Schools’ Update
From School Improvement and Achievement Service
Term 1 September 2016
W
elcome to the
second edition of
the School
Improvement newsletter.
Hopefully you have all had an
enjoyable and restful summer
break and a calm and positive
start to the new school year.
Key Dates this term
 Autumn School Census Day 6th
October
 Strategic Briefing (HT): 11th
October
 Strategic Briefing (Gov): 13th
October
 Term Ends: 21st October
The 2015/16 school year was full
of new initiatives and policy
changes that have presented you
with new challenges and
unexpected changes. The
significant changes included:
 Implementation of assessment
without levels in the primary
phase;
 First tests and assessments of
the new and more challenging
primary national curriculum;
 New performance benchmarks in
primary and secondary schools;
 New floor standards in primary
and secondary schools.
Inside this issue:
Primary Results
2
Headteachers new in post
3
OfSTED update
4
Safeguarding update
6
Childhood obesity
9
Pupil Premium accountability
10
Question Level Analysis
11
It is impressive how well senior
leaders, teachers and pupils have
worked to meet these new
challenges and the unvalidated
headline performance data shows
overall outcomes are at least
broadly in line with national
averages or better. Once we have
the full validated data we will share
the local authority headline data
with you.
depth of knowledge, humour,
experience and understanding of
the education agenda, the changing
landscape and how it will impact on
learners is incredible. In my short
time in Bath and North East
Somerset I have thoroughly enjoyed
working with Ashley and I found him
to be a font of helpful information
and a true champion of children
and families!
The new school year sees some
significant changes in the local
authority too!
Other news
Ashley Ayre, former Strategic
Director People and Communities
takes up his new job as Chief
Executive for Bath & North East
Somerset Council. Mike Bowden,
formerly Deputy Director CYP
Strategy & Commissioning, takes up
the role of Strategic Director People
and Communities. I am sure you
will join me in congratulating both
Ashley and Mike in their new roles.
We will all miss Ashley’s presence
at the termly Strategic Director’s
meetings with headteachers and
governors. His insightfulness,
The Early Years Team has joined the
School Improvement and
Achievement Service following the
retirement of Sara Willis.
Michelle Darby joins the Governor
Support Service to take up the post
of Governor Support Officer, she
replaces Lynne Collins (see below).
Welcome to all the new
headteachers taking up post this
term (see page 3). We look forward
to a more formal welcome early in
the forthcoming academic year.
Margaret Simmons-Bird
Welcome to Michelle
We are delighted to welcome
Michelle Darby to the
Governor Services Team.
She joins us following a
period working in private
practice as a planning
consultant providing advice
to corporate clients. Prior to
that she was employed as a
solicitor at Bristol City
Council specialising in local
government and planning
law. Currently Michelle is
Chair of Governors at
Farmborough Primary School
and she will work alongside
Odette Doyle to support
governors and answer your
queries.
Thank you
Thank you for all the positive
feedback and comments on
our first issue of our
relaunched newsletter.
We’re delighted you found it
useful and informative.
If you have any suggestions
for future issues—things you
would like to see or
information to include,
please do let us know.
we’d love to be able to
include. We’re always in
need of images to illustrate
articles and use as headers.
Also, if you have any artwork
from children that you and
they are willing to share,
Send any suggestions or
artwork to
[email protected]
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NQT Support from BaNES 2016/17
As from the academic year 2016
-17 the NQT package previously
offered by the local Authority will
be provided by the Bath &
Mendip Partnership Teaching
School. The NQT programme will
encompass the best of the 2
programmes previously offered
separately by the LA and the
Bath & Mendip Partnership
Teaching School. The Bath &
Mendip Partnership Teaching
School will secure the services
of an Appropriate Body. The
Bath & Mendip Partnership
Teaching School flyer is
attached and outlines their
proposals for the new school
year.
PART-TIME NQTs or FULL TIME
MID-YEAR STARTERS
Any part time NQTs or full time
mid-year starters will remain
with The Local Authority as
Appropriate Body until
completed and will be able to
access training from a provider
of their choice.
We would like to take this
opportunity to thank all those
members of staff who have
acted as NQT Mentors and
supported numerous NQTs
successfully through their first
year in the teaching profession.
If you have any queries or
questions regarding your NQTs
[email protected]
Bath and North East Somerset Results Summary 2016 – Primary Phase
Following the very strong rise to
2015 the proportion of
reception children reaching a
Good Level of Development in
the area fell very slightly to 69%
which is the same as the
national average.
reaching the phonics threshold
remained at 79% whilst the
national results rose by 4% to
81%.
