PRESENTED AT THE Parent Forum MEETING(November)

1). SEF judgements

ASPECT / Judgement in Dec 2014 / Sef judgement in Sept 2015 / Ofsted judgements Feb 2016 / Judgements in Nov 2017
Leadership and Management / 4 / 2 / 3 / 2
Quality of Teaching, Learning and Assessment / 4 / 2 / 3 / 2
Personal Development, Safety and Welfare / 3 / 2 / 2 / 2
Outcomes for pupils / 4 / 3 / 3 / 2 (improving)
EYFS / 4 / 2 / 3 / 2
Overall Effectiveness / 4 / 2 / 3 / 2

2a). StEP visit

The school has been categorised as ‘requiring targeted support’ by LA for the following reasons:

Rationale for LA support tier

  • The school was inspected in February 2016 and judged to Require Improvement. This is the third
  • RI judgement for the school.
  • The school experienced considerable teaching staffing turbulence over the past three years resulting in historical underachievement particularly in KS2. There is now a stable, permanent staff in place.
  • The current budget position has resulted in a reduced staffing level and mixed aged groupings throughout the school.
  • Self-evaluation is accurate. The school are aware of the key priorities and have detailed plans in place to address them.
  • Outcomes in all year groups have increased significantly this year and are at least in line with national across the board but boys’ attainment in KS1 is an issue.
  • Support has been accessed from a number of sources including the LA, LLE and local schools to support school improvement, moderation, SENco training and safeguarding.
  • School monitoring and evaluation judges teaching as at least good in all year groups, but this needs to be confirmed by the planned LA teaching and learning review (Autumn 2017)
  • There is some instability in Y6 due to the ongoing health issues of the teacher.
  • Taking into account all the above, and in line with the LA risk assessment, the school is categorised as requiring Targeted Support.

Summary Findings

Key strengths identified during the visit

  • The headteacher shows strong, determined leadership with a clear vision shared across the school and there is now a pattern of distributed leadership developing.
  • The headteacher has addressed the issues of historic poor teaching and implemented a rigorous programme of monitoring and evaluation through which teaching is now judged as at least good.
  • The improvements in teaching at all phases have resulted in much improved outcomes.
  • The school now has shared expectations and approaches to teaching and learning, assessment and marking and feedback.
  • Governance is much improved; governors are now much better informed, more involved and hold leaders to account.
  • Parental engagement is much more highly developed and encouraged.

Identification of strategic priorities for development 17-18

Key Priority 1

Improve the quality of teaching so that it is consistently good or better for all pupils from the early years to

Year 6 so that they can reach higher standards in English and mathematics and make the progress of which they are capable.

1.2 Provide work that is stimulating, exciting and allows pupils to show what they have learned in different subjects and especially when doing pieces of writing.

1.3 Teachers provide high-quality marking and feedback to pupils which makes it absolutely clear how they can improve their work.

Key Priority 2

Ensure that opportunities are taken to fully develop pupils’ understanding and awareness of life in modern

Britain so that these are firmly embedded.

Key Priority 3

Improve the effectiveness of leadership and management at all levels.

3.1 Ensure that all leaders have the skills and knowledge necessary so that they can undertake their work effectively and contribute to school improvement.

3.2 Make sure that precise goals are set for all staff to reach.

3.3 Ensure that all information gathered from the checks made routinely is evaluated carefully so that leaders are crystal clear and able to measure whether the quality of teaching is improved, and other interventions are having the intended impact and leading to better outcomes for all pupils.

Recommendations and Action Points from Summer term

Progress so far / Next steps
Improve the quality of Leadership and Management by:
Developing the strong Performance Management systems across the teaching staff team to include support staff. / HT has reviewed and set new performance management targets for all teaching staff and business manager;
AHT has reviewed and set new performance management targets for all Higher Level Teaching Assistants;
SENCo has reviewed and set new performance management targets for all teaching assistants;
StEP and governors have AHT has reviewed and set new performance management targets for headteacher; / Business manager to set new performance management targets for admin staff and caretaker;
Reviewers to carry out mid-term reviews in Spring term.
Ensuring the effectiveness of the communication system across school so that all staff can access the range information and that they understand their responsibilities in doing this. / SENCo meets with TAs fortnightly;
TA timetable reviewed and published regularly in staffroom;
Diary is published online for all staff to view;
Briefing meeting held weekly at 8:30 in staffroom;
Weekly diary on display in staffroom;
Newsletter sent to all staff weekly;
Headteacher blog updated daily with news of upcoming events; / Continue with fortnightly meeting and discuss further improvements required for communication;
Carry out monitoring activities of TAs to ensure communication is effectively being implemented;
Ensure teachers plan and effectively deploy TA provision linked to provision map;
Building on the significant progress in developing leaders at all levels this year to further strengthen leadership so that the quality of leadership can accurately be evaluated as good. / Through performance management, responsibilities have been clarified and monitoring and evaluation schedule, involving leaders at all levels ensure all staff are held to account. / Leaders to provide reports to governors for termly meetings and monthly visits to demonstrate impact of their leadership on pupil outcomes;
Building on the significant progress this year in improving the quality of the Core Curriculum to ensure all pupils have access to a high quality broad and exciting curriculum. / Purchased addition assessment materials for reading ad SPAG;
Appointed new Science, RE, MFL and computing leads;
Delivered a developing thinking skills INSET in November to introduce strategies transferable across the curriculum;
Reviewed and updated the teaching and learning policy; / Planned curriculum day for January INSET;
Taking swift action to implement the recommendations from the safeguarding audit (July 2017) and in particular to addressing the identified gaps in the SCR. / Almost all actions have been completed and all staff files are completely up to date;
Organising and systematically checking all staff files to ensure they are up to date and contain the required pertinent information, particularly on recruitment.

