Eggbuckland Community College ( and AFA) Improvement Plan ... 201… · Eggbuckland Community College ( and AFA) Improvement Plan: 2018 to 2020 Vision 2020: ECC will be making the

Eggbuckland Community College ( and AFA) Improvement Plan: 2018 to 2020 Vision 2020: ECC will be making the best progress for each subgroup than any school in Devon and Cornwall

Governance: Trustees with the right knowledge, skills and confidence to challenge and support the MAT. At least one Trustee with an education background.

Leadership: at all levels. Ownership of the College vision, holding people to account, the very highest of expectations, policies and practices followed to the letter. Quality Assurance systems are highly effective.

Behaviour: disruption free learning. Clear policies and practices know to and adhered to.

Curriculum: broad and engaging, meeting the needs of our students.

Teaching and Learning: the positive learning climate encourages creative and inspiring learning and teaching.

RESULTS: the best progress in the South West

Our College Transformation: working from the bottom up!

Firm Safeguarding foundations


Leadership and Management (the foundation of all the below)

Objective / Rationale

Outcome Strategies Desired impact Lead Evaluation Completed by When

S Resources

Quality of Education: OUTCOMES Ensure that there continues to be a proactive collective and collegiate response to our College Academic drives Please see our specific drives using this hyperlink

• Sustain the rapid progress and attainment for our More Able ( from -0.16 to a positive P8)

• Continue to address the continued underachievement of our disadvantaged students ( 2018 : -0.48, National -0.51)

• Continue to address the achievement of Boys (2018 : -0.48, national -0.51)

• Action plan 2018 to 2019 Improve results 2.docx

Please use the hyperlink above Review the quality of AFA Year 6 ‘split and specialist’ teaching. Could this be a model to develop for future years?

Teachers more skilled. Zero P8 residuals for all subgroups. Positive residuals Post 16. All years have effective PLCs. July 2019 we expect an average of 3% LLD across all areas. Students respond to feedback. Reduce the exclusion rate by 4/5.

• LT and middle managers

EKS RHT EKS

• 6 weekly assessment cycle.

• T and L steering group and a focus of spotlight reviews.

• ongoing • £6000


Quality of Education: OUTCOMES Monitor and track the achievements of students at AFA

• Year 6 and Year 2 are on track for positive progress.

• In Year 6, all students achieve age related expectations

• Year 6 students to be taught by two specialist teacher, one in English and one in Maths.

• Refer to the quality assurance document

• ..\..\AFA\Quality assurance\Quality Assurance framework.docx

• Refer to the Powerpoint AFA targets for 2018

• Carrie W • MDC

• Trustees • MDC

• Ongoing • Time

Quality of Education: OUTCOMES Ensure Appraisal drives whole College improvement across the MAT

• Improved student attainment and progress outcomes with a focus on Disadvantaged and More Able / boys. KS3, 4 and 5.

• Audit (and return if not appropriate) the targets set by staff.

• Same Appraisal paper work and system across the MAT

• Coherent approach

• RHT • LT/ TB

• October • Staff time

Quality of Education: OUTCOMES Open and evidence based challenge on a 6 weekly basis

Current progress reviewed and action plans put into place to ensure we address underachievement.

• Raising Standards Leader (RSL) meets with all CTLs, individually, to ensure an accurate strategic understanding and overview of current student progress and anticipated outcomes. Issues discussed with LT and appropriate interventions actioned.

• Align the MAT accountability system to the ECC model.

• Weekly QA meetings at AFA

• Progress at least zero.

Progress at least national. Combined at least 55%

• SPC • LT • Ongoing • Staff time


Quality of Education: OUTCOMES Tackling the Humanities trend of underachievement

Appoint a Faculty lead for this area?

When Geography CTL retires, potentially appoint a Faculty lead.

Spotlight review. Close scrutiny of teacher

assessments. Links with other schools.

• P8 of at least zero.

