Agenda item

School Improvement update on centrally retained items (Verbal)

Minutes:

Slough Borough Council reported back that all School Improvement services from Cambridge Education had come back under Council control from December 1st 2016. The system of Autumn Term Visits was inherited from Cambridge Education and would continue in the same format for this academic year. There are plans to change it for next year and this will be done in consultation with schools. The Council is drafting a School Improvement policy which will also go out for consultation to all schools. The Council is setting about recruiting the posts identified in the Schools Forum paper (centrally retained items) from December 2016.

 

Carol Pearce asked a question regarding school improvement and the government’s expectations going forward that schools would be responsible for their own school improvement. Johnny Kyriacou responded that the Council was looking to embrace a different approach to school improvement more in line with the vision and expectations from the Regional Schools Commissioner and the DfE. This would involve developing and supporting the Slough Teaching Schools Alliance and school to school support. The Council would be looking to work with the STSA as active partners and wishes to use local leaders

 

John Constable confirmed that the role of the Teaching  School is to link and not provide directly and there is a funding implication for schools to release staff hence the agreed £150k over two years to facilitate this.