With 17 per cent of primary schools currently rated as outstanding by Ofsted, many schools ask how attainable this status is for the majority. Looking at what some of these schools actually do may help to provide an answer.
At SSAT, we invited members who have recently been visited by Ofsted to share what they thought contributed to their outstanding status.
A number of the schools inspected in the spring term were asked what they had been doing to prepare for teaching the new national curriculum, due to be implemented from this September.
Outstanding schools described how they were already teaching from the new curriculum, adopting a variety of approaches and constantly evolving their school curriculum to incorporate local, national and international perspectives.
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