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Ofsted Website Requirements: A simple checklist for your school’s website
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Does your school’s website meet the new DfE standards? In September 2016 the Department for Education updated its list of information that maintained schools must publish online. We’ve put together this quick, easy list to help you check if everything is up to date. If you are an academy or free school, please check your own funding agreement although it would be recommended that many of the items detailed within this document also be published on your websites.
1. School contact details
2. Admission arrangements
3. Ofsted reports
4. Exam and assessment results
5. Performance tables
6. Curriculum
7. Policies and Procedures
8. Pupil Premium
9. PE and sport premium for primary schools
10. Charging and remissions policies
11. Values and ethos
12. Governors’ information and duties
13. Academy Specific Requirements
14. Requests for copies
15. Desirable Information
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1. School contact details Your school’s website must include the following contact information:
Your school’s name
Your school’s postal address
Your school’s telephone number
The name of the member of staff who deals with queries from parents and
other members of the public
2. Admission arrangements Foundation schools and voluntary-controlled schools: If the school’s governing body decides your admissions, you must publish your school’s admission arrangements each year and keep them up for the whole school year. You must explain:
How you’ll consider applications for every age group
What parents should do if they want to apply for their child to attend your
school
Your arrangements for selecting the pupils who apply
Your ‘over-subscription criteria’ (how you offer places if there are more
applicants than places)
How parents can find out about your school’s admission arrangements
through your local authority
Community schools and voluntary-controlled schools: If the local authority decides your admissions, write that parents should contact the local authority to find out about your admission arrangements.
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3. Ofsted reports You must do one of the following:
Publish a copy of your school’s most recent Ofsted report
OR
Publish a link to the webpage where users can find your school’s most recent
Ofsted report
4. Exam and assessment results Key stage 2 (KS2) results You must publish the percentage of key stage 2 pupils who achieved:
The expected standard or above in reading, writing and maths
Average progress in reading, writing and maths
An average ‘scaled score’ in reading and maths
A high level of attainment in reading, writing and maths
Key stage 4 (KS4) results You must publish the following details from your school’s most recent key stage 4 results:
Progress 8 score
Attainment 8 score
Percentage of pupils who got a good pass in English and maths
Percentage of pupils achieving the English Baccalaureate combination of
subjects (this means pupils who got a GCSE grade C or above in English,
maths, 2 sciences, a language, and history or geography)
Student ‘destinations’ (the percentage of students who continue in
education or training, or move on to employment at the end of 16 to 19
study)
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Key Stage 5 (16 to 19 KS5) results Academies, free schools and colleges From March 2017, you must publish:
The progress students have made in English and maths
The progress students have made compared with students across England
The average grade that students in your college get at 16 to 19 study (key
stage 5)
Student ‘retention’ (the percentage of students who get to the end of their study
programme)
Student ‘destinations’ (the percentage of students who continue in education or
training, or move on to employment at the end of 16 to 19 study)
5. Performance tables
You must include a link to the school and college performance tables service
6. Curriculum You must publish the following information about your school’s curriculum:
Content of curriculum for each academic year for each subject
Details of how to obtain extra detail on curriculum your school is following
The names of any phonics or reading schemes you are using in KS1
A list of courses available to pupils at KS4, including GCSEs
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7. Policies and Procedures You should publish details of your school’s policies & procedures:
You should publish details of your school’s behaviour policy and this must
comply with section 89 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006
You must publish details of your school’s complaints procedure, which must
comply with Section 29 of the Education Act 2002
8. Pupil Premium You must publish a strategy for the school’s use of the pupil premium. You no longer have to publish a ‘pupil premium statement’
Pupil premium funding is allocated for each financial year, but the information you publish online should refer to the academic year, as this is how parents understand the school system. As you won’t know allocations for the end of the academic year (April to July), you should report on the funding up to the end of the financial year and update it when you have all the figures.
