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HBS: Henrietta Barnet School

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lrish · 08/10/2022 00:14

Henrietta Barnet is no longer an outstanding school?

https://www.hbschool.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/10228504-Henrietta-Barnet-School-138051-Final-PDF.pdf

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PaintedNailsAndBraidedHair · 08/10/2022 00:23

Yes, and many other grammar schools have been downgraded recently

www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/education/henrietta-barnett-ofsted-rated-good-9285980

hockeygrass · 09/10/2022 11:37

Yes Tiffin Boys also downgraded in Sept.

nightvision · 10/10/2022 12:42

That being the case, I interpret that Ofstead is slapping its own face. So come on, Ofstead, which is which, Outstanding or Good?

nightvision · 10/10/2022 12:47

And of course, I mean 'Ofsted' - surely this deserves a 'Fail'.

cantkeepawayforever · 10/10/2022 12:52

A lot of schools were sitting on decades-old Outstanding ratings, earned when the framework used for inspections was very different. Now that such schools are no longer exempt from routine inspections, it is no surprise that they score lower on the new framework.

A significant weakness of the old framework was the weight it put on raw results, meaning that selective schools found it relatively easy to reach Outstanding compared with schools with more varied intakes. The new framework has its own weaknesses, and does seem to be being used politically (eg to disproportionately downgrade non-academy schools to drive the Government’s agenda), but there is a stated intent to confine ‘outstanding’ to a much smaller number of schools, so this type of result is to be expected.

cantkeepawayforever · 10/10/2022 12:58

This article from earlier this year shows that this is not an isolated case.

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