We've had the call!!!

cuckoo · We've had the call!!!

OMG!! That is all!

Will be back later for advice. Right now I need to panic and then get on!

Louiw

Oh no! Let us know if we can help!

mrsbean

Don't panic - you'll be great.

bluerose

sure you will be fine, dont forget this place is greatfor suppport

cofnchoc

Hugs.x
All will be well.xx

duckiec

Ouchy!!!!!!! Hugs and positive vibes. xx

choccat

I'm sure you will be fine! Good Luck! Smile

princess_kat

Us too...but we are getting used to it now we are in SM!

gorgeous51

Oh blimey! Good luck both. x

Irishcailin

Let me know how I can help x

pink_monkey

Xxx
Positive vibes & offers of help from me too xxx

Night Garden

Good luck and you know we are all here to help.

kesunder

Good luck, it will soon be over xxx

sweepings

I have pmed you. Good luck xx

wicked witch

Good Luck to both of you. Hope that it goes well for you and your schools.

crispy

Good luck - go for it and don't forget to ask if there's anything we can help with.

magpie nic

Lots of luck to you both x

queenlit

Good luck.

seemeafter

Good luck and shout if we can help.

Ilovemarmite

Hugs. Will help if I can x

wotsitagain

All the best to both of you.

sugarandspices

Good luck. At least it will be over and done with and you can enjoy the rest of the term.

brummie

Love and luck cuckoo. Stick on a smile. Soon be over xx

tog

Hope it all goes well for you both xx

cuckoo

In a total flap. Have literacy sorted for both days but really not sure about my maths what I am doing at all!!! Oh bugger. Need to get to bed but know I'm not going to sleep as haven't got a clear idea of what I'm doing. Sad

shinygoldenlady

You ok Cuckoo- let us know if there's anything we can do.xxx

smallholder

Good luck to both!

queenie80

Good luck - hope you are now sorted. Just do what you do and you will be great xxx

nm97yd

Good luck x

Chilli Queen

Good luck Cuckoo. xxx

cuckoo

I hate this flipping process. Don't think I can get through another day. Am just exhausted. Sad

tog

((((((cuckoo))))))

happyhighlandcoo

You can get through it, and then it is an easy ride until summer, no hard work no checking up, all the work is done, you can have fun. Good luck xxx

wicked witch

You can do it. I will be thinking of you tomorrow and then it will all be over.

Night Garden

Hope it goes ok tomorrow.

wotsitagain

Hugs and best wishes xx

wotsitagain

(I just backspaced in order to delete what I though was an erroneous apostrophe, only to find out it was a bit of dirt on the screen. Thought I would share that to make you smile and let everyone know that I am scared to death over misusing apostrophes after gaining a reputation for being a stickler Embarassed

!)

Rainbow_Bright

Thinking of you cuckoo! x

magpie nic

Breathe a big sigh of relief...it's over!

greyengine

Hope it went well. Whatever happened, you deserve a relaxing weekend!

kesunder

all over now, you can relax! xx

smallholder

Hope it went ok. xx

wotsitagain

Wine out, feet up...

sweepings

Hope all went ok. Enjoy the weekend.

Knightrider

Congratulations on getting to the end from me too. DVD day tomorrow? And a work-free weekend.

Irishcailin

Congratulations you can now breathe and relax

pink_monkey

nm97yd

All over

cuckoo

Obviously can't say much but let's just say we are enraged and devastated. This whole regime is a farce. Crying or Very sad

gorgeous51

Oh dear Cuckoo - so sorry. The whole process is a total shambles - just setting us all up to feel like sh*te. (((((((xx)))))))

cuckoo

However I'm really proud to say I got outstanding and was told by lead inspector my phonics lesson was the best she'd ever seen. Not really any comfort when our whole school family has been done such a disservice.

