As a school leader, how best to prepare your school and yourself for a ‘good’, relatively ‘stress-free’ inspection is always on your mind. While it’s impossible to predict the exact questions an inspector will ask, our experience working with various schools indicates that the following questions are typical.

How to use this resource:

• Review the list of questions with your senior team in your SLT or SMLT meetings. Choose five to ten questions at a time so this is not overwhelming. Or you could share these questions with members of your senior team and use this as a framework to structure your line management meetings.

• List the type of evidence you have in place.

• Use this as a go-to document for checking what you have and what you need to work on further.

Written by Costas Constantinou