VELBERT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

INTRODUCTION

WHERE ARE WE?

105 Tameside Schools:

18 Secondary

82 Primary

5 Special

Education in Tameside - Our Mission

"Securing Quality Education for All in Tameside"

Investment in learning and personal development is essential if people are to lead satisfying and prosperous lives.

Our mission is to secure quality education for all in Tameside and our aims are to,

•support and challenge Tameside schools to improve educational standards and quality

•secure the delivery of high quality services

•secure the equality of opportunity and access for all to services.

All our work is driven by 6 principles

• Raising standards• School self-management• Intervention in inverse proportion to

success• Partnership and co-operation• Zero tolerance of under-performance• Value for money

High Challenge, High Support

HIGHSUPPORT

HIGH

CHALLENGE

LOW

CHALLENGE

LOWSUPPORT

Stagnation

Under-performance

Conflict

Demoralisation

Rapid progress

High performance

Slow, uneven progress

Complacency

Tameside

High Challenge, High Support

AmbitiousStandards

Devolvedresponsibility

Good dataand cleartargets

Access to bestpractice andqualityprofessionaldevelopment

Accountability

Interventionin inverseproportion tosuccess

HIGHCHALLENGE

HIGHSUPPORT

The Triangle of EffectivenessThe Education Development Plan is a key document in achieving our principles. It can be seen as one corner of a triangle – what we call “the triangle of effectiveness”:

The EDP: WHAT we will do OFSTED inspection of LEAs: with schools to raise standards How EFFECTIVELY we work with schools to raise standards

The Code of Practice: HOW we will work with schools to raise standards

The English Education System

• The education system is divided into three stages:

primary education, up to age eleven secondary education, up to age sixteen tertiary education, for those over the

age of sixteen.

• In England and Wales there are 8.5 million children in 30,000 state schools

Primary phase

pre-school education is available for ages two to four/five through playgroups and nursery schools. The emphasis is on group work, creative activity and guided play

compulsory education begins at five in England,

there is little or no specialist subject teaching and great emphasis on literacy and numeracy in early years

the usual age for transfer to secondary schools is eleven in England, Wales and Northern Ireland

Secondary phase

compulsory education ends at age sixteen, though many pupils stay on beyond the minimum leaving age

about ninety percent of state secondary school pupils in England, Wales and Scotland go to comprehensive schools, which provide a wide range of secondary education for most children of all abilities

at age sixteen pupils in England and Wales may transfer to sixth form colleges or tertiary colleges

Policy and overall funding

• Policy and overall funding for education is determined by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES)

• They dispense funding for education either directly or through other bodies such as Local Education Authorities, agencies and funding councils

The National Curriculum

• In 1988 the National Curriculum was introduced into schools in England and Wales, making for a broader, more balanced and coherent schooling system. The Curriculum sets out what pupils should study, what they should be taught and the standards that they should achieve.