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Hi all, We have been in our inspection window and likely getting the call in the new year. We are a primary school that uses Google Classroom and GSuite for ICT work in KS2, with KS1 mainly making work on iPads on apps such as book creator. Our computing lead is worried about ICT being deep dived. I am reaching out to ask how do your schools show evidence of work nicely for deep dives/inspections? (apologies if you have seen my post similar to this previously, however it wasn't very well explained/worded).

This is a very specific focus on your MIS. As we near the end of a 2 day inspection, I'd love to hear how well good your MIS served you at responding to inspectors requests for various reports at short notice. For a quick analysis, please respond with your MIS and a score of 5, where 5 is 'The bee's knees' and 1 is the 'bee's bottom'! Background stories most welcome.

People may be interested in the SALTIS report "Supporting Interoperable Learning Technology", available at SALTIS Papers. Hard copies are also available, free, by emailing me at [email protected]. The report is about technical interoperability standards - explaining why the industry increasingly regards them as essential to the implementation of more effective e-learning solutions in schools. I hope that the report may be of particular interest when read in conjunction with the OFSTED's recent summary of the state of learning platforms at Virtual learning environments: an evaluation of their development in a sample of educational settings / Thematic reports / Documents by type / Browse all by / Publications and research / Ofsted home / Ofsted - Ofsted. I'd be very pleased to respond to comments and criticisms on this list. Best, Crispin.

Link: Why a good Ofsted report can be bad for GCSE results [The Guardian]

Just been sent this link - well worth a look.

Link: Government announces plans for universal school inspections [Gov.uk]

Link: Professor Julius Weinberg appointed next Chair of Ofsted

One of my schools (primary) had the call today and they are coming Friday just for 1 day. Unfortunately, thats the day I help out with ICT in Year5 regards Simon

Well i have just starting working as a ICT manager for Two primary schools. One of the schools network is a mess. No licensing in place at all. Only 1 server. Students are using .man profiles but there don't have separate accounts for each students, there have the following structure for logons Year1 Year2 Year3 Year4 Year5 Year6 Each students logon with there year groups logon. Personally i hate it this way.Logon times for each students logon is about 3-4 minutes The staff are using .dat profiles also have synced files.Logon times is about 6-7 minutes per staff(due to profile size), Staff have the original XP style desktop and taskbars. There is no structure of networked software and normal software. there is no structure for printers. staff and students have full access to every printer and there pick the printer there would like to use from the Browse directory. The first thing i have started to do is sorting the licensing issue out,as the school is in special measures with ofsted already. That has now been started. Another then that why do i start?