What are this government trying to do to us?

queenlit

Well done cuckoo. ( Can you put your phonics lsson in resources as a model?)

wotsitagain

WEll done to you personally, cuckoo, and how lovely of you to be thinking about your school family at this time. Big hugs. (Oh and sometime can you share what you did in phonics - it is all a bit of a closed book to me!)

gorgeous51

Wow - well done Cuckoo. Agree with Queenlit - would love to see the lesson. Such a shame about your school though. Will be difficult to pick yourselves up for the rest of the term. xxxxxxx

cuckoo

To be honest it was just so unexpected because we are considered a beacon school in our LA. The authority are up in arms and well I can't say more but it seriously stinks and is quite simply wrong. I know I'm obviously biased but really it is just ludicrous and is just more about some kind of political agenda than anything real.

Will try to put in in sometime this weekend if I can sort myself out. Was halfway to school this morning and realised I hadn't brushed my hair, stopped at green lights and goodness knows what else!

Thank you all for your encouragement. Xxx

choccie monster

you could be me 3 months ago. When it is so unexpected it hits hard and its difficult to keep any faith in the educational system when you feel you have been treated with such injustice. Keep your head held high, you obviously have lots to be proud of and you must hold on to that.

shinygoldenlady

((((((((((((()))))))))) System is a farce- I believe the gradings mean nothing- really I do. Just grrrrrr for you and just know what you know about yourself and your school. xxx

redredrobin

Well done to you but really sorry to hear how rotten it has been generally. xxx

cofnchoc

smallholder

Your whole school experience sounds very familiar Cuckoo. I have every sympathy. Well done for your phonics lesson though. xxxxxxx

cherryblossom

so sorry to hear this !
but well done on your lesson xx now rest up this weekend xx

crispy

Take some time for yourself this weekend and try to relax. Well done for your fab lesson.

It's over and done with for now so please try to not let it eat you up too much (I know how hard that is) x

justbrowsing

Big hugs.
Have a good weekend.
Congrats on your lesson obs.

whoa there pickle

Hugs cuckoo, we had them this week too. I think there are so many different agendas out there that it is really messing up the education system. What one person says is right another person says is wrong.

Night Garden

Well done on your observation. Been in this same situation at my school and it's blah!

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Irishcailin

Oh no! Congratulations on such an amazing lesson. Well done for being Outstanding. It's good that your LEA is supporting you. I hope your school community can recover from this xxx

cuckoo

Thanks for all your words of encouragement. Don't get me wrong the grading could be worse if that makes sense but we just didn't think we'd ever end up where we are.

The tone of the whole inspection was so different to the last where we really felt they came to see the good and many outstanding features whereas this time it was to find the faults. No care for where our children come from, just that the end results are not good enough because meeting national expectations isn't good enough anymore! WTH?! I mean mathematically how can we all be above average? I just fear for our whole authority if that is the case! Their minds were made up before they walked in the door and it was apparent that they weren't there to consider any of our evidence or to listen. That is what was so frustrating. I don't think the inspectors were quite prepared to come out from giving their feedback to SMT and the governors to face walking past 50 members of staff waiting in silence to go in for sentencing. One of them was heard to say "What a shame."

The conduct of the inspectors was also very questionable and without saying too much there are a few members of staff who have very valid reasons to log complaints. Crying or Very sad

Seriously though, I am left in a place where I truly think why on earth should I put myself through this for the next 30+ years. Crying or Very sad

However throughout all this, I am so privileged to have gone through this with my colleagues and our kids. We will battle on and who knows in the grand scheme maybe it will all work out for the best although the cynics in us are convinced it's because they want to turn us into an academy as we're so huge!

brummie

Oh Cuckoo, it makes me so sad for you to read that. What DO they expect from us? I'm speechless. When I was struggling so much I found that I woke up one morning and had to remember why I went into the job in the first place. They have been and gone and you know what is best for your children. You need to "wallow" for a bit and it's totally natural to feel devastated, but you WILL come out the other side, and you'll be even stronger believe me. Throw yourself into your day to day job of doing what you're brilliant at which is teach your children. Try to keep your chin up, Hun. Countdown to summer hols and all that xxxxx