At KS1 the proportion of
children achieving the expected
standard is the same as
The proportion of year 1 children national for reading and
Achieving expected standard
Key Stage 1 (%)
Reading
Writing
Maths
mathematics, and slightly below
for writing. The proportions
working at greater depth are
below national for all three
subjects. These results are in
contrast to those in previous
years where pupils in this area
attained above the national
Working at greater depth
2014
(2B+)
2015
(2B+)
2016 Exp
St
2014
(3+)
2015
(3+)
2016
Exp St +
Bath & NES
84
87
74
36
39
21
National
82
81
74
31
32
24
Bath & NES
70
76
64
19
21
9
National
70
72
66
16
18
13
Bath & NES
83
86
73
28
29
15
National
80
82
73
24
26
18
At KS2 the proportions attaining
the expected standard are
above national in reading but
below in the other three subject
areas. Again this is in contrast to
the results in previous years.
depth in writing) nor the KS1 to
We have not yet been able to
KS2 progress data (value
get the national figures for ‘High’ added).
performance (Scaled score
110+ or working at greater
Achieving expected standard
Key Stage 2 (%)
Reading (Test)
Writing
(Teacher assessment)
Maths (Test)
Grammar,
Punctuation
and Spelling
High
2014 (4+)
2015 (4+)
2016 Exp
St
2014
(5+)
2015
(5+)
2016
Exp St +
Bath & NES
92
92
71
58
56
27
National
89
89
66
49
48
Bath & NES
88
88
70
36
37
National
85
87
74
33
36
Bath & NES
89
89
68
46
43
National
86
87
70
42
41
Bath & NES
80
82
72
57
59
National
76
80
73
52
55
12
16
24
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The HUB Summer Survey
During Term 6 The HUB invited
all users (schools, settings,
governors) to give the team
feedback on The HUB and the
support offered.
easily.
84% of respondents reported
that The HUB met their needs
very well or extremely well and
100% of those that took part
Booking training and buying
reported that the HUB team
services remain the main
delivered a high standard of
activity of users on The HUB but customer service and gave
the improved communication
excellent or good responses
tools (Resource pages and
and support.
Communication feeds) are
The survey asked about training
seeing more users finding
needs and during the academic
relevant information more
year watch out for offers of
Headteachers new in post
training from The HUB team
delivered in a variety of ways.
Also, The HUB team will
continue to give updates at the
regular Admin & Finance
Meetings facilitated by the
School Improvement and
Achievement Department.
Thank you to all those who
took part in the survey and if
you have any further comments
or questions please contact
[email protected]
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AAIA Conference
Thursday 6th—Saturday 8th October (members only)
Day Conference: Friday 7th (open to non-members)
The 27th AAIA
Conference is a key
event for all those
interested in quality
assessment in schools.
With updates from OfSTED,
STA, Ofqual along with
keynote speakers and
headteachers sharing their
expertise, this is a mustattend event. Details and
booking at:
www.aaia.org.uk
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OfSTED School Inspection Handbook updates
As ever, Ofsted have updated
the inspection arrangements for
the new year, but this year the
changes are not substantial. An
overview of the changes follows
and the links below take you to
the updated handbooks. They
have had to amend the wording
to the Outcomes section due to
the changes in the assessment
arrangements.
Section 5 school inspection
handbook
In the section on seeking views
during inspections, we have
updated information about how
staff and pupils are consulted
during inspections to reflect the
fact that the surveys are now
online.
In the ‘schools causing concern’
section, we have made changes
to guidance on monitoring
inspections of grade 4 schools
to take into account the recent
legislative changes and the
government’s new Schools
Causing Concern guidance.
Under ‘what happens during the
inspection’, we have clarified
details about with whom
inspectors need to meet with to
inspect governance at the
school.
Under ‘effectiveness of
leadership and management’,
we have added a reference to
inspectors having consideration
for governors’ development in
their role as part of the
effectiveness of school
leadership.
In the ‘outcomes’ section, we
have amended the grade
descriptors to reflect changes to
national assessment and
accountability measures.
Linked to this, in the ‘outcomes’
section, we have also revised
the guidance about inspecting
the performance of
disadvantaged pupils to take
account of the new -measures
relating to pupil progress ,
including comparing the
progress made nationally with
other pupils with the same
starting points.
