shared leadership across several institutions sharing of resources including support for professional development a curriculum partnership with pupils from partner schools. Before the inspection When embarking on coordinated inspections, it is advisable that all lead inspectors liaise before initial contact is made with a school so that clear and consistent messages are given to teachers. Where appropriate, lead inspectors may decide that it would be helpful for one of them to play a coordinating role, but this is not a requirement. Annex 2 provides some issues that lead inspectors may wish to consider together before the start of a coordinated inspection. In the case of coordinated inspections, it is important that the lead inspectors discuss with each prior to initial contact with the respective schools, how the initial contact should be handled. Each school should be contacted separately by the responsible lead inspector and, where possible, at the same time. Where the schools are led by an executive headteacher, lead inspectors may need to prepare following the initial phone calls for one lead inspector – – to coordinate the arrangements with the executive headteacher for meetings with senior staff and governors. In the initial phone call, inspectors should take the opportunity to clarify the details of partnership arrangements and whether other schools in the federation have already been inspected. Lead inspectors will confirm whether any other school in a federation has already been inspected. There may be judgements already made about a federation in a previous inspection report which will be pertinent to the pending inspections. Lead inspectors will read the reports from the other school(s) in order to prepare for discussions with senior leaders and governors. The initial conversation with the headteacher Careful thought needs to be given as to how communications will be managed. For example, a hard federation may have an executive teacher with a senior member of staff responsible for each institution. This will be determined by the federation’s leadership structure and working arrangements. The lead inspectors may need to discuss and plan how communication will be managed between: themselves as lead inspectors on each site the executive and senior staff/governors with responsibility for each site. During the initial conversation with headteachers it is important that they are made aware that there will be an individual report for each school with a separate URN.
shared leadership across several institutions sharing of resources including support for professional development a curriculum partnership with pupils from partner schools. Before the inspection When embarking on coordinated inspections, it is advisable that all lead inspectors liaise before initial contact is made with a school so that clear and consistent messages are given to teachers. Where appropriate, lead inspectors may decide that it would be helpful for one of them to play a coordinating role, but this is not a requirement. Annex 2 provides some issues that lead inspectors may wish to consider together before the start of a coordinated inspection. In the case of coordinated inspections, it is important that the lead inspectors discuss with each prior to initial contact with the respective schools, how the initial contact should be handled. Each school should be contacted separately by the responsible lead inspector and, where possible, at the same time. Where the schools are led by an executive headteacher, lead inspectors may need to prepare – following the initial phone calls – for one lead inspector to coordinate the arrangements with the executive headteacher for meetings with senior staff and governors. In the initial phone call, inspectors should take the opportunity to clarify the details of partnership arrangements and whether other schools in the federation have already been inspected. Lead inspectors will confirm whether any other school in a federation has already been inspected. There may be judgements already made about a federation in a previous inspection report which will be pertinent to the pending inspections. Lead inspectors will read the reports from the other school(s) in order to prepare for discussions with senior leaders and governors. The initial conversation with the headteacher Careful thought needs to be given as to how communications will be managed. For example, a hard federation may have an executive teacher with a senior member of staff responsible for each institution. This will be determined by the federation’s leadership structure and working arrangements. The lead inspectors may need to discuss and plan how communication will be managed between: themselves as lead inspectors on each site the executive and senior staff/governors with responsibility for each site. During the initial conversation with headteachers it is important that they are made aware that there will be an individual report for each school with a separate URN.
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