Item 08 Appendix 3
West Dunbartonshire Council · 14 December 2022
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West Dunbartonshire Council Education, Learning & Attainment Quality Framework: Improvement Board Meeting 09 November 2022 Appendix 3
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Introduction The local authority has a statutory duty for the quality provision in schools. The Service Improvement Framework has been developed to monitor quality and build capacity for improvement through collaboration between the central officers and schools. The Improvement Framework operates an annual programme of quality assurance, monitoring and capacity building to support education leaders to implement a continuous programme of improvement. Another dimension to the Improvement Framework is monitoring the quality of planning and delivery of outcomes using Pupil Equity Funding. Improvement Framework Actions Between August 2021 and November 2022: • Officers conducted visits to all schools and Early Learning and Childcare Centres. The visits gave feedback on the quality of the standards and quality reports and improvement plans; and monitored the capacity of the school to accelerate progress and achieve improvement outcomes. • Validated Standards and Quality visits were conducted in 5 schools: Clydebank High, Knoxland, St Kessog’s, Braehead, Clydemuir. The visits engaged officers and headteachers in collaborative activity to validate the school evaluative grades as reported in their standards and quality reports. • Two primary schools were inspected by HMIE - St Michael’s and Our Holy Redeemer. • The second phase of a maths review and improvement programme took place over 3 days in one secondary school. The review was led by the by the headteacher of the school with the link SEO/EO and the headteacher of Our Lady & St Patrick’s High School providing support and challenge • PEF monitoring and support visits were conducted by the Attainment Advisor following a review of the quality of PEF Planning. • Two primary headteachers and a secondary depute headteacher seconded in October to work 3 days per week as Education Officers. Outcomes • The quality of evaluation and improvement planning is graded as very good in 30% of schools, good in 55% and weak in 15%. The majority of those graded good/weak did not have clear, measurable outcomes; and the actions not always relevant to objectives set for improvement. Schools in this category were supported to re draft sections of their plan. The timing of when these are monitored needs to be moved from August/September to April/May to prevent any delay to improvements being implemented in term 1. This will be actioned this session. Professional learning sessions will be implemented in January on writing improvement plans and S&Q.
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• The authority validated the evaluations in 2 out of the 5 schools engaged in a Validated Standards and Quality Visit. One visit was suspended after the evaluation of one core QI with dates in November for a further visit to complete the validation process. Supported School Improvement actioned in 2 schools. Changes in leadership made in one school. • The 2 school inspections are positive with key strengths identified in relation to wellbeing, inclusion and additional support needs. Areas of Strength • Reflective headteachers open to change and improvement; and collaboration across schools. • Improvements in the learning environments with the strategy for early learning and childcare impacting positively on the provision in most schools. • Quality of support for wellbeing and inclusion in the majority of schools. • Quality of PEF plans in most schools. • Long term objective setting supporting strategic planning for improvement in most schools. Areas requiring focussed attention • Quality of short term operational planning and milestone setting. • Understanding the descriptions of quality in the core QI’s in the majority of schools. • Monitoring process to validate teacher professional judgements against the national benchmarks in the BGE. • Assessment and moderation in the BGE and Senior Phase. • Attainment and equity planning to ensure focussed on the right areas to make biggest difference to attainment for children and young people in SIMD Quintiles 1/2. • PEF Budget spends and management to ensure full spend by end of financial year. • Quality of planning for learning to support independent and active learning as it is evident there has been a shift to more passive learning post COVID in some schools. Planned Activities for the Next Reporting Period Planned programme detailed in the following section • Attainment scrutiny visits to all secondaries to monitor Senior Phase attainment; and set targets for each school aligned to WDC Stretch Aims. • Monitoring BGE interim predictions; and set targets for each school aligned to WDC Stretch Aims. • Professional Learning on QI’s for all senior leaders. • Audit provision for monitoring the equity gap; target setting for groups and individuals; tracking attainment; and validating teacher judgement by senior leadership teams. Produce action plan for improvement and monitor impact.
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• Monitor implementation of improvement actions agreed in term 1 visit programme. • PEF budget spend monitoring and progress with implementation of plans. • Start the secondary and primary school improvement programme for learning teaching and assessment as outlined in the Improvement Framework Plan for this session. Improvement Framework Programme 2022/23 Standards and Quality Validation Improvement Activity School Dates Officers Peer Head/DHT sec Clydemuir 8th and 9th Sept J.McGrogan S.Gray Lynne Dempster St Kessog’s 19th, 20th and 22nd Sept J.McGrogan S.Gray Lindsay Thomas Braehead 28th Sept, 3rd October J.McGrogan S.Gray Kathryn Gallagher Knoxland 7th, 10th October J. McGrogan S.Gray Marie Guthrie CHS 27th, 28th, 31st Oct J.McGrogan C.Cusick A.Brown S.Gray Linda Booth Mhairi McCarte Whitecrook 11th and 15th November 15th November will begin at 10,30am Julie McGrogan Kathryn Gallagher Lennox 17th and 18th Nov Susan Gray Lindsay Thomas OLOL 17th and 18th Nov Julie McGrogan Kathryn Gallagher and Mary Rooney Levenvale 12th and 13th Jan Susan Gray Kathryn Gallagher Bonhill 6th and 7th Dec Susan Gray Mary Rooney DA 8th, 9th and 12th December J.McGrogan- 12th C.Cusick- 9th A.Brown – 8th S.Gray Jacqui Lynam Wendy McInally – 9th Kilbowie 14th and 15th Dec Susan Gray Marie Guthrie and Mary Rooney Gavinburn 14th and 15th Feb TBC TBC St Ronan’s 9th and 19th Mar TBC TBC St Mary’s Dunt 27th and 28th Mar TBC TBC
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ESCA Visits School Dates (Full day) Officers Linnvale 21st Nov Marie Guthrie and Susan Gray Edinbarnet 7th Dec Julie Mc Grogan and Michelle Diamond Kilpatrick 9th Dec Julie McGrogan and Mary Rooney St Joseph’s 18th Jan Julie McGrogan and Kathryn Gallagher St Stephen’s 29th Nov Julie McGrogan and Susan Gray Renton 25th Nov Michelle Diamond and Susan Gray Christie Park 11th Nov Marie Guthrie and Susan Gray OLSP 30th Nov Julie McGrogan and Susan Gray and Jacqui Lynam
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