Moving a School from Good to Outstanding

Nicola Woolf South EPHA meeting

26 February 2014

Being Prepared for OFSTED•Pen Portraits •Assembly•Knowing your data for school, year groups, classes, groups: (Raise on Line, Fischer Family Trust, in school progress data)•List of interventions for groups•Photos ready on a laptop to show your SMSC•Top tips for teachers•Appraisal Information•Monitoring of teaching, planning, books records•Summary SEF ready•Staff knowing what the inspectors will be looking for when grading Quality of teaching•Staff knowing key parts of the framework•Staff meetings to prepare staff

Staff meetings to ensure staff would be ready following the call

• Check lessons being taught have clear Learning Objectives and Success Criteria which is referred to and talked about with the children

• Marking undertaken so far – Is it moving learning forward? – Are children being given the time between 8.45 and 9.00 to look at it and make amendments to their work

• Are Presentation guidelines being followed so far?• How are Support staff being planned for and used in lessons –

particularly in the Direct Teaching• When are plans discussed with TAs – Are they clear about their

role in the lesson?• How is ICT being used to support learning?• When OFSTED come in to lessons need to show in the lesson the

types of things you know they will want to see – e.g. evidence of progress, Assessment for Learning strategies etc

From Inspection Handbook:Observing teaching and learning

When observing and judging teaching, inspectors must be guided by the response and engagement of pupils and evidence of how well they are learning.

Inspectors must consider whether:

teaching engages and includes all pupils, with work that is challenging enough and that meets their individual needs, including for the most able pupils

pupils’ responses demonstrate sufficient gains in their knowledge, skills and understanding, including of literacy and mathematics

teachers monitor pupils’ progress in lessons and use the information well to adapt their teaching

teachers use questioning and discussion to assess the effectiveness of their teaching and promote pupils’ learning assessment is frequent and accurate and used to set relevant work from the Early

Years Foundation Stage onwards

pupils understand well how to improve their work

all pupils are taught well so that they are properly prepared for the next stage in their learning, including in the Early Years Foundation Stage where the development of their communication, language and literacy skills must equip them well for Key Stage 1.

What will happen about PPA?

Your Guide to a Successful

OFSTED version 3!

(had to keep updating this!)

Keep appraisal information up to date

Monitoring of teaching records

All pupilsBoys (*)Girls (*)SA (*)SA+ (*)Statement (*)Non SEN (*)EAL (*)Non EAL (*)FSM (*)Non FSM (*)Pupil Premium (*)Non Pupil Premium (*)More able (*)

Data Summaries ready – Attainment and Progress

Year Group

Cohort Reading Writing English Maths

Year 1 2018 Year 2 2017 Year 3 2016 Year 4 2015 Year 5 2014 Year 6 2013

Attainment by each cohort in APS

Nicola Woolf – contact details• Headteacher - Foulds School

Byng Road, Barnet, HertsEN5 4NR

• Tel: 0208 449 2714• Fax: 0208 440 5932• nwoolf@foulds.barnet.sch.uk