Section 8 handbook for short,
monitoring and unannounced
behaviour inspections
The clarification about
inspecting governance and with
whom inspectors should meet
with updated in the section 5
handbook is also reflected in the
updated section 8 handbook.
A minor change had been made
to reflect the fact that Ofsted
Inspectors (as distinct from Her
Majesty’s Inspectors) may now
be asked on occasion to lead
section 8 ‘no formal
designation’ inspections.
Under ‘short inspections’, we
have referred to online surveys
to gather staff and pupil views.
We have made a revision to the
section on Requires
Improvement monitoring to
reflect the government’s White
Paper proposal on improvement
periods for schools with new
headteachers.
There is a detailed update to the
guidance on monitoring of
schools causing concern in the
light of recent legislative
changes (Education and
Adoption Act 2016) and the
revised Schools Causing
Concern statutory guidance. This
includes requirements relating
to statements of action for
schools in categories of concern.
Safeguarding
They have also updated the
guidance on Inspecting
Safeguarding
Academy? Choose your moderation package
During the autumn terms, the
STA usually contact all academy
schools asking them to indicate
which provider they are using for
their end of Key Stage 1 and 2
moderation and monitoring
services.
It is a requirement that all
academies choose a provider
and Bath and North East
Somerset cannot provide
moderation services or
discounted training until such a
package has been purchased.
Services and look for the
package under School
Improvement and Achievement
Service. A login is required.
If you wish to buy your
moderation and monitoring
If you have any questions,
services for the end of Key
please contact Spencer
Stage assessments from Bath & Cartwright.
North East Somerset, please go
to The HUB and click on
DPH Award in the news again!
Our short film on how to develop
a whole school approach to
growing, cooking and eating
healthier food is featuring in the
Change for Life Schools Zone.
The zone is packed with ideas
about how to encourage a whole
school approach to food and
uses our film to showcase the
best ideas out there!
Gurney, High Littleton, Oldfield
Park Infants, Paulton Juniors,
Ralph Allen, St John’s MSN, St
Mary’s
Many thanks to the schools that
Writhlington
helped in the making of the film:
and
Whitchurch.
Chew Valley School, Farrington
Term 1 2016/17
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PSHE Update
PSHE CPD Accredited Training
for Teachers, School Nurses and
Other Professionals
We are once again running the
very successful PSHE CPD Training Qualification (accredited by
Roehampton University) and next
year’s training will run on December 8th and 9th, Feb 21st and
May 10th at the Ammerdown
Centre Radstock. One of the
benefits of the training is that it
is delivered to a range of professionals including teachers,
school nurses, youth workers,
drug & alcohol workers , police
colleagues , voluntary agencies
etc., – all who work with children
and young people to deliver
PSHE in its widest sense and all
of whom bring their own expertise to share .
To date we have trained 235
colleagues , with a huge impact
on the confidence of practitioners , but also on the quality of
PSHE / Health and Well-being
provision in schools and other
settings . The course is very interactive and we model the kinds of
activities which can be replicated
with children and young people .
The recruitment letter and the
service level agreement has
been sent out to all schools and
settings .
Contact [email protected] if
you have not received these
forms . Deadline for applications
is September 23rd .
General PSHE Training
Don’t forget that we are able to
offer training to school staff on a
range of PSHE issues , free to LA
schools and with a small charge
to academies . Contact Kate
Murphy for further information at
[email protected]
Table Checking Exercise
The performance tables data checking exercise is now open
until 16 September. Schools are
asked to check their pupil level
data and, if necessary, submit
requests to amend the data on
which their performance
measures are calculated.
The checking exercise gives you
an opportunity to check that the
right pupils have been used
when calculating the performance measures that will be
shown in RAISE online and the
Performance Tables. It allows
schools to add pupils, request
the removal or discounting of
pupils or confirm that their data
is correct.
The tables contain provisional
calculations of school level performance measures including
progress scores. Updated technical guidance on primary accountability, which will help
schools to understand how their
provisional results were calculated, is available at Primary School
Accountability in 2016. This page
also shows the progress scores
used to decide whether a school
is below the Floor Standard.
The guidance explains how to do
this, and how to obtain a summary of your school’s KS2 data.
It is important that you check the
data that may be published to
ensure that the validated data
that will be published in the
school performance tables is
correct.
All schools should have user
names and passwords to access
the secure website. If you have
any problems please contact the
DfE helpline at [email protected], or telephone
08453 077867.
Can You Help?
