Presentation 1: Know your framework
30 minute training module
This provides a basic overview of everything you need to know about how to approach reading and understanding your Framework.
Audience: This is designed for middle leaders or for inexperienced senior leaders who will not have the working knowledge of inspection as yet. It will give them a starter for approaching the challenge of upskilling on knowledge of Ofsted.
Part 1 – 10 minutes
Introduction
What is the difference between S5 and S8?
Part 2 – 10 minutes
S5 Framework
Navigation through the sections.
Key take-away points to remember when navigating.
Part 3 – 10 minutes
Outcome Judgements
What it all leads up to and how inspection will create a summary judgement.
Which parts of your Framework do you bookmark and use more than others?
Know your Framework
Click play to begin the training
Additional Resources:
Powerpoint Presentation (Full Colour)
Powerpoint Presentation (Printable Version)
Presentation 2: What will inspection look like?
30 minute training module
Target audience – Middle leaders and senior leaders
Part 1 – Pre-inspection
Tariff
Inspection pre-prep (that will be done before the phone call)
Phone call
What you will need to prepare
Part 2 – During the Inspection
Timetabling
Inspector roles
Types of inspection activities
Deep dives
Who will get spoken to?
Safeguarding
Part 3: Outcome Judgements
What it all leads to, what will the outcomes be: S5 or S8
What these outcomes mean for the school
What will inspection look like?
Click play to begin the training
Additional Resources:
Powerpoint Presentation (Full Colour)
Powerpoint Presentation (Printable Version)
Presentation PDF
Presentation 3: Deep Dives
35 minute training module
Target audience – Middle leaders and senior leaders
This is particularly pertinent for new leaders who are setting up monitoring programmes – this will be useful when structuring action plans and feeding into the SIPlan.
Part 1 – Phone Call (5 mins)
How the decision is made on which subjects will be chosen for your DDs.
Part 2 – During Inspection
(20 mins)
Deep Dive inspection activities – how inspectors triangulate the evidence
Leadership interviews
Who will get spoken to?
What will possibly be asked?
Part 3 – What you need to do now (10 mins)
School improvement planning
Monitoring plans
Curriculum paperwork – what do you need to prepare
Next Steps
There will be a follow up FAQ sessions based on responses from participants – this will be set up within a week of the transmission of the training video.
What on earth is a Deep Dive??
Click play to begin the training
Additional resources coming soon.
Presentation 4: What to prepare for inspection
20 minute training module
This is a follow-up unit as a summary of the prior training which will act as a checklist for preparation.
This will have crossover information from previous training videos, so will act as a plenary/reinforcement as well as a checklist.
Part 1 – 10 minutes
SLT Preparation
Website
Whole school documents
What Ofsted can’t/won’t ask for
Part 2 – 10 minutes
Middle and Subject Leadership Preparation
Monitoring
Action plans
Curriculum plans
What Ofsted can’t/won’t ask for