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Beaver Road Primary School Standards & Curriculum Committee Minutes 03/10/2016 DRAFT

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Beaver Road Primary School

Standards And Curriculum Committee

18.30 hrs, Monday 3rd October 2016 Attendees Paul Barker-Mathews Chair David How Head Teacher Lynne Allan Vice Chair of Governors Pauline Black Parent Governor Sarah Turner Parent Governor Helen Chilton Parent Governor

Agenda Present: Paul Barker-Mathews Chair David How Head Teacher Lynne Allan Vice Chair of Governors Pauline Black Parent Governor Helen Chilton Parent Governor Chris Warren Deputy Head Teacher 1) Apologies: Sarah Turner 2) Declaration of interests: None declared 3) Approval of previous minutes: Previous minutes approved


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4) Actions from previous meeting No actions outstanding from previous meeting 5) School Priorities for presentation to this committee for 2016-

2017 Schedule for 2016-2017: HT1 03/10/16 - Focus: Performance Data and School Priorities for 2016-17 - David How & Chris Warren HT2 14/11/16 - Focus: Clever Classrooms, led by Ruth Byrne HT3 23/01/17 - Focus: Digital Leaders, led by Michael Davenport and Beth Darby HT4 13/03/17 - Focus: Summative Assessment in Science, led by Joanne Jeacock HT5 08/05/17 - Focus: Developing as a Reading School, led by Gemma Hall HT6 03/07/17 - Focus: Pupil Premium Intervention, Chris Warren; Inclusion & SEND, Emma Easmon 6) PRESENTATION & DISCUSSION: Performance Data and School Priorities for 2016-17, David How & Chris Warren Key points and comments from the presentation:

Chris Warren presented his Assessment Report [Attached]

RAISEOnline due late. October/November

School has some initial data from Manchester Local Authority, from their integrated data set [unvalidated data]

School cannot break the data down into specific cohorts until full, validated data is released


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Focus Education will provide a summary [as last year]

School has replaced NC sub-levels with progress indicators, termed: “Expected”; “Exceeded”; “Mastery”

2015-2016 data has to be treated cautiously – nationally due to the immense changes of this year’s KS2 SATs.

Nationally, there are questions around the reliability of the Writ-ing moderation

School was moderated, one of only a few, which was a very ar-duous process for Sarah Turner and her team

David How shared the national picture, where some local au-thorities have seen their whole results go up or down

School’s not moderated have reported massive increases in writing compared to their results previously

School’s KS2 Writing is at 72.2 [Manchester’s is 69.8] – Nation-ally it is 74 [gives a score of -1.8]

However, ALL other KS2 scores of % of KS2 pupils achieving the expected standard show Beaver Road pupils’ performance to be at least 12.2 above the national figures.

Only Writing, for which Beaver Road was one of the very few schools to be moderated is below National – hence, school concerns around the reliability of this measure to inform future planning and intervention – Is this really an area of serious weakness for the school? What would school’s figures be when tracked against only schools who were moderated for Writing?

Taken from Chris warren’s Assessment Report [Attached]: Key Stage 2

% of pupils achieving the Expected Standard

School

2016

LA

2016

National

2016

Diff from Na-

tional

GPS 85.6 71.4 72 +13.6

Reading 78.9 60.4 66 +12.9

Writing TA 72.2 69.8 74 -1.8

Maths 82.2 69.6 70 +12.2

RWM Combined 66.7 49 53 +13.7

Floor standard put forward is 65% and above.


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Possibility next year that writing TA is removed and replaced with the

tested GPS result. This would give Beaver Road a combined score of

82.2% and a National average of 69%

KS1 Combined RWM [Reading, Writing, Maths] is +15.8 against National; +17.6 against Manchester

KS2 Combined RWM is +13.7 against National; +17.7 against Manchester [Even with the moderated Writing]

School has put Writing intervention in place since Y5 due to a high SEND cohort [10 pupils in the year] with support for Fran-cis Naismith, who worked all year with the Y5 cohort

Maths Progress and Attainment are both fantastic

KS2 is performing well above national and above floor standard

See: Floor Standards Explained in the assessment Report [At-tached] – Here is the key information:

Floor Standard Explained

The floor standard is the minimum standard for pupil attainment and /

or progress that government expects schools to meet.

