Ofsted has been very vocal recently about the disjointed nature of MATs, both in terms of their leadership and management, and in terms of the way they are held to account. Ofsted’s key issue is that the MAT as a…
The 2019 SATs are complete and now the wait begins to see how your pupils have done… How long do you need to wait? Not long at all as test results for 2019 will be available at 7:30am on Tuesday…
Good schools carefully consider the time cost of each of its key activities to ensure it is being efficient but also to manage staff workloads and wellbeing. Such exercises are not always easy but even a back of the envelope…
The Department for Education (DfE) publishes their revised statistics for key stage 2 (KS2) national curriculum assessments in December 2018. So, what are the headlines? In 2018 64% of pupils reached the expected standard in all of reading, writing and…
The Department for Education (DfE) published statistics in September 2018 detailing pupil attainment in the phonics screening check and key stage 1 national curriculum teacher assessments (TA). Attainment in teacher assessments were broadly similar to that seen in 2017. Due…
The Department for Education (DfE) published their Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) statistics in October 2018. Nationally results for 2018 were positive and demonstrated steady improvement again on the previous year. As demonstrated above results in all three key measures…
Following a four-month consultation Ofsted published their new education inspection framework and handbooks on Tuesday 14th May 2019. The new education inspection framework (EIF) will come into effect from September 2019, replacing the outgoing common inspection framework (CIF). So, what…
In December 2018 Ofsted announced changes to their Inspection Data Summary Report (IDSR) for Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2 as well as phonics. Ofsted inspectors will use these reports when preparing for inspections and forming key lines of enquiry.…
Ofsted's new Inspection Data Summary Report (IDSR) seems to have been generally well received in schools, although some have been surprised by the absence of groups other than prior attainment and disadvantaged in nearly all the data. The schedules are…
At the end of January 2018, the DfE published data about MAT performance. Only those MAT's with at least 3 state-funded, mainstream schools in the same phase, where the schools had been part of the MAT for 3 full academic…
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