Highly recommended! Go if you can - a brilliant opportunity to get some great CPD for EY & KS1.

Your views are so important!

This is how we roll up here in the NW Highlands…

Cat woke me up at 5am so I decided to have a tea & a nice relaxing Twitter read while listening to the birds outside. Then one of those horrendous Temu adverts shattered the peace & made me jump out of my skin. Temu- I will NEVER buy anything from you ever.

The alternative big listen. Should find the same outcomes, right?

Well, triangulation is always a good methodology. Fill it in and make sure the big listen is triangulated.
thealternativebiglisten.co.uk

thealternativebiglisten.co.uk has been coordinated with Prof Colin Richards and several others who have given their time freely. The website lists early supporters and we are grateful for their encouragement. We just need people to complete the survey.

It took some deep soul searching but proud to have launched thealternativebiglisten.co.uk today. A chance for a broader view of inspection and one that has the support of many educationalists. Proud that Prof Julia Waters supports it.

Please do take a few moments to engage with this! It’s so important that we get an accurate picture of everyone’s views on Ofsted.

Great piece of work from Carmel. And I agree - it's definitely time for the Nolan Principles to be revisited!

Today I have resolved not to engage with photos/videos that have been posted with the full knowledge that doing so will cause a massive row that includes finger pointing and personal attacks. I had enough of provocative behaviour and the subsequent fallout as a pupil.

On the topic of house prices & Ofsted grades, I've just been told about a couple who bought a house partly based on the proximity of a nearby 'outstanding' school. By the time the sale had gone through, it had been re-inspected & was labelled as RI.

I've just looked on Ofsted's website & can confirm that not everything is accurate & up to date. Lovely school I know, inspected early March, strong 'good'. The 'inadequate' report from a while ago is still up there on Ofsted's website. So, important for parents? This is not OK.

Although many parents don't regard Ofsted grades as useful, in order for them to be useful surely they have to be accurate (& up to date). So this is really important...