Overview 2017-2018 Leadership and Management Altered school day Improved communication with parents School monitoring – extra initiatives Dyslexia-Friendly Status - reaccreditation Quality of Teaching and Learning Improve literacy Improve numeracy Stretch the more able Embed good practices from last year (marking, differentiation) Target-setting Homework Personal Development Behaviour management Year 2 Interventions Outcomes for all Continued case-studies of key pupils Global learning development Communication with other schools Leadership and Management
Task Personnel Timescale Resources Monitoring Success criteria Altered school day Five minutes taken off break and lunch to provide an extra 10 minutes per day for ‘Berkley Basics’ All staff From Sept 2017 onwards Shortened breaks for staff How are staff coping with the shortened breaks? Are our pupils benefiting from the extra slot? Feedback from staff, ongoing data analysis, work scrutiny and observations Improved communication with parents Six contacts over the year: session (new initiative), Parents Evening (share targets), Effort grades and targets (new initiative), Parents Evening, session (new), Written report Head teacher surgeries timetabled for the first Weds of each month All teachers SK Oct = Nov = P.Eve. Dec = effort grades. Mar = P.Eve. May = Drop-in. July = report Ist Weds of each month Staff time SK time Are parents happy with the improved communication? Do they know their child’s strengths and targets? How many parents turn up? What feedback do they provide? Evidence that we respond? Parental feedback via surgeries and evaluations Relevant feedback from parents, shared with govs and staff by SK Task Personnel Timescale Resources Monitoring Success criteria
Diary dates circulated at the beginning of terms 1, 3 and 5 via the newsletter with reminders via ongoing newsletters Maths and Phonics workshops to parents Info to parents re-how they can help with reading/spelling etc SK with staff All staff, led by JM All staff, led by SK Sept, Jan and April with reminders in between Phonics 26 Sept. Maths 8 Nov Early in Autumn term SK time Staff time SK and staff time Do parents feel communication has improved? Do parents feel more cognisant of how we teach phonics and numeracy? Are the pupils benefiting from parental involvement? Is there evidence that parents are getting more involved with their child’s learning, such as through the use of the Reading Records? Feedback via surgeries, ongoing evaluation and end of year evaluation Parental feedback. Evidence in books. Data. Evidence through the Reading Records, spelling Task Personnel Timescale Resources Monitoring Success criteria
School monitoring Blink visit: School to receive an Ofsted-style visit from two FLP heads Head to monitor three books per week in each class MS Mendip) RT (St Louis) SK and staff Mon 16 Oct One day a week before school SK time to plan the day Books to SK before school Are staff happy with the feedback? Do the books provide evidence of good/outstanding practice esp. progress and quality marking? RT/MS feedback to SK and a governor. SK feedback to staff Feedback from SK to staff; opportunity for praise to individual pupils Dyslexia re-accreditation LL meeting with staff prior to LL gather evidence. LL meet with accreditor on the day and receive the feedback. Shared with staff LL and staff 11 September LL time Are we successful in being Feedback from external accreditor Quality of learning, teaching and assessment
Task Personnel Timescale Resources Monitoring Success criteria Improving Literacy: Writing competition open to all pupils in all Frome schools. Judged by local dignitaries. Prizes at each key stage. Magazine produced. Author in residence: Author spending five half days with Year 4 in the Spring term (FLP initiative) Bath festival: Years 1 and 2 to visit author in Bath SK organising. Staff deliver in school. Judged by Frome dignitaries. SK with the FLP. LL, TP and Year 4 Years 1 and 2 plus 6 staff Deadline = 8 January 2018. Winners announced in February. SK produce magazine Feb/March Five dates tbc in the Spring term. 4 October SK time. Lesson time. Cost of magazine borne by FLP budget Funded by FLP £160 Do schools feel the competition has inspired good writing from the FLP pupils? Has the writing of the Year 4 class improved as a result of the author input? Has the trip sparked interest in reading and writing? Feedback to SK via the FLP and via pupils, parents and staff at Berkley Feedback from the pupils. Evidence in their written work. Data. Feedback from pupils and Evidence through their reading and writing Task Personnel Timescale Resources Monitoring Success criteria
Improving Numeracy: Emphasis on APE (answer…prove…explain) Maths workshop to parents. Consider twilight from Jo Cronin. Consider use of problem-solving books. Discussion at staff meeting All led by JM Ongoing Cost of Jo Cronin? Cost of exercise Is there evidence of improved practice in the pupils’ books, especially problem-solving? Observations. Data. Work scrutiny Stretching the more-able: Advisory-led workshops, leading to the production of a magazine Sarah Cook – Somerset Literacy advisor 3 half-days: 16 Nov. 15 March. 19 June £600 Do the more-able produce work commensurate with their potential? Pupil feedback. SC feedback. Magazine Embedding good practice: Children responding to teacher marking. Differentiation (e.g. differentiated learning objectives to provide challenge/extension). Use of moderation files for Literacy and Numeracy. Cold/hot write in Literacy All Ongoing Planning and marking time Are the pupils learning from their corrected work? Does the work match their needs? Observations. Data. Work scrutiny Task Personnel Timescale Resources Monitoring Success criteria
Target-setting: Target page in Reading Record, flagged up via letter to parents. Discussed at Parents Evening. Next steps sent home end of Autumn term All staff and pupils Ongoing Staff and pupil time in setting targets Do the pupils (and parents) know their targets? Is there evidence that they are working on their targets? Work scrutiny. Pupil interviews Homework: Review policy at staff meeting. Communicate any changes to parents All staff Staff meeting in the Autumn term Staff meeting time Are the pupils completing homework on time and to the best of their ability? Is the homework impacting positively on their learning? Work scrutiny. Observations. Pupil and parent feedback.