Shepway District Governor Briefing Autumn 2015 Welcome

1. ShepwayDistrict Governor BriefingAutumn 2015Welcome

2. Agenda • Welcome Tina Gimber, Governor Services, South Kent • Kent Governor Association John Dennis, Shepway KGA Rep. • Provision of School Places David Adams, Area Education Officer, South Kent • School Improvement Fiona Wainde, Senior Improvement Advisor, South Kent • In the News Tina Gimber, Governor Services, South Kent

3. Polite Reminders ! • Housekeeping • Have you signed the register? • List two actions that you will complete following this discussion. • Please complete the online evaluations (direct to you via email)

4. Kent Governors Association Autumn 2015 Shepway Representative - John Dennisjohndennis@db12.co.uk NFER – Regional Schools Commissioner: https://www.nfer.ac.uk/publications/RSCR01/RSCR01_home.cfm Improving Governance – a training resource for schools: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/improving-governance-a-training-resource-for-schools

5. Commissioning School Places David Adams Area Education Officer Autumn 2015

6. Progress in Implementing Proposals For September 2015 our commissioning intentions were to: • Open Martello Grove Academy –opened off-site in Morehall PS. Moves to permanent location in Sep 2016. • Commission 30 Year R places at Cheriton PS – provided. • All Souls CEPS increased its PAN from 40 to 45. • Implement the amalgamation of Foxwood and Highview Schools – delayed by one year to: • Close Foxwood School on 31 August 2016 • Relocate Highview School and increase the designated number from 282 to 334 for September 2016.

7. Forecasting accuracy - Primary Forecast Reception Year 2014/15 1172 Actual Reception Year Jan 2015 1189 Forecast Primary Roll 2014/15 8082 Actual Primary Roll Jan 2015 8064 The Reception Year forecast was 1.4% lower than the actual roll at January 2015, which is marginally above the tolerance level of plus or minus 1%. The total primary forecast was higher than the actual roll by 0.2%.

8. Forecasting accuracy - Secondary Forecast Year 7 2014/15 946 Actual Year 7 Jan 2015 996 Forecast Secondary Roll 2014/14 4896 Actual Secondary Roll Jan 2015 4956 The Year 7 forecasts were underestimated by 5%, and those for all Secondary age pupils (Years 7-11) by 1.2%. It is likely that parents from Dover chose Shepway schools above Dover schools.

9. Targets Maintain between 5% and 7% surplus capacity in each District: Reception Year: Years R - 6 January 2015 6.5%January 2015 5.8% Across Kent ensure that 85% of parents secure their first preference primary school and 84% secure their first preference secondary school: 85.5% of primary parents and 86.8% of secondary parents secured their first preference school.

10. Birth Rates – Shepway, Kent, National

11. Shepway births

12. 2016/20 Commissioning Plan Primary Commissioning Position:

13. Shepway District Governor Briefing National, Local and Ofsted Updates Fiona WaindeSenior Improvement Adviser - Primary Autumn 2015

14. South Kent Team

15. School Improvement Support • Entitlement is unchanged: • Securely good/outstanding = 3 visits • RI/Risk of RI = up to 12 visits • Category/Risk of Category = up to 20 visits • Academy = 3 keep in touch visits • Appraisal for Headteachers of RI and category schools • Support during Ofsted • Visits include those of IA, EYFS Adviser or GDSO • Visits are evaluative, with recommended next steps • Progress and impact meetings for more schools – termly or seasonally • Each visit is approx. 3 hours • Additional visits can be purchase via School Improvement Team directly (pay as you go) or via SLA Contact: Jayne Bartholomew 03000415820 http://www.edukent.co.uk/news/the_school_improvement_service_level_agreement_from_september_2015_is_here/

16. New Headteachers in Shepway

17. South Kent AchievementsEYFS & KS1

18. South Kent Achievements at KS2

19. Summer outcomesEarly Years Foundation Stage

20. Summer outcomesEarly Years Foundation Stage2015

21. Key Stage 1 - 2015 *based on 153 Local Authorities

22. Key Stage 1 - 2015

23. Shepway Key Stage 1 - 2015

24. Key Stage 2 - 2015

25. Key Stage 2 - 2015

26. ShepwayKey Stage 2 - 2015

27. Closing the Gap – 2015 The proportion of vulnerable pupils achieving a combined Level 4 in South Kent is 16.7%, which is 0.9% below the Kent gap of 17.6% in 2015. The gap has widened in Ashford by 0.3%, narrowed in Dover by 3.3% and widened in Shepway by 3.1%.

