PGC: Ofsted's Intent, Implementation, and Impact Statement

The Ofsted framework emphasises the centrality of the curriculum to its quality of education judgements. There are three dimensions that are intertwined: intent, implementation and impact.

‘Inspectors will consider the extent to which the school’s curriculum sets out the knowledge and skills that pupils will gain at each stage (we call this ‘intent’). They will also consider the way that the curriculum developed or adopted by the school is taught and assessed in order to support pupils to build their knowledge and to apply that knowledge as skills (we call this ‘implementation’). Finally, inspectors will consider the outcomes that pupils achieve as a result of the education they have received (we call this the ‘impact’).’

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Below are the intent, implementation and impact statements in the Ofsted document and how we at Languagenut can support you and your school with this.

Ofsted Intent statements	How Languagenut can support Primary Schools…
1a) There is a clear and coherent rationale for the curriculum design.	Our interactive, detailed primary scheme of learning includes differentiated lesson plans and resources including phonics, high frequency vocab and grammar. Learning is carefully planned to aid progress for the vast majority of KS2 learners and aims to avoid introducing too much language at once.
1b) Rationale and aims of the curriculum design are shared across the school and fully understood by all.	The Lanugagenut Primary Guided Course is a fully resourced and research-led scheme of work, designed by teachers and language experts, which can be easily used by non-specialists teaching a language. We offer a choice of French and Spanish, each providing you with a structured approach to support the delivery of languages in your primary setting. Our scheme covers 4 years (from years 3 to 6) and fully covers the National Curriculum Programme of Study at KS2.
1c) Curriculum leaders show understanding of important concepts related to curriculum design, such as knowledge progression and sequencing of concepts.	Our guided course will help your pupils recycle and retrieve past knowledge, vocabulary and concepts by using our games which practise all 4 key skills/modalities and support pupils to commit them to memory. Our 4-year course: explores the basics of a language; encourages pupils to learn how the language works; extends the use of target language; covers more advanced grammar and a wider range of vocabulary.
1d) Curriculum coverage allows all pupils to access the content and make progress through the curriculum.	Our detailed series of differentiated lesson plans and resources enable full coverage of the KS2 National Curriculum. The teacher can assign different tasks to individuals or groups within a class or cohort, depending upon how much support and challenge are needed.
2a) The curriculum is at least as ambitious as the standards set by the national curriculum/external qualifications.	Our scheme of work covers a wide range of topics and grammar suitable for any primary setting. This then lays the foundations for further language teaching at KS3. Pupils can develop their vocabulary across all 4 skills/modalities and use our phonics area to develop their phonological awareness and pronunciation.
Ofsted Implementation statements	How Languagenut can support Primary Schools…
3a) Subject leaders at all levels have clear roles and responsibilities to carry out their role in curriculum design and delivery	Our ready-made scheme of work covers all aspects of the KS2 programme of study and has a wide range of features to support your language lead, regardless of their level of language knowledge, with the job of designing and delivering the curriculum. These include: vocabulary games to practise almost 800 words and phrases across all 4 key skills/modalities interactive and engaging grammar and verb conjugation games speaking and dictation activities to reinforce sound-spelling links a clear Learn-Practice-Quiz structure to guide pupils step-by-step, allowing them to do plenty of recycling of language and retrieval practice phonics games to encourage confidence in pronunciation and develop sound spelling links.
3b) Subject leaders have the knowledge, expertise and practical skill to design and implement a curriculum	Our course contains resources for specialists and non-specialists including: a comprehensive series of differentiated lesson plans and resources, with supporting sound files which guide the non-specialist through each lesson, with crib sheets for new grammatical structures; a bank of resources for specialist language teachers to choose from, saving them time.
3c) Leaders at all levels, including governors, regularly review and quality assure the subject to ensure that it is implemented sufficiently well.	Our content map shows what is covered and when. We also provide knowledge organisers for each half term of study. Leaders at all levels can quickly get a picture of how each class, group of pupils and individuals are doing using our in depth diagnostic features in the admin area.
4a) Leaders ensure that ongoing professional development/training is available for staff to ensure that curriculum requirements can be met.	Languagenut regularly runs free webinars which look at teaching all aspects of languages, regardless of the expertise of your staff. Your institution will be supported by our dedicated customer service team ensuring you make the most of all our available resources.
