School Improvement - OFSTED Guidance

News

 

The Annual Report of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Education, Children's Services and Skills 2009/10

 Ofsted to trial spot checks on schools with behaviour problems - 14 July 2011

Consultation: Inspection 2012 (proposals for inspection arrangements for maintained schools and academies from January 2012) - 21 March 2011

Feedback Forms 2011/12

Process upon notification of an Ofsted inspection

Please return feedback forms, by email, to the relevant Kent Challenge Lead Advisor within two days of the inspection.

• Section 5 Inspection Feedback Form 
• Section 8 Inspection Feedback Form
• HMI Monitoring visit for schools judged as satisfactory
• HMI Monitoring visit for schools in category
• Subject/Themed/Survey Inspection Feedback Form
• Section 48 Inspection Feedback Form

Kent Guidance

• Actions following the notification of a school falling into an Ofsted category

Ofsted Guidance

• Protocol for the selection of schools whose overall effectiveness is graded satisfactory for a monitoring inspection - 26 May 2010
• Framework for the inspection of maintained schools in England from September 2009 - 23 July 2009
• Evaluation schedule of judgements for schools inspected under section five of the Education Act 2005, from September 2009 - 23 July 2009
• Conducting school inspections: guidance for inspectors of schools from September 2009 - 23 July 2009
• DfE Ofsted & Academies FAQs
• Toolkit for Lead Inspectors - Summer 2011
• Evaluation schedule for use in pilot inspections in summer 2011 only
• Monitoring inspections of schools that are subject to special measures - 24 August 2010

Contact:

Secondary Schools

Kirsten Hardman kirsten.hardman@kent.gov.uk

Tel: 01622 696167

Room 2.04, Sessions House, County Hall, County Road, Maidstone, Kent, ME14 1XQ

 

Primary Schools

East Kent (Canterbury, Dover, Thanet, Swale)

Linda Lucas linda.lucas@kent.gov.uk

Tel: 01227 284426

Clover House, John Wilson Business Park, Thanet Way, Whitstable CT5 3QZ

Mid Kent (Ashford, Maidstone, Shepway, Tonbridge & Malling) 
Michelle Gambell michelle.gambell@kent.gov.uk

Tel:01622 2032469

Shepway Centre, Oxford Road, School Lane, Maidstone, ME15 8AW

West Kent (Darford, Gravesham, Sevenoaks, Tunbridge Wells) 

Kendra Stanley-Berridge kendra.stanley-berridge@kent.gov.uk

Tel: 01732 876624

East Malling Enterprise Centre, New Road, East Malling, ME19 6BJ