28. Closing the SEN Gap – 2015

29. Closing the Gender Gap – 2015

30. Area and District Priorities Area • Closing the gap for disadvantaged pupils (Pupil Premium) and those with additional needs (SEND) • Achievement in Mathematics • Achievement of more able children and proportions working above expectation • Continue the work already started to improve outcomes in GPS Ashford • Achievement in Reading Dover • Closing the gender gap Shepway • KS1 Achievement

31. Kent Direction Laid out in: Vision and Priorities for Improvement 2015 – 2018 http://www.kent.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0016/6217/Education,-learning-and-skills-vision-and-priorities-for-improvement.pdf Aims: • All pupils to attend a good school • Raise standards in all Key Stages and meet ambitious targets • Closing the achievement gap for disadvantaged pupils Emphasis on: • Services for vulnerable groups • School to school support including KAH, collaborations and system leadership • Joined up approach to district based working

32. National Direction For governors there is greater Emphasis on: • Governing bodies operating as ‘Executive Boards’ holding Headteacher to account • Range of professional expertise being represented • Governors’ strategic role including input into, and agreeing, the SEF and school improvement plan • Monitoring visits to evaluate implementation and impact of school improvement plan • Demonstration of challenge of the Headteacher and other leaders • Impact of governance on standards • How governing bodies assess and meet their own training needs • Governors’ evaluation of their own performance and impact • Ensuring safeguarding arrangements are not just compliant but highly effective Thank you

33. National Direction Education and Adoption bill raises the profile of the responsibility of the Regional Schools’ Commissioner https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/450013/Considering_the_impact_of_the_Education_and_Adoption_Bill_provisions.pdf Coasting schools eligible for intervention ‘Schools that are coasting by doing ‘just enough’ to avoid falling below the expected standard in any one year, will be eligible for intervention if they consistently fail to make improvements over time (3 years). We consider that these schools are not supporting their pupils to make the progress they should.’ DfE September 2015 From 2016 a coasting school will be defined as in which: In 2014 and 2015 fewer than 85% of pupils achieved level 4 in reading, writing and mathematics and below the national median percentage of pupils make expected progress in reading, writing and mathematics, andin 2016 fewer than 85% of children achieve the new expected standard in reading, writing and mathematics. NB Floor standard will remain at 65% in 2016

34. National Direction Schools causing concern: Statutory Guidance for local authorities. January 2015 https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/434047/Schools_Causing_Concern Jan2015_FINAL_24Mar.pdf Statutory responsibility for LA if concerns are not being addressed promptly: • ‘The Local Authority should issue a warning letter, copied to Ofsted, unless there is a particularly good reason not to’ • Use statutory powers of intervention, if necessary School causing concern defined as one with: • Low standards of performance of pupils (attainment and/or progress below floor or sudden drop, poor achievement of disadvantaged pupils or low performance when compared with similar schools) • Leadership and management (including governance) prejudicing (or likely to prejudice) standards • Concerns over safety and/or safeguarding Kent response is measured, balancing support with challenge: • Joint review meeting with SIA and Head of School Improvement for schools at risk of category / RI, resulting in one of the following: • Letter summarising agreed actions • Pre-warning Notice • Warning Notice • High level of IA support and school to school support • Follow-up monitoring by S/IA

35. Ofsted Update Fiona WaindeSenior Improvement Adviser – South Kent Primary

36. Area Ofsted Outcomes • 19 inspections in 2014/15 in the south • 2 schools went from category to good (one in Dover, one in Shepway) • 4 schools went from RI to good (two in Ashford and two in Dover) • 1 school in Dover went from good to RI • 1 school in Shepwaywas judged for the first time as RI • 6 schools retained their good judgment (2 in Ashford, 3 in Dover and 1 in Shepway) • 1 school in Dover was judged to be good for the first time • 1 school in Dover moved from good to outstanding • 2 schools went from RI to outstanding (one in Dover and one in Shepway) • 1 school in Ashford retained its outstanding judgement • Number of Category schools has decreased from 6 to 1 (4 converted, two moved to good) • Number of RI Schools has decreased from 15 to 11 • Number of good schools increased from 67 to 73 • Number of outstanding schools increased from 12 to 15 • % of good and outstanding schools • Ashford 92.1% (from 82.5%) District rank 2 • Dover 94.9% (from 87.5%) District rank 1 • Shepway 78.1% (from 69.7%) District rank 9