Are you calm, meticulous and
dedicated to good education
outcomes for all?
We have a range of term time
only volunteering opportunities
Join the SEND Partnership
Service to help improve
outcomes for children and young
people up to the age of 25 with
Special Educational Needs and
Disabilities (SEND)
We provide an impartial and
confidential service to parents,
children and young people and
will provide you with training, ongoing support and cover
expenses
You will help us to support
families with SEND in Bath and
North East Somerset to get the
best outcomes for their children
and young people
For further information and an
application pack contact us:
01225 394382 or e-mail
SEND_partnershipservice@bath
nes.gov.uk
Valid Driving Licence and use of
a vehicle desirable
Enhanced Disclosure & Barring
Service Certificate is required.
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Statutory safeguarding guidance for schools and colleges
The Government has updated
It sets out what schools and
safeguarding information to be
colleges must do to safeguard
used from 5th September 2016. and promote the welfare of
children and young people
This guidance applies to all
under the age of 18.
schools and is for:
All staff in schools and colleges
 headteachers, teachers and should read part 1 of this
education staff
guidance. This part is also
 governing bodies, proprietors available here as a standalone
document.
and management
committees
The document on regulated
activity describes work that a
barred person must not do.
They have also published
guidance on ‘Disqualification
under the Childcare Act 2006’.
Statutory guidance sets out
what schools must do to comply
with the law. They should follow
the guidance unless they have a
very good reason not to.
For the full set of documents
please visit this link.
What you need to know about passwords
How many times a day do we
have to enter a password into a
website? Or how many times do
we need a login to access a
service? However many it is, you
can be sure that it is a number
that is increasing.
as your personal passwords?
What would happen if someone
gained access to one of your
passwords — how many sites
and services could they access?
Scary isn’t it?
The trouble is we have all these
Also, how many of those
sites to remember and we can’t
passwords are the same? And
write the passwords down
how many of them are the same (because that’s not wise is it?).
So what can we do?
This article from the SWGfL
offers some great advice — not
only on how to think up secure
passwords but also how to
manage remembering them and
ensuring you stay safe online.
Click here to read it.
Embedding Assessment — KS1 & KS2 Interim Frameworks
The 2017 Interim Frameworks
for both Key Stage 1 and Key
Stage 2 have been published
which means teachers can start
the new academic year with a
clearer focus on what evidence
they will need to be drawing
upon to make their end of Key
Stage assessments. This will
mean that teachers can plan
with more purpose and develop
teaching and learning activities
that have the best chance of
giving children the opportunity to
demonstrate their learning. The
course will give an overview of
what mastery means and how
teachers can use simple and
manageable techniques to keep
records of children's attainment.
We have put together a training
event to help teachers develop a
clear understanding of how to
plan learning activities that
promote quality learning while
providing the evidence required
for the assessment judgements
contained within the 2017
Interim Frameworks.
See The HUB for more details.
Course ID: SIA-0916-T003
Free training—Teaching for Neurodiversity
A group of charities, led by the
British Dyslexia Association, is
delighted to announce that, they
have been awarded a contract
to the value of £750,000 to
provide services to support
children and young people with
dyslexia and other specific
learning difficulties (SpLDs).
Part of this funding is being
used to offer free ‘Train the
Trainer’ events to teachers and
support staff from up to 3,000
primary and secondary schools,
and 1,500 post 16 institutions.
Each school/provider is invited
to send 2 staff to attend a Train
the Trainer day, where they will
receive a cascading training
pack to deliver to their
colleagues.
and other specific learning
difficulties for young people,
parents and carers, and
professionals. “
Read the full press release on
our website.
Please spread the news and
encourage anyone who may be
interested in the free training to
get in touch by email:
In addition, the funding allows
for the development of a free
online resource portal to provide
quality assured information and [email protected]
expert guidance about dyslexia
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Language Proficiency required in School Census
Following an initial collection
during the autumn 2016 school
census, the collection of
proficiency in English will move
to an annual collection from the
spring 2017 census onwards.
to ensure that this data is
returned for all pupils with
English as an additional
language (EAL) in reception and
above, it is possible that the
data item may be present
within your MIS for all pupils as
Proficiency in English is
feedback has suggested that
required for all pupils recorded
some schools and local
on roll in the census where
authorities may find this
BOTH of the following
functionality useful locally for all
conditions apply:
pupils. However there is no
• Language has been recorded requirement from the
as anything other than ‘English’ Department for schools to
assess the English language
or ‘Believed to be English’ in
proficiency for any children
that census (ie <Language> is
outside the specified cohorts.
