Where we were
Where we are now
How we got here
Background To My Involvement
 Vice Chair of governors at Silkstone Common J&I, rated by Ofsted as
2000 Satisfactory
2005 Outstanding
2008 Outstanding
 Asked in March 2011 to be on the Interim Executive Board (IEB) for
Darfield All Saints which was being put into Special Measures
 Appointed to the Ofsted Recovery Committee in March 2011
 Craig Lee (an NLE) of St Mary’s Barnsley (a Nat. Support School),
appointed as Executive Head
 Sheila Bott, appointed as the LA’s School Evaluation Officer.
 Sec of State approved the IEB in April 2011
Where did we start from?
 March 2011 Ofsted report: inadequate for everything except
pastoral care and EYFS
 RaiseOnline 2010: Disaster zone!
 From SIAS: Are they looking at the same school?!
First visit to the school
 Governors: depressed and resentful
 Atmosphere and appearance: Depressing, Dowdy, Dull
BUT
An air of determination from the Deputy Head.
Academic performance 2010
Attainment (RAISEonline 2010)
28
27
Average points score
26
25
English National
English School
24
Maths National
23
Maths School
22
Notes on KS2 cohort (n=23)
21
•40% on FSM
20
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
•43% rated at some level of SEN
SATS 2010
80
70
60
Percentage
50
40
Teacher assessment
Test
30
20
10
Key Question
0
% with level 4 + % with level 5 Eng % with level 4 +
Eng
Maths
% with level 5
Maths
Why are the teacher assessments
so different?
Sats 2011
Attainment 2011 results
29
28
27
26
English National
25
English School
24
Maths National
Maths School
23
22
21
Notes on KS2 cohort (n=23)
20
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
•44% on FSM
•43% rated at some level of SEN
Current Ratings And Predictions
(using last year’s SATs paper)
80
70
Percentage of pupils
60
50
% with level 4 + Eng + Maths
40
% with level 4 + Eng
% with level 4 + Maths
30
20
10
0
2010
2011
2012 pred
What Ofsted thinks so far
September 2011
January 2012
HMI judgement of progress
since March.
HMI judgement of progress
since September
Raise attainment and accelerate
progress in English and Maths.
Good Progress
Good Progress
Improve Leadership, Management
and Governance.
Outstanding Progress
Outstanding Progress
Areas for improvement
identified by Ofsted.
Improve outcomes in the Early Years
Satisfactory Progress
Foundation Stage.
Good Progress
Overall progress since being subject
to special measures.
Good Progress
Good Progress
If you maintain this
progress I’ll give you a
chance to get out of
S.M. in July
Key Actions
Review by Craig, discussed with us, of :
 Teaching approaches
 Assessment procedures
 SEN pupils
(44 listed SEN + 44 being monitored for SEN out of 171 pupils!)
 Budget
 Actions that had been taken since the Deputy Head took over the
school in January 11
Conclusions
 Teachers were working hard but ineffectively, motivation was improving
 No previous assessments of pupils’ standards were reliable
 Many children were rated SEN who weren’t
 School about to go under financially.
Some Additional Key Issues
 Children coming to school with no breakfast (and often having no evening meal!)
 Over 30 children on our safeguarding register resulting in:

50% at least of the Acting Head’s time dealing with problem families!
 High absenteesim (38% of children had less than 94% attendance)
 Previous mis-management of the school’s budget leading to lack of resources
e.g.

Inadequate heating system

Poor levels of general maintenance and decoration

Insufficient interesting books for reading

No resources for equipment to help teach science and maths

No useable ICT resources in classrooms

Staff had no computers on which to do planning and access school info – in
or out of hours
Actions
 Stem the leaks in the budget – cancel every contract we could
 St Mary’s staff to work with Darfield staff to
 review and improve teaching methods
 review and improve assessment methods and standards for
teachers and children
 provide a positive supportive atmosphere to staff and children
 All children to be reassessed
 Immediate extra help for current Year 6.
Data We Used: Action Plan
 Purpose is to ensure we fulfill the School Improvement Plan
agreed between the LEA and Ofsted which has 3 key targets.



Raise attainment and accelerate progress in Maths and English
Improve leadership, management and governance
Improve outcomes in EYFS
 Plan gives on a weekly basis what will happen to move us
towards the target for each priority, detailing
 Impact/Success criteria
 Milestones
 Improvement actions with dates, person responsible
 Monitoring questions
 Evaluation strategies
 Accountability.
No
surprises
Data we used: Action plan contd
At the IEB at each monthly meeting we have a report detailing:
 Actions that have been taken, who did it and the results
 Actions planned to progress to the next milestone (for teaching and
assessment standards as well as pupil’s progress)
 A diary of interventions
 Teacher progress
 Pupil attainment and progress data
At first this was produced by the Exec Head. Now, so we can demonstrate
how the internal leadership has developed, the Acting Head and Deputy
Head produce them.
Data We Used: Teacher performance
Reports to assess whether teaching standards are improving:
 Support each teacher has received: planning, doing, assessing and
classroom layout
 Impact on the class: motivation + performance
 Improvements in teaching standards from teacher rating records
Results (OFSTED assessment)
 May 2010: some good practice but most teaching only satisfactory
 March 2011: quality of teaching had declined and was rated inadequate
 July 2011: progress being made
 September 2011: teaching improving, more lessons with Satisfactory
and Good elements
 January 2012: There is a stronger profile of teaching and learning
throughout the school. Elements of Good and occasionally Outstanding
teaching were observed.
Data We Used: Children’s progress
Children need to make 3
points progress per year.
One point per term.
Measures of progress and achievement
 Average Points Progress for each cohort, with FSM and gender splits
 Number of children making the required level of progress
with an explanation about those that aren’t
 Current assessments of levels for each child and percentage of children
on track to reach L4+
In addition we have:
 Gone on tours of the classrooms to see for ourselves what is
happening
 Looked at children’s workbooks during the tours
 Been shown anonymous samples of monitoring data for
individual children.
Whole class data – by sub-group
We have a table like this for each year group
Whole class data - attainment
We have this table for reading and writing as well
Whole class data - progress
We also have a simple summary of:
% of pupils on track for atttainment and progress to Level 2+ at KS1
% of pupils on track for atttainment and progress to Level 4+ at KS1
Individual progress data - anonymous
Expectations for July Ofsted
 All Pupils will be closer to where they should be (L4+) but will not
have made up all the ground they lost since entering the school
 We will be close to but not at floor targets for attainment (unlikely
where children are so far behind)
 We will be above targets for progress from KS1 to KS2
 The standard of teaching will be good as a minimum for all staff
 Safeguarding will continue to be excellent
 The lead inspector will call in a full team, turn our section 5
assessment into a full blown inspection which will take us out of
Special Measures.
The teachers are up for this.
They looked forward to Ofsted in
January and want the one in July!