New Headteachers Meeting

WELCOME

Cllr Ray Gooding

Lead Member Education and Lifelong Learning

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Clare Kershaw

Acting Director of Commissioning, Education and Lifelong Learning

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2015 OutcomesPhase Essex

Provisional 2015

Essex Actual 2014

% point change (2014 v 2015)

Provisional national figures 2015

EY - Good Level of Development 68 61 +7 66

Phonics – required level Yr. 1 78 74 +4 77

KS1 - % achieving L2B+ Reading 83 81 +2 82

KS1 - % achieving L2B+ Writing 73 69 +4 72

KS1 - % achieving L2B+ Maths 83 81 +2 82

KS2 - % achieving L4 RWM 81 79 +2 80

KS1 – KS2 expected progress Reading

91 91 - 91

KS1 – KS2 expected progress Writing 95 92 +3 94

KS1 – KS2 expected progress Maths 90 89 +1 90

KS4 - % achieving 5 A*-C GCSE’s including maths and Eng (first outcome)

59.2 56.5 +2.7 tbc

KS5 - % grades AAB of higher in 2 or more facilitating subjects

13.9 11.9 +2 tbc

Ofsted 2015Primary Percentage of Primary Schools overall at Aug 2015

1 2 3 4 % good / outstanding

%pt change

from 2014

Essex (113) 13.6% 69% 16.2% 1.2% 82.6% +8.3

England (95) 17.7% 67.1% 14% 1.1% 84.8% +3.8

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Secondary Percentage of Secondary Schools overall at Aug 2014

1 2 3 4 % good / outstanding

%pt change

from 2014

Essex (60) 23.3% 56.2% 17.8% 2.7% 79.5% +8.3

England (84) 21.6% 52.7% 20.5% 5.2% 71.2% +0.4%

Special Percentage of Special Schools overall at Aug 2014

1 2 3 4 % good / outstanding

%pt change

from 2014

Essex 35% 59% 0% 6% 95% +6.1%

England 90 10 90% +1.4

2015/16 Priorities

• Delivering the SEND Spend to Save Programme

• Transforming SEND Services in Essex

• Raising the Attainment of Disadvantaged Pupils

• Establishing a School-led Improvement System

• Teacher Recruitment and Retention

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Establishing a School-led Improvement System

• Strategy Launched January / February 2015• Harlow, Basildon and Tendring continue to develop• Project Board established May 2015 • Partnership vision and statement approved July 2015• Pump Priming Grants approved• First round of applications - end September (9 bids received)• Peer Review (primary CfBT early adopters)• Secondary Triad Model

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Standards and Excellence Service

• Secondary, Primary, Inclusion, Virtual School and Music Service• Standards and Excellence Commissioner for every school• Termly visits to support schools• All primary maintained schools (except those in Basildon

Excellence Panel) are RAG rated. Support is linked to the LEP• Work with the Regional Schools Commissioner on academy

performance• Close working with ASHE /EPHA and ESSET and Schools

Forum• Termly ASHE and EPHA meetings for all heads

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Other education services

• Transport and admissions• School planning and expansions• Early Years• Employability and Skills• Statutory Assessment Service and SEN services• Youth Service• Active Essex

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Essex Virtual School for Children in CareStandards and Excellence Service

Cathryn Adams (Virtual School Head)

Lead Commissioner for Education of Children in Care & safeguarding

Our Shared Priorities

• Raise attainment and accelerate progress for children in care across all key stages

• Improve school attendance and reduce exclusion

• Improve the quality of Personal Education Plans

• Support school leadership to enhance a shared objective of improving life opportunities through education.

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Virtual School – How we do it…

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Forthcoming Opportunities

• Autumn Term - Training to improve the quality of Personal Education Plans –November /December 2015

• Aspire to Achieve Conference 19th January 2016

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Welcome to becoming a member of the Virtual School

www.essex.gov.uk/virtualschool

Standards and Excellence

SEN Achievement Team

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Lead Commissioner: Elizabeth.cornish@essex.gov.uk

• Our key aim is to support whole-school effectiveness for SEN so that special schools, mainstream schools and specialist enhanced provisions achieve and maintain good or outstanding Ofsted judgements. We aim to ensure that all Essex families have a choice of high quality, successfully inclusive schools for their children to attend whatever their needs may be.

• http://schools.essex.gov.uk/data/saes/sen_achievement/Pages/SEN-Achievement-Team.aspx

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An SEN Commissioner for each quadrant:

• South: Jill.thomas@essex.gov.uk

• North East: Kim.mcwilliam@essex.gov.uk

• West: Ruth.sturdy@essex.gov.uk

• Mid: Karen.woolhouse@essex.gov.uk

These officers are the main Standards and Excellence Commissioner (SEC) link to special schools, PRUs and hospital schools.

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Core advice and guidance for mainstream and mainstream with enhanced provision School effectiveness for SEND around:

• Leadership, workforce and professional development

• Performance information, assessment, tracking and self-evaluation

• Systems, quality first teaching and innovation

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In addition……Key Pan-Essex Projects:

•SEND Innovation Project - school led innovation initiatives designed to address SEND challenges and promote exemplary outcomes for SEND across Essex.

•SEND Senior Leadership Programme - Essex Special School Education Trust (ESSET) is being commissioned to develop and deliver an accredited SEND headteacher and senior leadership programme (with UEL).

•Super SENCO - development of innovative approaches to SEND leadership for schools and clusters of schools.

•Maximising the Impact of TAs (MITA) – a whole-school exploration of best practice in the deployment and use of TAs leading to improved outcomes for pupils.

