Governance School Improvement Network Meeting

SummerTerm 2018

Welcome

Today’s agenda

• Introducing our new Assistant Director

• SEMH

• Governors’ role in tackling disadvantage

• Careers education update

• GDPR Reminders

• Governor Updates

Introducing Judith Kirk: Assistant Director, Education and Skills

SEMH Featuring Compass Buzz

Achievement UnlockedGovernors’ Role in Tackling the Disadvantaged

Gap May 2018

Content

• NY Outcomes for Disadvantaged learners

• Features of outstanding schools

• Table top discussion

“Disadvantaged pupils refers to those pupils who attract government pupil premium funding:

• pupils claiming free school meals at any point in the last six years and • pupils in care or who left care through adoption or another formal

route.

Ofsted School inspection handbook (August 2017 page23, footnote 41)

Ofsted Definition: “Disadvantaged”

North Yorkshire – Disadvantaged learners – Early Years

FSM

6 E

YFSP

-G

LD

% GLD 2015 2016 2017

NY Not FSM6 69.0 72.0 74.2

NY FSM6 46.8 52.5 53.2

NY FSM6 Gap 22.2 19.5 21

National Not FSM Eligible 69.0 72 73

National FSM Eligible 51.0 54.0 57.0

National FSM Eligible Gap 18.0 18.0 16.0

North Yorkshire – Disadvantaged Learners – KS 2 RWM Expected +

RWM GAP

NY Disadvantaged 38.8

NY Other Pupils 64.2

NY Attainment Gap 25.4

National Disadvantaged 48

National Other Pupils 68

National Attainment Gap 20

LA Ranking 136 out of 152 (Disadvantaged Attainment)

North Yorkshire – KS4 Attainment 8 Gap

2016

NY Gap 15.1

National Gap 12.3

LA Ranking 95/152

2017

NY Gap 16.6

National Gap 12.8

LA Ranking 135/152

Ongoing Challenges

For NY disadvantaged learners

• Too much variation in attainment

and progress across our schools

• Disproportionally represented in

absence and exclusions

What have we learnt from

Achievement Unlocked

• North Yorkshire schools

• London , Essex and Suffolk schoolvisit Jan 18

to inform our strategies to improve outcomes for disadvantaged learners in North Yorkshire?

http://cyps.northyorks.gov.uk/raising-achievement-vulnerable-learners

Schools - Primary

Rosendale Research School

Springfield Junior School

St Eugene de Mazenod CatholicPrimary School

Lyons Hall Primary School

Schools – Secondary

Burnt Mill Academy Harlow

TBAP Alternative Provision

Harris Academy South Norwood

Visionary Leadership

High focus on literacy, language and vocabulary

High Expectations For ALL pupils irrespective of

background

The Right

People!

ReflectiveSolution focused

Modelling!!!

Prof Becky Francis, Director, Institute of Education

Grouping Study

Most useful feature:

“The positivity and the can-do approach … and that we can make a difference’’

Feedback from North Yorkshire senior leaders

Ofsted and the governing

body

Outstanding Judgement (Leadership and Management)

Leaders and governors focus on consistently improving outcomes for all

pupils, but especially for disadvantaged pupils. They are uncompromising

in their ambition.

The school’s actions have secured substantial improvement in progress for

disadvantaged pupils. Progress is rising across the curriculum, including in

English and mathematics.

Outcomes – Disadvantaged pupils

190 Inspectors should talk to leaders about the quality of teaching, behaviour and the design and delivery of the curriculum to examine why there may be underperformance for some pupils. Where there is an identifiable shortfall in progress or attainment of disadvantaged children or in wider evidence, inspectors should consider:

• the adequacy of the core provision and approaches that have an impact on all children

• identified needs of the child, e.g. SEND, and how these are met, and

• any additional provision that may appropriately be made on the basis of family

economic or social disadvantage.

Your Pupil Premium Strategy

What strategies are governors

using to ensure school leaders are

• Creating a culture of high expectation and aspiration for disadvantaged learners

• Providing access to high quality core provision

• Identifying and tackling barriers

that need to be addressed?

Discussion 1

Discussion 2

What governor activities could inform the annual review of your pupil premium strategy and its impact?

Possible Activities

• Joining learning walks and work scrutiny

• Review of data – performance, attendance, engagement

• Talking with pupils/staff

Finding Schools to Visit

• Pupil premium award winning schools http://www.pupilpremiumawards.co.uk

• Compare school performance

https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/find-a-school-in-england

• EEF Families of Schools Databasehttps://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/tools/families-of-schools-database

Key Questions for Governors

National Careers Strategy Update for GovernorsMay 2018

Informed by ‘Good Career Guidance’ benchmarks (Gatsby, 2014)

1.A stable careers programme

2.Learning from career and labour market information

3.Addressing the needs of each pupil

4.Linking curriculum learning to careers

5.Encounters with employers and employees

6.Experiences of workplaces

7.Encounters with further and higher education

8.Personal guidance

Key Actions for Schools/Colleges

Statutory guidance for schools(DfE, January 2018)

• Legal requirements (‘must’) and

detailed advice (‘should’) on all 8

Gatsby benchmarks

• Covers the duties to secure access to

independent careers guidance and

to provide access for providers of

technical education and

apprenticeships (inc sample policy)

• Careers Leader – name and contact

details on school’s website by September 2018

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/careers-

guidance-provision-for-young-people-in-schools

What is the governing body expected to do?