Full report sent out prior to meeting

2b). SOC meeting

On 5th Oct there was a school of concern meeting involving Robert, Paul Ruane, Chris Turner and myself discussing where we are and next steps to move to good. A list of actions was drawn up:

Agreed Actions
Action / Who by / Completed
Amy Simister to attend the school to support e-learning / AS / Yes (4 parents attended)
PMcL to Contact SACRE Jonathan Sharp / PMcL / Yes
Access EMTAS resources re multi cultural/religious visits. / PMcL / Yes and JB has ordered African resources
Respond to Ofsted Complaint / PR / Yes
Produce a short summary, judgements, school Improvements for Governors / PMcL / Doing it now
Lucy Grimes to attend fortnightly to support school / PR / No. Lucy visited once then gone off sick
Referral to be made to Early Help / PMcL / Yes
Speak to Helen Wilson Legal / PMcL / Yes
Headteacher would like someone from the LA to attend the school to check all processes are fit and robust. / PR / No
Carry out a school review to include all OFSTED areas (before Christmas if possible) / SJS & JS / No
Update website within the next 2/3 weeks to include Governor meetings and attendance to be compliant / PMcL / Yes

3). Staffing

Mrs Underwood (HLTA) and Mrs Faulkner (1:1 support assistant) have left. Miss Raper has been working 1:1 with a child. This child has now left and Miss Raper will go back to her role of being mentor and supporting vulnerable children around school.

I have appointed Mrs. Fleetwood to replace Mrs, Underwood, and she will begin in January. Until then we have a supply HLTA covering the roles Mrs Underwood was doing, but this is expensive.

Mrs. Tuffrey is currently working full time with a child with additional funding in EYFS. We are looking to access additional funding as we believe the support is allowing the child to make progress and effectively access the curriculum.

Mrs. Taylor is off sick (and has been since the week before half term) following an operation. Recovery time is expected to be 6 weeks, taking us up to Christmas week. I have appointed 2 relief teaching assistants to help us address long term staff illness. At the moment a combination of Mrs Ramsay and extended hours for Mrs Vaughan is covering Mrs. Taylor’s absence.

I have appointed Mrs Ross to support a Year 2 child 1:1.

Quality of teaching-observations by area Autumn term 1:

Quality of teaching-observations

Quality of Teaching / July 2016 / Dec 2016 / April 2017 / July 2017 / Dec 2017 / April 2018 / July 2018
% of teaching judged RI or better / 100% / 100% / 100% / 100% / 100% / 100% / 100%
% of teaching judged good better / 67% (50%) / 80% / 80% / 80% / 96% / 100% / 100%
% of observed lessons judged outstanding / 17% / 20% / 20% / 20% / 40% / 60% / 60%

4). Standards: evaluation document (appendix 1 Secure access data report-Ofsted Dashboard), however in summary:

This is provisional data for 2016/2017. It is not published data and it is subject to change. Actual data can now be found here:

KS2

KS1

5. Monitor and evaluate progress of action plan (appendix 2)

I provided a summary of the updatesto the action action plan in the previous Headteacher report, shared at the last meeting and I shared an updated timelined version prior to the meeting. I recommend a detailed look at progress in January visit to school to measure impact of progress when the assessments at the end of term have been analysed and pupil progress meetings complete.

6. Safeguarding

Since the update to the safeguarding policy, I have been keeping a detailed log of communications regarding safeguarding children and it has been an incredibly busy time with 144 communications logged.

I reported in Oct a number of safeguarding issues and have provided an update on each one below and added additional events:

Referrals and meetings

Sept- Nov 2017
Child Protection Referrals / 5
Looked After Children (LAC) / 1
Personal education plan (PEP) meetings for LAC / 1
CIN (Children in Need) meetings
Child protection meetings / 2
Core Group meetings for child protection children / 2
TAC /TAF( Number of cases) / 4
Early help referrals / 5
Early help assessments with parents / 3

7. SEN: Improve quality of SENCo and develop systems to track progress, measure impact and involve outside agencies:

SEN level
Reception and Year 1 / 2 SEN 1 on watch
Year 2 / 3 SEN 5 on watch
Year 3 / 3 SEN
Year 4 / 3 SEN
Year 5 / 4 SEN 2 on watch
Year 6 / 3 SEN 2 on watch

