Playmate
28-03-2010, 08:11 PM
Just wanted to put this thread down following our inspection last Thursday to let people know that an inspection can be a possitive experience and that not all inspectors are ogars!

Our inspectors arrived at 10.20 am, 2 ladies who both introduced themselves and immediately put us at our ease by having a little joke with us and reassurred us that they were only human :D We asked them to sign the visitors section in our diary and then showed them into the dinning room where we had layed out all our paper work (business folder, portfolio, polocies, Information booklet, Learning Journeys etc) we explained that contracts and medication book were in our locked cabinet. We then left them to it with the paper work, whilst we wnt to play with playdough. They spent about 45mins with the paper work and we could here them saying things like "wow look at this". I think hearing some of these comments certainly put us at ease a little. After about 30 mins Mick offered them a drink and they started asking a few questions about how much we share the paper work and our key orker system. At this point one of our mindees who is nearly 2 put his head round the door to see where Mick had gone and the inspector started playing peepo. In the end she said "its no good" put her laptopdown, got down on the floor and crawled upto mindee :laughing:

After this both inspectors came into the living room and we all played a great game with a soft ball, whilst both inspectors asked us various questions. We somehow got onto the subject of variations and I told them how we had been refused a variation for 2 hours on 2 days to take a social services referal. They thought this was outrageous and granted us the variation and typed it all into the computer there and then :clapping:

We went out to play in the garden and both inspectors took it in turns to go out. They both got so excited about various things the children were saying that they wanted to put in their reports. Just as we were about to serve lunch they said they were done. I asked if I could just put the lunch on the table before they started the evaluation my insector said "it will only take a minute, look" and she turned her lap top around and I saw "outstanding" in every box, I could have cried :blush: Mick's Inspector then did the same thing :D By 12.20 they had left. They thanked us so much for an enjoyable experience and we thanked them too.

A couple of things they said they really liked were:
Our SEF - thank you Sarah (although they did say they didn't like the Ofsted SEF and said we could write our own :eek: )
The EYFS passports in our learning jouneys - Thank you Angel
Our Emergency contact booklet with photos kept in our cars ( I will put onther thread about these)
Our observations, which are mainly post it note snapshots and photograhs and not long lengthy written obs.

Sorry this has gone a bit, but just wanted to share our experience :blush:

beccas
28-03-2010, 08:16 PM
well done i to have had a postive experience this time but last 2 times have been bad so it depends on your inspectors...:clapping:

babs
28-03-2010, 08:17 PM
congratulations on your outstanding grade :clapping: :clapping: :clapping: :clapping: sounds like u had great fun my inspector was very much like yours she played with the lo's alot too and joined in everything we did ..... :clapping:

TheBTeam
28-03-2010, 08:18 PM
You are right it is nice to hear someone have a positive slant to the inspection.

I am due in July and dh about 15 months later, so not sure what they will do with us!

Just missed a mobile call from a parent, :angry: no mobile message, no text so what on earth could she want, she left on friday saying her shifts were changing this week as on study leave (told me the other week her shift was 5 weeks which took her up to this coming weekend, so who knows when she will let me know when i have her daughter!

Cazz
28-03-2010, 08:21 PM
Congratulations on your outstanding grades :clapping:

It's nice to read about your inspection - I had a lovely positive one too on Tuesday. She was only here 1 hour 15 minutes as I had done a very detailed Sef as well.

I only had an 11 month old baby and my own 2 year old dd and she interacted and helped my daughter with a toy while I was giving the baby a bottle which I thought was really nice.

I don't think I'll be nearly as worried in 3 years time when I'm due an inspection and just hope I get such a nice inspector.

Mouse
28-03-2010, 08:33 PM
Sounds as if it all went wonderfully well...congratulations!

I have to say, my inspector was very similar. She was here for 4 hours & said she could happily have stopped all day as she was enjoying herself so much (don't think I'd have coped with that though!) She thanked me for a lovely morning & said it had been a great end to her week (was a Friday).

Just goes to how they are human...well, some of them :laughing: :thumbsup:

Ripeberry
28-03-2010, 08:45 PM
Well done, glad it all went really well :clapping: My inspector followed us around and played at bit with my mindee whilst in the garden and when we went in for snack and to watch a bit of Cbeebies I think she was glad to have a sit down :laughing:
I think you can tell within the first 30 seconds if someone is going to 'click' with you.
Crack open the bubbly :)

bandlady
28-03-2010, 08:53 PM
Congratualtions on your grading you must both be really pleased. So nice to hear about a positive inspection it puts those of us that are due inspections a little more at ease knowing there are good inspectors out there.

Once again well done:clapping: :clapping: :clapping:

Denise

angeldelight
28-03-2010, 09:48 PM
Thats great Sally

Sounds like they were really impressed hence your outstanding - well done and congratulations again:clapping: :clapping:

Thanks for the great feedback

Angel xx

manjay
28-03-2010, 09:54 PM
Sounds like it was relatively stress free:rolleyes: . Really pleased for you:thumbsup:

Heaven Scent
28-03-2010, 10:30 PM
Brill - many many congratulations on your grade - i'm sure you deserved it.:clapping: :clapping:

sarah707
29-03-2010, 06:45 AM
That sounds like a lovely positive experience for you both!

Thank you for sharing the feedback.

Well done again :D

miffy
29-03-2010, 06:47 AM
It's good to hear about a positive inspection.

Congratulations again to you both and thanks for the feedback

Miffy xx

Monkey1
29-03-2010, 06:46 PM
Congratulations to you both!:clapping:

Fabby
29-03-2010, 07:33 PM
sounds like you both deserved your grading!! well done x

Mookins
29-03-2010, 07:36 PM
that is fab news well done indeed :clapping: :clapping: :clapping:

flora
29-03-2010, 08:17 PM
Well done Sally and Mick :clapping: :clapping: :clapping:

zillervalley
29-03-2010, 08:54 PM
well done to you both

:clapping: :jump for joy: :clapping:

Andrea08
29-03-2010, 08:59 PM
fab news well done its a gr8 feeling ,,,,,:clapping:

littletreasures
29-03-2010, 09:15 PM
Well done :clapping: :clapping:

CAZMCA
30-03-2010, 09:06 AM
congratulations, do you want to come and do mine for me when they eventually ring? :laughing:

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