Richie Winn

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Richie Winn

• Assistant Education Officer (Data Management)
• richiewinn_at_sceschools.com

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AGENDA

• Who, where and what is SCE?
• Mobility and turbulence and how we manage it
• UPNs and CTFs
• Positive action
• Statistics from September 05 to August 06
• Questions?

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WHO ARE WE?

• Service Childrens Education is an Agency of the
  MoD
• Present Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is David
  Wadsworth
• Formed as SCE in 1996
• Amalgamation of SCS(NWE) and SCEA

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THE AGENCYS AIMS ARE-

• To provide an effective education service from
  nursery through to sixth form, for dependant
  children residing with MoD personnel serving
  outside the UK
• To enable those children to benefit from their
  residence abroad

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SERVICE CHILDRENS EDUCATION - vital statistics

• Currently some 11,500 pupils in 43 schools in 10
  countries around the world
• Schools vary in size from 20 to 700 pupils
• 35 primary, 2 middle and 6 secondary
• Free places are provided for 3 years olds
  (part-time) and 4 year olds in 48 settings
• SCE employs about 2,000 staff - teachers, civil
  servants and locally engaged support staff

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WHERE ARE THE SCHOOLS?

• Germany
• Cyprus
• Belize
• Brunei
• Gibraltar
• Canada
• Naples
• Holland
• Belgium
• Falkland Islands

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MOBILITY AND TURBULENCE

• Every academic year approximately 4,000 pupils
  arrive in our schools
• At the same time approximately 4,000 pupils leave
  (the majority destined for schools in England)
• That is 8,000 pupil transactions each year
• Assuming a 40 week academic year then
  approximately 200 transactions per week or 40
  each school day

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HOW DO WE MANAGE THIS?

• 4 secondary schools SIMS
• Our remaining schools INTEGRIS
• CENTRIS, dBase and Crystal Reports
• All schools have a DfES number
• Administrative staff in schools are very can do
• On average a school secretary will stay with us
  for two to three years

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HOW DO WE MANAGE THIS? (CONTD)

• Few newly appointed staff have worked in a
  school before or have experience of MIS
• Hit the ground running, new user training,
  help desk, consortium support, termly User
  Groups and the Annual SCE Conference

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UPNS AND CTFS

• Many children arrive in SCE schools without a UPN
  or a CTF
• SCE schools make every effort to obtain a UPN
  from the previous school
• If that fails we search Key to Success on the
  schools behalf
• SCE make every effort to find a UPN if one exists

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BBC NEWS SEPTEMBER 6TH 2006
Chairman James Arbuthnot said some of the UK's
90,000 or so services children may be "falling
between the cracks" in the education
system Communication between government
departments and agencies was "often poor" As a
result, schools were given short notice of
postings and there were delays in the transfer of
student records
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POSITIVE ACTION- a message to all schools with
service children

• A child from a service family is leaving
• Does the pupil know which school he/she will be
  attending?
• NO!
• Does the pupil know where the family are posted
  to?
• YES it will have been the topic of conversation
  for weeks!
• For SCE schools log on to Edubase and enter 702
  as the LA number
• All SCE schools are listed together with their
  location
• Normally you will only find one school in each
  location

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POSITIVE ACTION (CONTD)- a message to all
schools with service children

• Gütersloh has two (Haig and Blankenhagen) so use
  702LLLL
• Ralston School Canada (7036203)
• MEF International School, Izmir, Turkey (7036509)
• Jerondong School, Brunei (7036196)
• Does your LA have a significant number of pupils
  from service families? Do some transfer to SCE or
  to other LAs?
• Please make every effort to use CTFs and ensure
  continuity

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USING ESTABLISHMENT FINDERhttp//www.edubase.gov
.uk/EstablishmentFind.aspx
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CTF TRANSACTIONSSeptember 2005 August 2006
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SCE CTF TRANSACTIONS SUMMARY September 2005
August 2006
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• THANK
• YOU

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• ANY QUESTIONS?

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