1638 students

11-18 years old

60-70% advanced bi-lingual learners

14% on free school meals (below national average)

Over 40 home languages spoken

Growing number of new arrivals

Growing Somali community

Context – Park High School

Exam results consistently very good and well above national average outcomes

Last two Ofsted Inspections were graded as Outstanding (2009 and 2013)

Context – Park High School

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things

– Machiavelli

Change:

New National Curriculum in both primary and secondary sector

New GCSE’s both content and grading

GCSE Mathematics and English teaching begins one year before other subjects

New accountability measures at end of KS2 and KS4

Ongoing importance of Ebacc as an additional accountability measure

Vocational courses – still not clear how these will develop

Post 16 peformance tables

New SEN Code of practice being implemented but the final version not yet published.

Change: Towards 2016

This?

Or this?

Usually this….

2016 – Amar arrives in year 7 The proposal is that:

He will have a score ranging between 80 and 130.

100 will be the measurement equivalent to 4b currently and will indicate that Amar is ‘secondary ready’ (the scale is a sliding one)

Amar’s parents will also be informed how his attainment compares with other students nationally.

2013 – Amar arrives in Year 7

His data profile will be based on KS2 SATs scores in reading and writing, mathematics with teacher assessment score in science.

English 4 mathematics 4 and science 4 would be the national expectation for the end of KS2

We also have an extensive range of pastoral information .

Key stage 2 tests: Pupils’ progress in secondary school is based on how they do in these tests yet the way these will be assessed and graded has not yet been decided, even though the consultation was held last year.

Course content published 2013

Exam specs still not available for schools to plan

Other subject, first teaching is September 2016

Course content published for Geography,

History, MFL, Ancient Languages, Science

Combined and Science Single April 2014

Exam spec – working in progress

New GCSE grading and awarding: English and Maths are supposed to be ready for teaching for September 2015 but we don’t know yet what the new grades will mean. For example, what will be the equivalent of a current grade C or an A*. The Ofqual consultation on this has been delayed.

Assessment…guess what? All change

September 2016First teaching of other new GCSEs.

Teaching of linear AS and A levels in a second group of subjects.

November 2016

Last chance to re-sit maths, English and English language exams.

May/June 2017

Final exams for many current GCSEs including biology, chemistry, physics, science, additional science, additional applied science, history and geography.

First exams for new GCSEs in English language, English literature and maths.

First exams for new A levels in the first group of subjects.First exams for standalone, linear AS qualification in the second group of subjects.

August 2017

First results for new GCSEs in English language, English literature and maths.

First results for new A levels in the first group of subjects.First results for standalone, linear AS levels in the second group of qualifications.Last results for unitised (modular) AS and A levels inthe second group of subjects

Current Y8s:

2017 – these students will have numbers for English and Maths

They will have grades for other subjects

Current Y7s:

2018 – these students will have all numbers and will come with a profile dictated by the new assessments.

First cohort through with new exams

The new secondary school accountability system begins in 2016. It includes two new measures, Attainment 8 and Progress 8.

Attainment 8 – the student’s best 8 results in:• Maths, English and the three highest point scores from Science,

Computer Science, History, Geography, Languages, plus the three highest from any other GCSE subject

Progress 8 – type of value added measure which that students’ results at the end of GCSEs are compared to the actual achievements of other students with the same prior attainment.

Our new accountability measures:

Seismic change at every stage while continuing to deliver existing provision

No additional planning time provided centrally

Our currrent year 8 could potentially have both numerical and letter grade GCSE results

Our current year 7 are likely to be your first cohort to have gone through the entire new structure

General election – what will stay or go?

Teacher training

What are the knock-on effects:

Long history of meeting change head on; Our core purpose:

What do we want a Park High Student to be like?

How do we organise learning to achieve this?

How do we know we’ve been successful?

What are our values

How do we prioritise the myriad challenges?

Students……

Critical Thinking and problem solving (e.g the year 9 student with the robot which solves the rubic cube)

Collaboration across networks and leading by influence

Agility and adaptability

Initiative and Entrepreneurialism

Effective oral and written communication

Accessing and analysing information

Curiosity and imagination

 

The outcome we aim for:

Don’t work in isolation and keep your eye on your vision:

Open door policy

Regular bite-size opportunities

Cross subject AND cross phase

Highly valued

Evidenced as effective (impact evaluation)

Threaded through whole school programmes

Relevant

Practical

Promulgate the message constantly

Share and share again

Staff…….

The outcome we aim for:

To see that what they are learning prepares them for life in the real world

To be inspired to be curious, which is fundamental to life long learning

To encounter flexibility in how they are taught

Be excited to become even more resourceful so that they will continue to learn outside the formal school day

 

What students have told us:

• Carpe diem

• Own the changes, don’t let them own you!

• Don’t keep doing the same thing and expect the outcomes to change

• How do you know what you offer will continue to be fit for purpose?

• Transition

• Networking

• Roller coaster! – This too shall pass!

Final thoughts