Sentence in Ofsted report - sounds wrong to me.

[StripeyKnickersSpottySocks]

Is it?

"No inadequate teaching was seen on the visit and there was much
good and better teaching."

It's certainly clumsy.

There was evidence of good and very good teaching.

Well, "inadequate" and "good" are classifications in teaching standards, so it does make sense if read in that context.
Doesn't it?

The don't classify "very good"
It's inadequate, satisfactory, good or outstanding.

Better teaching? I'm assuming there is somewhere previously stating that the teaching was bad?

I'm reading it as "There was good teaching, and teaching that was better than good, but not quite of outstanding standard"

Exactly - they couldn't say "Very good", they couldn't say "Outstanding", but yet there is teaching that is better than "good". Hence the clumsiness. It's madness .

I'd probably have gone for "No inadequate teaching was seen on the visit and much of the teaching observed was good or better."

I think it's the "good and better" that's throwing the whole thing off -- each lesson observed will be good or better than good, not good and better than good.

Perhaps they meant the teaching was better than the standard required for 'good', but they couldn't grade it 'outstanding' - someone said on another recent thread that they could only grade a lesson 'outstanding' if they'd seen at least 20(?) minutes of it.

I think they meant the teaching was better than when they did their last inspection as previously the school was given a notice to improve.

The whole report seems to be very badly written with random commas in places where I'm sure they shouldn't be.