• LT link • LT and Trustees

• Dec 2018

• Cost Saving

Quality of Education: OUTCOMES SEND : low numbers skew the average P8 however staff accountability, monitoring and tracking needs to be enforced.

Improvement plan that outlies how to ensure students attain in line with expectations.

SENDCo improvement plan for AFA and ECC

• EKS • MDC • IAL

• MDC / EKS / CR

• Nov 2018

•

Quality of Education: OUTCOMES SISRA to be purchased and embedded.

More accurate 6 weekly P8 predictions

• National rather than a local picture of real time assessments.

• SPC • SPC • SPC • Sept 2018

£1500


Quality of Education: OUTCOMES Whilst Post 16 achievement is close to the national average, it is not yet better. Vocational is significantly underperforming (-0.47)

Post 16 results are at least at National expectations

• Post 16 Teach meets hosted and led by Eggbuckland.

• Increase in scheduled learning walks

• Appraisal to be audited to ensure post 16 achievement features in identified staff targets

• Improvement plan written and HOS held to account

• HOS seconded to LT to give a big picture understanding

• Objective review of standards planned by a Head and deputy of Okehampton College.

• Push on attendance to ensure at least 95% across all students.

• PLE and the QA of vocational provision and standards.

• TXP • ACP

• Toni P • MDC • Post 16

Trustee

• Sept 2019

Time

Quality of Education: OUTCOMES CTSEFs are an embedded feature of our L and M strategic plans. However we need a drive on sharp and incisive Department Improvement Plans which currently are lacking.

• Curriculum Improvement plans (plus SEND and SC) created that outline exactly how standards are to be raised, how impacts can be measured and how we can hold CTs to account.

• Improvement Plans created October 2018

• Document that outlines self-improvement in each CT.

• CTLs • Shared

with Trustees

• MDC • Trustees

• Oct 2018

• Time


Quality of Education: OUTCOMES Tackling the disadvantaged student gap

• Please see the range of measures in our ‘response’ document.

• Lead the cross school research group and feedback to all schools in Devon and Plymouth.

• P8 zero for our disadvantaged subgroups

• Effort and ATL a growing part of our rewards system

•

• QA cycle every 6 weeks

• SPC / Trustees

• MDC

• MDC • Trustees

• August 2019

• Resources and time

Quality of Education: OUTCOMES Support the achievement of our SEND students (to include the HSC)

• SEND students are well catered for in lessons. The Inclusion Marksheet is used by staff to plan for personalised lessons

• Learning walks that hold the teacher to account and may be the catalyst of further support and scrutiny.

• Evidence of support for individuals recorded.

• CPD for staff • Student voice

• 6 weekly cycle • Ian L • Steve C • EKS • RHT • T and L

Steering

• LT • Trustees


Quality of Education CURRICULUM

Challenge the current curriculum model that gives 2 years to KS3 and 3 years to KS4.

Challenge the MAT

commitment to EBACC. Research the potential

impact of entering Eng LIT in year 10

Trustee review (C and P Committee).

Pilot in 2020

• Curriculum offer that meets to needs of the students.

Zero P8 on 2019

• Trustees and LT

• Trustees • May 2019

• Time


Quality of Education: CURRICULUM Raise the progress and achievement of Bucket 3 (the Open Bucket) at ECC

• All students achieve the best possible outcomes in our Open bucket.

Trustees / staff / Parents to challenge our academic offer and curriculum model (2 year KS3) and make changes as appropriate.

• Continue to refine our curriculum offer in response to students’ aims and aspirations, as evidenced through CAPs, as well as national accountability measures.

• GCSE RE offered and the first cohort through 2019

• Consider offering Travel and Tourism as an alternative to Geography?

• Start of Vocational Lead Steering group to ensure that strategic decisions are made that take into account ‘the Big Picture’

• Push APS in each assessment round

SPC Katy F MDC Voc leads

at KS4

• LT; Trustees C&P

• March 2018

• Staff time

Quality of Education CURRICULUM/PDBA

• Strategic planning in 2018/2019 for the start of the Health Academy. This will glue together psychology, H and Social Care, P4L, Careers and Progeny (Plymouth mental health strategy) into a coherent package.