•School Offer (SEND Info Report) - the School Offer steering group is supporting schools to improve the experience of children and their families, with special educational needs

Email: extendedservices@kes.essex.sch.ukTelephone: 01702 545771 ext. 226

Essex SEND

Innovation

Project:

Sharing &

Networking

Event

Where: Stockbrook Manor

When: Monday 30th

November 2015 Time:

9am – 3.30pm(Coffee from 8.30)

For more informationContact:Email:extendedservices@kes.essex.sch.ukTelephone:01702 545771 ext. 3226

What is on offer? Essex school clusters share innovative approaches to

SEND education and school effectiveness• Hosted by Gareth Morewood – An insight on how to

develop cutting edge SEND provision• Opportunity to attend workshops on successful

SEND innovations• Talk to recommended providers –

high impact strategies.

Essex Education Welfare Service

Presentation to new Headteachers Autumn 2015

Julie Weddell

County Manager,

Education Welfare, School Attendance & Child Employment

Role of Essex EWS

• Safeguarding Childrens education - Enforcement service • Issue penalty notices if meet code of conduct • Investigate if a crime committed• Collate evidence • Prepare cases and present in magistrates court• Education Supervision Orders • Safeguarding children in employment & entertainment • Challenge illegal practice • School Attendance Orders • Advice – duty line

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Education Welfare Service

• Whole school attendance advice – bespoke for high need schools and attendance workshops

• Child Employment – work permits – 13 years and over • Children in Entertainment – licences • Children missing education – checks • Elective Home Education

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Referrals to EWS • Is EWS the appropriate agency? • Parents aware of school’s decision to refer to the Education

Welfare Service – implications of this – caution, penalty notice, prosecution

• Clearly evidenced early intervention work• Criteria 8 unauthorised absence sessions within a 4 week

period – need necessary evidence of pre-referral• Warning letter to be sent advising penalty notice will be issued if

code of conduct criteria met 10 unauthorised absences within 6 week period OR

• School Attendance Meeting convened

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Evidence required from schools

Pre-referral work (examples):• First day contact logs / telephone call logs• Clearly dated correspondence from the school to each parent

raising concerns about absence – evidence of attempts to meet with parent to try to resolve any issues which may be causing the absences – recent (not just months ago)

• Notes of meeting(s) held / home visits made to discuss attendance concerns

• Referrals made to other agencies (e.g. safeguarding concerns)• Need to warn parent that a referral to Essex EWS is being

considered and that absences are not being authorised – request medical evidence to enable authorisation

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Essex: Moving in the right directionAutumn 2014

SecondaryLeague

Position of:League

Position of:Auth

%Unauth

%Overall

%151 LAs

11 SNs

PA (15%)

151 LAs

11 SNs

Essex 3.91 1.02 4.93 69 5 5.37 43 1

East Region 3.98 0.96 4.94 64   5.61 60  Stat.

Neighbours 4.14 0.95 5.08 82   6.01 80  

England 3.94 1.12 5.06 76   6.09 76  

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Comparison of Autumn/Spring Term data for 2013/14 and 2014/15 shows a decrease in the number of PAs within Essex from 4420 to 3561.

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  Mid North East

Tele 0300 013 9944 0333 013 9983

Address Education Welfare Service, Causeway House, Bocking End, Braintree, Essex   CM7 9HBJo Hickey SEWO

Education Welfare Service,Magnet House Jackson Road, Clacton on Sea Essex  CO15 1JDKay Chapman SEWO

Email Mid.ews@essex.gov.uk Northeast.EducationWelfareService@essex.gov.uk

  South West

Tele 0333 013 9845 0333 013 9910

Address Education Welfare Service,Ely House, Churchill Avenue, Basildon, Essex  SS14 2BQSue Elliott SEWO

Education Welfare Service,Goodman House, Station Approach, Harlow, Essex  CM20 2ETCheryl Vickers – SEWO

Email South.ews@essex.gov.uk West.ews@essex.gov.uk

 

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Essex Schools Info link http://schools.essex.gov.uk/pupils/Education%20Welfare%20Service/Pages/EducationWelfareService.aspx

Julie.weddell@essex.gov. uk telephone: 033301 31089valerie.pryor@essex.gov.uk - Legal Intervention anita.patel-lingam@essex.gov.uk - Whole school attendance improvement rachel.anderson@essex.gov.uk – Children Missing Education susan.kyle@essex.gov.uk. – Child Employment & Entertainment

Informal Networking with LA Lead Officers and Peer Headteachers

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Head of Commissioning and Delivery Education and Lifelong Learning (Standards and Excellence)Acting Director of Commissioning, Education and Lifelong Learning

Clare Kershaw

Standards and Excellence Lead Commissioner Primary – Mid

Alison Fiala – Monitoring and

Evaluation

Standards and Excellence Lead Commissioner

Primary – South

Lisa FergusInterventions

Standards and Excellence Lead Commissioner Primary - North

East

Graham Lancaster

Leadership

Standards and Excellence Lead Commissioner Primary – West

Nicola WoolfInnovation and Partnerships

SES Lead Performance Analyst &

BC Champion /

ELL BC Alternate

Heather Faulkner

Standards and Excellence

Lead Commissioner

Secondary

Lyn Wright

Standards and Excellence

Lead Commissioner

Inclusion

Liz Cornish

Standards and Excellence Lead Commissioner

Children in Care and

Safeguarding

Cathryn Adams

SES Apprentice

Alex Pyke (July 15 – July 16)

Standards and Excellence Leadership Team