Sue Baxter

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• Sue Baxter
• Principal Adviser

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Lincolnshire 4th Largest County by area (over
6,000 Sq.Km) Larger than Northern
Ireland Population 670,000 Under 19
151,000 26 live in Villages or Hamlets 98th out
of 150 LA most deprived 373 Schools 62 Secondary
(15 Grammars) (4 Academies) 21 Special
Schools 290 Primary and Nursery 7 Local
Childrens Partnerships
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Every Child Matters - Outcomes Framework
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6 Strategic Themes

• All Children Young People achieving potential
• Prevention
• Partnership creating sustainable futures through
  collaboration
• Safeguarding our Children
• Participation and aspiration
• A new, single organisation developing integrated
  working

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Integrated Delivery and Improved Outcomes
Childrens Centres
Family Support Workers
Nurture Groups
Targeted Support
Extended Provision
Parent/Carer Councils
Hot School Meals
One to One Tuition
Arts Cultural Activities
Healthy Schools
Schools Sports Activities
Youth School Councils
Gifted and Talented
SEAL
Music for All
Diplomas 14-19
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Direction of travel towards Integration and
locally based services to enhance capacity and
sustainability, increase opportunity and improve
performance
Improving performance
Increasing Opportunities
Enhance capacity and sustainability
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Strategy for School Improvement
Principles for promoting continuous self
improvement

• Child Focused meeting the needs of the child
• Personalised learning including emphasis on use
  of ICT
• Autonomy except where the school is placing the
  education or well-being at risk
• Self-evaluation the school knows itself well
  and accurately
• Early Intervention as part of a preventative
  strategy
• Targeted support which is well focused through
  contracts of targeted support
• Partnership working collaborating to help
  children, sharing ideas and challenges
• Workforce Development change and improvements
  cannot be achieved without high quality training
  and development

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Strategy for School Improvement
Good to Outstanding agenda

• Lincolnshire aspires for every school to be
  at least a good school,
• seeking to be outstanding. A good to
  outstanding school
• knows itself with robust self-evaluation that
  reflects on stakeholders views
• builds its strategic planning and contracted
  support on self evaluation
• sets ambitious, challenging yet realistic
  targets across all 5 outcomes
• ensures early intervention for children where
  barriers to learning are
• emerging
• focuses on improving the quality of teaching and
  its impact on learning
• meets or exceeds FFT D and demonstrates high
  performance on 2 levels
• progress
• has innovative personalised curriculum including
  wider opportunities
• has effective partnership and collaborative
  working
• has clear lines of accountability between
  governors and SLT and staff
• has a commitment to professional development

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Strategy for School Improvement
Critical factors for Raising Achievement and
Standards

• The quality of
• teaching
• learning,
• including
• the related
• assessment
• tracking

• The quality of
• integrated
• services that
• support the
• child family
• to enable
• the child to
• achieve their
• full potential

The quality of school leadership effective
governance
Sustainable Structural Change where appropriate
to enable achievements and standards to be
improved
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Strategy for School Improvement
Key indicators of School Effectiveness
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Strategy for School Improvement
The clarity of strategic leadership in planning,
solving challenges and furthering the schools
development
Key Indicators of a Schools Capacity to Improve
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KS4 Performance 2008 Structural Solutions
5A to C 71.1 (65.3) increase of 5.6
national increase 2 - 9th 5A to C inc Eng
Maths 52.6 (47.6) increase 4 times national
increase - 24th 5A to G 95.3
(87.4) - 5th CVA KS2 to KS4 1009.6
(1000)
- 16th Lincolnshire 35th based on IMD
National Challenge June 2008 18 schools
below 30 5A to C inc Eng Maths September 2008
11 schools below 5A to C inc Eng Maths
National Challenge - DCSF Press Release 13th Nov
2008 Lincolnshire and Bristol leads the way as
the first school improvement plans for the
National Challenge are approved and funded.
Lincolnshire has been awarded 1.57m. In addition
300k for feasibility funding has been awarded
for the new Sleaford Academy based on St Georges
and includes 2 rural secondary schools Aveland
and Cotelands. Structural solutions developed by
Lincolnshire Implemented or Proposed 7 Academies
replacing 11 secondary schools Implementing 3
National Challenge Trusts through hard
federations Hard Federation working for 2 years
will lead to merged school Very Strong 14 to 19
Partnerships excellent take up of Diplomas
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• Example of Childrens Service - School Service
  Provision