Ofsted The Education Inspection Framework May 2019 Ofsted

Ofsted The Education Inspection Framework May 2019

Ofsted The Education Inspection Framework May 2019 Inspectors will make judgements on the overall effectiveness of a school and the four key judgements: • the quality of education • behaviour and attitudes • personal development • leadership and management

Ofsted The Education Inspection Framework May 2019 The behaviour and attitudes judgement considers how leaders and staff create a safe, calm, orderly and positive environment in the school and the impact this has on the behaviour and attitudes of pupils.

Ofsted The Education Inspection Framework May 2019 The judgement focuses on the factors that research and inspection evidence indicate contribute most strongly to pupils’ positive behaviour and attitudes.

Ofsted The Education Inspection Framework May 2019 These factors are: • A calm and orderly environment in the school and the classroom, as this is essential for pupils to be able to learn. • The setting of clear routines and expectations for the behaviour of pupils across all aspects of school life, not just in the classroom. • A strong focus on attendance and punctuality so that disruption is minimised.

Ofsted The Education Inspection Framework May 2019 • Clear and effective behaviour and attendance policies with clearly defined consequences that are applied consistently and fairly by all staff. • Pupils’ motivation and positive attitudes to learning as important predictors of attainment. The development of positive attitudes can also have a longer term impact on how pupils approach learning tasks in later stages of education. • A positive and respectful school culture in which staff know and care about pupils.

Ofsted The Education Inspection Framework May 2019 An environment in which pupils feel safe, and in which bullying, discrimination and peer-on-peer abuse – online or offline– are not accepted and are dealt with quickly, consistently and effectively whenever they occur.

Ofsted The Education Inspection Framework May 2019 Ofsted’s evidence for the importance of each of these factors comes from their inspection experience, areas of agreement in academic research and their own research. A full note of how the criteria relate to the available research can be found in their research commentary.

Ofsted The Education Inspection Framework May 2019 Exclusions: Headteachers have the right to exclude pupils when there are legitimate reasons for them to do so. Permanent exclusions should only be used as a last resort, in response to a serious breach or persistent breaches of the school's behaviour policy, and when allowing the pupil to remain in school would seriously harm the education or welfare of the pupil or others in the school.

Ofsted The Education Inspection Framework May 2019 Schools should have a strategy for reintegrating a pupil who returns to school following a fixed-term exclusion and for managing their future behaviour. Inspectors will consider how well the school is recognising and acting to address any patterns that exist.

Ofsted The Education Inspection Framework May 2019 Inspectors will consider whether the school is developing the use of alternative strategies to exclusion and taking account of any safeguarding risks to pupils who may be excluded. Inspectors will recognise when schools are doing all that they can to support pupils at risk of exclusion, including through tenacious attempts to engage local support services.

Tom Bennett’s independent review on behaviour in schools (March 2017) and the government’s response: https: //www. gov. uk/government/publications/behavi our-in-schools