Be OFSTED-Ready: A Comprehensive Guide for Schools
What you REALLY need to know – whether you are expecting a graded or ungraded inspection!
This course provides school leaders, governors, and educators with the insights, tools, and strategies needed to prepare for the latest OFSTED inspections confidently. Drawing on findings from inspections I have supported directly, it focuses on the key shift in OFSTED’s lens towards outcomes over intent, empowering schools to demonstrate real impact across all areas.
Key Features
- Real Inspection Insights: Learn from detailed observations and outcomes from inspections I’ve personally supported. Understand what works, what doesn’t, and how to prepare effectively.
- Shift to Outcomes: Focus on evidencing the real impact of your teaching, curriculum, and interventions, as OFSTED places outcomes at the heart of inspections.
- Data Presentation: Learn to present performance data and evidence of progress in a way that clearly demonstrates your school’s strengths and areas of impact.
- Strengthening Leadership Across the School: Equip leaders at all levels with the tools to drive improvements, align practices, and inspire their teams, ensuring a unified approach to success.
- Using Pupil Voice Strategically: Harness pupil voice as a powerful tool for evaluation and planning, ensuring your strategies for school improvement are informed by those who matter most—your students.
- Embedding Core Skills Across the Curriculum: Develop and evidence how reading, writing, oral communication, mathematics, and computing are integrated meaningfully into the wider curriculum, ensuring pupils build skills for life.
- Practical Tools for Success: Gain frameworks, templates, and strategies to address the new focus on impact, including adaptive teaching, assessment practices, and supporting protected characteristics.
Whether you’re preparing for an upcoming inspection or looking to refine your current approach, this course is designed to give you clarity, confidence, and practical tools to excel.
Resource packs will also be provided for all delegates.
Lunch is provided.
Suitable for all phases:
- Headteachers/Principals
- Senior Leaders
