School Visit Programme
The school visit programme has been fully revised in line with the
new Hertfordshire
Learning Partnership. All schools will receive a full day
Joint Annual Review Visit, from their linked School Effectiveness Adviser.
The visit includes a meeting with the headteacher and other senior staff,
the Chair of the Governing Body and the School Effectiveness Adviser (SEA)
in order to evaluate the school's overall performance using its own self-evaluation
evidence, including performance data, and other evidence supplied by the full
range of CSF services. It will include discussion and agreement of the school's
statutory targets.
In preparation for the visit, the school will need to update its self-evaluation
report using Ofsted Form S4, drawing on the criteria in the
Hertfordshire Framework for School Self-Evaluation, and complete the School
Self - Evaluation Profile:
The school will also need to prepare draft statutory targets for discussion
and agreement. These documents will need to be sent to the SEA at least one
week in advance of the visit.
As a result of the joint annual review visit, and based on the overall achievement
and progress of the pupils and school's self-evaluation profile, the school
will be placed in a category on the MCSI framework:
This category is confirmed in writing as part of the visit report completed
by the SEA. In the case of a difference of opinion between the school and the
SEA about the school's category, the CSF judgement will stand but the school's
view will be recorded, along with the evidence to support it.
The category of school effectiveness will largely determine any further visits,
additional support and intervention from across the CSF service. Where needed,
such additional support will be agreed in outline at the joint annual review
visit. Evaluation of the Visit Programme
After each visit, the headteacher and chair of governors will be asked to
complete an evaluation form. This is returned to the Head of Standards and
School Effectiveness and used to improve the work of the School Effectiveness
Team.
In addition, there are periodic in-depth evaluations of the effectiveness
of the visit programme.
Other support available through the School Effectiveness Adviser includes:
- headteacher appointments
- deputy headteacher appointments (traded)
- additional support for new headteachers
- attendance at Ofsted feedbacks
- accreditation for Basic Skills Quality Mark
- mid-inspection cycle reviews (phased programme, partially traded)
- a range of other consultancy work, mainly on a traded basis (for example,
staff meetings and other training).
Your school adviser can also offer advice about a range of other training
and support available from the Standards and School Effectiveness Division.
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