Inspection of 5th and 6th March 2024
Our latest inspection undertaken in March 2024 judges the school to be ‘Good’ overall and notes that ‘The school has high expectations of pupils’ behaviour and what they can achieve … pupils work hard and behave well in lessons’. As with every inspection this is just a snapshot of two days work at our school but we did feel that the inspectors took the time to really understand our school in this inspection. Their judgement supports the view that local parents have always had that Whitehorse Infants is a great choice for local parents. You can read the full report here.
Inspection of 12th & 13th October 2021
Ofsted returned to inspecting schools in September 2021 following two years of disrupted education for children in English schools. Within five weeks of the return to school, in the brief window between the Delta and the Omicron variants, Ofsted inspected Whitehorse Manor Infants, paying no heed to the effects of the pandemic, and you can read their report here. The leadership of the Trust profoundly disagree with many of the conclusions reached in the report by the lead inspector and raised a comprehensive complaint listing areas of disagreement. This complaint was not investigated independently but by Ofsted themselves and it was no suprise when the complaint was not upheld.
In other countries like Ireland schools have the right to reply to their inspection results and their response is published alongside the report. Sadly this is not the case in the UK and therefore the only place we can record our misgivings is here on our website.
The education writer Chris Bryne points out that: ‘Somebody decides what should go into the inspection schedule and what shouldn’t. These decisions are the product of some people’s views of what is important. If you asked parents or children to devise a framework of what is important to them in a school, it is highly likely to be different from the contents of the Ofsted framework’
