A condition that remained stable could be carried over from one five-year inspection cycle to the next with the same status.

Sometimes the DfE asks us to carry out additional inspections within an inspection cycle because:

The 2008 report concluded that "significant improvement" had been made and the school was placed back into the standard inspection cycle.

"But it also condenses the normal two-year inspection cycle into one year," he said.

Sometimes we must inspect you because we have reached the end of an inspection cycle and we cannot defer it any more.

The problem involves relatively minor defects reported in the last inspection cycle as "safe with a repair and maintenance program," he said.

At the time of the third inspection cycle, the number of sidewalk-shed permits increased 12 percent.

The deadline for the current inspection cycle is next February.

The next course is NB-8 parachutes, in which students learn the basics of parachute rigging, inspection cycles, and nomenclature.

Glyn is the third school in England to move from 'satisfactory' to 'outstanding' within one inspection cycle.