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The government is ploughing on with its attempts to introduce baseline assessment – ignoring the fact that it’s impossible to develop a fair test for children of that age, writes one former primary teacher and inspector

Ofsted no longer grades individual lessons – now it’s time for it to stop doing likewise for a whole school, writes one former inspector

It’s good that Ofsted now recognises that it exacerbates teacher workload, but it has a bigger priority – reducing the fear around inspections, writes one former inspector and teacher

Early literacy and numeracy are important but not all-important, and not as important as emotional security which is the foundation of all school learning, writes one former inspector and primary school teacher

It is positive that Ofsted has carried out some research into the reliability of its judgements – but now it needs to go further, writes one former inspector and primary school teacher

Some friendly words of advice for the incoming head of Ofsted from former inspector and primary school teacher Colin Richards