NOT equal to ‘ENG’ or ‘ENB’)
who are bilingual and have
mastered English sufficiently to
access the curriculum. English
proficiency statistics would
therefore provide for the first
time important national
statistics on the characteristics
of this group, along with their
attainment and destinations
and allow the Department to
measure whether the individual
pupils, or the schools they
attend, face additional
educational challenges.
Where ‘Proficiency in English’ is
required, it is expected that
schools will assess the position
The data on the English
of their EAL pupils against a five
AND
proficiency of EAL pupils will be point scale of reading, writing
• The actual national
used to inform policy on this
and spoken language
curriculum year group recorded
high needs group with the basic proficiency which can be viewed
is reception or above (or the
rationale being that current
on page 63 of the guidance.
pupil is aged 4 and above as at
data on EAL pupils does not
Click here to view.
31 August 2016 where national
distinguish between pupils who
curriculum does not apply)
lack a basic command of the
English language versus those
Whilst the census will validate
Living Memory Project
The Living Memory project
remembers the forgotten front the 300,000 war graves or
commemorations right here in
the UK.
the full length of that battle and about some of those buried in
centred around at least 141
that site and stage a
different CWGC sites.
commemorative event – in their
own way and reflecting their
In total, CWGC has graves
own interests – to remember
located in 13,000 locations,
those who lost their lives in the
On the centenary of the Battle
200 of which are major sites
141 days of the Somme.
of the Somme the
and almost all in big city
Commonwealth War Graves
cemeteries and linked to the
To enable community groups to
Commission (CWGC), in
hospitals. The majority of men
take part, funding, resources
partnership with Big Ideas
and women buried or
and support will be available.
Company, is asking the public
commemorated either died in a Visit www.cwgclivingmemory.org
in the British Isles to re-connect British hospital of injuries
or email
with the war dead buried in
sustained during the war or (in [email protected]
their own communities.
1918-19) died in the influenza
An information pack and a
epidemic. They must not be
This project is looking at the full
spreadsheet of war graves in
forgotten.
141 days of the battle of the
Bath and North East Somerset
Somme July 1 to November 18. CWGC have produced
is available on The HUB to
We are looking to have 141
resources to help community
those with an account. Search
different community
groups identify a CWGC site
for article SIA-0716-A003
engagement events, reflecting near them, do some research
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EEF evaluation report on texting parents
Helping parents to engage in
their child’s learning by texting
them about upcoming tests or
homework deadlines can boost
secondary school pupils’ maths
results by the equivalent of an
extra month in the classroom,
according to the results of a new
trial published by the Education
Endowment Foundation (EEF)
today.
warnings about missed
homework, to conversation
prompts on what their child had
learnt that day.
how to do this successfully –
and, in particular, how to reach
parents whose own experiences
of schools were not positive. At a
maximum cost to schools of just
The independent evaluators
£6 per pupil across the school
from Queen’s University Belfast
year, today’s results suggest
found that pupils receiving the
that texting parents could be a
intervention made an additional
straightforward and costmonth’s progress in maths
effective way of improving
compared with a similar group
attainment through parental
whose parents didn’t get the
engagement. The approach is
Almost 16,000 students in 36
texts. Absenteeism was reduced
likely to be even cheaper than
English secondary schools took too. They reported that schools
this as most schools will already
part in the randomised
embraced the programme and a
have the required texting
controlled trial of the Parent
vast majority of parents were
software and messages can be
Engagement Project, delivered
supportive of the programme
free if parents have downloaded
by researchers from the
including the content, frequency
the relevant software (which is
University of Bristol and Harvard and timing of texts.
also free) onto their
University. Parents were sent an
smartphones.
Previous research has shown
average of 30 texts over one
that while parental engagement
school year (roughly one per
To read the full report, follow
is an effective way of improving
week) with content ranging from
this link.
attainment, little is known about
dates of upcoming tests and
Is your website compliant & up to date?
With the new academic year
now underway, it’s a great time
to refresh and review the
information you have on your
school’s website.
The Government lists what
maintained, academy and free
schools need to publish online.
For maintained schools, these
now include the requirement to
publish details of each
governor’s business interests,
financial interests, governance
roles in other schools as well as
the structure and
responsibilities of the governing
body and committees.
For maintained schools’
requirements click here
Academies and free schools are
required to publish slightly
different information about their
governing bodies.
