OFSTED have proposed some changes, instead of the 256 outcomes there could have been about your school, they now have the possibility of nearly 400,000! What could possibly go wrong? It seems that the only people who see this as a recipe for consistency and raising standards are Bridget Phillipson and Sir Martyn Oliver. It makes you wonder if the Big Listen was heard through cloth ears. School accountability may be here to stay but it could be so much more valuable, giving support to schools where needed, rather than finding ways to create villains. It might even be a good idea to have a system more suited to Primary Schools, rather than the subject based secondary model currently in use.

Peter Cansell (NAPE Information Officer)