Moonwalking Bears
Posted by unpopular on March 31, 2008
We had OfSTED last week, which was a blast. No, really, it was. I mean, apart from all the extra preparation making sure that all the evidence for all the statements in the SEF were in place, what else was there to do? We were convinced we had a good school, and the challenge was simply to make sure that we told our success stories as clearly and eloquently as possible.
I was thinking about it over the Easter weekend, and as I did so I came across this video from a marketing drive by London Transport about cyclist awareness for drivers. It seemed so perfectly apt. I realised in that moment that our job as a school was to make sure that OfSTED saw our moonwalking bears.
It goes further than that of course. It’s about how we market our school within our community; how we market our community within the county, and so on. All of us have our moonwalking bear stories. And we all need to make sure people see them.
As for OfSTED, the report will be out in a couple of weeks and I am sure it will be positive. I know, however, that as we listened to the feedback on the day we all recognised the school that the inspectors were talking about. We felt sure that they had seen our moonwalking bears.
