Showing posts with label inspection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inspection. Show all posts
Sunday, 10 March 2024

Ofsted try to 'do' literature and end up with pap

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  This comes from the new Ofsted Subject Report for English: There's a lot here to chew over: it's the kind of report that doesn...
Thursday, 7 January 2016

Ofsted: "We can't see the learning going on in silent reading time"

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Teacher: "I am a high school English teacher and have been teaching for eight years. Firstly I want to thank you for all the work...

"...new management banned silent reading."

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Teacher: "In my school, in response to an Ofsted where we were told that reading had to feed more into writing, silent reading was ...

"Don't simply let them read, because what are they learning?"

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In my encounters with teachers I have sometimes come across teachers who've told me that either school management or Ofsted have said th...
Wednesday, 10 December 2014

Wilshaw puts both feet in his mouth...

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Breathtaking comments by Head of Ofsted, Michael Wilshaw this morning on BBC Radio 4's 'Today' programme. Wilshaw says '...
Monday, 9 June 2014

Statement from Christine Blower, Gen Sec of NUT re Birmingham schools

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Here's a statement from Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, on the Ofsted reports into Birmingham: ...

David Hughes, vice-chair of Park View Academy Trust - statement

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"Here is the full statement from David Hughes, the vice chair of Park View academy trust. He stressed that he was not a Muslim himself,...
Thursday, 10 April 2014

Gove-Wilshaw - latest wire-tap - Gove's new 'Big Idea'.

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Wilshaw is on the phone. Wilshaw : (tough) "No one tells my troops what to do. Just  kick the door in. Get in there and bloody tell ...
Wednesday, 9 April 2014

Latest wire-tap: Gove tells Wilshaw how good he was on the Today Programme.

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Wilshaw in his office. Gove bursts in, opens his arms and takes up a heroic stance. Wilshaw : I didn't hear you knock. Gove : Da...
Monday, 7 April 2014

Uh-huh, trouble - Gove-Wilshaw and the DfE officials' petition to Gove.

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Wilshaw is sitting at his desk. Gove rushes in. Wilshaw (looks up): Ah - the postman hasn't knocked twice. Gove :  Are you behi...

Gove-Wilshaw: latest recording.

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In an alcove in the corridor at the Department for Education Gove bumps into Wilshaw . The whole conversation is in whispers and stops w...
Sunday, 6 April 2014

Gove tells Wilshaw of what he plans to do tomorrow.

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It's Sunday, Gove walks into his empty office, turns on the light. He walks about for a bit. Goes to the phone. Hesitates. Lift...
Saturday, 5 April 2014

Gove accuses Wilshaw of treachery over today's leaked document in the Observer

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Gove bursts into Wilshaw's office. He is holding a copy of the Observer, dated April 6 2014. Wilshaw: You should have knocked. Gove:...

Gove and Wilshaw discuss whingeing headteachers

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Gove is sitting in his office. Wilshaw walks in. Gove : You could have knocked. Wilshaw : The Whingers Club are writing to me aga...

Gove and Wilshaw discuss the failed headteacher in Ofsted

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Wilshaw's  office. Gove walks in. Wilshaw : You could have knocked. Gove : Could have, but didn't. Wilshaw : Yes, yes. Go...

Ofsted inspector is head of an academy he can't keep out of special measures

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Further to my argument about how in the 60s and 70s, the media used to pillory individual cases in order to suggest that the whole system wa...
Wednesday, 18 December 2013

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Working towards a Na t i o n a l C a m p a i g n fo r E d u cat i o n W e s t L ondo n E D U C A T I O N Q u es ti o n T im...
Thursday, 12 December 2013

Ofsted (!) : "...not enough encouragement to read widely for pleasure".

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“Pupils don’t receive enough encouragement to read widely for pleasure. Time needs to be set aside in lessons for the reading, sharing, reco...
Tuesday, 3 December 2013

How Ofsted inspections lead to crazy stuff

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THIS IS TAKEN FROM THE COMMENTS THREAD FOLLOWING THIS MONTH'S DEAR MR GOVE COLUMN IN THE GUARDIAN RClayton   Barrby 03 ...