School Improvement Division

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School Improvement Division

• School Strategy Managers Meeting
• Summer term 2008

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• Session 1
• Aims
• To understand the challenge and opportunities
  posed by secondary curriculum review
• To consider the leadership of curriculum change
• To share examples of curriculum innovation

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National Strategies Aims 2008-09

• To raise standards of achievement and rates of
  progression for children and young people in all
  phases and settings through personalised learning
  supported by high quality, well planned teaching
  which addresses individual needs with a
  particular focus on core subjects.

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National Strategies Aims 2008-09

• To raise standards of achievement and rates of
  progression for children and young people in all
  phases and settings through personalised learning
  supported by high quality, well planned teaching
  which addresses individual needs with a
  particular focus on core subjects.

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What are you trying to achieve?

• The curriculum should enable all young people to
  become
• successful learners who enjoy learning, make
  progress and achieve
• confident individuals who are able to live safe,
  healthy and fulfilling lives
• responsible citizens who make a positive
  contribution to society.

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How well are we achieving our aims?

• Standards and attainment
• Behaviour and attendance
• Civic participation
• Healthy lifestyle choices
• Progression into education, employment or
  training.

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Curriculum design issues

• How will you organise learning?

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National Curriculum
Wider Curriculum
Non statutory subjects
Subjects
Personal, learning and thinking skills
Extra curricular activities
Functional skills
Themed activities
Personal development - ECM
Cross curricular dimensions
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Key stage 3 - What is statutory?

• The statutory subjects that key stage 3 pupils
  must study are
• art and design
• citizenship
• design and technology
• English
• geography
• history
• information and
  communication technology
• mathematics
• modern
  foreign languages
• music
• 
  physical education
• 
  science.
• The teaching of religious
  education, sex education
• and careers education is
  also statutory.

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Key stage 4 - What is statutory?

• The statutory subjects that key stage 4 pupils
  must study are
• citizenship
• English
• information and communication technology
• mathematics
• physical education
• science.
• The teaching of religious education, sex
  education, careers
• education and work-related learning is also
  statutory. There
• are non statutory programmes of study to support
  the
• teaching of these subjects.

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Key Stage 4 entitlement

• KS4 students have an entitlement to follow a
  course within each of the 4 entitlement areas
• arts (comprising art and design, music, dance,
  drama and media arts)
• design and technology
• humanities (comprising geography and history)
• modern foreign languages.
• Key stage 4 students also have a statutory
  entitlement to
• have access to a course of study leading to
  at least two
• science GCSEs either science GCSE and
  additional science
• GCSE or all three of physics, chemistry and
  biology GCSEs.

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Personal, learning and thinking skills

• Independent enquirers
• Creative thinkers
• Reflective learners
• Team workers
• Self-managers
• Effective participators

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Functional Skills

• Functional skills are those core elements of
  English, mathematics and ICT that provide an
  individual with the essential knowledge, skills
  and understanding that will enable them to
  operate confidently, effectively and
  independently in life and at work.

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Personal Development - ECM

• be healthy
• stay safe
• enjoy and achieve
• make a positive contribution
• achieve economic wellbeing.
• An effective curriculum will include a planned
  and coherent approach to personal development and
  ECM and be reflected in the ethos and values of
  the school. Every member of the school staff can
  contribute to personal development and therefore
  to the wellbeing of each young person in the
  school.

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Cross curricular dimensions

• identity and cultural diversity
• healthy lifestyles
• community participation
• enterprise
• global dimension and sustainable development
• technology and the media
• creativity and critical thinking.

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Whole School Curriculum Review

• The Curriculum Review Challenge Tool

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How have you, or how do you intend to use your
additional Curriculum Review training day?

• What are the curriculum development
• priorities for your school?
• How are you addressing the identified priorities?

