluating senior leaders’ intent for the curriculum and their understanding of its implementation and impact
- Evaluating long-term and medium term thinking and planning, content choices and curriculum sequencing
- Visits to explicitly connected samples of lessons
- Work scrutiny of books and other evidence of work produced by pupils
- Discussions with teachers to understand how the curriculum informs their choices about content and sequencing
- Discussions with pupils from lessons observed
Arrival and coffee from 9.00 am, starting at 9.30 am with a finish time of 3.30 pm.
