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From The Principal’s Desk                                                                                                From The Principal’s Desk








                                                                                                                                UK Government Accreditation                               In-Country Routes to QTS

                                                                                                                                BSO schools have the right to display the ‘BSO            Experienced  graduate  teachers  overseas
                                                                     With only two weeks                                        Inspected’ logo on websites and publications.             who, for one reason or another, do not have a

                                                                   before the End of term                                       The  UK  government  gained  worldwide  legal             UK-recognised teaching qualification are also
                                                                                                                                                                                          able to pursue routes to QTS followed by ECT
                                                                                                                                protection of this logo, which has the status
                                                                      examinations begin,                                       of a “State Emblem”.                                      Induction in a BSO accredited school.

                                                                             time is of the                                     Benchmark Against Leading British Schools                 Join AoBSO

                                                                                                                                                                                          A BSO school can join the Association of British
                                                                                                                                Schools  that  have  successfully  undergone
                                                                                  essence.                                      a  BSO  inspection  demonstrate  to  parents              Schools  Overseas  (AoBSO)  and  benefit  from

                                                                                                                                and  the  school  community  that  they  have             membership  of  an  organisation  that  brings
                                                                                                                                reached a certain standard and that this is               together Heads and Principals to pursue com-
                                                                                                                                similar to that of a UK independent school that           mon interests.
                                                                                                                                has attained the same rating in an Indepen-
                                                                                                                                dent  Schools  Inspectorate  (ISI)  inspection.           Beyond Outstanding
                                                               a school the status of a British School Over-
                                                                                                                                (ISI inspects the great majority of UK-based              Any school, no matter how good, can benefit
                                                               seas. The BSO scheme was implemented in                                                                                    from an external assessment of their strengths
                       Robert Franklin                         2010 to give schools, parents and others an                      independent schools).
                           Principal                                                                                                                                                      and areas for development.
                                                               assurance that a school had been properly
                                                                                                                                Ofsted Monitored External Validation
                                                               inspected and to give access to the inspec-
                                                                                                                                The Board of Governors may wish to use an                 The final Inspection will take place in Novem-
       Dear Parents,                                           tion reports of each BSO school.                                 inspection  as  a  measure  of  how  well  their          ber.

                                                                                                                                school is operating. Although this should, of
                                                               There  are  several  reasons  why  The  Regent
                                                                                                                                course, be one of many indicators used.
          t was a very smooth and calm return                  Secondary School wants to submit itself to the

          to school for the final half term of the             rigorous BSO inspection system. The Regent
                                                                                                                                Become a DfE Registered School
      Iacademic year 2023-2024. The pupils                     Primary  School  went  through  the  process
                                                                                                                                BSO schools are given a DfE GIAS number as
      arrived back on Monday morning and it                    last year and emerged with an evaluation of
                                                                                                                                part of the recognition of their status.
      was business as usual as we went straight                Outstanding,  which  is  extremely  difficult  to
      into the normal timetable. With only two                 achieve.  Gaining  BSO  status  shows  that  the
                                                                                                                                Eligibility for ECT Induction
      weeks  before  the  End  of  term  examina-              school has educational standards that are
                                                                                                                                BSO schools have the right to take British Early
      tions begin, time is of the essence.                     comparable  with  independent  school  stan-
                                                                                                                                Career Teachers (ECTs) through their Statu-
                                                               dards in the UK. It also offers the following:
                                                                                                                                tory Induction in the same way as if they to do
      This week we had an Inspector from PEN-
                                                                                                                                this in a school in England.
      TA  in  school.  PENTA  is  an  organisation
      which  conducts  inspections  of  schools
      for the UK government and can confer on







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