G2G consultants have extensive experience of inspecting schools in the UK, for Ofsted, and overseas. Both directors and many consultants have led numerous primary and secondary school Ofsted inspections. In addition, they have been involved in leading peer reviews for Challenge Partners (CP) and for a number of academy trusts. Peer reviews involve school leaders who are current practitioners joining the review whilst being coached and mentored by the lead reviewer. The experience provides school leaders with excellent professional development, as one said after a review:
Helena was clear throughout about the professional development opportunities as well as how to conduct a successful review, so everything was clear. Friendly, approachable and very skilled. I learned a lot from the lead reviewer’.
G2G offers bespoke peer reviews for schools and academies. Our aim is to provide a review that is challenging and rigorous whist being supportive and developmental. We encourage school leaders to join us when observing lessons and reviewing pupils’ work in order to benefit and learn as much from the process as possible.
Our reviews can act as useful preparation for Ofsted by giving leaders an understanding of what inspectors look for and how to present information to them. We are well aware of the increased focus on the curriculum and can help schools understand and prepare for this.
G2G can provide a whole school review that includes all of the Ofsted areas
- The quality of education (curriculum intent, implementation and impact)
- Leadership and management, including safeguarding
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Quality of early years education and/or sixth form provision
We also offer reviews that focus on a specific phase (such as, early years, key stage 3 or the sixth form) or subject. Subject department reviews are increasingly sought after, given the Ofsted focus on the curriculum, and can provide very useful feedback to the department on what is working well and what needs to improve. We have also undertaken reviews of departments that are not routinely looked at by Ofsted (for example, DT, PE and art).
G2G has worked closely with a number of schools to provide school leaders with an objective view of the schools’ strengths and areas for improvement. We have helped school leaders to focus on the most important areas to bring about the required changes. The subsequent Ofsted inspections resulted in schools improving their grading; for example, two grammar schools in the home counties improved from ‘good’ to ‘outstanding, quite literally living the G2G motto, ‘good to great’.
We have worked with a large multi academy trust (MAT) for several years, leading reviews in order to baseline schools new to the trust or to help MAT leaders gauge the effectiveness of their support.
G2G also has experience of carrying our a trust review and Helena has led peer trust reviews for Challenge Partners.
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to request a whole school, phase, subject or trust review or for help with preparing for an inspection.