Margaret Eva

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• Margaret Eva
• Headteacher

January 2007
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• From
• To
• in 5 years

Challenging Circumstances
Outstanding
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Bourne Community College GCSE results 1999 - 2006
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• CONTEXT - Pre 2001
• Staff
• Students
• Parents
• Governors
• Community
• Environment
• LOW EXPECTATIONS!

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• 2001 2002
• Energise staff
• Create Strategic Plan
• Enhance self-esteem of staff and students
• Develop a culture of learning
• Involve Governors
• Generate positive relationships
• BUILD ON SUCCESSES!

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• Ofsted 2002 Satisfactory
• Emerging green shoots of success visible
• capacity for improvement
• IMPROVED RESULTS!

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• Assembling the Jigsaw!
• Emotional Intelligence!
• Emotional competence is central to leadership
  .. to get others to do their jobs more
  effectively
• Interpersonal ineptitude lowers everyones
  performance it wastes time, creates acrimony,
  corrodes motivation and commitment, builds
  hostility and acrimony
• (Daniel Goleman, 1996)

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• CLEAR VISION AND HIGH EXPECTATIONS
• Generate belief in culture of improvement
• Raise aspirations!
• Be ambitious!
• Celebrate success!
• Its cool to achieve!

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• IMPROVE THE ENVIRONMENT
• One chance to make a first impression
• Involve EVERYONE!
• Establish School Council
• Generate creative solutions!

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• Emphasis on
• STAFF LEARNING TOGETHER
• Professional Learning
• An EXPECTATION
• not
• A LUXURY
• Investors in People
• Distribute Leadership
• Develop Professional Partnerships

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• You cannot improve student learning for all or
  most students without improving teacher learning
  for all or most teachers
• (Fullan, 1996)

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• TEAMS CHANGE SCHOOLS!
• Develop creative ways to make it easier for teams
  to work together
• Challenge Support Develop
• Reflect on Emotional Intelligence
• National Healthy Schools Award

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• ENGAGE THE COMMUNITY
• Encourage students to
• Take the values home
• Draw in community visitors!
• Business Breakfasts!
• Success breeds success!

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• CREATE A CONFIDENCE IN ALL STAFF
• Be positive innovative risk averse
• Develop professionalism share ideas
• Build evaluation and innovation into the school
• Continually raise expectations!

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• Bourne Community College is an outstanding
  college that provides excellent opportunities for
  students to achieve to the best of their ability
• (Ofsted, November 2006)

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• There is a common sense of purpose focussed
  relentlessly on improving standards in all
  aspects of the colleges provision.
• (Ofsted, November 2006)

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• Lessons have a purposeful atmosphere and
  students respond brilliantly to the high yet
  inclusive expectations teachers set for them
• (Ofsted, November 2006)

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• All of this contributes to the atmosphere and
  ethos of enjoyment and success that many visitors
  to the College comment on.
• (Ofsted, November 2006)

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• The future is not some place that we are going
  to, but one we are creating. The paths are not
  to be found but made, and the activity of making
  them changes both the maker and the destination.
• (John Schaar)

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Bourne Community College GCSE results 1999 - 2006