Ofsted asks parents to rate schools on new website

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Parents are to be asked to rate their children's schools on an Ofsted website linked to their school's internet site.

Now this could be very interesting....

Thoughts on this one then...

Sounds a bit too 'ratemyteachers' for me.

The Ofsted survey would be linked to individual schools' websites and would feature a set of 10 questions related to teaching quality, achievement, behaviour and school leadership,

Wonder how it would work for schools without websites...

Wonder if I could rate the school that we left, it is OFSTED outstanding but completely failed my DS and several other families I know. We still have a login for the school website as they are ,to say the least, lacking in their admin. We tried to complain at the time but the system is unfairly balanced on the side of the school, you must go through the chain of command etc, so if you have an issue with the head she will get you to write a letter to the governors and pass it onto them for you (like it would get there when she knows it is her you wish to complain about).

oo That'll be interesting.
It's usually people with complaints who respond to this kind of thing though.
(On our council website not many people log on to say how pleased they are that the bins are collected on the right day).

It'll be like Tripadvisor reviews with even more fun!

mumsof2gs2bs, it would be absolutely outrageous, and most governing bodies would think so, for the head not to pass on a letter of complaint about the head. But if that is really the case, you could of course simply have written to the governors directly.

She sated that she wouldn't release the governors names to us and when we tried to find out who they were even the EWO for that school didn't know as the school hadn't passed them on, think that is actually against the rules but seems to me that this "outstanding" school is so highly rated by all that the rules are something for others, did pursue it for a while but DS settled in another school and we wanted the whole scary incident to go away so gave up (I know won't help others but we needed to move on)

Flisspaps - not having a website would probably b e an automatic fail, as all schools were supposed to have set up a Learning Platform by last September...

There are always a few parents who are dissatified with a school, and these are the parents who always vent their spleen on questionnaires, at meetings, etc. Happy parents just don't bother on the whole. Therefore, unless they are obligatory, Ofsted/school questionnaires will always give a skewed impression of the school.

IMHO, a high proportion of the respondents on the Ofsted web-site will be those hellbent on causing trouble.

I think it's a great idea - if parents are complaining and they are all saying the same thing maybe something will be done rather than being swept under the carpet. Parents should be reviewing schools - we are the customers!

I hope parents have to log on and prove that they are the 'customers' of the school. Otherwise, parents with an axe to grind could get all their mates to log with supporting statements about fictitious children! Also, I trust that that resonses will be linmited to one per parent.

If this is unregulated then there is much cause for concern. Every headteacher has a nemesis!