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FACT ConferenceJune 2011
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Relationships between the Local Authority and
Schools
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• Celebration of the current position of Northumberland schools
• Key principles of school improvement and system leadership
• Implications of the Education Bill
• School improvement and school support in the future
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KS2 English and Maths Trend 2004 - 2010
KS2 Eng & Ma Combined Trend 5+ All 2004 - 2010
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
N'land National Linear (N'land)
* 2010 Does not include schools that boycotted the SATs – Cragside Primary, Delaval Middle and NCEA
KS2 Eng & Ma Combined Trend 4+ All 2004 - 2010
60
65
70
75
80
85
90
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
4+ N'land 4+ National Linear (Northumberland)
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GCSE Trends 2002 – 2010 5+ A*- C inc Maths & English
GCSE Trend 5+ A* - C inc M&E
38
43
48
53
58
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Northumberland National
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Ofsted Inspection Judgements
-10
10
30
50
70
90
110
Outstanding/good Satisfactory or better
Northumberland
National
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• Every school a good school– Implementing the national strategies in a local
context– Recognising the importance of the 5
outcomes of every child matters– Focusing on teaching and learning, leadership
and management– Promoting a moral purpose, encouraging
partnerships of schools
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GCSE 2010 - % achieving by Ofsted judgement outcome
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
80.0
90.0
5+A*-C 5+A*-C inc E&M
Satisfactory Good or Outstanding Northumberland National
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Education is undergoing continuous change– System leadership
• Public service with moral purpose– Raising the bar and closing the gap of student learning (and achievement)– Treating people with demanding respect– Altering the social environment for the better
• Commitment to changing context at all levels– The structures and cultures within which one works; school, partnerships, system
• Lateral capacity building through networks– Leaders and teachers collaborating with other schools to learn from and contribute to school
improvement• Intelligent accountability and vertical relationships
– Combine self evaluation and external evaluation• Dual commitment to short-term and long-term results
– Actions to obtain early results but also building elements• Deep Learning
– Openness, intelligent use of information and learning form experience• Cyclical energising
– Times of full engagement and breaks for energy replenishment• The long lever of leadership
– Leadership at all levels is the primary engine if the system is to become sustainable
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• Coalitions plan to change the shape of school system– New balance national/local centralisation and powers and
responsibilities of schools– Headteachers accept responsibilities beyond the boundaries of
their own school– NLE, LLE, federations
• Self improving system of schools – will require clusters of schools accepting responsibility for self
improvement of the cluster as a whole – A NEW COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY – shared targets
• Challenge one another, support one another and celebrate individual and collective achievements
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• This process is akin to the changes of LMS financial delegation of responsibilities to schools in 1980s
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• Creating a self improving school system – In an era of diminishing centralisation, accelerating
the rate and depth of school improvement and reducing the number of underperforming schools requires a new vision
– Increased decentralisation offers an opportunity for the school system to build on these (increased leadership capacity and experience of working in partnership/collaboration) and become self improving
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4 building blocks of a self improving system• Clusters of schools – the structure• Local solutions approach and co-construction –
the 2 cultural elements• System leaders- the key people
• In place – but need to be strengthened so that schools collaborate in more effective forms of professional development and school improvement
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Education Bill
• Themes – Using resources fairly
– Freedom
– Accountability and responsibility
Plus
– Behaviour
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Freedom
“We want every school to be able to shape its own character …. free of either central or local bureaucratic constraints”.
• Enable schools to decide how to co-operate • Academies programme extended to 16-19 Academies and
alternative provision Academies; streamlining land transfers – National curriculum – School Teachers Pay and Conditions
• Repeal the diploma “entitlement”• Free local authorities to fulfil their role to act as champions of social
justice: admissions; advice and guidance
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Accountability
“Alongside school autonomy, accountability for student performance is critical to driving educational improvement”
• End Ofsted routine inspections of outstanding schools and colleges• Ofsted to focus on 4 key areas• LA duty to provide school improvement partners removed• Powers to tackle under-performing schools and colleges • Strengthen Ofqual governance; and require it to compare standards
internationally. Sampled schools take part in international surveys • Governing bodies chosen on skills rather than constituency • Five arms length bodies abolished
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Using resources fairly
• Free early years provision for disadvantaged two year olds
• Introduce the pupil premium• Introduce a more progressive higher education student
finance system – real interest rates; cap of part-time fees• Focus the “skills entitlement” on those up to 24 • Re-define apprenticeship offer to make it deliverable and
focused on priority groups• A more cost-effective complaints system
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Conclusions
• Fundamental 1996 Education Act Local Authority duties remain– Section 13 - General responsibility– Section 13A – Duty to promote high standards– Section 14 – Duty to secure sufficient schools
• Significant centralisation of power in the hands of the Secretary of State
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Three Key Changes and their implications
• Localism v Centralisation
• Academies and Free schools
• LA plans for underperforming schools
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• LA services provided to all schools
• LA services provided to maintained schools but not academies
• LA services that can be traded with schools and academies
• Other providers of services
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• TES 17th June– Gove forces academy switch on primaries– ‘worst’ 700 to take on new status with
outstanding schools as sponsors