• Appoint a Faculty lead (that sits on LT)

• Create a ‘Health Academy’ academic route.

• Ensure locals from the health services are actively involved in programme of learning.

Health and wellbeing is well coordinated across the College and has a definite career path and learning journey at ECC

LT • Trustees • LT

• £2000


Quality of Education: TEACHING AND LEARNING Ensure we embed clear QA systems across the MAT that hold people to account. Ensure there are clear lines of accountability.

• Ensure the T and L Steering group schedules QA audits to staff to embed KYC, the marking and feedback policy, personalised learning.

• Hold the teaching staff to account every 6 weeks for the progress of their class.

• Continue to triangulate the progress of all subgroups every 6 weeks with their attendance reports.

• Continue to analyse current data every 6 weeks at AFA and ECC. Take remedial action should a class, cohort or subgroup be underachieving.

• QA schedule • RHT • MDC, Chair Trustees and Colin R

• • Time

Quality of Education: TEACHING and LEARNING

• Raised aspirations. • Teacher modelling

what a high level piece of work is so that students can aim high (and know what to do the ‘achieve high’)

• CPD and lesson scrutiny to ensure this is done.

• QA schedule • RHT • MDC • LT • Trustees

• Ongoing


Quality of Education: TEACHING AND LEARNING Further develop the powerful T and L team to ensure that the T and L / curriculum offer of all subjects who underachieved with their cohorts are fully reviewed and action plans are put into place. Use this team to support the achievement of students at AFA

• Action plans to turn around ‘current’ underachievement and ensure high quality T and L.

• Spotlight reviews. In English and HUMs.

• Mid-year review of impact.

• Learning walks with a focus on KYC, the effectiveness of silent starters, student engagement, personalised DIRT for each student.

• Creation of a B4L coach (also an AAP) to support colleagues identified as requiring extra support.

• Improve the use and understanding of key vocabulary.

• Develop our drive to improve literacy and numeracy, particularly with reading

• Reinforce our expectations of teachers (Eggbuckland 12 becomes 6?).

• Use the Eggy 12 (6) to plan bespoke CPD

• T and L across all subjects judged to be at least consistently good. P8 positive across all subjects.

• T and L team

• Twice a year.

• Ongoing but yet to see the impact

• Friday period 5 is the team meeting.

AAP time


Quality of Education: TEACHING AND LEARNING Continue to develop our Middle and Senior Leaders

Ensure our middle leaders drive standards, challenge staff and are able to see the ‘Big Picture’.

• NPQSL to 2 aspirant middle leaders. Focus of raising the achievement of disadvantaged students and raising standards of numeracy in technology, science and maths.

• Leading from the heart for one colleague with a focus on transition

• Use the vehicle of Plymouth Challenge and the SSIF2 to identify and bring back the outstanding practice from other schools. Sixth form standards a focus.

• Improve the impact of our QA cycles (T and L group)

• Challenge CTLs is our standard CTSEF meetings

• UPS staff to be involved in creating the whole College Improvement plan

• CT Improvement Plans to be introduced.

• Evaluate the AFA senior management team’s new 2018 responsibilities.

• In House development opportunities established for aspiring middle leaders to look at managing change, handling difficult situations and the strategic use of data.

• More effective middle management

• RHT to lead

• RHT • July 2019

• Time


Quality of Education: TEACHING AND LEARNING Clarify with staff our expectations of how to observe lessons. Clarify with CTLs and PLs what an effective Appraisal target is.

A consistent approach to lesson observations that ensures there is an impact ( and that this is evidenced)

• CPD on how to observe lessons and the policies and process we expect staff to go through.

• Appraisal and lesson observations improve the quality of T and L.

• RHT • T and L

Steering group

• Lt • Ongoing • Time

Quality of Education: TEACHING AND LEARNING Continue to develop of staff to ensure high quality teaching and learning.

