Withdrawn: School inspection handbook - GOV.UK.
Ofsted do not look for homework during an inspection, but they do look for an Assessment Policy (written by the school, for the school and consistently applied) that caters for different subjects, different age groups and pupils in different ways in order to be effective and promote learning.What Ofsted does. Ofsted is the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills. We inspect services providing education and skills for learners of all ages. We also inspect and regulate services that care for children and young people. Ofsted is a non-ministerial department.Inadequate schools are normally inspected and monitored within 30 months of the latest inspection report. We can also inspect at any time if we have concerns.
I can wax lyrical for hours about all the outstanding teaching I have seen and about the “spark” that makes some lessons better than others. Having read the guidance Ofsted provides for its inspectors, I am also confident I know how Ofsted differentiates between an outstanding lesson and, say, a good one.A question on homework in Ofsted’s parent survey has also been dropped. The upshot is primaries and secondaries in England can be rated good or outstanding even with a no-homework policy. (Estyn.
OFSTED idea to fine parents not supporting homework (97 Posts). In Birmingham we've had a spate of previously OFSTED rated OUTSTANDING schools suddenly rated needs improvement and then almost immediately converting to academy status. Once an academy they are rated GOOD or OUTSTANDING next inspection.. But if OFSTED are now saying homework.
