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VELBERT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
INTRODUCTION
WHERE ARE WE?
105 Tameside Schools:
18 Secondary
82 Primary
5 Special
Education in Tameside - Our Mission
"Securing Quality Education for All in Tameside"
Investment in learning and personal development is essential if people are to lead satisfying and prosperous lives.
Our mission is to secure quality education for all in Tameside and our aims are to,
•support and challenge Tameside schools to improve educational standards and quality
•secure the delivery of high quality services
•secure the equality of opportunity and access for all to services.
All our work is driven by 6 principles
• Raising standards• School self-management• Intervention in inverse proportion to
success• Partnership and co-operation• Zero tolerance of under-performance• Value for money
High Challenge, High Support
HIGHSUPPORT
HIGH
CHALLENGE
LOW
CHALLENGE
LOWSUPPORT
Stagnation
Under-performance
Conflict
Demoralisation
Rapid progress
High performance
Slow, uneven progress
Complacency
Tameside
High Challenge, High Support
AmbitiousStandards
Devolvedresponsibility
Good dataand cleartargets
Access to bestpractice andqualityprofessionaldevelopment
Accountability
Interventionin inverseproportion tosuccess
HIGHCHALLENGE
HIGHSUPPORT
The Triangle of EffectivenessThe Education Development Plan is a key document in achieving our principles. It can be seen as one corner of a triangle – what we call “the triangle of effectiveness”:
The EDP: WHAT we will do OFSTED inspection of LEAs: with schools to raise standards How EFFECTIVELY we work with schools to raise standards
The Code of Practice: HOW we will work with schools to raise standards
The English Education System
• The education system is divided into three stages:
primary education, up to age eleven secondary education, up to age sixteen tertiary education, for those over the
age of sixteen.
• In England and Wales there are 8.5 million children in 30,000 state schools
Primary phase
pre-school education is available for ages two to four/five through playgroups and nursery schools. The emphasis is on group work, creative activity and guided play
compulsory education begins at five in England,
there is little or no specialist subject teaching and great emphasis on literacy and numeracy in early years
the usual age for transfer to secondary schools is eleven in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
Secondary phase
compulsory education ends at age sixteen, though many pupils stay on beyond the minimum leaving age
about ninety percent of state secondary school pupils in England, Wales and Scotland go to comprehensive schools, which provide a wide range of secondary education for most children of all abilities
at age sixteen pupils in England and Wales may transfer to sixth form colleges or tertiary colleges
Policy and overall funding
• Policy and overall funding for education is determined by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES)
• They dispense funding for education either directly or through other bodies such as Local Education Authorities, agencies and funding councils
The National Curriculum
• In 1988 the National Curriculum was introduced into schools in England and Wales, making for a broader, more balanced and coherent schooling system. The Curriculum sets out what pupils should study, what they should be taught and the standards that they should achieve.