Improve the 2016/17 ‘base line’ T and L stats of:

28% Outstanding 40% Good

19% RI 3% Inadequate

• Bespoke CPD organised as identified by the Eggy 12, student voice and 2017 results.

• • Challenge CTLs.

Terminate some TLRs • Create Faculties as

appropriate • Increased day to day

scrutiny, QA and challenge.

• Identify students that require extra support in handwriting

• Staff development in teaching and reinforcing key vocabulary for students across all years

• In house coaching for teachers who are not yet consistently good.

• Expand the LT

• 100% Consistently good and outstanding teaching is the aim

• RHT • LT • T and L

Steering group

• MDC / RHT • September 2019

• Scheduled time


Quality of Education: Development of Trustees

An informed Trustee body able to challenge and offer support as required.

• Skills audit • Find a Trustee with an

educational background • Schedule visits for

Trustees with a specific focus

• Trustee involved in debates about the curriculum model, our commitment to EBACC (etc)

• Recruit a Trustee from the teaching staff

• Organise a 2019 day training in secondary and primary data

• Appoint a Trustee with a strong educational background.

• A full Trustee body with the appropriate skills and experience to support and challenge.

• Chair of Trustees and MDC

• September 2019

• Ongoing

Quality of Education: TEACHING AND LEARNING Calm and purposeful start to the lesson that encourages student consolidation, independent working, student response to marking and feedback.

Silent starters embedded into the culture of lessons.

• Monitor and track the impact of this.

• RHT • LT • Ongoing

Quality of Education: TEACHING AND LEARNING Improve the effective delivery of Literacy and Numeracy across the curriculum.

• Evidence of Good or Outstanding practice wrt Lit and Num in at least 90% of lessons.

• Re-written policies • Staff CPD

• Regular CPD, including new staff pairings with Literacy/Numeracy focus.

• Review of the impact of the Literacy initiative started 2016 in P4L, Hums and Eng.

• Re-write the literacy and

• PGS/ CRG/

• LT • Ongoing • Staff time


numeracy policies • Staff CPD on how to

reinforce vocabulary in lessons.

• Use of the newsletter to give parents the words of the week.

• Staff themed ‘book reads’ so that informed conversations can be had with students.

• Explore the possibility of a whole College approach to reading eg. Accelerated Reader

£9:00 per student!

Quality of Education: TEACHING AND LEARNING Full analysis of the impact of the P4L, Humanities and English joint approach to literacy.

Impact summary report.

• Lesson observations and book scrutiny.

• T and L steering group.

• • Spring 2019 • Time

Quality of Education: TEACHING AND LEARNING Calm and purposeful start to the lesson continues

Silent starters fully embedded into the culture of lessons.

• A pilot in September will identify the benefits / drawbacks of this. January 2018 we will implement a Whole College commitment to silent starters.

• RHT • • Ongoing • Time

Quality of Education: TEACHING AND LEARNING Continue to embed Building Learning Habits across the curriculum. A focus on student

• More resilient learners.

• Whole College CPD • Silent starters • Student understanding of

how to improve their resilience.

• Improved marking and feedback.

• PGS/ BLH Team



resilience ( staff survey action point 2017)

Quality of Education: TEACHING AND LEARNING Challenge the 1-9 assessment model into classroom teaching so that it informs practice.

• Teachers able to give students quality feedback, to inform progression to the next steps.

• Create a Year 7 level 9, a Year 8 level 9 and show students what this looks like.

• Curriculum Teams further refine wall charts ensuring a shared and deeper understanding the year by year assessment system.

• SPC/ CTLs


Quality of Education: TEACHING AND LEARNING Evidence from parent and student voice suggests that we have got the volume of homework right, but perhaps not the challenge

• Homework set regularly in all CTs that either consolidates learning or challenges every individual.

• Staff CPD • QA of what is set • Book trawls • Student voice

• T and L Steering group

• CTLs • Trustees

• LT • Trustees


Quality of Education : PDBA

• Raising aspirations • Year 11 into 6th form lessons and tutor groups.