For the current academic year, you must include:
Your school’s pupil premium grant allocation amount
A summary of the main barriers to educational achievement faced by eligible
pupils at the school
How you’ll spend the pupil premium to address those barriers and the
reasons for that approach
How you’ll measure the impact of the pupil premium
The date of the next review of the school’s pupil premium strategy
For the previous academic year, you must include:
How you spent the pupil premium allocation
The impact of the expenditure on eligible and other pupils
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9. PE and sport premium for primary schools If you school receives this funding you must publish:
How much funding you received
A full breakdown of how you’ve spent or will spend the funding this ear
The effect of the premium on pupils’ PE and sport participation and
attainment
How you will make sure these improvements are sustainable
10. Charging and remissions policies You must publish your school’s charging and remissions policies. The policies must include details of:
The activities or cases for which your school will charge pupils’ parents
The circumstances where your school will make an exception on a payment
you would normally expect to receive under your charging policy
11. Values and ethos
Your website should include a statement of your school’s ethos and values
12. Governors’ information and duties The structure and remit of the governing body and any committees, and the full names of the chair of each: For each governor who has served at any point over the past 12 months:
Their full names
Date of appointment
Term of office
Date they stepped down (where applicable)
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Who appointed them
Additionally, the following information is required in the interests of disclosure:
Business interests
Pecuniary/financial interests
Governance roles in other schools
Relationship with any members of the school staff including spouses,
partners and relative
Record of attendance at governing body and relevant committee meetings over the last academic year. The same information should be published for any associate members plus details of any committees they have voting rights on.
13. Academy Specific Requirements Taken from the DfE template funding agreement:
Annual reports and accounts
Current memorandum of understanding
Articles of Association
Funding Agreement
Names of its Charity Trustees and members
14. Requests for copies
If a parent requests a paper copy of the information on your school’s
website, you must provide this free of charge
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15. Desirable Information These aren’t required by Ofsted, but they help make your site easier to use and can tip the balance in your site being rated as Outstanding:
A domain name that makes sense to visitors (eg stjohnsschool.sch.uk)
Headteachers name with first name or initial
Name of person most likely to answer the phone
Names of staff with responsibilities
Google maps link. Directions, especially if parking or access is
problematic/complicated
Information about disabled access
Events calendar (eg sporting fixtures, concerts, PD days)
Term dates for the next few years
Times of school day, lessons & assemblies
After school clubs and extra-curricular activities
A link to your VLE, with instructions on how to get a parent’s password
Newsletter and copies of letters to parents
Link to Parent View
The published information that demonstrates the school’s compliance with the
Public Sector Equality Duty, and the equality objectives that have been set
Your Twitter feed, and links to any other social media sites the school uses
Uniform list with contact details for suppliers
Downloadable permission slips for school trips
A homework timetable, with handing in dates
A pen portrait of each governor and photographs
Contact details for the GB – via the school?
Information about the role of the GB, how to become a governor, forthcoming
meeting dates and non-confidential minutes
Information about the PTA or Parents Forum
Gallery of children’s work
Link to useful websites (Local Authority, DfE, Edubase, Ofsted, School
comparison tool, TES Resources, feeder schools)
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The weeks’ lunch menu
Snow and bad weather policy
Other school policies: anti-bullying
Secure governors area
A feedback page, explaining how questions & suggestions have been acted on
A translate button or key pages in languages that your parents use
An FAQ page and/or Ask Us page
News feeds
Icons for awards the school has gained
Jargon buster and list of acronyms and abbreviations
Some web design principles to consider
Consistent design (text, font, colours, imagery, branding)
Compliant with accessibility guidelines (POUR – Perceivable, Operable,
Understandable, Robust)
All links work
Pages download in a reasonable time
Easy navigation
Correct grammar, spelling and appropriate language
Avoid having ‘under construction’ pages or old/incorrect information
Don’t use blue underlined text, except for hyperlinks
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