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VELBERT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE. INTRODUCTION. WHERE ARE WE?. 105 Tameside Schools: 18 Secondary 82 Primary 5 Special. Education in Tameside - Our Mission "Securing Quality Education for All in Tameside"
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VELBERT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE INTRODUCTION
WHERE ARE WE? 105 Tameside Schools: 18 Secondary 82 Primary 5 Special
Education in Tameside - Our Mission • "Securing Quality Education for All in Tameside" • Investment in learning and personal development is essential if people are to lead satisfying and prosperous lives. • Our mission is to secure quality education for all in Tameside and our aims are to, • support and challenge Tameside schools to improve educational standards and quality • secure the delivery of high quality services • secure the equality of opportunity and access for all to services.
All our work is driven by 6 principles • Raising standards • School self-management • Intervention in inverse proportion to success • Partnership and co-operation • Zero tolerance of under-performance • Value for money
High Challenge, High Support Tameside
The English Education System • The education system is divided into three stages: • primary education, up to age eleven • secondary education, up to age sixteen • tertiary education, for those over the age of sixteen. • In England and Wales there are 8.5 million children in 30,000 state schools
Primary phase • pre-school education is available for ages two to four/five through playgroups and nursery schools. The emphasis is on group work, creative activity and guided play • compulsory education begins at five in England, • there is little or no specialist subject teaching and great emphasis on literacy and numeracy in early years • the usual age for transfer to secondary schools is eleven in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
Secondary phase • compulsory education ends at age sixteen, though many pupils stay on beyond the minimum leaving age • about ninety percent of state secondary school pupils in England, Wales and Scotland go to comprehensive schools, which provide a wide range of secondary education for most children of all abilities • at age sixteen pupils in England and Wales may transfer to sixth form colleges or tertiary colleges
Policy and overall funding • Policy and overall funding for education is determined by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) • They dispense funding for education either directly or through other bodies such as Local Education Authorities, agencies and funding councils
The National Curriculum • In 1988 the National Curriculum was introduced into schools in England and Wales, making for a broader, more balanced and coherent schooling system. The Curriculum sets out what pupils should study, what they should be taught and the standards that they should achieve.