Ofsted/SIAMS

Rawlins was last inspected by OFSTED in November 2024 and SIAMS in June 2026.

OFSTED
Ofsted is the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills. They inspect services providing education and skills for learners of all ages. Ofsted also inspect and regulate services that care for children and young people.

Ofsted is a non-ministerial department. To find out more about Ofsted as an organisation, please visit here.

SIAMS
The Statutory Inspection of Anglican and Methodist Schools (SIAMS) is the Church of England and Methodist Church’s outworking of the requirements of section 48 of the Education Act 2005. It is a key element of the life of all Church of England and Methodist schools in England.

SIAMS explores ways in which each school’s theologically rooted Christian vision drives its work and enables the school to live up to its foundation as a Church school.

In former Voluntary Controlled (VC) schools, such as Rawlins, the inspector does so by seeking to answer six Inspection Questions (IQs). In Voluntary Aided (VA) schools, it does so by asking an additional  Inspection Question (IQ7 – Coloured grey below as it does not apply at Rawlins).

  • IQ1: How does the school’s theologically rooted Christian vision enable pupils and adults to flourish?
  • IQ2: How does the curriculum reflect the school’s theologically rooted Christian vision?
  • IQ3: How is collective worship enabling pupils and adults to flourish spiritually?
  • IQ4: How does the school’s theologically rooted Christian vision create a culture in which pupils and adults are treated well?
  • IQ5: How does the school’s theologically rooted Christian vision create an active culture of justice and responsibility?
  • IQ6: Is the religious education curriculum effective (with reference to the expectations set out in the Church of England’s Statement of Entitlement for Religious Education)?
  • IQ7: What is the quality of religious education in voluntary aided and former voluntary aided schools, and in former voluntary controlled schools in which denominational religious education is taught?

SIAMS inspections focus on the impact of the Church school’s Christian vision on pupils and adults. This involves looking at the school’s Christian vision, the provision the school makes because of this vision and how effective this provision is in enabling all pupils to flourish.

Church schools will employ a variety of strategies and styles appropriate to, and reflective of, their particular context in order to be distinctively and effectively Christian in their character and ethos. SIAMS inspectors therefore do not look for a set template of what a Church school should be like, but rather take the particular context of the school into account and base their evaluation on the outcomes rather than the process.

To find out more about SIAMS inspections, please visit the website of the National Society for Education here.

The reports can be accessed via the following links…

2024 Ofsted Report – Rawlins

2026 SIAMS Report – Rawlins: Church Of England Academy