Lythe School Development Planning for Ofsted Recommendations This is a summary of our actions; if you would like to discuss anything in more detail, please make an appointment to visit school. What Ofsted said we need to do to What we have already done What we are planning to do next improve further (p.2 of report) Ensure that evaluation of our - Governor involvement in the school has been strengthened. As a - Continue to work with the local authority and performance is accurate, enabling result, governors have an accurate and precise understanding of other partners to ensure self-evaluation remains rapid identification of issues and the quality of provision. They are asking the right questions in accurate and responsive to need resulting in timely action to improve relation to our performance. (Report p.4) - Improve involvement of parents in self-evaluation outcomes. - Good support from the local authority through regular checks and - Improve reporting of our work to parents so that visits has already identified key improvements and is supporting us all are included in our drive for improvement. in strengthening the school’s development plan. (Report p.4) - Pupils in EYFS and KS1 are making good progress; the current progress across KS2 is now improving faster than in the past (Report p.7) - We invited senior advisers from the local authority team to help self-evaluate our SEND provision and review our whole-school Form. Monitor all subjects more closely to - High-quality partnership support from successful schools in the - Continue to work with our partner schools, for maximise opportunities for rapid area is effective… this is enhancing the quality of teaching and training, advice and monitoring, to ensure that improvement in the quality of learning. (Report p. 4) rapid improvements in teaching continue and our teaching - A four-year rolling programme of evaluation of all subjects is now findings are reported to governors and parents. in place - Implement the rolling programme to ensure that - Training of subject leaders in use of data to track teaching, standards are equally high in all subjects learning and pupil progress has taken place - Subject leaders now report directly to governors on teaching, learning and progress in their subject areas - our use of the Chris Quigley Essentials curriculum gives equal weight to all subjects, and ensures we have a clear teaching and assessment framework which is consistent throughout the school.
Lythe School Development Planning for Ofsted Recommendations This is a summary of our actions; if you would like to discuss anything in more detail, please make an appointment to visit school. What Ofsted said we need to do to improve further (p.2 of report) What we have already done What we are planning to do next Ensure that evaluation of our performance is accurate, enabling rapid identification of issues and resulting in timely action to improve outcomes. - Governor involvement in the school has been strengthened. As a result, governors have an accurate and precise understanding of the quality of provision. They are asking the right questions in relation to our performance. (Report p.4) - Good support from the local authority through regular checks and visits has already identified key improvements and is supporting us in strengthening the school’s development plan. (Report p.4) - Pupils in EYFS and KS1 are making good progress; the current progress across KS2 is now improving faster than in the past (Report p.7) - We invited senior advisers from the local authority team to help self-evaluate our SEND provision and review our whole-school Form. - Continue to work with the local authority and other partners to ensure self-evaluation remains accurate and responsive to need - Improve involvement of parents in self-evaluation - Improve reporting of our work to parents so that all are included in our drive for improvement. Monitor all subjects more closely to maximise opportunities for rapid improvement in the quality of teaching - High-quality partnership support from successful schools in the area is effective… this is enhancing the quality of teaching and learning. (Report p. 4) - A four-year rolling programme of evaluation of all subjects is now in place - Training of subject leaders in use of data to track teaching, learning and pupil progress has taken place - Subject leaders now report directly to governors on teaching, learning and progress in their subject areas - our use of the Chris Quigley Essentials curriculum gives equal weight to all subjects, and ensures we have a clear teaching and assessment framework which is consistent throughout the school. - Continue to work with our partner schools, for training, advice and monitoring, to ensure that rapid improvements in teaching continue and our findings are reported to governors and parents. - Implement the rolling programme to ensure that standards are equally high in all subjects