To be crying at the Ofsted report just published for my DS school?

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I opposed the conversion to academy status for this very reason. The pressure of that opposition made me many enemies and resulted in me having a breakdown and exactly as I feared they have now been graded “requires improvement”
Feel absolutely heartbroken 😢

Overall effectiveness, quality of treaching and Outcomes for pupils. I would regard these as the fundamentals handpickedeklderflower

What are the actions?

It's more about the parents' attidudes than anything else, IMVHO. If you don't value education, and don't insist that homework is done every day as set, or take responsibility for children being fed properly and asleep at a sensible hour, enforce the rules rigorously, then you can't expect to delegate your responsibility to any teacher.

ohmydayslove I am well and work bloody hard every day at staying well.
We will be discussing moving DS.
Interestingly DS just told me they told the kids in assembly today that “requires improvement” is a great result for the school and that it’s just another way of saying they’re excellent!! 😂😂

Look everyone on this thread is telling you that you are over-invested in this and to back away. if you are given to listening which I suspect you are not

I'm actually glad that you told me to fuck off because at least there's some life and spirit left.

just forget about it and do something nice for yourself. This is not a biggy.

Delusional!

When did your daughter get her A*? Because I thought the past two years were 1-9? If it was two years ago, then the massive numbers of English teachers (does sound awful!) must mean that the school wasn't great previous to academy takeover as that only happened 3 years ago? Or have I got the wrong end of he stick?

There is tremendous political pressure for schools to become academies and then further to join a MAT or some other umbrella. The odds for that battle were overwhelmingly against you.

Requires Improvement is not that bad. It is much better than Inadequate and Special Measures.

Because I thought the past two years were 1-9?

No . A small number of GCSEs moved to 1-9 last year with the bulk changing this year.

Thanks number1wang ! Thought maybe I hadn’t explained it clearly!
OCSock I do all of that as well so I am not expecting the school to parent him

The priory because of academisation!!

Surely you could have just moved your children to a different school once the academisation decision was made?

Following the recent ofsted, you still have that choice.

Similar experience here - my DCs school was automatically academised after an Ofsted report. A group of us fought against it - the MAT they chose was high performing, but wasn't right for our school. Of course we weren't successful. A year into the new academy and there are huge problems.

Sorry colonelcustard I stand corrected she got an 8. It was last year

Why has the changing to academy status caused such problems for the school? Why are good teachers leaving? Our school changed to an academy and everything stayed pretty much the same. What is the new head like?

Because I thought the past two years were 1-9?

No . A small number of GCSEs moved to 1-9 last year with the bulk changing this year.

I'm confused. I thought that English was one of that small number?

School move to become academies because they are unsatisfactory -it gives them a chance to reopen under a new umbrella and new ofsted.
Trusts don't care about staff or pupils -they are all profit making.

Today 20:40 babyno5

Sorry colonelcustard I stand corrected she got an 8. It was last year

Oh great - I'm not going mad then!

manchestergin it was the backlash of the campaign not the academistaion per se. Excellent gin choice by the way!
We gave my son the choice and I would never want to make any of my kids unhappy because of my principles. He wanted to stay with his peer group from juniors.
He announced tonight over dinner he would be happy to move schools

No colonelcustard madness is my domain 😂😂

I think there is more to this than just the academy status.

In our area most schools have converted by now and we had a slump in grades but that was more to the way Ofsted rated schools, not necessarily the academy status.

DD’s Junior school went from good to RI, the head immediately put measures in place and asked for an early inspection where they were rated good again. They lost teachers but as any other school does due to family reasons or proportion possibilities. They have several teacher coming back from maternity leave.

They then merged with the Infant school and were re-Inspected and only lost out to outstanding as the school has no large grounds apart from the playground.

Results are top of the borough.

There are areas we are not happy with, the school is far from perfect. It is just an example that being an academy is not the evil thing, it can be ok. So in your case the problems are running deeper and while being an academy and suddenly in charge of funds may be one issue it may not be the only one.

Look everyone on this thread is telling you that you are over-invested in this and to back away.
I didn’t read that in those posts at all.
I read that some posters thought the OP was over reacting and others that they understood exactly where she came from.
But I’ve read quite a few very comments about how we need more people like her, invested in the children education, not just theirs. Someone who walks the talk and fought for her beliefs.

OP I think it’s a real shame. Our secondary has become an academy too and isn’t doing that well either. Dc1 started his Y7 the year after they became an academy (atbtw time when becoming an academy was ‘the’ thing to do). He is now in Y9 and is leaving to another school at the end of the year.

I think you can hold your head right. You did the best you could for the school and the children.
Now isnthe time to think about your family first and find a new school.
Is there enough time left for your dcs to change school now so they can start afresh in September?

I sympathise OP.

I gave myself shingles which in turn triggered an auto-immune disease, over issues at my son's school.

Pearls, you are wrong - not everyone is telling OP she's got things out of proportion.

OP, take care of yourself as you can't look after your DCs educational issues if you're unwell

I know very little about schools (yet) as my LO has yet to start reception.

However, my main question would be- is your son happy and thriving at the current school?

Maybe I'm just naive to it all and will come to my senses over the next year or so, but I just can't put too much weight on Ofsted inspections and ratings.

A good friend's children go to a school classed as "requires improvement"- they are both doing very well in all areas, academic & socially etc.

But because of its Ofsted rating, many parents actively try to avoid it or have nothing but negative things to say about it (and their children go to a completely different school!)

If it is in Surrey then it is an unusual report. It reads very well for an overall RI and their progress 8 dipped in 2017 but were within confidence levels and were ok in 2016. The attainment actually improved against the national in 2017.

Progress of disadvantaged students seems to be the issue, they had much lower attainment and progress 8 headline data. Website suggests this was a known issue and they were already taking action.

The report wouldn't overly worry me.

I mean this very, very kindly.

Your children will benefit way more from a well mother than one who gets distressed to the point of needing a month in the priory and needs a year off work WHATEVER school they go to.

I say that as someone who has battled PTSD for serious abuse AND had to go through a corrupt police investigation which was only righted after months of complaints and bullying.

I got signed off work for 2 weeks and that was my absolute low. I had to keep going for the sake of my children. It sounds like you stopped keeping going.

Now, I don;t know about the hate threats or whatever, if they were the crux of you becoming so well or if it's simply the school.

But you need to step away from further damage.

It's done. The school is an academy. They've had a less than stellar ofsted report.

It. Is Done.

Concentrate on the future.