Dr Russell Grigg, head of South West Wales centre of teacher education did an interesting lecture about Estyn, their works, policies and his involvement with them. He talked about how he has worked with Estyn and the intentions it holds.
Estyn examines and reviews the criteria’s, quality and standards in primary and secondary schools as well as other educational environments such as special schools and the Local Authority Education Services for Children and Young people. Estyn strives to ‘inform policy development and to monitor progress’ and inspects the wellbeing, performance and development of young people attending education.
Estyn provide three main purposes of their work, these include:
· Accountability- to provide the uses of services and other stakeholders through public reporting on providers.
· To promote to education and training
· Inform – Make sure that the government in education and training are up to date with information and inspections and to give advice to the National Assembly Government.
There are two types of reports which Estyn are in charge of writing and reviewing. These include:
· Annual- The first annual report saw a great importance on how well schools and education providers are encouraging skills-based learning and self-evaluation within the learning environment. The Annual report is presented to the Education Minister Layton Andrews who will then provide it to the National Assembaly for Wales, for debate. Chief HMI (Her Magisties Inspectorate for wales) Ann Keen states that the annual report focuses more on the general successes in the Foundation Phase to all children aged three to seven years old. Keen suggests that it is clear that a large majority of children of this age enjoy engaging in the more diverse activities being offered in the Foundation Phase and that this has helped in developments to their wellbeing, behaviour and physical development. The annual reports also look at the wellbeing of the children in educational environments and Keen states that ‘it is a significant feature of the new inspection framework’. Overall standards of wellbeing are high in most schools and post-16 educational settings.
· Thematic- A thematic report looks at development of progress made by children in schools and give them the best possible chance to work to their best abilities and reach the stages they need to develop further.
Dr.Grigg then gave us two websites which might come into use to find more information on the work of Estyn. These include: estyn.gov.uk and ofsted.gov.uk.
As it came towards the end of Dr.Grigg’s lecture he provided us with some key points about what a typical inspection holds. We learnt what an inspection was like and he told us who was involved in these inspections and the significance of the results and data from the inspection.
Dr Russel Grigg gave an impressive lecture and I learnt a lot from the information he provided. I found it useful in establishing Estyns rules and imperatives which goes towards inspecting an educational/learning environment. 7
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