Ofsted Inspection - A guide for Parents (pdf)

Ofted letter to parents 02/04/2019 (pdf)

 

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Ofsted Report December 2017 (pdf)

Farringdon Community Academy Ofsted page. 

 

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What academies, free schools and colleges should publish online

School or college contact details

Your website should include the:

• name of your school or college
• postal address of your school or college
• telephone number of your school or college
• name of the member of staff who deals with queries from parents and other members of the public
• name of the headteacher or principal
• name and address of the chair of the governing body (if you have one)
• name and details of your special educational needs (SEN) co-ordinator (SENCO) if you’re a mainstream academy

 

Admission arrangements

Academies and free schools

Admissions arrangements for all mainstream academies and free schools must comply with the School admissions code and the School admission appeals code.

Academy trusts must publish the admissions arrangements for their schools on their website and keep them there for the whole of the offer year (the school year in which offers for places are made).

 

Exclusion arrangements

If you’re an academy or free school other than a 16 to 19 academy, you should publish details of your policy for excluding pupils.

 

Ofsted reports

Academies, free schools and colleges should do one of the following:

• publish a copy of your school’s or college’s most recent Ofsted report
• publish a link to the webpage where users can find your school’s or college’s most recent Ofsted report

Exam and assessment results

Key stage 4 (KS4)

If you’re an academy or a free school, you should publish the following information on your website each year:

• your school’s progress 8 score
• your school’s attainment 8 score
• percentage of pupils who’ve achieved grade C or above in English and maths at the end of KS4 - this requirement will change from January 2018 when you must publish the percentage of pupils achieving a strong pass (grade 5 or above) in English and maths
• percentage of pupils entering for the English Baccalaureate
• percentage of pupils who’ve achieved the English Baccalaureate
• percentage of students staying in education or employment after key stage 4 (destinations)

 

Performance tables

Academies and colleges should publish a link to the school and college performance tables.

Curriculum

Academies and free schools must publish:

• the content of the curriculum your school follows in each academic year for every subject
• your approach to the curriculum
• how parents or other members of the public can find out more about the curriculum your school is following

Depending on what phase of education your school offers, you should also publish any of the following that apply to your school:

• a list of the courses available to pupils at key stage 4, including GCSEs

Behaviour policy

If you’re an academy or free school, you should publish details of your school’s behaviour policy, including its anti-bullying strategy.

 

Pupil premium

For the current academic year, we recommend you publish:

• how much pupil premium funding you received for this academic year
• details of the main barriers to educational achievement that the disadvantaged children in your school face
• how you will spend your pupil premium funding to overcome these barriers and the reasons for the approach you’ve chosen
• how you will measure the effect of the pupil premium
• the date of the next pupil premium strategy review

For the previous academic year, we recommend you publish:

• how you spent your pupil premium funding
• the effect that the pupil premium had on pupils

 

Year 7 literacy and numeracy catch-up premium

You must include:

• how much year 7 catch-up premium you received for this financial year
• details of how you intend to spend the funding
• details of how you spent your year 7 catch-up premium last financial year
• how it made a difference to the attainment of the pupils who attract the funding and how you assessed the effect it had

Special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)

Special educational needs (SEN) information report

Academies and free schools should publish a report on their policy for pupils or students with SEN and how they put the policy into effect. They should update this information annually, or as soon as possible if there are changes during the year.

Accessibility plan for disabled pupils

You must publish your accessibility plan, which should include details of how you’re:

• increasing your disabled pupils’ ability to participate in your school’s curriculum
• improving the physical environment of your school so disabled pupils can take better advantage of the education, benefits, facilities and services you offer
• improving the availability of accessible information to your disabled pupils

 

Equality objectives

As public bodies, academies, free schools and further education institutions must comply with the public sector equality duty in the Equality Act 2010. This means you have to:

• publish details of how your school complies with the public sector equality duty - you should update this every year
• publish your school’s equality objectives - you should update this at least once every 4 years

You need to include details of:

• eliminating discrimination (see the Equalities Act 2010)
• improving equality of opportunity for people with protected characteristics
• consulting and involving those affected by inequality in the decisions your school or college takes to promote equality and eliminate discrimination (affected people could include parents, pupils, staff and members of the local community)

Complaints policy

We recommend that all academies, free schools and colleges publish their complaints policy online.

If you’re an academy, free school, FE or sixth-form college, we recommend that you publish your whistleblowing policy online.

Academies and free schools must publish any arrangements for handling complaints from parents of children with special educational needs about the support provided by the school.

Annual reports and accounts

Academies and free schools

You should publish the following financial information about your school:

• annual report
• annual audited accounts
• memorandum of association
• articles of association
• names of charity trustees and members
• funding agreement

 

Governors’ information and duties

Academies and free schools

 

Charging and remissions policies

Academies and free schools should publish their charging and remissions policies (this means when you cancel fees). The policies must include details of:

• the activities or cases where your school will charge pupils’ parents
• the circumstances where your school will make an exception on a payment you would normally expect to receive under your charging policy

Values and ethos

Academies and colleges should publish a statement of their ethos and values.

Requests for copies

If a parent requests a paper copy of the information on your website, you must provide this free of charge.