Nick Hudson

Ofsted Regional Director, North East, Yorkshire and Humber

11 October 2013

North East Leaders’ Summit – Ofsted’s role in Improvement

Ofsted's regionalisation – structure and purpose

Ofsted – National and regional priorities

North East regional performance – the challenge and ways forward

Regional focus gives us a good understanding of the quality of provision in each local area.

This allows us to focus our inspection and improvement activity in the places which need it most.

Working regionally also gives us closer links to local stakeholders, so we can get an understanding of current local issues and work with others to find solutions.

Regional working

Regional working

Each Ofsted region has:

A Regional Director Senior HMI: NEYH has five Local HMI team: Managed by a Senior HMI Each Senior HMI has responsibility for a group of LAs in the

region Each HMI has a ‘watching brief’ role for a LA A regional office: NEYH office is in York (Foss House) NEYH is comprised of 27 local authorities

Raising standards, improving lives

Ofsted’s reorganisation and school improvement

The changes will enable HMI to focus more sharply on school improvement – particularly grade 3 and 4 schools

Schools judged to require improvement will receive direct support from one of Her Majesty’s Inspectors. These schools will receive an initial monitoring inspection visit from HMI, usually within 4 to 6 weeks of the publication of the s5 inspection report.

The HMI will report on:

-the relevance, urgency and any early impact of the work being done to improve the school since the recent inspection-in all cases HMI will report on the improvement of teaching and learning and the efficacy of school leadership and governance-HMI will recommend whether or not further monitoring visits and/or other activity should occur to encourage the school’s improvement so that the school can be good or outstanding at its next s5 inspection.

Focused inspections

Schools involved in the co-ordinated

inspections will be asked a series of questions about the effectiveness and impact of the support they receive from their local authority and about the authority’s vision for improvement.

The same questions will be asked in a separate telephone survey of a further 10% of the area’s schools, which are not being inspected.

Regional working – priorities

Ofsted has established a detailed and insightful understanding of the performance of local authorities, schools and academies across the North East

Strong and beneficial working relationships established with key stakeholders since NEYH region established.

Facilitating school-to-school support initiatives including pilot work with the NCTL to ensure there is an effective match of support for each RI school

Programme of Getting to Good seminars for legacy grade 3 schools in the NE.

Ofsted: NEYH regional strategic priorities

There is significant variation in the performance of schools/LAs across our region:

All schools good or better – and in particular to increase the proportion of good and outstanding secondary schools

Raising standards/improving progress at Key Stage 2: and particularly for the proportion of FSM pupils who attain Level 4+ in English and mathematics

Raising standards/improving progress at Key Stage 4: Increasing the proportion of students (including those eligible for FSM) who attain 5+ good GCSE passes including English and mathematics

All Schools Good or Better

Grade profile for all schools data in North East, Yorkshire and Humber

How good is provision in NEYH, according to our latest inspection grades?

How does this region compare with the national picture? Primary schools are very close to national average, secondary schools well behind.

Schools that Requires Improvement

Getting to good

September 2012 to July 2013

295 Schools in our region received RI judgement with a grade 3 for Leadership and Management

Region RI 2012 / 13

East Midlands 199

East of England 281

London 155North East, Yorkshire & Humber 295

North West (EY & ELS) 231

South East 298

South West 180

West Midlands 212

Raising standards/improving progress at Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 4, in partuclar for pupils on free school meals

The NE FSM gap?

FSM v Non FSM pupils at Key Stage 2 in 2012:

Proportion of FSM pupils gaining Level 4 in English and mathematics is: 66%

Proportion of non-FSM pupils gaining Level 4 in English and mathematics is: 84%

The NE gap in 2012 = 18% National gap = 17%

How big is the NE gap at Key Stage 4?

Proportion of FSM pupils gaining 5 or more A*-C passes including English and mathematics at GCSE in 2012 was:

North East = 32.9%

Nationally = 36.4%

The NE FSM gap v non-FSM pupils in 2012 = 31.3%

The National FSM gap v non FSM pupils = 26.4%

The NE FSM gap?

North East based HMI are currently conducting a research project into how some schools are bucking the trend in the performance of FSM pupils.

This term: focus is on primary schools (next term: secondary)

Some primary schools across the North East are consistently achieving highly for the FSM group – where the gap is either completely or almost closed.

HMI are collecting case studies which amplify what is being done to overcome barriers to FSM pupils making effective progress.

When complete, a report will be produced which will underpin a series of seminars providing the details of how these schools are proving to be so successful.

Unseen Children

It (Ofsted) has become a driver of change and a force for good. Its research contributes to the national knowledge on education – its recent report, Unseen Children, for example, should be required reading for both teachers and policymakers.

Estelle Morris, Guardian 22/7/13

My second recommendation is, therefore, the development and roll-out of sub regional challenges aimed particularly at raising the achievement of disadvantaged children. I see sub-regional challenges as being absolutely key in driving forward and coordinating some of the other important changes that need to take place.

Sir Michael Wilshaw, Speech 20/06/13