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School
Self-Review and Evaluation
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Self-evaluation
is now an integral part of school planning and improvement.
It is a continuous process, its importance recognised in the
Ofsted school inspection process. For many aspects of their
work schools have access to various schemes for self-evaluation.
The
Diocesan Framework for the Self-Review and Evaluation of Catholic Education, originally established
in 2002 and comprehensively revised in 2007, is designed to assist schools in the process of reviewing
the Catholic education which they provide, evaluating its
content and planning its future development. It enables schools
to systematically assessthe nature of their Catholic identity
and how effectively their pupils benefit from the curriculum
and Catholic character of the school so as to inherit the teaching of Christ: "I have come that you may have life and have it more abundantly." (John 10.10).
The Catholic school offers an education which is religious in both its context and content. There is no area of its life or curriculum which is not relevant to its Catholic character. However, because many aspects of school life are subject to review processes by such bodies as Ofsted and ISIS , the Self-Review and Evaluation of Catholic Education focuses on the following key aspects:
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The school as a Catholic community
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Curriculum religious education
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Pupils' spiritual and moral development
The
school’s self-review report and the evidence to support it will provide the structure and
format for its validation by Diocesan validators. The Validation Report fulfils the requirements of Section 48
inspection and the Bishop’s right under Canon Law to
inspect religious education in schools.
Go to the Self Review Handbook
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