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2003, look it up if you like, reduced well-being because of the stress of bullying unless they lived in green environments, in which case they actually continued to thrive.

Ofsted seemed to love that word, or at least they did for a time period, to

thrive in education.

Like a plant.

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Schools Week reports on comments from Ofsted Chief Sir Martin Oliver about how the Inspectorate grades schools on attendance and behaviour.

He has said it's not possible to reliably identify how many schools are being graded down for the category because of concern about just one of the two areas.

Then I went to Bethnal Green and worked in East London for about eight years where I started as a nursery nurse.

Then when they had Ofsted and didn't do really well, lots of teachers left.

So I was employed as an unqualified teacher in reception class.

And the head teacher there was amazing.

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How have you adapted the curriculum for your pupils without lowering the ambition of what they should learn? I suppose it's a really hot topic when we think about inclusion and what that means to be inclusive.

It's so easy to frame everything through a kind of almost like an Ofsted or an Ofsted adjacent lens where things become like, how do I include every child? And it can almost become like a tick list.

But I think... absolutely the first and foremost thing is quality first teaching.

Yeah, and, uh, yeah, definitely.

And it was the, um, we're gonna touch on the notion of sort of being child-centered, but that was the initial sort of mindset behind it, would come from a place, especially in SEND schools, uh, where data was king, and Ofsted made it very clear that they were looking for progress data, um, measurable progress data against...

We were using P scales, um, at that time.

And, um, and it was, we were, it was statutory for us to assess against those P scales and also report progress against those P scales, which led to some really bad teaching practice to be honest.

Um, and then we had an opportunity in 2016, after the Rochford review, to not use the P scales anymore.

They were no longer statutory and you could go in your own direction.

So we took that opportunity to do something that we felt was more focused on what children needed as opposed to what Ofsted needed.

Yes.

Baroness Spielman is a Conservative peer and former Chief

Inspector of Ofsted.

This is the right outcome because I think it reflects the recognition by MPs who were rather rushed through it first time round, that after the extended airing of the bill, the flaws and the concerns that royal colleges, disability charities, many organisations had, that in its current form it simply wasn't safe and shouldn't pass.

For those backing the bill say the result is heartbreaking, Dr Peter Princely is Labour MP for Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket.

What it actually means is trying to get much higher progress out of poorer children, than out of richer children the equality of outcome logic could even change how schools are assessed with arguments for academic outcomes to be contextualised by deprivation it could see a school in a less affluent area given a better inspection outcome than a similar school in a more affluent one It could price in the assumption that poor children always do worse, entrenching low expectations for capable pupils and effectively marking down good schools in affluent areas in the process, discouraging academic success.

Ofsted's chief inspector claimed he would never acquiesce to the quiet curse of low expectations that would see Ofsted prioritise context over outcomes.

But what happens if the statutory guidance demands otherwise? Instead of lowering your standards, you want to maintain your standards, but build everyone up, the official who worked on SED's consultation says.

Labour has so far taken the advice of Nuffield Foundation, including its research proposal to remove tax relief on private schools.

I mean, we, we, we, you know, we run college programs which, uh, mimic, you know, professional environments, and we've got some coaches who work for us now.

If Ofsted came in, if you like, or an education business, they wouldn't approve of the way that some of these speak to some-

Mm

... of these lads or girls.

special measures or whatever.

And there might be a story about the Ofsted report.

And then there might be a story about, you know, your MP might comment on it.

And then it kind of goes away.