123 primary schools achieving the highest outcomes for disadvantaged students; Headship experiences shared; Breaking free from the shackles of quality assurance.
Hello everyone!
It’s clear schools are facing a serious challenge and it’s having an impact.
If you’ve had enough of thinking about testing, isolating and risk assessments, today I offer you some completely imperfect, but totally geeky research. And a member article with not a single mention of corona virus. I promise.
But if you are in need of some connection and support amid all the corona related stresses you’re facing, we’re working on something you’ll like.
This week:
🔬Analysis: Which primary schools achieve the highest outcomes for their pupils in both progress and attainment across reading, writing and maths?
🤝 Community Support: Headship experiences shared: HSE calls, interim Ofsted visits, school closures and remote strategies.
📝 Article: Break free from the shackles of quality assurance.
🔬123 primary schools who are achieving the highest outcomes for their pupils in both progress and attainment across reading, writing and maths.
In this, the second part of her four-part series, our awesome Head of Helpfulness, Frances Ling reveals the 123 schools who are achieving the highest outcomes for their pupils in both progress and attainment across reading, writing and maths (based on 2019 results).
Her five observations from the data are well worth a read. One of them leaves me asking ‘What is going on in that borough?!”
Catch up on Part 1: Top-performing secondary schools with high Progress 8 scores for disadvantaged students 2019.
This kind of content and analysis won’t be free forever. Soon this will be the only place you can access it.
🤝 Headship experiences shared: HSE calls, Ofsted visits, school closures, remote strategies
On Monday night, I got a text message from one of our members, Exec. Principal Mike Wilson…
My thoughts were, “This sucks. I’m sure the We Are In Beta community can help."
There are an increasing number of new and challenging scenarios that lie ahead. HSE calls, interim Ofsted visits, sending year groups home, full school closures, designing blended curriculum models and remote learning strategies.
As our community members go through them, they can share their experience to help you prepare for them.
We are planning a series of conversations across both primary and secondary schools for headteachers to share experiences had, challenges faced and lessons learned.
Whether you’ve been through these scenarios already or you haven’t yet and want to learn from them…
📝 Break free from the shackles of quality assurance.
“For the past few years, I knew that traditional quality assurance processes and lesson observations had never fulfilled their purpose for me. In fact, I would go as far to say that I grew to find the whole thing very toxic. I knew I wanted to change, but in all honesty, I wasn’t entirely sure what that change was going to be”.
Emma Mills, Headteacher at Birchwood Community High School shares why lesson observations had to go, the changes they made and how they have made their staff feel trusted.
Thanks for reading and playing your part in making education the place we all know it can be.
Speak soon.
@NiallAlcock
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