Integrating extended services into school improvement planning

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Integrating extended services into school
improvement planning

• David Harvey
• Oak Farm Community School
• Farnborough

21 November 2006
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Oak Farm Community School

• Community school since early 70s
• Special Measures July 2004
• Appointed Assistant Headteacher Extended School
  May 2005
• Extended school Hampshire Pilot the Audit June
  2005
• Removed Special Measures March 2006

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• School Improvement Planning
• Making a difference
• Raising achievement
• Higher standards
• Creating the vision

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The process

• Background
• Audit
• Surveys
• Involving others
• School Improvement Planning
• Monitoring
• Evolving Cluster model
• Partners

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Every Child Matters
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Health and social care
Childcare
Lifelong Learning
Family learning
ICT
The Extended School Audit
Sports and Arts
Out-of-school-hours learning/study
Parenting and family support
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THE BIG PICTURE WHERE IS YOUR SCHOOL ON THE
EXTENDED SCHOOLS CONTINUUM? Enter in this table
the rating of each area of provision, which you
have recorded under Step 6 on each audit sheet.
At a glance you will be able to see your
schools progress on the extended schools
continuum in relation to each area of provision.

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Creating the vision!

• SWOT
• Focus on the opportunities.
• What sort of school did we want in the future?
• Community education Extended schools Every
  child Matters Special Measures CAF Healthy
  schools.
• Partnerships.

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What are our priorities?

• To improve teaching and learning.
• To engage with the community meaningfully.
• To work with parents to support student
  achievement.

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An example of finding out
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More finding out
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70
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So much to do so little time!
Sharing with staff
Involving staff
Identifying partners
Working with partners
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• EAL team
• School nurse service
• Health teams
• Totland Residents Association
• Rushmoor voluntary services
• U3A
• Hampshire County Council
• Sports development workers
• Lollypop lady
• Gurkha Association

• Some partners
• Schools
• Pre-schools
• Childminders
• Police
• Community wardens
• Housing associations
• Churches
• Healthy living
• Connexions
• County councillors
• Borough council
• UK Online
• Youth service

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• Monitoring.
• Has extended schools (now services) made a
  difference?
• How will I know?
• We measured before, during and after
• What did we measure?
• Parent review day take up, exclusions,
  incidents, extra curricula clubs, parental
  contacts

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Not everything is measurable How do you measure
smiles? You can monitor As opposed to
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• 18 months on what we have learnt?
• TEAM Working together with partners is
  rewarding.
• Small teams work best.
• Share, involve others and trust.
• Plans are great, but actions count.
• If you dont know, someone else will!
• Enjoy the roller coaster!

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