• Aspire offered to target students

• College plus to reinforce cultural capital and the benefits of working hard

• Plymouth wide research into the barriers faced by disadvantaged students

• Vertical careers presentations from local industry

• Significant mentors assigned to key students

• Develop parent

• All staff • LT • Ongoing • Time and £5000


engagement workshops • Student voice :

rewarding effort and ATL above attainment.

Quality of Education : PDBA Further improve the attendance of underachieving subgroups of the MAT.

• Fully embed the 2017 system of challenging the attendance of subgroups and linking this to academic achievement.

• Pastoral Leaders set targets for Attendance and Punctuality.

• Continue the 6 weekly attendance meetings where the attendance and progress of subgroups are scrutinised.

• Ensure there is support for students who fall behind because of absence.

• 95% plus attendance for all cohorts.

• Persistent absence less than 10%

• MDC/ EKS/ CR/

• LT/ TB

• October • Staff time

Quality of Education : PDBA In response to the College Council, skew our existing reward system to recognise effort

• Reward system • Recognise and reward the students putting in effort about raw attainment

• Reward system altered

• SPP • SPC

• LT • December 2018

• Time

Quality of Education : PDBA Further decrease the number of exclusions

• As students are familiar and adhere to the new behaviour pathway, the numbers of exclusions will drop.

• Firm and consistent behaviour pathway. Support packages for our ‘frequent SOC’ individuals.

• Introduce the 3 and 6 rule.

• • • •

Quality of Education : PDBA Continue the College drive to reduce LLD

• Minimalise the impact of the ‘frequent SOC’ individuals by offering a personalised package of support to manage their behaviour in class

• Personalised and documented package of support

• Whole Staff training on PACE

• Minimalise the impact of the frequent

• EKS • Colin S

• LT • Ongoing • Time and £200


Quality of Education : PDBA Lunch and break times can be a time for students to become ‘bored’.

• Offer a range of activities that will engage larger numbers of students.

• Look critically at our current provision and opportunities at lunch and break

• All students have something positive they can do

• EKS • PLs • Colin S

• LT • Ongoing

Quality of Education : PDBA All students continue to move on to something positive

• NEETs kept at zero. • As above, ensure that all new L2 and L3 courses are in place for KS4 and KS5 students.

• Ensure we are compliant with the Gatsby criteria

• NEETS at a zero

• RHT/ CTLs TXP

• LT • September 2019

• Staff time

Quality of Education : PDBA Make the tutor LORIC programme complement the P4L programme, literacy and numeracy drives.

• A more coherent approach that embeds key drives.

• A working group of students and key staff to ensure a coherent approach to the P4L and Tutorial programme

• P4L complementing the Tutorial programme

• EKS • Staff • Students

• LT • Trustees

• September 2019

• Time


• Explore the possibility of extracting Year 11 from the vertical system and appointing specialist tutors

• A pilot of this in Jan 2019 to be evaluated.

• Potential move to this model in September 2019.

• Year 11 specialist tutoring.

• EKS • LT • Trustees

• September 2019

• Time

Quality of Education : PDBA Improve the learning provision (and attainment) of our 16 looked after children

• This subgroup makes at least a zero value added and student voice suggests they are happy at the College and what it offers them.

• Individual care and support for these students.

• Positive student voice and progress.

• EKS Mandy B

• LT • September 2019

• Time


Quality of Education : PDBA Develop staff in the knowledge and skills to de-escalate volatile behaviours

• PACE training for all staff scheduled for 10th December.

• This will include training for parents with the same techniques.

• Trustee invited.

• Psychology Associates delivering a course.

• Reduction in removals from class by 50%

• EKS • LT • December 2018

• £250

Quality of Education : PDBA The Compass: the coming together of our Inclusion services.

Holistic care offered to all students. Single conversations and a multiagency approach to individual cases.

Outcome orientated.

• Developing a supportive culture to challenge and support students

Evidence of support packages

• EKS MDC • EKS • Sept 2018

Time


Students are more aware of where education can take them. This impacts positively on their motivation and resilience.

