Ofsted Ready

by Tony Davis · September 6th, 2021 · · Comments are off for this post

Click here for an overview of the training.

Click each provider’s name to see a detailed list of impact on staff.

Bath College

• A refreshing afternoon.
• Confidence is being authentic in an approach to quality. Not obsessing on unstable factors.
• Fantastic opportunity to sit down, discuss and think deeply. Thank you.

Bristol City Council Community Learning

• A sat nav. for self reflection on our strengths and weakness as a centre! “Turning a weakness into a strength.”
• Bringing transformation to the attention of an Ofsted inspector.
  Thinking ‘wildly’ outside the box for inspiration.
• “Tackle” Ofsted in a positive way – not wait for things to happen, but have things in place – e.g. reflections on how to improve things (not at the end of a course or unit but at the time when issues materialise).
• Food for thought. The use of wiki was really good and it was great to see what others had written.
• Taking the horse by its reins. That we can take control of the OFSTED process by actively working together to improve our service.

East Kent College

• Such a rewarding session, not what I expected at all but have some key takeaways to really reflect on and action.
• Think more creatively, invest in the students’ experience, create an Ofsted position statement for maths and English.
• I thought the breakout room size was going to be limiting but it was actually great, loads of dialogue and ideas – I couldn’t fault the session.

JTL Training

• It has caused me to change my whole approach to an OFSTED inspection, thank you Tony
• Hope is on the horizon.
• Like opening a book.
• Very interesting and informative.
  It has given me ideas to use within my own teaching practice.
• Again Tony delivers a content heavy course with great skill and ease, ensuring all delegates are involved and creating great discussion topics to challenge myself and colleagues.
• Like a fog clearing.
• Peeling an onion, lots of layers in learning.
• A dry subject whetting my appetite.
• The session has caused me to reflect on, and change the way I would view an inspection.
• Good to look at it feeling a little more empowered
• I think that it’s focused me on how to improve class engagement, make it more enjoyable for the learners and for me in my task to improve learners being able to retain information long term which I am looking forward to accomplishing.

Morley College

• Really interesting and motivational!
• Using the research activity with my colleagues and looking at the emotional learning journey as part of the SoW review and implementation.
• I also get a bit obsessed by Ofsted’s requirements and need to try and relax a bit on that!

North West Training Council

• Challenging thought provoking.
• Red Bull (energising).

Purple Beard

• Clearly lit up a gloomy rainy day!
• The mechanism of actually going about it was brilliant.
• Creative and thoughtful about the approach to improving our provision.
• Project based makes it more achievable to make improvements.
• Thank you so much for enabling a collective approach to improving a provision.

Preston College

• There are so many research projects we could implement!
• To complete my own judgement statements on my curriculum impact/intent paper to support my meeting with inspectors.
• Small changes needed to enable my team to be even better.
• Informative. Taking away EIF – issues to explore and research.
• Eye opening – thought provoking.
• How to justify and show evidence in a way that puts across clearly what needs to be celebrated.

Quest Training

• Want to go away do the wiki with staff and look at implementing action research projects in my setting.
• Great session as always, my to do list has grown even more.

Serco

• Really useful session, thank you. Gave me inspiration as to how better to engage the wider team in understanding and managing the self assessment process in preparation for OFSTED.

TPM

• Brilliant. Feel more enthusiastic, will be looking at ways I can better support the learners.
• Inspirational. Enjoyed interactive activities – will use these going forward.
• Enjoyed evaluating provision and how to set up the working groups.
• Thought provoking. The use of aspirational language. How to make the learning environment memorable. Gamification into teaching.
• Committing to research themes and researching these areas so we can come together as a team and make a difference.

TTE Training

• Consider the word ‘experience’, make it memorable.
• To steal others’ good ideas
• Nuggets of wisdom
• Make the learning experience a pleasure (as was today’s session)
• Realisation of what we do, how we do it and how to achieve the best in every aspect.
• Enabling tool to evaluate and develop to meet change.
• To look at research projects and encourage team to develop themes they have selected then share the practice.

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