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Bill Watkin, Operational Director SSAT, writes… Following the announcement by Nick Gibb, minister of state for school reform, on 11 June, that the government was committed to honouring its manifesto pledge to require pupils to study the EBacc, SSAT, the
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Justine McNeillie, and a practising Ofsted lead inspector, extract the key messages you need to be aware of from Ofsted’s Better inspection for all report.
Jessica Nash, Head of Special Schools Network and SEN, writes… Ofsted released its Evaluation of local areas’ readiness for the implementation of the disability and special educational needs reforms on 17 December, along with Edward Timpson’s announcement of £31.7m further
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Chris Smith, Student Leadership Coordinator SSAT, argues that short-termism is detrimental to school performance and clouds the long-term vision.
Colin Logan, Head of Data and Self-Evaluation SSAT, writes… SSAT has received a number of requests from schools about what they should publish when the KS4 results are released. This guide has been written in response to these queries to
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No, that’s the number of days until it becomes statutory guidance! (As of 1 May 2014) Jessica Nash, Head of Special Schools Network and Special Education Needs SSAT, writes… Although we don’t yet have the final version of the revised SEND
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Fiona Aubrey-Smith, Head of Primary SSAT, writes… Given Ofsted’s recent recommendation that schools should ‘prove it or lose it’, headteachers and governors are under pressure to provide hard evidence of the impact that pupil premium has had on standards. Here
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Fiona Aubrey-Smith, Head of Primary SSAT, writes… With just 17% of primary schools currently rated as ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted, many schools ask how attainable this status is for the majority. Looking at what some of these schools actually do may
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Sir Michael Wilshaw is not long off stage at the ASCL annual conference. In his speech, he reinforced the message that Ofsted does not have a preferred teaching style – indeed he said he would personally take issue with inspectors
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Bill Watkin, Operational Director SSAT, writes… The latest guidelines for inspectors, published in the last few days, reassert the principle that there is not just one way of doing things right in the classroom. Anything goes, as long as it works.
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