Ofsted arrived today.......

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Omg!!

Good luck. I have just spent an hour mulling over their teaching criteria and am still puzzled as to what an outstanding lesson looks like as opposed to a good one! For example, what on earth does a pupil "thriving" actually look like within the context of one lesson?
I hope you have supportive colleagues as it does make it easier. Do you have reason to be concerned?

Huge school.

One got outstanding today His first. Thrilled for him.

Think we will get Requires Improvement as our stats are not great.

Well done him!! We got a good a couple of years ago but no way would we ever be outstanding as our stats just aren't good enough either.

Am awake......

How has it gone?

Not sure.....mixed.....find out Monday.

They're bastards now, they really are. Previously consistently outstanding teachers got goods. One got an ri cos of 3 naughty boys - who were playing up for Ofsted.

Basically, your pupils need to show rapid progress in 20 minutes. THat's it.

Their final report of the school is not the school I know and love. Just gutted.

?e got told by our head this week that she had seen one of our staff teach a lesson and they had made"astounding" progress in 12 mins! I got the feeling she thought we could all do this! Now where did I put my magic wannd!

Our outstanding lessons were, in both cases, the sort of lessons that they normally taught, (Class R and Year 6). It seems that they no longer focus on the teaching, but on how the children are engaged - a positive step I reckon. Both classes have a massive range of ability and it was felt that all children were engaged in that lesson and had benefitted. As Senco and member of SLT I have to second that that is outstanding teaching