Or not.... as it happened.

Friday evening and today (saturday) should have been all about BSF. Myself and our ICT co-ordinator Gary went down to the BETT show on friday for a flying visit before heading back to a hotel we had booked for the BSF stuff. At about 11AM Fri we got the dreaded call... "OFSTED next week!"

Once at the hotel the SLT were preoccupied with the impending OFSTED,so 4 of us that were there just for the BSF went through some stuff. Rather than scan in all the pages I have now, I'll try and get electronic copies on monday to upload.

In the meantime the guidance paper we are using is on the BSF site:

http://www.partnershipsforschools.org.uk/documents/BSF_Guidance_Documents/SchoolStrategyforChangeGuidanceJanuary2008.pdf

We also ran through Socrates Tree - Which is basically a list of questions about education that trigger debate eg - do you learn in classrooms or do you learn everywhere? This was really a "warm-up" exercise just to get us thinking about the school environment we want to end up with, but still valuable. We then tried to decipher the LA's Strategy For Change (SFC) - The most amusing part of this was the fact that the "Every Child Matters" section simply said "New Paragraph Required". Tremendous.

Its getting late so I'll leave it at that for now, a bit of an anti-climax thanks to OFSTED, but aint that just the way.

Like I said I'll try and track down digital copies of the paperwork we were given so I can share it ....