Night Garden

You must of had the same inspectors as us, as you are describing what happened to us! One teacher actually did demand to be seen again as didn't feel their grade was fair. Got it and was graded higher. We have children who left KS1 on level one and who by year 6 were either a 3a or 4c and we were told this was not good enough. One reason why I hate levels!
All I can say is that in our situation the staff became even closer and supportive.

greyengine

I really feel for you as we had a similar experience a few weeks ago, except our inspection team were actually pretty good. Pretty much told us that we were actually a very good school and they really liked us and what we are doing for some very deprived and troubled children, but the attainment and progress meant that they couldn't do anything other than give us NTI. It's been a real blow to staff who have absolutely worked their socks of this year. I think the drill is that they come in with a working hypothesis based purely on results and then look for 'evidence' to back this up. What has upset me most about this whole process is seeing young enthusiastic and hard-working teachers starting to feel, as you have said, why should they bother. Parents apparently gave fantastic feedback on us on their response forms but now are left wondering if they are missing something. Like you, I personally came out of it well, but it's pretty small comfort in the face of colleagues who mostly seemed to have lessons judged at at least a grade below the one they normally get. Have now had several resignations and early retirements including most of the SLT, and a couple of others off with stress related illnesses.

shinygoldenlady

Night Garden

cuckoo

Surely we need to be taking a stand against this??? Who is going to want to teach in a deprived area if this is what happens? Crying or Very sad

Greyengine- exactly what you described happened in our school. Teachers who are consistently graded outstanding came out satisfactory. They don't have a satisfactory bone in their bodies. Reasons for those judgements ridiculously nit-picky! Evil or Very Mad

I am going to write a letter to Gove. I believe as MP he has to reply. Perhaps swearing needs to be avoided (see my fb comment) but I will do it. I know it means nothing but I feel I must.

tog

Our school is in a similar position (with a Visit pending.....) We have a very low baseline for our Reception intake, so our "progress" is more than national expectation but "attainment" still isn't high enough.... Our children predominantly come from low-income families with a high proportion of single parents /very young parents (our LA scores very highly on the teenage pregnancy league table!), generally with little education themselves and low expectations of their children.
Unfortunately all that we do counts for nothing - the accelerated progress, the well-behaved, articulate, and motivated children, the increasing attendance figures, the provision of a wide range of extra curricular activities which these children would not otherwise experience, and so on - none of this matters because our attainment isn't "good" enough, based on some arbitary standards set by someone a world apart from the lives of these children. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!! (sorry! just frustrated!)

cuckoo

I am sorry for you too tog.

It is so frustrating and as much as we were devastated this week I am also so enraged. It feels better to know that this is because we are victims of the system rather than that we are "satisfactory/inadequate/rubbish" or whatever other terminology some outsider decides to fit.

grrrrrr.........

Knightrider

How devastating for you all. My school had exactly the same experience (outstanding teachers being told they were satisfactory and worse) 3 years ago and submitted a formal complaint about the lead inspector. Last year the volume of complaints against her was so large that she was sacked. So even though it didn't make a lot of difference to us, together with everyone else's complaints, they finally listened and got rid of the person who was destroying so many teachers.

Fast forward to just before half term - the team we had this time had experience of SEN (we have an additionally resourced provision so lots of statements and so will always struggle to get great data), and they didn't need to be persuaded that the data for the 6 statement children (out of a year group of 23) in last year's year 6 should be treated differently to the non statemented children. At the end of the inspection the HT commented that she now realises just how bad the inspector last time was. So keep a little faith in the system - your experience can be completely different another time. It's just so wrong that it depends so much on which inspectors the lottery sends you.

Look after each other, and remember that you will get through it. ((((cuckoo))))

smallholder

(((((((cuckoo)))))))))

Feel for you. Was there a year ago. Now waiting for them coming back. Sigh....