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Four key lessons to get your school to outstanding

Inspection advice/guidance School improvement
What does outstanding look like and how can you get there as a school? Dan Belcher delivers four fundamental lessons from secondary schools on the frontline aimed at helping you to achieve outstanding.

Definitions of outstanding abound, not least from Ofsted. Under the latest framework no school can be judged outstanding overall without outstanding teaching and learning.  

This instinctively makes sense. However, being an outstanding school is more than getting an Ofsted “outstanding grading” – that may take a school part of the way but it is not the end of the journey or the full story. 

So what does outstanding look like and what lessons can we learn from schools? It is important to note that what takes a school from satisfactory to good, is not necessarily the same as what is required to bridge the gap to outstanding. 

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