4b) Leaders enable curriculum expertise to develop across the school.	Languagenut’s training videos will assist you in using Languagenut to deliver a quality curriculum for your pupils. Our ‘Teaching with Languagenut Primary’ document will provide you with ideas on how you might fully exploit our resources in the classroom.
5a) Curriculum resources selected, including textbooks, serve the school’s curricular intentions and the course of study and enable effective curriculum implementation.	Whatever curriculum or methodology you choose to follow in your institution, the wide range Languagenut resources will allow for maximum flexibility in how you use the platform.
5b) The way the curriculum is planned meets pupils’ learning needs.	Languagenut gives pupils the opportunity to practise at home and in between lessons on any device. The ‘Learn-Practice-Quiz’ functionality allows pupils to revisit vocabulary and structures as many times as they want before they move to the next step. Our diagnostics tool in the teacher admin area allows the teacher to identify and address any gaps in pupil’s learning.
5c Curriculum delivery is equitable for all groups and appropriate.	Our differentiated lesson plans provide extension and support ideas to allow every pupil to have equal access to the curriculum. Assignments can be set to individuals or groups depending upon how much scaffolding and challenge they need.
5d) Leaders ensure that interventions are appropriately delivered to enhance pupils’ capacity to access the full curriculum.	Activities in the Languagenut Primary Guided Course provide instant feedback by marking all activities completed by pupils, thus providing the teacher with immediate information about the progress of every individual. This information can then be used to deliver any interventions your pupils might need to ensure they make progress.
6a) The curriculum has sufficient depth and coverage of knowledge.	Our guided course covers a wide range of topics, vocabulary and phrases. The course also includes phonics lessons which are designed to support pupils and help them to improve their pronunciation. Our wider Primary resources also include a grammar section which includes key grammar points and 40+ common verbs across a range of tenses. Our scheme of work ensures that you are covering the demands of the National Curriculum Programme of Study across all 4 skills/modalities.
6b) There is a model of curriculum progression.	Our guided course will help your pupils recycle and retrieve past knowledge, vocabulary and concepts, and has been written in a way that ensures that pupils will gradually extend their use of target language through carefully selected and scaffolded activities. High-frequency vocabulary is repeated regularly, and more time is set aside for covering more challenging areas.
6c) Curriculum mapping ensures sufficient coverage across the subject over time.	Our scheme can be used from years 3 to 6, it covers the National Curriculum in all 4 skills/modalities, improves pupils’ grammar and improves pronunciation.
7a) Assessment is designed thoughtfully to shape future learning. Assessment is not excessive or onerous.	The Primary Guided Course has been designed with front of class activities in mind. Languagenut Quizez are embedded in each lesson so that teachers can assess the learning of their pupils in a low-stakes setting. The ‘Learn-Practice-Quiz’ functionality pupils to revisit vocabulary and structures as many times as necessary before they move to the next step. Individual assessments can be set according to need and are all marked automatically so pupils get instant feedback. Scores are recorded and kept in a central area easily accessible to the teacher and SLT. The tracking system allows you to check which pupils have completed the learning and track their progress as well as analyse which topics and skills your pupils need to practise more.
7b) Assessments are reliable. Teachers ensure systems to check reliability of assessments in subjects are fully understood by staff.	Our ‘Quiz’ functionality allows teachers to assess pupils across all 4 skills/modalities. All activities are marked automatically and voice recognition software marks your pupils’ speaking recordings.
7c) There is not mismatch between the planned and the delivered curriculum.	Our content map clearly defines pupil learning outcomes which can easily be tracked on a number of different levels in the teacher admin area.
Ofsted Impact	How Languagenut can support Primary Schools…
8) The curriculum is successfully implemented to ensure pupils’ progression in knowledge and pupils successfully ‘learn the curriculum’.	Our guided course will develop your pupils’ independent learning skills as well as support flipped learning. Our content can be accessed on any device thus supporting pupils to gain knowledge little and often. In the admin area teachers have access to comprehensive data for every pupil or class to track how well the curriculum is being learnt.
9) The curriculum provides parity for all groups of pupils.	By ensuring that all aspects of the Primary Guided Course can be successfully delivered without the need for pupil devices, teachers and pupils are therefore able to access to differentiated resources and games across all 4 skills/modalities.