Guest Speaker - Dr Russel Grigg

For the lecture on Monday January the 16th to cover Andy's absense again Dr Russel Grigg who is head of the South West Wales centre of teacher education, came in to speak to us. Although we had previously heard a little bit about Estyn and the work we do I didnt fully understand it so found this visit very helpful. Dr Russel Grigg told us all  about the work that Estyn does, what their 3 fold purposes are, about thematic Reports and he also talked a bit about Ofsted reports which do simular things to Estyn. I also found it interesting that he showed us an actuall report off www.estyn.gov.uk of a school in the Pennard area of the Gower, I think this was good as after explaining to us what they did I thought it was really beneficial to look at a real report and shown the different grading criteria.