Sentence examples for satisfactory schools from inspiring English sources

This explains the chief schools inspector's pronouncement that satisfactory schools are "not good enough .Excellence and enjoyment are mutually exclusive.

Appointed chief inspector at Ofsted in 2012 and immediately says he wants to rebrand satisfactory schools as unsatisfactory and questions whether heads are being too generous to failing teachers.

Prof Becky Francis describes her move from King's College London to be director of education at the RSA – where she worked on developing Ofsted policy on satisfactory schools – as an "eye opener".

To take just one measure, the percentage of pupils attending "satisfactory" schools, as measured by standardised test scores, has doubled since the storm, from 30% to 59%.In this section To help or not to help Squandered millions Chins up, hopes high Grinding to a halt For fun and profit The president and the peace process ReprintsWhy?

The next category of "good" schools will face inspections at least every five years, "satisfactory" schools will be inspected at least every three years and "inadequate" schools will be more closely monitored, with a re-inspection likely within a year.

"A satisfactory school …" The word "satisfactory" is uttered with a drawl of disapproval.

There were two million children in 6,000 schools that had been judged satisfactory year after year after year, inspection after inspection, so you could be in a satisfactory school forever and a day, primary or secondary".

The chief inspector vowed to hold his nerve on controversial changes to the inspection system that will lead to a "satisfactory" school being reclassified as one that "requires improvement" and more frequent visits by officials to the worst schools.

This too is a satisfactory school which suffers from inconsistent attainment among pupils.

Colegate Community primary school, at Colegate West, is a satisfactory school with well behaved pupils who make satisfactory progress.

However in 2012 it came out of special measures and Ofsted deemed it a "satisfactory" school with aspects of "good teaching" and "good management".