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• Focusing
• The theme is an area of development recognised
  through school self evaluation
• Developing
• Work is underway to develop practice in this
  theme
• Establishing
• Practice in this theme is in place
• Enhancing
• Practice in this theme is a strong feature of the
  school

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• Session 2
• Aims
• To understand the aims of the secondary National
  Strategy for 2008-09
• To consider and plan actions to achieve Secondary
  Strategy and school aims.

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National Strategies Aims 2008-09

• Improving the quality of teaching and learning
• Improving the effectiveness of management and
  leadership to promote high quality teaching and
  learning
• Raise achievement in the core subjects
• Tackle underperformance and close the attainment
  gap for identified underachieving groups
• Develop expertise and capacity in the workforce

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Aims within English

• Introduce the renewed framework for English.
  Support effective planning to raise standards and
  rates of progress
• Develop effective periodic assessment through the
  use of Assessing Pupil Progress
• Promote effective learning, creativity and
  independence.
• Support English leadership.
• Develop functional skills.

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Aims within maths

• Introduce the renewed framework for maths.
  Support effective planning to raise standards and
  rates of progress.
• Develop effective periodic assessment through the
  use of Assessing Pupil Progress
• Strengthen subject knowledge and pedagogy.
• Develop functional skills

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Aims in science

• Introduce the renewed framework for science.
  Support effective planning to raise standards and
  rates of progress.
• Enhance pupils creative and critical thinking.
• Support strategies to increase pupils interest
  and enjoyment of science and entice more pupils
  to progress to post-16 science.

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Aims in ICT

• Introduce the renewed framework for ICT. Support
  effective planning to raise standards and rates
  of progress.
• Develop functional skills.

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Aims in behaviour and attendance

• Improve overall levels of attendance by reducing
  persistent absence.
• Promote positive behaviour, reduce low level
  disruption and support schools judged as
  satisfactory to move to good.
• Develop the social and emotional climate of
  schools.

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Aims in teaching and learning

• Support the development of effective teaching for
  more able learners.
• Support schools judged as satisfactory to move to
  good.
• Support the development of effective practice in
  assessment for learning.

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Aims into actions
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• Session 4
• Aims
• To understand the role of renewed frameworks and
  APP materials in increasing rates of progress
• To consider your role in improving rates of
  progress.

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• To raise standards of achievement and rates of
  progression for children and young people in all
  phases and settings through personalised learning
  supported by high quality, well planned teaching
  which addresses individual needs with a
  particular focus on core subjects.

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Northumberland targets 2008

• 5A-C including English and maths is 54
• 2 levels of progress
• English KS2-KS3 is 40
• Maths KS2-KS3 is 70
• English KS3-KS4 is 72
• Maths KS3-KS4 is 36

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A renewed focus on planning for progression

• What does progression look like?
• How well is progression understood across the
  department?
• What are the next steps for learners?
• How do we know?
• Using the renewed frameworks and APP resources
  will ensure teaching for progression is embedded
  in planning and that assessment identifies the
  next steps for learners?

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Medium Term Planning

• What does good medium term
• planning look like?

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Key questions for School Strategy Managers

• Who line manages core subject-leaders in your
  school? How could they use the Line Management
  tool?
• How will you inform relevant colleagues in your
  school of the Secondary Strategy aims for
  2008-09?
• How will you use the Curriculum Review Audit Tool
  from session 1?
• Consider the above questions and add actions to
  your
• Aims into Actions planner from session 2

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Leadership CAPability Frame
Capability in influencing change in people
and events
A
Capability in using leadershipmethods and
processes .
Capability in making judgements, decisions,
and first steps to advance the situation
Capability in recognising opportunities for
leadership in current position
Capability in creating,developing and using a
vision . .
Capability in recognising and taking into
account the values, . language, tools, and
habits . that make up the present .
culture .
Capability in learning from and drawing on
experience
P
C
Capability in defining situations from
different perspectives and understanding their
degree of complexity
Capability in agency, thinking skills, intra-
and inter- personal skills and role specific
practical skills