Transcript Post-Ofsted Parents’ Meeting

Post-Ofsted Parents’
Meeting
Wednesday 6th May 2015
Welcome
Helen Williamson
Alison Sutton
Serena Nicholls
Clare Edwards
Jacquie Wattam
Mel Walker
Deborah Angeli
James Collinson
Claire Wilson
Lucy Andrews
Headteacher
Chair of Governors
Deputy Headteacher
Assistant Head KS1 Leader
Assistant Head KS2 Leader
Leader Of EYFS
Inclusion Leader (SENCo)
Leader of Maths
Leader of English
Leader of Computing
What has happened since the last
meeting with parents?
• Section 8 Monitoring visit January 2015
with Inspector Eileen Chadwick
• Monitoring visits from the Local
Authority
Ofsted Section 8 Monitoring:
• The Headteacher has high expectations and sets
high standards for teaching and learning
• All leaders, staff and governors have a strong
common purpose to ensure this school becomes
the best it can be
• The new curriculum is vibrant and there is systematic
teaching of literacy and numeracy whilst ensuring
that one subject underpins another
• The performance of staff is well managed and has
been effective in promoting improvement
• Teachers new to the school are well
supported and, consequently they get off to
a good start
• Marking of work is a strength and helps
pupils to correct their mistakes
• Senior leaders have an accurate view of the
strengths and weaknesses in teaching
• Improvement in maths stems from school
leaders’ good management of the help
provided
• School leaders are rightly focused on
improving the teaching of writing
• The proportions of pupils reaching higher levels
are improving
• Pupils handwriting and presentation have
improved
• Governors make regular visits to the school.
They look for evidence to substantiate the
school’s view of itself
• Governors have fully supported the
Headteacher in holding teachers to account
and ensuring pay is linked to performance
And Behaviour…
• Pupils behave well in and around the school
• Trends in behaviour for individuals and
groups are carefully evaluated, recorded
and acted upon.
• The new curriculum greatly interests pupils
and they make every effort to do their best
• They show enthusiasm for learning and work
hard to tackle their tasks
• Pupils get on well together and there is a
strong sense of community
What Section 8 said we needed to
do next..
• Teachers do not consistently help pupils
apply phonics when writing so their spelling
is not improving quickly enough
• Pupils in some classes do not have enough
opportunities to write at length
• The reading scheme for lower attainers in
Key Stage 2 is not sufficiently tightly
structured to provide continuity from Key
Stage 1
Our immediate response…
• As a staff we have reviewed our marking policy to
ensure that we are identifying spelling corrections
required to support children in editing and applying
their knowledge
• The Talk for Writing project is developing
opportunities for children to write at length and to
further develop a love of writing
• We are researching the reading scheme for Year 3
to ensure we have the best resources available. We
have reviewed and tightened our approach to
ensuring those who have not met the phonics level
in Year 2 receive support and intervention to make
up the ground quickly
Results: Summer 2015
EYFS:
On track to achieve 70% of children
attaining a Good Level of Development
(2014 was 62%)
KS1: on track for
Level 2b+:
• Reading
96% (WS 81%) 2014 92%
• Writing 87% (WS 71%) 2014 75%
• Maths 97% (WS 81%) 2014 90%
• Level 3 all subjects on track to exceed
last year significantly
KS2 on track for
Level 4+
• Reading
94% (WS 90%) 2014 92%
• Writing 81% (WS 85%) 2014 82%
• Maths 87% (WS 86%) 2014 92%
Level 5+
• Reading
50+%
(WS 50%) 2014
42%
• Writing 30% (WS 33%) 2014 19%
• Maths 45% (WS 42%) 2014 36%
•
KS2 on track for
2 levels progress:
• Reading
98% (WS 89%) 2014 78%
• Writing 96% (WS 91%) 2014 78%
• Maths 91% (WS 86%) 2014 83%
More than 2 levels progress:
• Reading 52%
National 2014 35%
• Writing 53% National 2014 33%
• Maths 28% National 2014 35%
Improve the Quality of Teaching
• Milestone has been met
• Nearly met targets of 100% (96%) good
or better teaching and 25% (23%)
outstanding in April
• New teachers have settled in well and
making a very positive contribution
• Ensure consistently and strongly good
with higher levels of outstanding
teaching
Raise standards
• Milestone has been met
• Continuing work with National Maths
Partnership to build on successes in
maths for 2015
• BPS Year of writing is exciting writers
and engaging those who did not
previously like writing
• New curriculum embedded and
implementing new expectations and
strategies for spelling
Behaviour
• See very positive Section 8 report!
• Behaviour is good or outstanding in
93% of lessons
• Conduct is excellent
• Children with behavioural difficulties
have behaviour plans which support
them and protect the safety of all
Leadership
• Positive impact of the full leadership team is
evident in the improving results and the
comments made by Section 8 inspector
Eileen Chadwick
• Extending subject leaders opportunities to
observe lessons in their subjects throughout
the school through dedicated leadership
time
• Governors and leaders ensuring the drive
continues to aim for good at the next full
Section 5 Ofsted inspection
Challenges
• No increase in funding from the last year, a
slightly reduced number on role from the
previous year and unfunded increases in
employment have led to a very challenging
financial situation this year
• One intervention teacher has not been
replaced, reductions in office hours,
curriculum resourcing and improvement
work have taken place to save money
Staff Reductions
• Unfortunately this has led to an unavoidable
situation where we have to reduce Teaching
Assistant hours
• Currently have a higher number of teaching
assistants than most other schools
• Having to reduce to be more in line with other
schools with each class receiving
approximately 8 hours a week
• New structure will ensure the levels of staffing
are sustainable beyond the next financial year
Staff Reductions
• Obviously impacts on both TAs and teachers
• Done everything possible to avoid such
action now when we are making such
progress towards our aims
• All focused on ensuring there is no impact
on the children whilst we go through these
changes
Questions received
How are you addressing the Ofsted concern about more advanced
children being suitably pushed?
• Firstly through improving the quality of teaching for all
• Through improving the level of challenge for all through greater
choice, opportunities for independence and application of skills
• Through raised expectations of every child: our more than expected
progress data shows this is having impact as well as higher levels of
attainment for more children in Level 5 and 6 tests
• Developing the new curriculum so that it is exciting and engaging;
the curriculum raises expectation from previous curriculums
• Helping parents understand the changes to the curriculum and
assessment with workshops run by our Assessment Leader, Miss
Nicholls
Thank you very
much for coming!