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Facing Requiring Improvement

After being visited by inspectors barely a week into term with 23 new members of staff trying to settle in, our headteacher diarist now faces a Requiring Improvement judgement. She says enough is enough.

Some time ago now, I wrote my regular diary entry for SecEd entitled Requires Improvement Mr Gove (SecEd 326, September 20, 2012). Well, he has now got his own back and said the same to me via the auspices of Ofsted.

I have been directed to a very useful resource entitled Getting to Good produced by that very same Ofsted. This is the same Ofsted that said we were “good” in June 2011, who rang me in June 2012 to tell me that we had been identified as one of six secondary schools nationally for our work on school improvement and that they would like us to allow a visit from HMI who would then write up their findings as a case study in a report called ... Getting to Good,  which would be published to help other schools on their journey. Work that one out!

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