Evaluating and evidencing your character provision

Last term I found myself sitting opposite someone from Her Majesty’s Inspectorate needing to explain how I knew what I knew.
This was confounded by the certainty that he had seen what we both saw – my conversation with him was simply the final piece in the jigsaw that he needed to confirm that we were both right...

Sometimes it really does feel like a very strange profession.

But then I remember that this triangulation of knowledge is the same approach that we often impress upon our students.

Evidence is king, and the methods by which we derive it are crucial.

We don’t just gather it for Ofsted, we do so for our own confidence and to celebrate achievement, we do so to check errors and instigate improvement, and we gather it all for a quite vast range of audiences. So sat there at a little table crammed with piles of papers and folders deposited like tributes before the altar of HMI, I was aware that all I needed to do was deliver the truth.