No school will be confirmed as being below the floor until December

2016 when schools’ performance tables are published.

In 2016, a school will be above the floor if:

At least 65% of pupils meet the expected standard in English

reading, English writing and mathematics, or

The school achieves “sufficient progress” scores in all three sub-

jects. At least

-5 in English reading, -5 in Mathematics and -7 in English Writ-

ing.

To be above the floor, the school needs to meets either attainment or

all of the progress elements.

National “Sufficient

Progress” indicator

Beaver Road’s

Progress KS1 to

KS2

Difference

Reading -5 +0.2 +5.2

Writing TA -7 -2.3 +4.7

Maths -5 +1.9 +6.9

Beaver Road is positive + in all three measures, therefore we are not a coasting school and are above the 65 Floor Standard


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School is investing in a critical study of Writing across all phas-es. This will be led by Gemma Byrne and will focus on how to evidence, through the year, where Writing opportunities can be built in and taught through “Talk For Write”

Daniel Berry has been appointed to lead Maths; Reading and writing intervention to build on Francis Naismith’s previous, suc-cessful intervention – five mornings a week; focus on Y5 with support for Y6, closer to the SATs

Chris also updated Governors regarding closing the attainment gap through Pupil Premium funding [see the Assessment report, attached] Pupil Premium Closing the Gap

The gap is narrowing, over time, against Non-FSM broken down by Reading, Writing, SPaG and Maths

Until the national ‘group’ data (Pupil Premium, EAL, SEN, Gender) is re-

leased with RaiseOnline, analysis and comparison of this cannot yet

been made. Based RaiseOnline 2015 our Pupil Premium Data show:

Chris then summarised the picture of Attainment and Progress planning and intervention across the whole school:

Autumn term – plugging the gap and identifying learning gaps – whole school focus on any pupil whose performance has dipped

Combined %

= L4+

Reading % =

L4+

Writing % =

L4+

SPAG % = L4+

Maths % =

L4+

Year

2014

2015

2014

2015

2014

2015

2014

2015

2014

2015

Sch FSM

60

73

73

73

60

82

80

82

60

91

Nat Non-FSM

79

80

89

89

85

87

76

80

86

87

Gap

-19

-7

-16

-16

-25

-5

+4

+2

-26

+4

Improvement?

+12

0

+20

-2 still above national Non-

FSM

+30


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School looking for all significant gaps – to focus on individual pupils and their progress in specific areas

Each Friday – teachers assess how well all the class has per-formed and engaged through a four day teaching week

Friday is for pre-teaching those pupils who were not secure through the week’s learning and for extension work for those pupils who have exceeded expectations

TAs have less intervention that is passive, sat in class, reacting to the learning at a task-based level. Intervention will be more focused, targetted and time-limited with clear outcomes in order to measure individual progress – they will be skills-based, to build up competence over time and will involve mentoring

Teachers target their pupils’ learning gaps through pre-teaching and a targetted intervention programme

Governors thanked Chris for his detailed, comprehensive and ac-curate report David How then briefly outlined the school’s priorities for 2016-2017:

Developing School’s Clever Classrooms project

Developing Beaver Road as a Reading School

Establishing summative approaches in Science

Establishing Digital Leaders across school See below, taken from the Head teacher’s Report September 2016 [Attached]: School Improvement 2016 to 2017

The School Key Focus Areas continue to be:

Progress and rate of progress of all pupils from Year to Year and

not just from Y2 to Y6

Early identification by Class Teachers of, and appropriate inter-

vention/action for, pupils making less than expected progress

during a Year or between Years, particularly where those chil-

dren are Pupil Premium supported

Involvement and inclusion of all pupils in identifying and under-

standing their learning needs and how to improve


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Involvement and inclusion of all parents and carers in identifying

and understanding their children’s learning needs and how to

help them improve

The School Priorities for Action are:

Clever Classrooms, from research into practice. There is clear

evidence (Clever Classrooms HEAD Project University of Salford

2015), that the physical characteristics of primary schools im-

pact on pupil’s learning progress in reading, writing and math-

ematics.

