Page 10 - Preparing for an Ofsted Inspection

Myth busting

Ofsted does not require schools to provide:
• evidence in any specific format, as long as it is easily accessible

for inspectors
• curriculum planning in any specific format
• evidence for inspection beyond that set out in (the) handbook
• photographic evidence of pupils’ work (although inspectors may

request to take photographs themselves of pupils’ work, which will
be anonymised)
• any written record of teachers’ oral feedback to pupils
• individual lesson plans
• previous lesson plans
• predictions of attainment and progress scores
• assessment or self-evaluation, other than that which is already
part of the school’s business processes
• performance and pupil-tracking information

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