Talking points

1. Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Future Change Makers – NQT’sSeptember 2014Alison AlexanderDirector of Children’s Services

2. Talking points • Story of place RBWM. • Children’s Partnership vision. • Our education system. • The big challenges facing us all.

3. Story of place: map

4. Story of place: geography 20 miles west of London. Relatively densely populated compared to the rest of the South-East. Three main towns: Maidenhead, Windsor and Ascot. 14 rural parishes, including Eton Town Council. House prices in the Borough amongst the highest outside Greater London. 83% designated Green Belt and significant proportion is Crown Estate or National Trust Land. Major tourist destination: around 7 million visitors a year, generating spend of £360m and around 11,000 jobs

5. Story of place: population 144,560 residents, mean average age 39.8 years. Greatest proportion of older adults in Berkshire. Approximately 20% of the population aged below 16. About 78% of the population White British, 13% from minority ethnic groups, primarily Pakistani and Indian. Generally affluent, healthy and mobile population: 56% of households employed in either professional or managerial/technical occupations compared to 41% in England. Generally high standard of living masks isolated pockets of deprivation – 9% child poverty.

6. Story of place: provision Health Two Clinical Commissioning Groups: Bracknell and Ascot; Windsor, Ascot and Maidenhead Providers: Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Thames Valley Police WAM Get Involved – community and voluntary sector infrastructure organisation

7. Corporate vision “The Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead is a great place to live, work, play and do business supported by a modern, dynamic and successful Council”

8. Corporate values Our Vision is underpinned by CREATE values…

10. Children and young people’s partnership “Securing success for all Success measured by children and young people maximising their potential to become independent and active citizens”

11. Education provision Education • 78 early years providers. • 65 schools: 3 Nursery; 4 Infant; 14 First; 3 Junior; 25 Primary; 4 Middle; 9 Secondary, 2 Upper and 1 Special • 2 Colleges: East Berkshire and Berkshire College of Agriculture. • Training providers. Two Children’s Centre Hubs: comprising 13 sites.

12. Attainment and progress 2014EYFS % achieving Good Level of Development (GLD) RBWM 66 - 67% (up at least 11% on last year) National 60- 61% (up from 52% last year) Part of the increase reflects greater understanding of the GLD assessments, however the RBWM improvement is greater than national.

13. Attainment and progress 2014 Key Stage 1 RBWM remains a top performing LA for Key Stage One.

14. Attainment and progress 2014Key Stage 2 RBWM has increased at level 4+ and 4B+ RBWM is above national, South East and statistical neighbours.

15. Attainment and progress 2014 GCSE • 5A*-C including English and Maths = approximately 64% (school reported results). • 4% lower than 2013 and lower than predicted – comparisons with previous years are problematic due to rule changes on what counts and grade boundary changes in the marking. (apples and pears) • National figures not yet available (30th Sept). • Nationally an emerging picture of what Ofqual are describing as “some volatility” in this year’s results, particularly around GCSE English. • Some high performing schools and recently improved schools sustained a good performance. • The performance data tables will reflect “first not best” results; • - key issue will be consistency and transparency.

16. Attainment and progress 2014Post 16 % A* - C grades at A - level (School reported) RBWM 76% (74.5% 2013) National 76.5% (77% 2013) • Indications are that RBWM performance at A - level has improved and is closer to national, but that this remains the only key stage below national on a key indicator. • RBWM data pack will include vocational results this year. • RBWM data pack will include more detailed destination data this year.

17. Accountabilities • Ofsted • Regional Commissioners • Local Authorities • Directors of School Standards • Local residents • Pupils

18. Accountabilities Whoever we are accountable to, we increasingly know for what we are accountable. Growing the next generation that is successful.

19. The most successful school systems • Understand what leads children to attain, achieve and grow into successful adults and organise the schools around those things. • Never talk about helping children to reach their potential because their potentialcannot be known and has to be assumed is limitless. • Don’t talk about ability and are more interested in zero failure than value added – value added useful tool but can trap children in their disadvantage. • Share their knowledge of how children grow to be successful with the children and their families – if a child can’t do something yet its because their haven't practised it enough and they need someone to show you want to practise. • Understand that earlier intervention has more effect.

20. The most successful school systems Set out to explicitly to ……….. • Teach how to learn, memorise, plan, review, organise, practise effectively – showing children how to become confident. • Teach how to cope with setbacks and how to bounce back. • Teach how to self regulate their behaviour, how to defer their gratification, how to ask for help and how to use that help. • Make these things part of their curriculum not, in some way hidden in pedagogy. • Share what they know about how children succeed with their parents/carers.

21. Welcome to the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead ‘lets work together to ensure all our children are successful and that you all become our next leaders of education’