• Aspire extractions • Careers festivals • University trips • Year 11 to join Year

12/13 tutor groups • Rewarding effort and ATL • ‘Significant’ Mentors

assigned to underachievers

• College Plus programme

Evaluate the impact

• Trustees and LT

• LT • Sept 2019

Time

Quality of Education : PDBA Safeguarding developments

• Re-invigorate the Anti-Bullying Programme through recruitment and training of peer mentors.

• Trustees to schedule termly QA of our Safeguarding policies and procedures (1571 audit)

• EKS/ Abi D

• LT • Ongoing • Inclusion budget


• • Staff undertake Prevent training to facilitate their understanding of how to

MDC • LT • Ongoing • Staff time


Quality of Education : PDBA Develop the role of the Student Council

Students are at the heart of decision making about matters that directly impact on them.

• Meeting with the Principal every 6 weeks.

• Impact from student voice communicated to staff, parents and students.

• Job descriptions for the Council and Head students.

Minutes of meetings

• SPP • EKS / MDC • Ongoing Time

Quality of Education PDBA

Parents fully aware of how the College de-escalates behaviour and teaches students to regulate the emotions

• Workshop led by a clinical psychiatrist and educational psychologist on the ‘Teenage Brain’ and PACE. This marries with staff training.

Joint approach home and school for ECC and AFA

• TXP • TXP • Jan 2019

£500

Safeguarding developments

keep students safe. • Safer recruitment

training up to date for all key staff.

• Safeguarding training for all staff every year.


• Students continue to receive clear advice and guidance about the safe use of the internet and social media, through lessons, assemblies and the Pastoral programme.

• MDC/ EKS/ SPC/ CDJ/ DAT



• Train students in Prevent and the principles of safeguarding

• EKS • LT and Trustees

• By April 2019

• Time







Minutes of meetings







£500


Challenge the existing pastoral model of vertical tutor groups throughout KS3 and 4.

Does this meet student need?

• Trustee, student and staff voice.

• DO we aim for a hybrid, for example extracting Year 11 to a horizontal system?

• Staff and student voice

• Minutes etc

• EKS • Trustee and LT

• Set 2019

• Time

FINANCE Ensure the financial stability of the MAT

Increase our PAN to 210 ( increase of 30)

• Trustee decision in minutes

• Agreed by the LA

• Minutes in the Full Board meeting

• Trustees • MDC / Trustees

• September 2019







Minutes of meetings







£500

FINANCE

EFSA deficit recovery plan implemented

• Centralise HR / Finance across the MAT

• Catering and caretaking across the MAT

MDC • Lorna W • CR

• LT TB • Trustees MDC

• CR • Lorna W


FINANCE Increased net income generation in ICT (by 15%), Activate (by 15 %) and Reprographics (by 10%)

• All staffing recruitment scrutinised for efficiency savings.

MDC LLW CR

• LT • Lorna W • SPC








Minutes of meetings







£500

FINANCE • Explore and action increased business opportunities in ICT, Activate and Reprographics.

• Explore the potential for land sale

• MDC LLW • SPC • Trustees

• SPC • SPC Lorna W


Quality of Education : L and M

Developing our Hearing Support Centre

• On line BSL version of the College welcome

• Training of staff to at least BSL level 2

• Appointment of two CSW workers to support cross phase with EVPS

• One member of staff to become a qualified CSW

• Improvement in our facilities to include a sound proof room

• Upgrade Sound Field in the College classrooms

• Steve C • Local

Authority •

• Steve C • LT and Trustees

• Ongoing • £5000







Minutes of meetings







£500

Website improved Easy access, contemporary look, up to date policies.

Exploring other providers to ensure that we magpie ideas.

• Dave T

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Eggbuckland Community College ( and AFA) Improvement Plan ... 201… · Eggbuckland Community College ( and AFA) Improvement Plan: 2018 to 2020 Vision 2020: ECC will be making the