student organisation to raise achievement swavesey village college
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Student OrganisationTo Raise Achievement
Swavesey Village College
• Substantial growth 2001-2006: 900→1200 pupils• Loss of identity and sense of community• How many Year Teams were actually a ‘team’?• “We’re a 70% school, popular, ‘high performing’ – it ain’t broke!”• 20% absolutely switched off. Culture of “Well, what can you do with them?”• ‘Us and them’ culture – lack of student engagement
Why change?
How do we ensure 100% of children are known and supported?
included and active?participate?
Every Child Matters?
What about me?
Getting to your destination isn’t about accessorising...
...it’s about structure and organisation
SVC Road Map
Benchmarking – the outward looking school. Every member of staff visited another school .. or prison!
Staff and student questionnaire – “Students are our greatest strength”
Broader, personalised curriculum: Science (accelerated, combined, triple, Btec…), Hair & Beauty, Construction, Engineering…
Horizontal to Vertical – Year Groups to Houses
Peer mentoring, student leadership
AP
PRINCIPAL
AP AP AP APD
ESIG
N &
EN
TERP
RISE
SCIE
NCE
MAT
HS
ENG
LISH
& M
FL
HU
MAN
ITIE
S
Five Houses
PE, Arts
Senior Tutor
Curriculum Leader
Student Support Assistant
Teaching Assistant(s)
Classroom Supervisor(s)
11 Tutors
11 Tutor Groups
240 students
48 per year group
20 per form
Wilberforce House (Humanities)
Teachers and key student support staff are in one team
Streamlines :• Accountabilities• Meetings• PM• Strategic planning• Monitoring
4 per year in a form20 students in a form
Year Groups Houses
The tutor is the heart of the school, the specialist whose specialism is bringing everything together, whose subject is the student him or herself, who enables the student to make best use of the school and develop as a person.
‘Tutoring to improve Learning’, SVC handbook
30 per year in a form30 students in a form
• Pride and ownership – assemblies - developing the ‘spirit’ of your ‘House’
• Raising expectations and standards – no more gum & trainers!
• Better behaviour, less bullying• Competition and fun - inter-House and inter-form
scottish dancing, dodgeball, ABBA...• Peer mentoring, support and guidance of students
by students ; students see what lies ahead – IAG
Advantages
• Closer support of individuals – academic mentoring by tutors
• Record and monitor extra-curricular achievement – the SVC experience
• Improved home contact, supporting families• Improving tutor times - PLTS (personalised learning
thinking skills)• Student Voice – forums, lesson observations• Student Leadership – within forms, Houses and
school• ‘It’s good to succeed’ – a changing ethos
Advantages
• “It won’t make a bad tutor into a good tutor!”
• “We won’t be with our friends!”
• “It won’t work at our school!”
• New roles, new expectations – raising the bar
• Year group information• Overviews of behaviour• Consistency – quality
assurance
Concerns and Issues
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KS4 results 2003-2009 Stage Four5A*-C
Inc E+M
Student organisation, support & leadership within the House
Simon Russell Newton House Senior Tutor
The Role
Monitoring all students within the Vertical Tutor Group System
A recent major change has been to introduce mixed age tutor groups.
Students have reported very favourably on this and say that it has helped them to build good relationships with students from other years and that the small amount of bullying has reduced further as a result. One student talked about ‘feeling part of a family’.
The change has also made the role of the tutor more effective in supporting students’ academic achievement.
Bulletins• Inform the Tutors of the events of the week.
• Reinforce standards and expectations.
• Highlight meetings for the week.
• Maintain communication on pupils that are causing issues inside and outside the classroom.
Weekly Review
Week by week guide:
A detention list is sent out each week and displayed on the House Notice Board (Principles Detention – Isolation).
Four after-school detention = Red Report.
Pupils with poor Attitude to Learning Grades (ATLs) from their termly report go on an Achievement Report.
Monitoring Hour.
Attendance – EWO.
Monitoring Standards: Attendance
House Evaluations
What do we do to help Year 11?