• provide clear advice to the headteacher on which to base a strategy for careers which meets the legal requirements and is in line with the Gatsby benchmarks and the statutory guidance

• ensure arrangements are in place to allow a range of education and training providers access to all pupils in years 8-13, and that a policy statement setting out these arrangements is published

(Technical and Further Education Act 2017-

effective from January 2018)

Roles in schools

Role What Who

Link governor Advocate for careers

Support and challenge

Senior leader Overall responsibility for

careers, line manager for

careers leader

Assistant head or deputy head

Careers leader Day-to-day leadership and

management

Middle leader

Teacher, careers adviser,

Other professional

Careers administrator More routine organisation and

administration

Support staff

Quality assurance for career guidance

Criteria for good career guidance in schools and colleges

• Compass tool (and Tracker & Gatsby toolkits)Online self-review

• The Quality in Careers Standard*external assessment and accreditation(*being aligned to Gatsby benchmarks)

Standards for information, advice and guidance services

• matrix standard

Professional qualifications for Careers Advisers and Careers leaders

• Qualification in Career Guidance

• Level 6 Diploma in Career Guidance and Development

NY Careers Enterprise Adviser Network

59 schools already signed up and working with 44 enterprise advisers

Guidance and Support in North Yorkshire

For Careers Leaders

Implementing the 2018 Statutory Careers Guidance: for School Careers Guidance Leaders - SI-0718-T004 (10 Jul 2018 13:30 -16:00), Lakeside , Sand Hutton

For Headteachers

21st June, Headteacher Network, Pavilions of Harrogate

Sir John Holman – adviser to DFE and author of Gatsby benchmarks

Karleen Dowden Careers Enterprise Company - Regional Lead

For Deputy Headteachers

20th June, Deputy Headteacher Network, Ripon Spa Hotel

Karleen Dowden Careers Enterprise Company - Regional Lead

Training

http://cyps.northyorks.gov.uk/careers-guidance

How ready is your school?

Careers Strategy

Readiness Checker

Any Questions

GDPR Reminders

• Your schools all need to be actively making plans to be complaint with the new regulations by May half term, or as soon as possible afterwards. Governors should be monitoring this implementation.

• Governors should be given school email addresses for electronic discussion of school issues.

• Governors should review what they have stored at home on their computers, etc.

GDPR Reminders

The Governor Database has been upgraded ready for September, with sections for:

• Meeting Calendar

• Documents

• Governor Details

What you will see

Governor Updates

• The role of the staff governor

• Feedback from health checks and reviews

• SEND consultation update

• Team updates

• GB end of year evaluations

The Role of the Staff Governor

• New reference paper on the website

• Included in your pack

Feedback from Health Checks and Reviews of Governance

No running themes this year

Standards seem to be higher, and a good clerk is critical to this.

Governor induction is patchy with some excellent examples, but some schools still have it on their “do next year” list.

Governor monitoring is slowly becoming more systematic, but there is still confusion about what, why, how, how often?

Some schools with local clerks still make little provision for:

• Performance management

• Training

Strategic leadership is weaker than

accountability

LA Governors

• We have now finished the migration from the old political appointees to the new nomination system;

• Some LA Governors appointed under the new system will be coming to the end of their term of office.

• If you need a NEW LA Governor, use the application system as now.

• If your LA Governor is happy to be re-nominated, we have already performed due diligence, so please contact Governor Support and we will streamline the re-appointment system.

Team Updates

Governor Network Meetings

From September, we will run network meetings twice a year rather than three times per year.

• Autumn – November, in the second half of the autumn term

• Spring/Summer – May/June, before your final GB meeting of the year.

• Both sets of meetings will have a single booking rather than the separate workshop booking.

• Timings will be from 5:30 to 8 pm, with a 15 minute refreshment break.

• Every meeting will still have at least one workshop and plenty of discussion

The Strategic Plan for SEND Education Provision -update

• Subject to democratic process public consultation will take place in May and June 2018

• Specific meetings in local areas for head teachers

• Specific meetings for identified groups

• Parent/carer meetings in all localities

• Children/young people focus groups

• Consultation will be at

https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/current-consultations

The Strategic Plan

Strategic Plan

A. Ensuring a continuum of

SEND provision across the

County

B. Robust and local governance,

accountability decision making

and supportC. Re-shaping High Needs

Budget

Governor Training

Reminder of upcoming dates this term

Next Year’s dates

Meeting your needs

Governor Training

Venue Course Code Date

Raising

Achievement and

Pupil Premium

Strategy –

Governor Training

Session

The Downe Arms

Hotel, Wykeham

SI-0319-T030 12.3.2019

Parsonage, Escrick SI-0319-T031 19.3.2019

Pavilions of

Harrogate

SI-0319-T032 26.3.2019

The Rendezvous

Hotel, Skipton

SI-0419-T002 2.4.2019

Governor Training

Meeting your needs – table exercise

Knowing what we have already planned, what further training topics would you as governors like to see available?

Close

Thank you

Evaluation forms

Any last questions?

For support, call 01609 798 864 and ask for one of the team