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HMCI Sir Michael Wilshaw devoted his monthly commentary for June 2016 to the education of our most able learners.
He has consistently championed the education of the most able in non-selective secondary schools, having instigated two Ofsted survey reports on this topic, published in June 2013 and March 2015 respectively.
This new commentary is a reaction to the negligible progress achieved since the 2015 report. That contained similar statements about the very limited headway made since 2013.
This post examines the new commentary, setting it in the context of the two previous surveys, the 2016 schools white paper and wider education policy. It:
- Asks why it is proving so hard for Ofsted to secure system-wide effective practice, despite new emphasis in the common inspection framework and inspection handbooks.
- Poses some fundamental questions about definitions, terminology and our expectations of the most able learners in both primary and secondary schools…
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