No documents need to be uploaded in advance of inspection onto the ISI portal. All the documents our inspectors want to look at before a school is told it is being inspected should already be on a school’s website.
Part 6 of The Independent School Standards (‘Provision of Information’) tells schools what policies they need to make public, along with paragraph 2A.
Paragraphs 63-69 of the Inspection Handbook are called ‘Preparing for inspection’ and cover what the inspector will look at.
Once a school has been notified of inspection (usually on a Monday morning) the reporting inspector will call the school to discuss the inspection.
The inspector may request further documentation at that stage. Paragraphs 79-80 in the Inspection Handbook list what documents they may ask for.
The inspector will inform the school how to share the information with the inspection team (usually via a virtual team room) and will be able to provide help should a school have any technical difficulties.