For academy and free schools
requirements click here and
click here to see the relevant
information about governor
information (section 2.5.1).
Is our website up to date with your details?
The Council’s main website lists
schools’ and colleges' details:
http://www.bathnes.gov.uk/
services/schools-colleges-andlearning/find-school
At this time of year it is good to
check that all your details are
correct. While we try to keep on
top of changes, it would be very
helpful if you could find your
school to review information
posted.
Please can you review/check: -
 school name & address
 headteacher/principal’s
name & title
 contact telephone numbers
 email addresses
 website address
 update or to be included your
school paragraph (please
limit of 100 words maximum)
Please could you email
alterations to Debbie Langton -
[email protected]
who will make changes as
required.
And in a similar vein, it is also a
good time of year to check your
details on The HUB are correct:
http://thehub.bathnes.gov.uk/
Contacts/ContactSites along
with EduBase:
http://www.education.gov.uk/
edubase
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Childhood Obesity – a plan for action
The long awaited Government
Obesity Strategy document was
published on 18th August
2016. Now titled, Childhood
Obesity – a plan for action, the
document outlines key actions
to tackle the growing burden of
overweight and obesity in our
children.
Schools will play an important
part in the plan and primary
schools will be part of a new
‘healthy schools rating scheme’
from September 2017.Details
of this scheme will be published
during the Autumn term. It will
be taken into account during
Ofsted inspections and will help
schools demonstrate to parents
that they are taking evidencebased actions to improve their
pupils’ health.
Actions in the plan for schools
are as follows:
Increase physical activity:
Schools will be asked to offer at
least 30 minutes of moderate
to vigorous physical activity a
day through active break times,
PE, extra-curricular clubs, active
lessons or other sport and
physical activity events.
Nationally, support will come
via a new interactive tool to
help schools plan their physical
activity.
Increase active travel: The
Government has committed to
producing a Cycling and
Walking Investment Strategy
and will be investing £300m to
support cycling and walking,
including a target to increase
the number of children walking
to school and continued
support for Bikeability cycle
training.
Luckily for Bath and North East
Somerset schools and early
years settings there already is a
wide range of local support
available through the Director
of Public Health (DPH) Award.
Established since 2012, over
60% of our schools have
engaged with the DPH Award
and are making measurable
improvements to the health and
wellbeing of our children.
Make school food healthier: The
Healthy weight is a key priority
school food standards will be
in B&NES and we have a wide
updated to take into account
range of partners already in
new advice on sugar and
position to support schools and
nutrition. It is already statutory
early years settings across all
that all maintained schools and
three areas outlined above.
new academies (converting on
or after 1st June 2014) must be If you want to find out more
compliant with these standards about the DPH Award and how
and the plan now states that
it can support your school or
the Government are keen to
setting to implement the
encourage all academies to
Childhood Obesity plan, then do
make a clear commitment to
get in touch. We will be keeping
the food standards.
you updated as more detail
about the plan emerges and are
Early years settings:
planning to offer a training day
In early 2017, the Government where you can find out what the
will launch a campaign to raise implications are for schools and
awareness of new Government settings and have an
opportunity to share best
dietary recommendations for
under 5’s as well as update the practice and ideas for
implementation. We are
EYFS to make specific
anticipating this event will occur
reference to the Chief Medical
Officer’s guidelines for physical in January 2017, but will keep
you updated on this.
activity in the early years,
including active play.
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Admin & Finance Meeting
The regular information exchange and networking meeting
Strategic Director’s Meeting
Termly updates for Headteachers & SLT
 The very latest from the Hub team – training page
changes & updates
 What your school should know about ‘Information
security & good Governance’
 School Finance – revised budgets exercise,
funding formula news plus more!
 SIMS – census
27th September 2016 8:30 — 1:00 Avonfields Room, Somerdale Pavilion
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Future meeting dates:
10th January, 16th March, 13th June
Mike Bowden, Strategic Director, People &
Communities Department will update on
current strategic developments with the local
authority together with other topical agenda
items/speakers. Full agenda will be issued
in due course. Governors’ event 13th October
11th October 2016 13:00 — 16:00 Avonfields Room, Somerdale Pavilion
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Please advise if you would like to join us
and whether you would like lunch (12:15).
