Ofsted

North Mead last had an Ofsted visit in July 2018, in which we were graded as ‘Good’.

Our Ofsted reports can be found using the below buttons

Information regarding Ofsted may be found here.

Challenge Partners

Challenge Partners is a practitioner-led national network of schools that improves school performance through peer-to-peer challenge and knowledge sharing. Each school in Challenge Partners receives an annual Quality Assurance (QA) Review. The QA Review is a peer review involving senior leaders from other schools in the partnership. The review has a whole-school remit and focuses on teaching and learning, which enables practitioners to have deep conversations about the quality of learning in the school being reviewed.

Outcomes from the review are not set by the review team and fed back to the school. Instead, all outcomes are agreed between the school and the review team as part of an on-going professional dialogue that seeks to unpick and articulate effective teaching practice and school improvement strategies demonstrated by the school. Review reports are best viewed as a summary of conversations between peers during three days spent in the school.

By nature of being a collaborative peer review, the QA Review is different from other external inspections such as Ofsted and Local Authority reports. Additionally, due to the review’s focus on teaching and learning, the review does not consider areas such as safeguarding or governance and so its outcomes cannot be directly comparable to an Ofsted inspection.

Challenge Parnters Review Summary for North Mead Primary Academy – February 2022
Challenge Parnters Review Summary for Northfield House Primary Academy – March 2019
Challenge Parnters Review Summary for Northfield House Primary Academy – February 2018
Challenge Parnters Review Summary for Northfield House Primary Academy – March 2017