School Accountability and Ofsted Inspection Flashcards

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What does school accountability mean?

It means schools must answer for their results, behaviour, and safety. They show how well they are doing to parents, the government, and the public.

Ofsted stands for the Office for Standards in Education. It inspects schools in England and publishes reports and grades.

Outstanding, Good, Requires Improvement, and Inadequate.

To check the quality of education and how safe pupils are. They help raise standards and inform parents.

They visit lessons and look at pupils’ work. They check results, attendance, behaviour, and safeguarding. They talk to pupils, staff, and leaders.

Protecting children from harm. Making sure staff are checked and concerns are dealt with quickly.

Quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, and leadership and management.

A list that ranks schools by exam results and progress. It lets people compare schools.

A score that shows how much progress pupils make from the end of primary school to their GCSEs. It uses eight subjects.

It gets close monitoring and must improve fast. It may be put into special measures and be re-inspected soon.

To see a school’s strengths and weaknesses. Parents and the community use them to help choose and improve schools.