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Spring Term Joint Subject Leader Day 2006
Birmingham Primary Strategy Team
Subject Leader Training
Spring Term Joint Subject Leader Day 2006
Agenda
09.15 – 10.30
Updates
10.45 – 12.00
Classroom Environment and
Pupil Conferencing
13.00 – 14.15
Subject Specific –
Work Scrutiny and Quality Marking
14.30 – 15.45
Networking Time
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Session 1
Updates and Pupil Conferencing
Objectives:
• To provide updates on The National and
Birmingham Primary Strategies
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Session 1
Group discussion:
What actions have you taken as a
result of the previous day’s input?
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Ofsted report on the Primary National Strategy
December 2005
Key positive comments
•Overall the PNS is having a positive impact on schools,
with overall improvements in Mathematics and English
and stronger leadership and management.
•The PNS impact on teaching and learning is at least
satisfactory in most schools.
•In almost all schools, leadership and management are
satisfactory or better.
•Most local authorities are providing good support for
schools, particularly through specific programmes.
•The strategy has raised the profile of ICT as an integral
tool to support effective teaching and learning.
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Ofsted report on the PNS
Key critical comments:
• Teaching in English and mathematics remains no better
than satisfactory in one in three lessons;
• The gender gap in writing remains, with boys
underperforming;
• There is a lack of a whole school approach to speaking
and listening;
• More needs to be done to raise standards in
mathematics;
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Ofsted Report on PNS
Key critical comments:
• The use of assessment for learning is improving but
overall it is still the least successful element of
teaching;
• There is limited improvement in Key Stage 1 standards
with too great an emphasis upon support in Key Stage
2;
• Fluctuating results in too many schools remains
unresolved;
• There is too much optimism rather than certainty that
school targets will be met;
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Ofsted Report on PNS
Key critical comments:
• Although schools are aware of PNS teaching and
learning materials, too many have not yet used them
effectively to review their practices;
• In one in three schools, action planning to support
improvement still lacks rigour and evaluation of impact
is not strong enough;
• Although school leaders welcome the emphasis on
greater freedom and flexibility in the curriculum, they
are cautious in their approach.
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Ofsted Report on PNS
General points for action:
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Knowledge of the ‘learning journey’;
Teachers questioning techniques;
Continuity over the period of transition
The management of low attaining pupils;
The use of the plenary to review and consolidate
learning
• Independent work
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Ofsted Report on PNS
The biggest difference between the
most and least effective teaching of
English and mathematics is the
quality of the teachers’ subject
knowledge.
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Teaching and Learning in mathematics
Key points:
• Insufficient knowledge of what pupils already
know and can do;
• Too much emphasis upon recording and
presenting calculations deflecting from exploring
mathematical calculation and reasoning;
• Pace of the mental-oral starter;
• The main teaching activity is too long and
subsequent work is inappropriately matched or
supported;
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Teaching and learning in mathematics
Key points:
• The pace of questioning is too brisk and
inappropriately targeted;
• Modelled and guided work;
• Planning for the teaching, consolidation and
applying of mathematical skills and objectives
across the curriculum;
• Limited support and guidance for independent
work;
• Too great a reliance on worksheets.
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Ofsted Report on PNS
How representative are Ofsted’s
findings to your school setting?
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Summary of the Rose Review
Main recommendations of interim report
• Greater attention to speaking and listening
• Phonics to be taught discretely, introduced by age 5, and set
within a broad and rich language curriculum
• Synthetic phonics as the first strategy for decoding and
encoding print
• Use of a multisensory approach
• Update NLS phonics in the framework revision
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Renewing the framework
The renewed teaching frameworks for literacy
and numeracy will provide schools with:
•A clearer set of age-related outcomes
related to learning progression which will
inform the structure of the curriculum;
•Better signposting to the range of teaching
materials and professional development
opportunities currently on offer to support
teaching practice;
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Renewing the framework
•An increased sense of drive and momentum,
making adjustments to learning objectives
involving some progressive scaling up of
expectations for each year group
•A focus on CPD and in-school activity to
promote and foster a wider range of
pedagogic practices that will help
personalise learning, secure intervention for
those pupils who need it, and to raise
attainment of pupils.
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Key milestones
April 2006
Publication of the draft
literacy and mathematics
frameworks
September 2006
Publication of the literacy
and mathematics
frameworks
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Every
Every
Child
Childaa Reader
Reader(ECaR)
(ECaR)
• 7% of pupils leave primary school with no useful Literacy
skills (below level 3)
• In 2004 40% of this group were children who live in poverty
• 70% of permanently excluded pupils have poor basic literacy skills
• 25% of young offenders have reading skills below those of average
7 year olds
• 60% of the prison population has difficulties in basic literacy skills
• Adults with low level literacy skills are more likely to be in low paid
jobs, unemployed or on benefits
• They are more likely to be in poor housing, and to have poor health
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Every Child a Reader(ECaR)
• B’ham secured further £167k for two years from April 06
• Steering group to develop criteria for selection for additional schools:
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highest % below level 2 in reading and writing
capacity to implement layered intervention
RR teacher enabled to take wider role
where schools are willing to part fund
systematic tracking procedures
Headteacher committed to early literacy intervention
Extended Provision Clusters
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Every Child a Reader(ECaR)
• Collaboration between charities, business and government
• 10 local authorities funded to restart Reading Recovery
• Nationally £10 million over 3years
• £100k for Birmingham for 3 years
• Currently 5 schools
• A layered literacy programme for reading recovery, reception
reading and writing programme, Fischer Trust wave 3 intervention, and
year2 intensive reading programme
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End of Key Stage Results Update
Below level 2 at end of key stage 1
• Focus on schools below 70%
• Gap is growing between B’ham and National
Below level 3 at end of key stage 2
• Gap is narrowing between B’ham and National
Look out for:
• Review of Waves of Intervention
• Support for Provision Mapping
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Below level 2 at end of Key Stage 1
Birmingham
2003
2004
2005
Reading
19
19
21
Writing
21
22
24
Maths
12
13
13
Reading
15
15
15
Writing
19
18
18
Maths
10
10
9
National
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Below level 3 at end of Key stage 2
Birmingham
2003
2004
2005
English
10
9
8
Reading
10
10
9
Writing
11
9
8
Maths
9
9
8
English
7
7
Maths
7
7
National
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