Preparing for Ofsted in Primary Computing

Find out what to expect from an Ofsted visit to your school and how you can prepare for it as a computing subject lead.

This short session will explore the expectations outlined in the Ofsted framework and what this means for computing teaching and learning in your school. Drawing on the evidence of recent inspections it will also help you to identify key concerns around a subject inspection and how you can best prepare for it.

You will be supported in identifying where you are now in computing and exploring key strategies to ensure that the intent, implementation and impact of your computing curriculum is evident throughout school.

What topics are covered?

Content will include

• outline of key Ofsted expectations
• identifying main concerns for schools
• supporting you to find out where your school is now in relation to Ofsted expectations for computing provision
• identifying questions that may be asked during a subject inspection
• signposting support for your school’s computing needs
• evidencing impact

Outcomes

Participants will:

• understand the process of an Ofsted deep dive
• be able to identify strengths and areas for development in the delivery of their computing curriculum
• know what is needed to prepare for an Ofsted deep dive into computing

We will share names, organisation and email addresses with the computing hub, and the colleague TSHs (for the relevant county)

Matt Wimpenny Smith has been teaching Computing since 2004 and is currently a Senior Lecturer in Initial Teacher Education and Computing at Oxford Brookes University. Formerly, he was Assistant Head, Digital Strategy and Computing Subject Leader at Headington School in Oxford. Alongside his current role, he is the primary schools lead for Bucks, Berks, and Oxon (BBO) Computing Hub. He is a CAS Master Teacher, Oxford Primary CAS Community Leader, BCS Certified Computer Science Teacher, Raspberry Pi Certified Educator, and STEM Senior PDL. Matt has also developed content for the Teach Computing Curriculum and is a member of the NCCE Leadership Practitioners panel. Matt has written a number of articles for the HelloWorld publication, a computing education magazine. Matt has worked extensively with Dr Jane Waite from Cambridge University to support her research into primary programming pedagogy. He is a Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He is also the Vice-chair of Governors For Oak Green Primary School in his hometown.

X: @mwimpennys

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-w-smith37556135/

Accessing the online event

Following registration for this event you will receive an email from Eventbrite confirming your place. If you do not receive the email within a few minutes, please check your junk or spam folders and check that the correct email address was provided at the time of booking. If you did not create an account at the time of booking or someone else booked on your behalf, you will need to create an Eventbrite account. Open your booking confirmation email, select ‘Claim Your Order’ and then choose a password. Make a note of your email address that was used to make the booking and your new password – you will need these to access the Eventbrite page containing the link to the event.

A minimum of 48 hours before the event begins you will receive another email from Eventbrite containing a direct link to the event and to the Eventbrite Online Event page. Login to Eventbrite, using the same email and password you used to create your account. You will now have access to the online event link and any pre-event materials. This link must not be shared with other people.

Please test the link the day before the event to make sure you can connect. If you need help please email info@otsa.org.uk or call 01865 647999 in good time before the event begins. We will be unable to help during the event itself. Please note, if you unsubscribe from Eventbrite before the event takes place you will not receive any further emails from Eventbrite and therefore will not receive the email with the link to the event.

We do not provide refunds if you are unable to access the event due to technical issues that are beyond our control.

Participation in online events

In all cases, at the beginning of the session to confirm your identity please ensure that your camera is on, your username matches the name you registered with and that you register in ‘chat’ with your first name, second name and organisation. This is for security and registration purposes and we may remove, without refunds, participants who have not confirmed their identity as described above.

Our online events aim to be interactive and at times you may be expected to have your camera and microphone on during the session, although usually your microphone should be muted.

We may use ‘Raised Hands’, ‘Reactions’, ‘Chat’, ‘Polls’, shared whiteboards and shared screens during the session. We may also use ‘Breakout Rooms’ to allow you to work in a smaller group.

This event will not be recorded for copyright and privacy reasons.

Payment

Payment is required at the time of booking by credit card, debit card or Paypal. Unless otherwise stated, a ticket gives admission to one person at face-to-face and online events. In the event that you share an online event link with other people who then attend the event, including sharing your screen, or you arrive at a venue without a ticket and we are able to admit you, we will invoice you or your organisation for additional tickets retrospectively.

Refunds

No refunds will be given with less than 30 days notice.

In the event of a refund request, please note that the Eventbrite booking fee of 6.95% plus 0.59p per ticket is not refundable.

To keep our event fees as low as possible, we are not able to issue invoices for payment by cheque or bank transfer and we are not able to reserve places without payment.

We strongly recommend that you take out ‘event ticket insurance’ which may cover the cost of your fee should you be unable to attend the event.

Technical Difficulties Should an online session encounter any technical difficulties we will do our best to continue with the session, this may be on a different online platform. In the event that we are unable to do this we will rearrange the session, if you are unable to attend the new date a full refund will be given.