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AAIA NATIONAL CONFERENCE
2009
• The White Paper – implications for LAs, schools
and National Strategies
• Provisional results, including ISP and National
Challenge
• National Strategies Priorities 2009 – 2011
• Ofsted New Inspection Framework
Mike Viner, Lead SRD, North Territory and
Senior Regional Director, North East –
The National Strategies
The White Paper
• The White Paper signals a significant shift in accountability and
improvement support to schools
• It will place improvement support resources into schools’ hands so
that they can tailor support to their needs
• It is important that schools continue to invest time and resources into
improving Teaching and Learning practice – with no let-up on
literacy and numeracy where there will continue to be a strong focus
through the accountability system
• Schools should continue to follow best practice established through
the National Strategies over the last 10 years, which has led to year
on year improvement over the last five years
• The DCSF will be focusing its attention on ensuring that there are
accredited providers of improvement support for schools to draw on
from 2011
The White Paper and the National Strategies
• The National Strategies has a crucial role to play, working with LAs,
in building local capacity and developing a rich legacy of
professional expertise for schools and LAs to draw-on
• This greater focus on schools and LAs being commissioners of
support will over time mean that NS local consultancy will reduce or
be redirected, though LAs already have autonomy about how they
prioritise funding through Area Based Grant
• There will also be some centrally initiated priority programmes, likely
to be time limited, where LAs will require specialist consultancy
support, e.g. ECAR and ECC
• Embedding new version of ‘Quality Standards’ for LA self-evaluation
• There is much to do and the DCSF has made clear that there will
be no stepping back from the priorities associated with the NS remit
over the next two years
National Strategies – the contract
• The White Paper signalled that the contract with
the DCSF ends on 31st March 2011
• There is commitment to the annual plan for
2009/10 – so the current level of work needs to
be maintained
• The DCSF has also made clear it wants NS to
keep the field-force at as close as possible to
current levels through to 2011 in order to
maintain the momentum of delivery of
programmes and support for LAs and schools
Provisional results
• The provisional results underpin the focus for
regional delivery in the period up to 2011.
• NS impact has been crucial for ISP and NC
schools.
• Both these school improvement programmes
show NS can make real impact on schools and
learners.
• Similarly early reports of progress in Early Years
underline the importance of continuing with
current plans and priorities.
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National ISP schools 2008/09
Headlines
Difference between schools funded ISP and
Non
ISP schools
• +3.6%pt difference L4+ Combined
Attainment
• +2.2%pt difference L4+ English
• +3.6%pt difference L4+ mathematics
• +0.8%pt difference L4+ reading
• +3.8%pt difference L4+ writing
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Priorities 2009-10 Early Years
• ECAT successful implementation in wave 1 and
2 LAs: early start for wave 3 LAs – Jan launch
• EYCs – unrelenting focus on continuous quality
improvement. Essential EYCs are equipped to
challenge and support settings – consideration
needs to be given to EYCs’ CPD needs
• EYFS Data – data guidance to support the
interrogation and use of all EY data to support
targeting of resources and EYOD plans available
on NS site
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Priorities 2009-10 Early Years
• Monitoring Children’s Progress – continues to be a key
lever in raising expectations
• Buddying and 0 to 7 Partnership Pilot Programmes –
significant evidence of positive impact which will be
shared with all LAs through case studies and at regional
work shops
• Events
– Trio events: presence of Literacy, CLLD and ECAT
consultants
– EYC events focus on quality improvement and
engaging parents
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CLLD (Communication, Language and Literacy
Development)
Priorities in 2009-10 for all LAs:
• Disseminate successful practice in early literacy to
ensure high quality systematic phonics teaching within a
rich literacy curriculum is provided in all reception and
KS1 classes
• Embed successful practice of Phase 1 of ‘Letters and
Sounds’ in settings as part of improving provision for
children’s speaking and listening
• Strengthen the role of the CLLD lead within settings and
schools, to enable improvements to be sustained over
time
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Focus of Primary National Strategies support:
Working with LAs, building capacity to implement the expectations of
the 21st Century Schools White Paper, including support for:
• system leadership, school to school support and self-improving
schools and clusters
• the school improvement strategy to meet the needs of all schools,
particularly schools:
below the floor target
vulnerable schools with inconsistent results that need to
maximise progress
with good and improving results – helping good schools
become great
• The role of the SIP in supporting the 21st Century school
Through 30 Priority Learning LAs we will co-construct, capture, and
make transferable, practices which are successful in tailoring
improvement in schools with particular performance profiles. The
Primary Strategy Manager and SIP manager joint meetings will
provide a forum for sharing this learning.
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National Challenge Headlines
• Number of schools below the floor target
expected to drop from 440 to around 280*
• This puts us ahead of a straight line trajectory to
the 2011 floor target
• 100 schools have structural solutions planned
for 2010 or 2011
• It looks as though around 70 schools will fall
below the floor this year
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Secondary core subjects: priorities
• Strengthen and embed AfL with APP
• Plan for progression across KS4
• Improve progression to post 16 in science and
mathematics
• Increase the impact of intervention to support
underperforming and vulnerable groups
• Strengthen the use of ‘Core Plus’ in schools that are
part of the National Challenge
• Strengthen lateral transfer of good practice by
establishing a programme of lead teachers for English
and mathematics
Behaviour, attendance and SEAL: priorities
• Reduce secondary persistent absence to ensure LA is
on trajectory to be below 5% PA by 2011
• Secure good behaviour in all schools by:
– using the revised self evaluation framework
– ensuring SIPs support and challenge all schools to
target the improvement of satisfactory behaviour
– supporting the development of school partnerships to
encourage peer challenge and assistance to improve
behaviour
• Identify the reasons for disproportionate exclusions and
support schools in adopting successful strategies to
reduce the need for exclusions
• Promote the development of SEAL and use of NPSLBA
to support whole school approaches
Narrowing the Gaps: priorities
• Reduce the gaps in attainment between pupils entitled to FSM and
their peers by
• Support and challenge for target-setting for underperforming
groups
• Mainstreamed action across all programmes
• Launch of focus area of website, including publication of ‘From
data analysis to impact: the golden thread’
• Universal territorial meetings to share emerging/good practice for
LA NtG/FSM leads
• Launch of invitational programme to support Local Authorities in
strategic leadership of work to narrow gaps
• Launch of GRT guidance materials and promotion of EAL
Advanced learners CPD modules
• Embedding G&T Institutional Quality Standards and new
National Challenge Elements on data, tracking and pedagogy
Raising standards,
improving lives
• Revised inspection
arrangements for maintained
schools from September 2009
The new inspection
framework