Transforming Schools Transforming Sandwell

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Transforming Schools Transforming Sandwell
Melanie Dudley Director of Transformation
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Context

• Population 290,000
• 11-16 Students 18,500
• 21 Secondary Schools
• 5 Academies approved or planned
• 13 Specialist Extended Schools
• 2 Special Schools

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Sandwell 2 Years ago.

• Most deprived West Midlands borough
• Household Incomes less than 25,000
• All 24 wards are in worst 40 in England
• 11 of the population had never worked
• 27 of workforce adults with no qualifications
• 46 have qualifications lower than Level 2

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Sandwell now

• Most improved Metropolitan Authority
• Rising residential population
• Inward migration including young families
• Housing renewal major investment
• Town Centre regeneration underway

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Sandwell in 2020.

• a thriving, sustainable, optimistic and
  forward-looking community

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BSF Part of a wider investment

• BSF
• ECM Primary Capital Programme
• Health 2010
• Housing Market Renewal and Housing PFI
• Regenco (URC) and Town Centre renewal
• New Deal for Communities

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Scale of Schools Investment

• BSF and Academies
• 3 Academy Schools open or in development 80m
• BSF Wave 3 ( 6 Schools rebuilt or
  remodelled) 120m
• Wave 5 ( 10 Schools including 2 academies
• rebuilt or remodelled) 170m
• 370m
• ECM Primary Capital Programme
• Joined-up funding of 7m per annum?

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Our Opportunity

• Firstly To create an environment for
  lifelong learning,
• fit for the 21st century,
• relevant to the need of our citizens, and
• capable of giving them the opportunity to achieve
  their full potential.
• Secondly To reconfigure our services and our
  buildings,
• to be inclusive,
• dynamic and relevant to the lives of all of our
  citizens
• in support of the socio-economic regeneration of
  our neighbourhoods and community well-being

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Transforming Learning

• Personalisation of Learning
• Increased 14-19 Pathways
• Collaborative working between schools
• Workforce Reform
• Extended Schools
• Support for families including Child Care
• Multi-disciplinary Teams
• Building neighbourhood aspiration
• Maximising Inclusion
• Shared responsibility for difficult children
• Making ICT work for us

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Making ICT work for us

• Building on our strengths
• Broadband Sandwell
• The Smethwick Test Bed
• Redefining the school day
• Any time any where learning
• Effective Learner Management
• Personalised Learning Pathways
• Inter-agency collaboration

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Extending the Change Agenda

• Staff Leadership, Training and CPD
• Attitudinal change in Parents other adults and
  students
• Contributing to the Big Picture of renewal
• Using ICT as a vehicle for change

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Our advantage

• We want to transform our community and shape
  Sandwell into a place people want to live, work
  and socialise