Monitoring Standards Passport to PromPasses to Leavers DayInclusion Centre
Student 1
Student 2
Student 3
Student 4
Student 5
Passport to the Prom
Pupils that are underachieving or behavioural issues (Year 11) go on the Passport to the Prom.
Five whole school/curriculum area detentions also lead to students going on the Passport to the Prom.
Attendance must be greater than 90%
All coursework completed!
Detentions
Curriculum based on the students needs: Reduced Timetable 1:1 Tuition Work Experience Business Mentors/Staff Mentors Student Support Assistant Timeout CardsInclusion Centre
Knowing our Students!
What has Swavesey Village College done for me:Monday1:1 Tuition (Maths and Science)Tuesday Full Day Timetable – Hair 1:1 AfterschoolWednesday Work Experience (picked up/dropped
off)Thursday Work Experience (picked up/dropped
off)Friday Full Day Timetable – Maths 1:1 TuitionTaking some exams early, regular meetings and supported
by Senior Tutor. Meetings with the Principal..
Case Study: Shannon
Case Study: Student
Celebration Assembly
Pupils show off their talents during a Celebration Assembly.
It’s important to celebrate success!
Year Group Assemblies
Countdown in Year 11 – highlighting previous success and who has already been successful!
Student Leadership
How we support students to achieve their best?
Chloe Barnard: Newton House LeaderMark Barradell: Orwell House Leader
Agnieszka Florek: Newton Activities ManagerJack Summers and Tom Poole Student Ambassadors
Student Leadership at SVC
• Based around the five houses:BRUNEL – Technology and ArtsCAVENDISH – ScienceNEWTON – MathsORWELL – English and LanguagesWILBERFORCE – Humanities
• 46 leadership positions• Application Process
Student Leadership
Student Leadership Success:MentoringBusiness Mentoring
Our Mistakes!
• Leadership Positions changed if required. No longer have Head Boy/Girl.
• Monitors Mangers did not work.• Year Book and Prom is being addressed with a new
role – recent change to events managers • Staff have become better at handing over
responsibility.
Being High Profile
• Black Shirts• Assemblies• Visiting Forms• Lunch Queues and Bus Monitors• Attend Working Parties and Curriculum Meetings• Present to the Governors on what has been achieved
in each house
Student Voice at SVC
• Whole school questionnaire every two years
• Shorter, more specific questionnaires
• Student panels for new staff
• Subject questionnaires and lesson feedback
• Purpose: to gather opinions from whole cohort or specific targeted groups
• Groups of students interviewed every week
• Chance to discuss and feed back on current school issues
• Initially led by LAD/later blackshirts?
• Purpose: Opportunity for every student to have a voice
• Each group has a particular project or task
• Students apply to participate
• Led by black shirt + key member of staff
• Purpose: to make proposals to MB
• One rep per tutor group
• Agenda set by students
• Purpose: to feed student opinions and ideas to School Council - creates focus groups
House CouncilsSchool Council
Student Focus
GroupsStudent
FeedbackStudent Discussion
Groups
Focus Groups
Current Focus GroupsUniform Energy New Technologies
Starting this Half TermResource Centre Healthy Eating SVC Experience
Coming Soon!New Cafeteria Led by the Student
Ambassadors
House Council • Form Discussions airing views to the Form
Representatives• Agendas and Minutes• Assemblies• Information Displayed (House Boards, Visible Digital
Screens and leaders trained to upload the website)• Energy Monitors saving money in the school –
money is used in house council for a budget
House Council
School Council
• House Leaders• Senior Management Staff• Ambassadors• Link with Governors• Half Term Meetings• Budget
How have we changed?
• Student Leadership Contract
What else do we do?
• Shadowing previous leaders• Earlier training day
What have we learnt?
Personal Attributes
Opportunities
Experience
Responsibility
Purpose
The Role of the Form Tutor…
Vertical Tutoring…
Yr 11Yr 10
NCB
Yr 7 Yr 8 Yr 9
The form group
• Communication• Group work• Cross-year support and advice
A sense of family…
What is happening here?
What do the students think?
Monitoring
• Tutor interviews• Individual Learning Plan• Feedback and contact with parents
Sample
House Activity Day…
Form Boards and mascots