The Key Education Centre, Gosport – pupil referral unit inspection – October 2013
Everything was looking rosy for the Key Education Centre on Monday 7 October. After years of waiting, it finally left behind the crummy portable buildings it had been calling home for a brand new purpose-built centre. It was, says head teacher Linda Alavi, a "dream come true". Then came the call.
"We had moved in and on the third day of being there we got the phone call saying you've got an Ofsted inspection tomorrow and Friday," she recalls. "We were barely unpacked, the teachers had only just had training on the whiteboards 48 hours before and we didn't even have a photocopier. It was challenging. The kids were trying to find their way around and so were the teachers."
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