Early Years Inspection: Virtual toolkit
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Agenda
The new regulatory framework
- Changes to Common Inspection Framework (CIF to EIF)
- Setting accountability
- 4 key areas of inspection (‘outcomes’ for pupils removed)
- Overall effectiveness
- Focus on the curriculum and the quality of education – what this means for early years
- Ofsted risk assessments
- Inspection frequency and notice period –
- Ofsted mythbusters
Quality of education
- Research evidence for change
- Curriculum intent – are the aims of your educational programmes?
- Curriculum implementation – how will you deliver your educational programmes?
- Curriculum impact – what have your educational programmes achieved?
- Knowledge, skills and understanding
- The quality of teaching
- Attainment and progress of pupils
- Curriculum and inclusion
- The curriculum and disadvantaged pupils
Behaviour and attitudes
- Attitude to learning
- Behaviour
- Respect
- Grade descriptors for behaviour and attitudes
- Training presentations for staff
Personal development
- Spiritual, moral, social and cultural development
- Fundamental British values
- Healthy living
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Citizenship
- Equality and diversity
- Preparation for next stage
- Grade descriptors for personal development
- Training presentations for staff
Leadership and management
- Vision and ethos and high expectations for all
- Staff CPD
- Staff workload and wellbeing
- Engaging with learners and the community
- Engaging with staff
- Governance
- Safeguarding
- Common reasons for an ‘inadequate’ grade
- Grade descriptors for leadership and management
- Training presentations for the SLT
Curriculum depth and breadth
- Learning and long-term memory
- Importance of vocabulary and success
- Systematic and cumulative knowledge acquisition
- Cognitive skills
- Teacher curriculum knowledge and expertise
- Evaluating the curriculum
- Local context and gaps in background
- Evaluating early years provision
- Grade descriptors for early years
- Planning the curriculum
- Curriculum leadership
Self-evaluation and improvement planning
- Self-evaluating your setting to drive improvement
- Using Ofsted inspection criteria
- Demonstrating effectiveness to Ofsted
- Rewriting your self-evaluation statement (SES)
- Worked example SES
- Developing an agenda for improvement
- Linking CPD to improvement
- Allocating resources for improvement
- Getting to outstanding
- Worked example improvement plan
Preparing for inspection
- Previous inspection report
- Conduct of inspectors
- Preparing staff for inspection
- Preparing governors for inspection
- What evidence inspectors will require
- Parent View
- Displaying information on the setting website
- Notice of inspection
- Request for deferral of inspection
Inspection day and beyond
- Meeting with leaders
- Lesson observation
- Work scrutiny
- Post-inspection evaluation
- Concerns and complaints
- Draft inspection report and factual accuracy
- Next steps
Ofsted updates
-
Sue CowleyAuthor, Presenter and Trainer
- Introduction
- Ofsted’s Annual Report: What can we learn?
- Changes to the inspection handbook
- Covid recovery and changes to inspections
Speakers
Sue Cowley
Sue Cowley is a writer, presenter, teacher educator and author of 30 books on education. After qualifying as an early years teacher with a first class BEd (Hons), she taught into primary and secondary schools and overseas. Sue’s international bestseller Getting the Buggers to Behave has been translated into ten languages and is a set text at many universities. Her best selling guide for NQTs How to Survive your First Year in Teaching has been in print for 20 years.
Sue has written articles and columns for numerous education publications, including the TES, Teach Primary, Early Years Educator and Nursery World. She was a regular presenter on Teachers TV and has featured in numerous education videos. She now works internationally as a teacher trainer and presenter.
Sue has been part of the management team at her local preschool for the last ten years, and over that time has helped the setting move from a ‘Satisfactory’ Ofsted grading to an ‘Outstanding’ one. Her latest books are The Ultimate Guide to Differentiation and The Ultimate Guide to Mark Making in the Early Years published by Bloomsbury.