Impact of actions from SEN action plan

Autumn milestones / Outcomes
SENCo has begun national award at Birmingham University
Accelerated progress in writing for Years 5 and 6 SEN pupils / Data needs analysing after assessments in December
Teaching assistants are aware of the process of their performance management and targets are set / All TAs have been given new standards during TA meeting
Completed skills audit questionnaire
Performance management completed and targets set
Improve progess and attainment of SEN pupils / Completed TAC for 1 pupil and actions set
Tracking grid created
New EP have made obs
New on watch list created
Pupils and TAs observed for RWI
Completed GDA’s for 3 pupils / 2 GDA’s completed
Advised from EP to leave the other child for now
Update data on school Website / Data for 2016/17 is on school website.

8. PTA Fundraising for the year

The PTA have set a target of £2000 to help school improve ICT equipment by purchasing/leasing tablets. They have organised a number of events this term so far:

Event / Outcome
  • Friday 22nd September – Cash for clothes
  • Friday, 29th September -Christmas Card templates in.
  • Friday, 29th September - Family Fun Night
  • Thursday 5th October Harvest Festival Refreshments
  • Wednesday 25th October Spooky Disco
  • Friday, 27th October - Non-uniform Onesie/PJ day
  • Friday, 10th November PTA Ladies’ Night
  • Craft club half term 1
/ Raised £49
Raised £280
Don’t know
Raised £85.55
Raised £111
Raised £331.72
Raised £89
Raised £342
Raised £111

This is a total of approximately £1400. Thanks to everyone who has supported the events, the PTA have kindly donated £85 towards the registration for Young Voices visit and £260 towards tools for forest school and the construction of a willow dome on the school field for sun shelter in the summer.

  1. Promoting British values and SMSC in the Autumn term

You can find out more about each one of the events by following the hyperlink to the Headteacher blog.

Fantastic Frogs in the vegetable patch

Mathletics competition

Busy Bees make Torah scrolls and yads

Black History Month

Year 3/4 mini golden boot

Brainy Badgers celebrating success once again

PTA Pyjama Day

Fantastic Frogs Alien Day

Busy Bees Egyptian Day

Remembrance

Be Kind at Wadworth

Wise Owls-Egyptian celebration event

Smart Squirrels visit Doncaster Museum

Firework safety poster winners

JRSO Be seen-Be safe poster competition

Diwali Celebration-Indian Dancing

Year 6 Letter of complaint

Brainy Badgers build shelters

Fantastic Frogs at Yorkshire Wildlife Park

Netball tournament

Christmas Fair Contributions

Busy Bees Body Bits

Remembering assembly

Rickshaw Challenge

Wise Owls design Battery Powered Cars

Thank you from the British Legion

Busy Bees Visiting Museum

Year 3 Dance Workshop

Carol Singing at Braithwell, Tesco and Morrison’s

Rec+KS1 Nativity 13th and 14th December

10). Compliments, complaints and comments

Comments:

  • I received an email from a parent about an accident between a car and a pupil in a car park. We used this in a bid for a security gate. We are currently in the second round and are due to complete the paperwork to bid on funding to replace the fencing and install an automatic gate to the car park.
  • The parent who contacted me (and Mrs Land) over lack of consistency in points being awarded in each class via class dojo continued to raise this at the parent forum
  • I had a comment at the parent forum about the advantage the more able children in the upper classes had over their counterparts in the classes lower classes, e.g. did the year 4 children in Mrs Vernon’s class do better than the year 4 children in Miss Rowley’s class;
  • I have had a number of positive comments and suggestions to improve the updated website. I have heard that Mr Cartlidge has received a concern over the open nature of the website.
  • I have received comments from one parent who had previously complained about the improvement in communication and the way we were dealing with the bullying issue with her son. Although she didn’t agree with the outcome of the investigation into bullying, she isn’t looking to take it further. The support for child from LA has been put on hold as consultant has been off sick since the new term began.
  • I have received a concern from a teacher about the conflict in approach to teaching maths between school and dyslexia centre in Sheffield. We arranged to meet mum to discuss our concerns.
  • We received a letter of thanks from British Legion for raising just over £200 on poppy sales (letter on website).
  • Received a thank you from Rev. Price following harvest donations: Many thanks for everyone’s help over harvest, this what the donations went to support, we received over £1000 of food donations in total.

Compliments

Developing a love of reading in a child: I wanted to write to thank the school for helping to give my son a love of reading. Over the last eighteen months, under Mr Robson's guidance, he has been exposed to different authors, and with Mr Robson's enthusiastic approach to class reading, my son now readily picks up a reading book whenever he gets the chance, whether that be on car journeys, waiting for appointments, or at bedtime.

Mrs Bradley has developed reading within the school and, with all teachers and teaching assistants, have helped give children access to different genres of reading. Children have then been able to use this learning and creativity within their writing across school. We know that reading is a priority for the school and I believe that you are on the right track and making really good progress. I hope this love of reading with my son continues and is now a lifelong love!