OFSTED has been around for about 18 years. Its remit has changed over that time from school inspectors who visited every six years with two weeks notice, to educational inspectors visiting every two or three years with little or no notice. The inspectors are mainly educational professionals with significant experience. In that time they have accumulated a huge number of reports on school organisation, what works and why and what doesn’t. That information is found on the OFSTED website, but is only searchable by school name.
If you want examples of outstanding maths lessons or primary literacy you will labour in vain. The intention of this site is to make it easy to search the OFSTED reports. You can search by:-
Outcome – Outstanding, Good, Satisfactory or Inadequate
Phase – Secondary, Primary, Infant, Junior
Subject – All the obvious subjects and many unexpected categories.
Section Heading – OFSTED use templates and consistent categories, so that you can compare like – with -like.
Other: use any of the ‘Other’ search fields for any search term you want.
OFSTED use a house style book for inspectors and it is interesting to see what they mean when they use value judgments. You will find it here
Ofsted-Examined
Many thousands of schools have been examined and all of them many times. The reports are the largest store of educational data in the world. There are hundreds of outstanding schools, subject areas and teaching practice than can be learned from and used. There are two sides to OFSTED the threat and the opportunity. This site looks at the opportunities.
Hi Chris, if you read Ofsted’s house-style you’ll realise that they haven’t written Ofsted as “OFSTED” for years. Doing a “find and replace” on the site might be a good idea as it make it look dated.
From Ofsted house style:
Do not use capital letters in blocks of text, either in headings or paragraphs. CAPITALS SHOUT AT THE READER. They are also harder to read than lower-case letters, which is why they are rarely used for road signs. Do not use blocks of capital letters in the subject line of letters; use sentence case instead, that is, only the first word and any proper nouns begin with a capital letter.
OFSTED report 2010
4% of schools are 'Outstanding' in teaching
11% of schools are classed as 'Outstanding'
17% of 'Leadership and Management' are classed as 'Outstanding'
not all outstanding teaching is found in schools that are also classed as outstanding.
at least 3/4 of outstanding schools are not better than 'Good' in teaching.
Only one in six 'Leaders' is outstanding at leading in teaching.
Hi Chris, if you read Ofsted’s house-style you’ll realise that they haven’t written Ofsted as “OFSTED” for years. Doing a “find and replace” on the site might be a good idea as it make it look dated.
From Ofsted house style:
Do not use capital letters in blocks of text, either in headings or paragraphs. CAPITALS SHOUT AT THE READER. They are also harder to read than lower-case letters, which is why they are rarely used for road signs. Do not use blocks of capital letters in the subject line of letters; use sentence case instead, that is, only the first word and any proper nouns begin with a capital letter.
You’re a teacher right?
No, I work for Ofsted