Ofsted SEF

Summarise your school's Self Evaluation against the Ofsted framework.

Self Evaluations aren't required by Ofsted but almost every school has one in order to consider its strengths and areas for development and then shares this with Ofsted at inspection. Keeping track of the many criteria and considering them both at the level of detailed evaluation as well as in overview is a complex task and often leads to long complex documents.

Our system provides the structure to consider a school's effectiveness in each area of the framework and set it in the school's context and previous inspections.

Track details against individual criteria and then zoom out to a high level summary of strengths and areas for development.

Each of the individual criteria required for a good inspection are detailed and the school's view of them recorded. Optionally, more detail about the evidence to support the evaluation of those criteria can be included. Very detailed evidence can be hyperlinked to the evaluation. Additionally, the descriptors for Outstanding evaluation can be evaluated and evidence detailed.

For each area of the framework you can record a summary along with four key areas of detail: actions recently taken in that area, the impact of those actions, strengths in the area and priorities for further development. This provides a single page summary fo each area which is extremely helpful for governors, wider leadership and all staff generally.

Additional sections enable you to provide contextual information and also document progress against your last report alongside current development priorities.

A self evaluation needs to consider the schools successes and challenges in its own context. Our system provides a section for a number of contextual statements at the start of the document to set the scene for the evaluative sections further on.

Self evaluation is part of the school improvement process so a section is also provided where the priorities from the last inspection and the response to them can be detailed. This section also enables you to record a high level summary fo the main school development plan which will be echoed in the separate Ofsted areas of the SEF.

Using the Ofsted SEF

Add some school context

Detail progress from previous inspections

Evaluate individual criteria in each section

Summarise and evaluate each section

Managing the SEF

Give other staff responsibility

Print the SEF