Secondary and PRU School Improvement Partner Briefing

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• Secondary and PRU School Improvement Partner
  Briefing
• July 2008
• a critical, professional friend to the school,
  helping its leadership to evaluate its
  performance, identify priorities for improvement
  and plan effective change

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Agenda

• review of year, impact of the programme, new
  developments
• review of pattern of visits and reporting to
  headteachers/governors over the past year
• identifying positive features of practice in
  other LAs
• questions for Jeff Lord
• summary of key elements of 2008/09 school visits
  and the reporting arrangements
• feedback on the criteria for support in the
  revised Improvement Strategy
• update on school finances
• brokering of support
• identification of CPD for 2008/09

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Joint Area Review May 2008

• Monitoring, challenge and support for both
  schools and early
• years providers to improve the quality of their
  provision is
• very good. This includes challenge based upon
  internal
• benchmarking, good written advice and training,
  effective
• use of data, and a sharp focus on provision for
  those with
• learning difficulties and/or disabilities during
  monitoring
• visits by School Improvement Partners and other
  advisory
• staff. These visits include monitoring of
  progress at
• individual pupil level.

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The National Challenge Adviser and implications
for School Improvement Partners

• 31 Kent secondary schools will require an NCA in
  the Autumn term for 5-20 days according to level
  of need
• NCAs will be allocated on 1st November 2008
• They will agree a tailored package of support and
  resources will be drawn down from National
  Challenge Funding
• NCAs will report on-line directly to the DCSF
• They will attend regional training in London

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Improvement Strategy for Schools and Settings

• Activity
• examine the draft revised criteria for
  identification of support for schools
• consider a school that you are currently working
  with and decide where it would be according to
  this criteria

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Secondary SIP Finance Briefing

• Background
• Kent Schools Reserves increased by 7.2 to 67.6m
• October 2007threat by Jim Knight to
  redistribute 5 of schools revenue reserves
• Kent schools have 28.1m uncommitted revenue
  reserves
• 16 of schools (92 schools primary secondary)
  revenue reserves exceed 200kaverage 5 of
  income for secondary schools
• 294 schools (51 of all schools have static or
  falling rolls as at January 2008

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Secondary SIP Finance Briefing

• 2008-09 and beyond
• on the basis of the latest 3 Year Budget plans
  for schools it is clear that an increasing number
  are forecasting that they will move into a
  deficit position during the period 2008-11.
• 10 schools are forecasting to be in deficit in
  2008/09 with a value of 0.6m

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Secondary SIP Finance Briefing

• 42 schools are forecasting to be in a deficit in
  2009/10 with a value of 2.9m
• 64 schools are forecasting to be in deficit in
  2010/11 with a value of 7.8m
• CFE Finance will challenge those schools who
  have had consistently high levels of revenue
  reserves over the past 5 years. CFE Finance
  identified some 60 school

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Secondary SIP Finance Briefing

• ISSUES FOR SIPs
• many of the Headteachers/Governors met by a panel
  to discuss their level of reserves did not seem
  to appreciate the link between standards and
  their budget reserves
• there is some evidence that schools have moved
  revenue into capital to avoid any possible
  clawback
• a number of schools are planning to use a large
  proportion of revenue reserves to fund capital
  projectswith a long term risk of moving into
  deficit
• an emerging view that the Balance Control
  Mechanism is too generous and possibly too
  complexThresholds could reduce
• the need to do more on training, especially with
  Primary headteachers and do more work to
  brief/train SIPs

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Directory of Services

• Objective Develop a policy for brokering support
  to
• schools including a Directory of Services (ASK
  Business
• plan ref 2.6.4)?
• Actions
• SIPs and school leaders will be clear about the
  SIP role in brokering support
• Sips will have access to an up to date on-line
  Directory of Services in relation to the key
  areas of need in relation to school improvement
• Person responsible Diana Robinson
• Timescale October 2008

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Optional workshops in 2008/09

• all matters relating to educational initiatives
• financial health of school
• 14-19 gateway
• models of governance
• training on the use of EPM input and access
• finance
• diploma update
• impact of GATE (leading teacher implementation)?
• community cohesion
• advice on OfSTED preparation and support
• headteacher performance management (for new
  SIPs)?
• stretching the outstanding
• evaluating stages of Diploma planning/provision
• OfSTED task training sessions
• discussion with a current lead inspector

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ASK Website - SIP Pages

• For briefing dates, previous SIP Bulletins and
  briefing
• packs, SIP handbook and Notes of Visit,
  information
• regarding OfSTED inspections and schools in
  category.
• http//www.kenttrustweb.org.uk/ask/improvement/imp
  rovement_home.cfm
• Please let us know if there is anything else you
  would like to see
• on these pages.

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SIP Briefing dates 2008/09

• 22 September 2008
• 12 January 2009
• 11 May 2009
• 6 July 2009

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Advisory Service Kent Room 2.04 Sessions
House County Road Maidstone ME14 1XQ Tel 01622
696167 Fax [phone] http//www.kenttrustweb.o
rg.uk/ask/