[senco-forum] Help Ofsted

Our school has an Ofsted this Wednesday and Thursday. I have been informed

Lead Inspector is either still working from the Warnock Report (1978) and /
or doesn't understand the concept of SEN.

It's difficult to plan a strategy based on this premise, but I would suggest
that you exude enormous confidence in the quality of your current assessment
/ identification / monitoring system, and in the quality of the provision
made.

Highlight one or two things that you've identified as paths to improve your
effectiveness, and impress on the Inspector the school's determination to
achieve these (minor) improvements.

Tell the Inspector that you had also noticed this apparent statistical
anomaly and have contacted several other SENCOs at schools with similar
PLASC / PANDA profiles (although none of them have got back to you yet).

Inspector will like the Inclusion Register if it tracks how each of the
sub-groups performs.

Alternatively, you could explain how the SEN Register for last year had
accidentally been submitted and quickly devise a new one.  But then you'd be
just as silly as the Inspector.  ('Always tell the truth; that way you don't
have to remember anything' - one variation of a quote attributed to Mark
Twain).

Hope it goes well

Biff

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Holt" <chris at cholt.fsnet.co.uk>
To: <senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk>
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 6:52 PM
Subject: [senco-forum] Help Ofsted

> Our school has an Ofsted this Wednesday and Thursday. I have been informed
> by my head today that the percentage of children on my SEN register is too
> low and should be around 20%. Lead inspector has passed this comment in
pre
> inspection phone-call.
>
> I also have an inclusion register (being Inclusion Manger) that is far
> larger, containing G&T, EAL, under-achievers that are part of wave 2
> interventions etc.
>
> Help!! Any advice on how to deal with this would be much appreciated.
>
> My Ed Psych, at planning meetings has never passed comment.
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>
>
> Many thanks
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