S.I.S. Interim Support for School Self-Evaluation

Support for School Self-Evaluation

Self Evaluation Advice Primary Phase Secondary Phase Special Schools Further Guidance from Ofsted Additional Information Further Resources

Self Evaluation Advice

Please follow the link below to access the review of the Schoolcentre software in the Times Educational Supplement of 6th January 2006.

Weblink: www.tes.co.uk - Review of Schoolcentre software.

The guide is in the form of a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, with an introduction followed by seven subsections relating to each subsection of the SEF.

Each section opens separately by clicking on the numbered buttons at the bottom of the Excel notebook.

There is a separate SEF for each phase of schooling though not, as yet, for Nursery Schools.

Make sure that you open the SEF that is appropriate for your school.

(To open a document please click on the linked text title visible in the left portion of the panel.)

Primary Phase

East Riding SEF Help: Primary Schools

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Secondary Phase

East Riding SEF Help: Secondary Schools

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Special Schools

East Riding SEF Help: Special Schools

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This structured guide to completing the SEF is provided to schools as a temporary ‘fix’ whilst negotiations continue to identify the most effective commercially available software to support schools with their planning and evaluation processes.

The guide is, of necessity, quite repetitive but it does take you step-by-step through the evaluations you need to make and the associated evidence that will be required to support your evaluations.

Sections 1 and 2 are descriptive and do not require evaluations.

From section 3 to 7, however, you are required to make a formal evaluation of the school’s performance and progress.

At the right hand side of the spreadsheet you will see a column for entering the evaluation grade on the new 1-4 OfSTED scale.

1 = excellent/very good
2 = good
3 = satisfactory
4 = unsatisfactory and in need of improvement

It is worth bearing in mind that OfSTED regard only grades 1 and 2 as indicative of capacity to improve.

Grade 3 is seen as ‘maintenance of the status quo’. ) Once you enter your evaluation score in the grid the adjacent box will colour fill - green for grades 1 and 2, amber for grade 3, and red for grade 4.

Where you are unable to make an evaluation, for whatever reason, the box will remain blue.

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Further Guidance from Ofsted

Further guidance on the standards for self-evaluation can be found on the OfSTED website.

However, copies of the four most helpful documents are also available via the links below:

Every Child Matters: The framework for inspection of schools from September 2005

The Framework for Inspecting Schools in England from September 2005

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Guidance for inspectors: Using the inspection schedule

Using the Inspection Schedule

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Guidance for Inspectors of Schools: Conducting the inspection

Conducting the Inspection - Draft

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Guidance for Inspectors of Schools: Inspection judgements

Inspecting Your School - Overview of current inspection practice

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Additional Information

Additional information on interpreting your school’s data and the PANDA, and on using the Pupil Achievement Tracker can be found at:

Weblink: www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/performance/

For more information about changes to school self evaluation procedures please contact:

Mike Furbank, Head of Improvement and Learning
Tel: (01482) 392402
E-mail: mike.furbank@eastriding.gov.uk