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Term 1 2016/17
2017 Primary Assessment Dates
Key Stage 1
May 2017
Key stage 1 test period
Week commencing Monday 12 June 2017
Phonics screening check week
Key Stage 2
Monday 8 May 2017
Tuesday 9 May 2017
Wednesday 10 May 2017
Thursday 11 May 2017
English reading
English grammar, punctuation and spelling
Paper 1: questions
English grammar, punctuation and spelling
Paper 2: spelling
Mathematics Paper 1: arithmetic
Mathematics Paper 2: reasoning
Mathematics Paper 3: reasoning
Pupil Premium accountability online
From the 1 September 2016,
schools maintained by the local
authority must publish their
strategy for the school’s use of
the pupil premium on their
websites.
Details of the specific
information you need to publish
can be found in their guidance
on what local-authoritymaintained schools must
publish online.
Academies and free schools
should read their funding
agreement to identify what they
need to publish on their
websites. Guidance on what DfE
recommends you publish is also
available.
The Teaching Schools Council
has produced templates to help
schools present their pupil
premium strategy.
BaNES schools continue to shine
Bath & North East Somerset
Council continues to be one of
the best local authorities in
Britain for tackling homophobic,
biphobic and transphobic
bullying and celebrating
difference in its schools.
secondary and special schools.
Currently, the group is working
with media students from Bath
College to produce another film
aimed at health professionals,
to improve the experience of
young lesbian, gay, bi and trans
people accessing medical care.
Somerset Council has been
ranked in the top five in the
Stonewall Equality Index 2016.
Getting into the top five three
times in a row is an incredible
achievement and shows our
consistent performance to
promote LGBT equality. This is
Bath & North East Somerset
testimony to our excellent
Council has actively encouraged Bath & North East Somerset’s
inclusion work and to great
schools and other youth settings Council’s multi-agency
partnership work between the
to develop children and young
Challenging Homophobia and
Local Authority, schools, external
people-led Equality Teams (ETransphobia Steering Group has
agencies and, in particular,
Teams) to work collaboratively
produced new guidance for
children and young people who
on campaigns around diversity
primary schools on making
are determined to make Bath &
and inclusion. It has
lessons LGBT-inclusive and has
North East Somerset a more
implemented over 40 E-Teams
worked with Gendered
inclusive place to live, work and
in the region, many of which
Intelligence to develop a
visit.’
focus on activities around
checklist for settings supporting
challenging discriminatory
trans young people. It has also
Bath & North East Somerset
language.
set up a support group for LGBT came joint second place with
staff in schools and settings.
Brighton & Hove City in
The council’s LGBT youth group
Stonewall’s Council Education
SPACE also produced a film
Cllr Tim Warren Leader of Bath
Equality Index 2016.
about its work, which was
& North East Somerset Council
launched by the Mayor, and
said: ‘We are delighted that
shared with PSHE leads at
once again Bath & North East
Term 1 2016/17
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Question Level Analysis
We would like to remind both
primary and secondary schools
that the question level analysis
(QLA) data from 2016 key stage
2 tests is available now within
RAISEonline.
curriculum covered by the tests. login to RAISEonline (click the
‘QLA and optional tests’ button).
There are new and updated
RAISEonline reports which will
For secondary schools the data
assist analysis of strands, sub
is available from the NCA Tools
strands and individual items/
website and requires the data
questions. These cover each of administrator to enter the UPNs
For primary schools, QLA will
the three mathematics papers, for their new Year 7 pupils.
give you a picture of how well
the reading paper and the two
All-through schools only need to
your pupils performed in
grammar punctuation &
enter the UPNs for pupils new
specific questions and areas
spelling papers.
to the school, as all their 2016
assessed by the tests,
An example of the reports
Year 6 pupils have had their
compared with all other pupils
available and the drill through
data automatically uploaded
nationally.
from a summary to a question/ already.
For secondary schools, QLA can item and pupil is available
Guidance within the question
support managing transition
within the QLA folder in the
level analysis folder of the
from primary school, giving
RAISEonline library
RAISEonline library
teachers detailed information
demonstrates the
How
to
access
QLA
on their incoming Year 7
straightforward process to
cohort’s strengths and
For primary schools, the data is access data from NCA tools and
weaknesses in each area of the available when school users
then upload it to RAISEonline.
STA Webinars
The STA will host 2 live,
interactive webinars about the
2017 assessment cycle on
Tuesday 15 November 2016.
The webinars offer schools,
local authorities and academy
trusts the opportunity to raise
questions about the 2017 tests proved to be very informative
and assessments to our panel
and it is recommended that all
of experts.
those involved in primary
assessment watch them and
Details of the timings and how
take part. If you are not able to
to register will be released as
watch them live, recordings are
soon as we are told.
made available afterwards.
