Following a recent Ofsted inspection, The Helena Romanes School was judged ‘good’. Assistant headteacher Neal Foster explains the strategies they have for using data and supporting staff as they now aim for outstanding.

 

Last year, Ofsted awarded Helena Romanes School a “good” grade. It was the first time in a decade that we had been recognised as a good school and it marked an important milestone in our school improvement journey.

Prior to this point, we were a “requiring improvement” school. But does this mean we were plagued by truancy, inadequate teaching practices and poor exam results? Not at all, in my view we have always been a good school, we were simply unable to provide the inspection teams with the detailed information that they required about the progress we had made. This meant we needed to change some of our practices in the school. 

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