We appreciate, understand and feel totally sympathetic to last month's survey findings of the National Association of Head Teachers concerning the new Ofsted framework for school inspections.
The NAHT has called for Ofsted to deal urgently with its inspection teams'
lack of experience in the early years and the Foundation Stage. We support this because we are concerned about the greater emphasis on a school's self-evaluation. If its observations are overly optimistic but the Ofsted team's judgement doesn't match it, then the leadership and management will be marked down. Or if the school's self-evaluation is too low, the leadership and management will still be marked down. It's a double whammy - they can't win.
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