Journey to become an 'outstanding' school: case studies
Get advice and inspiration from other schools about how they turned the dial to push school improvement, and to go on to be rated ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted.
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There’s no blueprint to becoming an ‘outstanding’ school – each school will have its own unique journey, context and practices that made it happen for them.
So don’t be disheartened if the school featured in this article has a different set-up or context to your school. Instead, use our case study:
- As inspiration for developing your school’s approach to improving its practice
- To identify individual ideas, concepts or practices that you can adapt to your school’s context and needs
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Consider your school’s practice in these 3 areas
Although there’s no exact recipe to an ‘outstanding’ judgement, the school we spoke to identified 3 factors that it says were important for its school’s development:
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- Features of 'outstanding' EYFS settings
- How to deliver high-quality interventions
- Leadership in 'outstanding' schools
- Ofsted's MAT research: key learnings and recommendations
- Outstanding practice in alternative provision: examples
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