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Diary of a headteacher: School improvement – 1980s-style

I am sat with my leadership team on a bright summer morning. We are planning for next academic year. We have got an awful lot to do. Not least because we hope to call in HMI.

Everything needs to be in place. Next September will be very different from the last one. I now have a fully embedded leadership team with one academic year under their belts. I am fully staffed and the students and parents understand the direction the school is heading.

Our only problem – the lingering Ofsted judgement of 2018. Last week I discovered that, if you search online, the “inadequate” tag is showing once again. We had managed to cut the link, but now it is back in all its glory.

We have contacted Ofsted and the DfE. We have even been in touch with Google and Bing to try to correct this mistake. It is a case of déjà vu; we have definitely been here before. This is something that we need to change and fast. We are going to call Ofsted in and perhaps even pay for the privilege.

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