37. Section 5 Current Quality of teaching The behaviour and safety of pupils The achievement of pupils Quality of leadership and management Section 5 CIF Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Personal development, behaviour and welfare of students Outcomes for pupils Effectiveness of leadership and management

38. Section 5 Key judgements: • overall effectiveness • effectiveness of leadership and management • quality of teaching, learning and assessment • personal development, behaviour and welfare • outcomes for pupils 1 – 4 point scale as now

39. Judgements Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outcomes for pupils EYFS or 16-19 study programme (can be higher than OE grade) Leadership and management OE

40. Frequency of inspection From September, Ofsted will inspect good schools once every three years under a new short inspection model. • premise that the school or provider is still good • check that leaders have identified key areas of concern and that they have the capacity to address them. • Focus on leaders’ vision and ambition for all children and learners, how they set the culture and ensure that all learners – particularly the most disadvantaged – make strong progress from their different starting points. • New short HMI led inspections for good schools • 7 out of 10 inspectors will be current practitioners leading good or outstanding institutions

41. Risk assessment Normally in 3rd school year after the most recent inspection. Ofsted analyses: • pupils’ academic achievement over time, taking account of both attainment and progress • pupils’ attendance • the outcomes of any inspections, such as survey inspections, carried out by Ofsted since the last routine inspection • the views of parents, including those shown by Parent View • qualifying complaints about the school referred to Ofsted by parents • any other significant concerns that are brought to Ofsted’s attention.

42. Exemption • Maintained primary and secondary schools and academies judged outstanding at their most recent section 5 inspection can only be inspected under section 8 of the Education Act 2005 • Outstanding special schools (including maintained special schools, special free schools, alternative provision academies and non-maintained special schools with residential provision), pupil referral units and maintained nursery schools are not exempt • HMCI has the power to inspect any exempt school at any time under section 8 if HMCI or the Secretary of State has concerns about performance

43. Exempt schools Exempt schools may be inspected where: • there are safeguarding concerns, including a decline in the standards of pupils’ behaviour • a subject or thematic survey inspection raises more general concerns • Ofsted has received a qualifying complaint about a school that, taken alongside other available evidence(specific powers under sections 11A-C of Education Act) • concerns are raised about standards of leadership or governance • concerns are identified about the breadth and balance of the curriculum

44. Exempt schools (continued) Risk assessment identifies concerns about decline in performance Section 8 inspection – if may no longer be outstanding can be converted to section 5

45. Trainees in the school Staff list must confirm if any NQTs or any trainees on placement including School Direct or School Direct (salaried) training routes. ‘Inspectors should not take trainees’ performance into account when assessing quality of teaching, learning and assessment across school’.

46. Monitoring of RI schools • Will be re-inspected under section 5 no later than the end of the term of 24th month after last inspection report • HMI monitoring inspection 3 – 6 months after report published • May be judged RI at second inspection – inadequate if not good after that

47. Short inspections – section 8 • led by HMI for all secondary and large primaries • notification period the same as section 5 • Parent View used to gather views • will not result in individual grade judgement • will be converted to section 5 if inspector is unsure if still good or could be outstanding (within 48 hours) • once had a short inspection, further short inspections at approximately 3 yearly intervals

49. Reporting on the short inspection • report in a letter format • judgement that the school is still providing a good standard of education • Judgement that safeguarding arrangements are effective • any next steps the school should take

50. New inspection documents The new common inspection framework and handbooks for each of Ofsted’s remits come into effect from September 2015 for the inspection of schools, further education and skills and early years provision: • The common inspection framework: education, skills and early years from September 2015 • School inspection handbook from September 2015 • School inspection handbook for inspections under Section 8 of the Education Act 2005 from September 2015 • Further education and skills inspection handbook from September 2015 • Early years inspection handbook from September 2015 • Non-association independent school inspection handbook from September 2015 • Inspecting safeguarding in early years, education and skills from September 2015