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Ofsted-Ready Tools and Data Platform
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For the children in your school.
And the adults.
4i Studio provides a holistic, community-wide approach to Ofsted compliance, personal development, and well-being.
While pupils and students are the ultimate focus, these issues affect and involve teachers, school leaders, non-teaching staff, and families.
Ofsted-Ready Training
Let's start by ensuring YOU are Ofsted-ready!
It's not all about jumping through hoops...
Course description
This course is designed to help you get up to speed as quickly as possible with the new Ofsted framework that was announced in September 2025.
Starting from November, the new framework will be in effect for all new inspections. You should ensure you are up-to-speed as quickly as possible with the new five-point grading scale, the new Ofsted report cards, the new inspection categories, and the evidence that the inspectors will be looking for in each category.
The course is modular and organised into easily-consumed, bite-sized lessons. You can study the lessons whenever you have a few minutes in your busy day and you can track your progress at a glance—and easily revisit lessons whenever you need to. You can make notes and journal entries as you study, and there is no time limit for completion and no limit to the number of times you can consume a lesson!
Modules
Introduction
This module provides an overview of how to get the most out of the training course and sets the scene for the new Ofsted framework and toolkit.
Ofsted Inspection Categories
Depending on the type of your institution and the provisions you make, you will be subject to inspection in brand new categories. This module provides an overview of these new Ofsted categories.
The Five-Point Grading Scale
With the exception of the 'Safeguarding' category, Ofsted have announced that all other categories are subject to a five-point grading scale. This module provides an overview of the scale for the applicable categories, and discusses the special grading that will be applied to the 'Safeguarding' category.
Report Cards
As you prepare for an inspection, it will be useful to project forward and understand what the new Ofsted report card will look like. This module describes each of the sections in the new report card.
Leadership and Governance
The quality and efficacy of its leaders and governors (or trustees) is a key area for all institutions. Inspectors will be looking at whether leaders and those responsible for governance collectively ensure that the school's provision enables every pupil to thrive. This module provides a deep dive into the evidence and the criteria for this important category.
Personal Development and Well-Being
The 'Personal Development and Well-Being' evaluation area is focused pupils. This module takes a deep dive into what inspectors are looking for, how they gather evidence, and the criteria they use in assigning your institution a grade on the five-point scale.
Attendance and Behaviour
One of the easiest to measure (but hardest to manage) categories is 'Attendance and Behaviour'. This module focuses on how inspectors will be gathering evidence relating to the factors that contribute most strongly to positive attendance, behaviours, and attitudes.
Curriculum and Teaching
This module provides details about how inspectors will challenge whether leaders design high-quality, ambitious curricula for ALL pupils (the intent). They will also look at how leaders and staff deliver the curriculum effectively across all subjects, year groups and key stages (the implementation). Then they will look at how leaders make sure that pupils build strong foundations for accessing the curriculum and for later success, including academic achievement, good health, and well-being (the impact).
Achievement
This module provides details about how a school is judged in its efforts to provide a high-quality education for ALL pupils that gives them the necessary knowledge, skills and qualifications to succeed in life. It also discusses the criteria for how schools equip pupils for the next stage of their education, training, or employment, and discusses attainment and progress over time in national tests and examinations (where relevant).
Inclusion
This module dives into how inspectors evaluate leaders and staff in respect of how they identify and support socioeconomically disadvantaged pupils, pupils with SEND, and those with an education-health-and-care plan (EHC). It provides details about criteria for pupils who are known (or previously known) to children’s social care, and pupils who may face other barriers to their learning and/or well-being (including those who share a protected characteristic).
Safeguarding
This evaluation area considers whether a school establishes an open and positive safeguarding culture that puts pupils’ interests first, and whether leaders take an effective, whole-school approach to safeguarding. Inspectors focus on gathering evidence relating to the factors that statutory and non-statutory guidance, research, and inspection evidence indicate contribute most strongly to safeguarding. This module provides a deep dive into the criteria upon which inspectors will make their met/unmet judgement in this important area.
Early Years — Optional
This optional module delves into the criteria and rationale for institutions with early years provision. Whilst all the other categories apply to early years providers, inspectors also grade these institutions separately to consider the early years provision as a whole. This module provides details of the evidence sought by inspectors and the criteria for this expanded category.
Post-16 Provision — Optional
The 'Post-16 provision' evaluation area contains information that is specific to 16 to 19 year-old study programmes, so this optional module delves into the criteria and rationale for institutions with post-16 provision. Whilst all the other categories apply to post-16 providers, inspectors also grade these institutions to consider the post-16 provision as a whole.
Coming Soon!
Our training course for school staff will be available on 20th October!
And when the new inspections start in November, our 4i Studio platform will then be available for entire schools. If you want to be an early adopter and get ahead of the Ofsted changes, drop us a line!