After Ofsted inspection this year, Josephine Smith’s school was judged ‘outstanding’ in all categories. Across five articles and five categories, she sets out the steps her team took to achieve this. We begin with Quality of Education
Quality of Education: This Ofsted judgement category covers the intent, implementation and impact of a school’s curriculum as detailed in the Education Inspection Framework - Adobe Stock

Overall Ofsted judgements are a thing of the past and – for this academic year at least – schools face judgements in each of four or five categories.

As you will no doubt have read, the framework will be changing in September. While we have had a glimpse of the Ofsted Report Card proposals (Ofsted, 2025), the reality is that many schools will still be inspected this year under the current framework.

As such, in this series of short articles, I would like to detail the steps that we have taken to move our school from “overall good” to “outstanding” in all five categories (including Sixth Form Provision) after our inspection in November.

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