juslh
15-07-2011, 01:30 PM
But honestly, I am so hacked off with them. Will try to be brief!
I started my SEF online a couple of months ago since I knew my inspection was brewing soon. 5 weeks ago, I tried to log on one day and couldnt get in. I hadnt got round to actually submitting it since I was still writing it. I rang the ofsted helpline and they said someone would call me back, having confirmed it was a technical fault rather than me being dim!
Sods law that afternoon I got a call from Ofsted and a date was made for my inpection the next week. I called the helpline and said it had become urgent since obviously I wanted to submit my SEF asap. To cut a long story short no one contacted me and it wasn't sorted. The inspection came and went, I had to re-write the whole ****** SEF to provide the inspector with a paper copy on the day. She scanned my summary, but then said she wouldn't read the rest there and then because it was so long :mad: Somehow I can't imagine she read it at home later either.
I am still unable to put my SEF on line and have phoned Ofsted so many times its daft. They just say that they don't look after the website, and don't seem to be able to contact whoever does. I finally got hold of the folks who run the website, but they in turn had no idea who looked after the ofsted bit of it!! :crying:
Now for the bit where no doubt you will think Im daft - I got a good so its not as if I need to complain because of a bad grade! Its just that I worked really hard to prove my professionalism and all I have had back is incompetence and sloppiness and it really really annoys me!! I feel we should be treated with the same high standards that Ofsted expect of us. Surely.
Rant over. Im going to regret complaining tho arent I? :D
I started my SEF online a couple of months ago since I knew my inspection was brewing soon. 5 weeks ago, I tried to log on one day and couldnt get in. I hadnt got round to actually submitting it since I was still writing it. I rang the ofsted helpline and they said someone would call me back, having confirmed it was a technical fault rather than me being dim!
Sods law that afternoon I got a call from Ofsted and a date was made for my inpection the next week. I called the helpline and said it had become urgent since obviously I wanted to submit my SEF asap. To cut a long story short no one contacted me and it wasn't sorted. The inspection came and went, I had to re-write the whole ****** SEF to provide the inspector with a paper copy on the day. She scanned my summary, but then said she wouldn't read the rest there and then because it was so long :mad: Somehow I can't imagine she read it at home later either.
I am still unable to put my SEF on line and have phoned Ofsted so many times its daft. They just say that they don't look after the website, and don't seem to be able to contact whoever does. I finally got hold of the folks who run the website, but they in turn had no idea who looked after the ofsted bit of it!! :crying:
Now for the bit where no doubt you will think Im daft - I got a good so its not as if I need to complain because of a bad grade! Its just that I worked really hard to prove my professionalism and all I have had back is incompetence and sloppiness and it really really annoys me!! I feel we should be treated with the same high standards that Ofsted expect of us. Surely.
Rant over. Im going to regret complaining tho arent I? :D