Making progress Warts and all through SEF

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Making progress Warts and all through SEF

• Ingrid Gallagher
• Headteacher / Improvement faciliator
• Frank Cacotti Headteacher and Pilot School
• Peter Harrison Headteacher and Pilot school
• Matthew Brown Deputy Headteacher and Pilot
  School

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FIRST CONTACT
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Kick starting the PLC
PROGRAMME FOR 12TH FEBRUARY, 2009 9.15 a.m. to
9.45 a.m. Meeting with Mrs. Ingrid Gallagher and
Mrs. Trieva Gant, Support Manager(Distributed
leadership, supporting all staff/Governors to
carry out their roles) 9.45 a.m. to 10.30
a.m. Meeting with Mrs.Vikki Prosser, Deputy
Headteacher, Miss Katie Jones (Welsh), Mrs.
Jenny Field (MFL) and Mrs. Melanie Watts
(English) (Then, now and in future) 10.30
a.m. to 11.00 a.m. Tour of the School (Pupils
led) Break with Head 11.15 a.m. to 11.45
a.m. Meeting with Huw Llewellyn/Mrs. Nikky
Chilvers (Distributed leadership/Social
Inclusion/NTAs) 11.45 a.m. to 12.05 p.m. Student
Discussions (Connor Hudson 12C, Ben Rees 12C,
Lauren Owen 8C, Lucesca Walters 7E, Luke
Parkinson 9B) 12.05 p.m. to 12.35
p.m. Meeting with Miss Tracey Gibbs, Mr. Gareth
Jones and Miss Jo Daniels (Empowering
Middle Managers/Pastoral) Lunch 1.40 p.m. to
2.40 p.m. SEF Network Schools Action
Planning/Spending Plan Plenary 2.40
p.m. End
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Common Denominators

• Distributed Leadership for 4 schools
• Raising Boys achievement for 1.
• Making the day have an impact.
• Building relationships, trust and street cred !!
• Establishing an understanding of different
  schools, ethos, and where they sit on a variety
  of gradients , CPD, Headship. Blockers and movers
• Action planning and committment
• Not one fit for all

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All alone with no one to help me
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Pembroke School and SEFBackground

• 1489 mixed comp
• Area slightly skewed to deprivation
• Historic underachievement of girls
• More recently, plummeting boys results
• Very specific interest on entry to SEF

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Profile

• Fairly rigorous process
• HT did separately to LG
• Mix of governors, TLRs and other staff did
  selected bits
• LG agreed overall ratings
• Highly divergent
• Lack of clarity in heirarchy

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IF

• The blessed Ingrid
• Pedigree
• Quality
• Clarity
• Joint lesson observations
• Perceptions from school tour

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PLC

• Nothing really suited
• Avoided PLC for the sake of it
• Matched with a school with significant
  improvement in boys achievement
• Visit / lessons learned
• Middle leader development and responsibility

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Outcomes

• Better awareness across the school of features of
  lessons to engage boys
• Stronger follow up of underachievment
• Targeting of support
• More learning support work, both voluntary and
  compulsory
• Changed culture - more students seeking help
• More after-hours staff support of students

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Hope its not a blip
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Peter Harrison Gowerton Performance management
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Form PMTS 2

TEACHING STAFF PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT ANNUAL
REVIEW
Name of Appraisee _____________________________
______________________________ Job Title(s)
_________________________________________
__________________ Name of Appraiser
__________________________________________________
_________ Notes Your appraiser will review
your set targets and identified developmental
points. Discussion will then take place on how
you have achieved these over the past twelve
months. ANNUAL REVIEW OF TARGETS
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ANNUAL REVIEW OF DEVELOPMENT
Signature of Appraisee ________________________
Date______________ Signature
of Appraiser ________________________
Date______________
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Adapted from Teachers Pay and Conditions
Document
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SEF Penglais School

• Benefits of SEF process
• SEP, useful alternative to 7 key questions
• IF, excellent support and critical friend with
  expertise
• Network, sharing good practice and building
  relationships
• SEP end of year review, identifies progress and
  further areas for development

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Penglais School

• Shared Beliefs and Understanding building
  Teaching and Learning Networks of Practice
• Shared Practices
• Transforming - Professional discussions are
  underpinned by consistent beliefs and
  understanding about teaching, learning and pupil
  engagement. There are consistent views about the
  connections between well being and learning
• Teaching and Learning now first point on all dept
  agendas
• Development of the Teaching and Learning Group
  representatives sharing AfL practice. Depts will
  have time to implement each others ideas
• Peer Coaching structure has been implemented 18
  staff working in 6 triads. Pilot will be reviewed
  in the summer term with a view to expansion
• HoDs encouraged to give presentations to
  Management group meetings
• Planned implementation of skills framework at KS3
  visits to other schools, inclusion of key staff
  (HoDs) in process.

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