Last year these webinars
The HUB—are your users up to date?
The new school year is a great
time to do some digital
housekeeping and up date
systems so that they reflect
staff changes and any changes
in personal details.
Schools and settings are
responsible for managing and
maintaining staff (including
governors) that have access to
The HUB. Any user that has Full
Rights has the ability to create,
pause and amend users.
ensure that your list of HUB
users reflects this.
You can see who has access to
your site and what level of
access they have by having a
Full Rights user log in and click
on Setup in the menu bar and
then click Manage Users.
Individual users can update
their own details (for example,
change the email address
associated with the account) by
logging in and clicking on their
If you have had staff leave or
name in the upper right corner,
join your school, please can you and selecting My Profile.
SEND Team updates
Please be aware that for the
next 12 months, Rosemary
Collard will be directly
managing the SEND team
whilst Christine Jones carries
out additional duties.
You may like to make a note in
your diary that we are planning
a Local Area SEND conference
on the 19th November 2016.
More details to follow, but for
now please save the date!
Those schools that have
recently converted to an
academy will have new email
addresses for all their staff and
this will need to be reflected in
staff’s accounts.
If you have any questions or
would like any guidance on how
to do any of this, please do
contact the HUB team.
As usual, the HUB team will be
at the forthcoming Admin and
Finance Meeting and will
happily answer questions and
support those who would like
Training & Events this term
School Improvement & Achievement
Code
SIA-0916-T003
SIA-0916-T002
SIA-0916-T004
SIA-0916-T001
SIA-1016-T003
SIA-1016-T004
SIA-1016-T005
SIA-1016-T001
Date
Name
19 Sep 2016 09:00 - 12:00
20 Sep 2016 09:00 - 15:00
23 Sep 2016 13:30 - 15:00
27 Sep 2016 08:30 - 13:00
06 Oct 2016 09:00 - 09:00
11 Oct 2016 12:15 - 16:30
12 Oct 2016 09:00 - 12:00
Embedding Assessment
New to BaNES Headteachers Induction & Support Programme - Session 1
Better Maths Project - Launch Event
Administration, Finance & School Support Staff Meeting
AAIA 27th Annual Conference
Strategic Briefing for Headteachers
New to BaNES Headteachers Induction & Support Programme - Session 2
Primary and Secondary RE Conference: Developing and Assessing RE for a New
21 Oct 2016 12:45 - 16:15
Agreed Syllabus
Governor Services
Code
GS-0916-T002
GS-1016-T002
GS-1016-T001
GS-1116-T001
Date
Name
17 Sep 2016 09:30 - 11:30
03 Oct 2016 09:30 - 15:30
13 Oct 2016 18:15 - 20:30
20 Oct 2016 09:30 - 12:00
GS-1016-T003
20 Oct 2016 19:00 - 21:00
Chairs’ Network
Introduction to Clerking
Strategic Briefing for Chairs of Governors
Clerks’ Briefing
Primary School Performance Data - RAISE online and the inspection dashboard
Don’t miss!
Deepening Mathematical Understanding
Practical and fun ideas for building mastery in
your school
Keynote Speakers:
Workshops will include topics such as:
Rob Eastaway – has been Director of Maths Inspiration
since it began in 2004. He is an author whose books on
everyday maths include the bestselling Why Do Buses
Come In Threes? and The Hidden Maths of Sport. He
appears regularly on BBC Radio 4 and 5 Live to talk
about the maths of everyday life and has given maths
talks across the world to audiences of all ages.
Supporting girls’ mathematical development
Puzzles and magic,
Mathematics in the early years
Algebra in transition from primary to secondary
Singapore maths
Practical and inspiring advice from a school
mathematics leader
Plus a selection of mathematics exhibitors
Pete Griffin – Teacher, advisory teacher, mathematics
adviser, mathematics education lecturer and now
assistant director of the National Centre for Excellence
in Teaching Mathematics. Pete has a deep
understanding of how children learn mathematics and
has a wide experience in designing professional
development opportunities for primary and secondary
teachers. He will provide practical examples and the
theoretical background to key methods of teaching for
mastery and building mathematical understanding
Friday 9th December 9am to 3:30pm
Somerdale Pavilion
Booking opens on Friday 30th September via The HUB
Prices from £60 with a 20% multi-delegate discount available
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