What you’ll get from our How to Ace Ofsted Certificate
This course will focus on what schools can do to ensure an inspection is as pain-free as possible – and ends in success. Not by doing lots of things solely for the purposes of inspection, or by producing lots of documents only for inspectors’ eyes. But by understanding the inspection process and developing a shared language so that all staff know what inspectors are looking for, and by ensuring that what they do every day is in the best interests of children and communities.
This course is packed with practical tools and tangible tips – all of which constitute perennial good practice advice about how to make school improvement your routine not your rescue plan. In short, this is a course not about faking inspection readiness but about making inspection-readiness your everyday reality.
You will have full access to the materials to complete over a 12-month period to study at your own pace. Throughout the course, you will test your knowledge and understanding with interactive assessments. You’ll also come away with downloadable checklists and exercises that you can download and put in place in your school.
By the end of this training, you will:
Be prepared on what to do when ‘The Call’ comes
Understand the 2025 inspection framework including the planning call, the inspection visit, the outcomes of the inspection and case sampling
Be able to agree on a shared definition of disadvantage for your school
Explore inclusion in practice and how to prepare evidence for each factor
Understand what inspectors evaluate during curriculum, teaching and achievement learning walks and actions you can take in preparation
Be prepared for an evaluation on student attendance and behaviour
Ensure you are taking the correct and most effective action regarding personal development and wellbeing
Improve your leadership and governance inspection preparation
Be prepared for an evaluation on safeguarding in your school