Developing our School as a Reading School – National Literacy

Trust ‘Developing your whole-school reading culture’ Year 2

Establishing summative assessment for subject knowledge in

Science and formative assessment of Scientific Enquiry through-

out the year

Establishing Digital Leaders (children) in classes and Year groups

across the School

Mathematics – a scheme for Teaching and Learning

Safeguarding Update: Paul B-M has convened a Governors Investigation into a recent safeguarding incident. The Investigation committee consists of Paul Barker-Mathews, Lynne Allen & Pauline Black. The commit-tee will present its findings and conclusions to the governors, head teacher and parents when the investigation has been concluded. Discussion: The role of Governor’s safeguarding lead

No time for discussion; agreed to discuss at the next meeting 6) Communication/Website Update – Regular update – David

How

School have commissioned a website assessment and will share the evaluation/assessment report with recommendations, when complete

7) Learning Challenge Curriculum – Regular update – David How


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The Learning Challenge Curriculum is now embedded across school and future updates will be provided through this commit-tee’s work as we receive updates, presentations and action plans from school leaders, in line with the agreed school priori-ties for development 2016-2017

8) Review of Actions: Homework - Learning at Home: Policy, practice - We need to cal-endar an update – No time to discuss at the meeting. Key docu-ments will be attached to these minutes and sent out to all gover-nors to review and reply to PB-M with any points of consideration to be brought back to this committee 9) Correspondence / Any other business: Paul B-M has received correspondence from the parents involved in the recent safeguarding incident and associated emails from Ti-na Smith, who conducted school’s investigation into the incident and from David How, head teacher and designated safeguard lead. 10) Date of next meeting: HT2 14/11/16 - Focus: TBC. HT3 23/01/17 [Due to Extraordinary FGM 14/11/16]


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Standards & Curriculum Committee

Terms of reference:

To consider and advise the governing body on standards and other mat-ters relating to the school’s curriculum, including statutory requirements and the School’s Curriculum Policy

To consider and advise the governing body on Safeguarding and related matters, including statutory requirements and the School’s Safeguarding Policy

To review and monitor Pupil Progress, and advise the Governing Body

To consider and advise the governing body on issues impacting on the at-tainment of standards e.g. attendance, staff training etc.

To review and monitor the School Improvement Plan, and advise the Gov-erning Body.

To consider curricular issues which have implications for finance and per-sonnel decisions and to make recommendations to the relevant commit-tees or the Governing Body

To oversee arrangements for specific areas of provision, e.g. SEN, Litera-cy, Numeracy. To receive and review regular reports and advise the Gov-erning Body.

To oversee arrangements for educational visits, including the appointment of a named coordinator

To undertake activities as delegated by the Governing Body e.g. review and approval of policies.

Disqualification – Any relevant person employed to work at the school other than as the headteacher, when the subject for consideration is the pay or performance review of any person employed to work at the school.

Quorum 4

Membership Paul Barker-Mathews Chair David How Head Teacher Lynne Allan Vice Chair of Governors Pauline Black Parent Governor Sarah Turner Parent Governor Helen Chilton Parent Governor


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AC-TION 7 –

17/10/11

David How HT

After parent/carer consultation, the feedback from parent/carers is that homework needs more struc-ture with clear and specific guidance and recom-mendations for parent/carers. School has made the following changes to the homework policy, guid-ance and content based on this consultation: 1) Maths HW to be delivered using “Rapid Recall” maths programme, which tests number bonds, times tables etc. using a games-based format. This programme is for all year groups: Y1-6. It will sup-port the maths learning in the children’s classes. The work will be assessed back in class through a series of fast, games-based tasks. Children will receive stickers/certificates and their photo on the “Rapid Recall” board at school. 2) Spelling/Handwriting resources that will be sent home and can be completed any time that half term. The spellings are in line with the level of vo-cabulary school expects each child to practice de-pending on their year group/phase. 3) Parents reading to their children at home every day. The suggested timetable is: Monday – “Rapid Recall” Wednesday – Spelling Thursday – Handwriting Daily – Reading with parent/carer(s) Beaver Road will continue to seek parent/carer views and bring subsequent action plans and inter-ventions to the Governor’s meeting for approval, evaluation and review. Homework guidance and advice as well as content will also be a prominent feature of the new Beaver Road website, launched in February 2014. Update – School website guidance on “Learning at Home” has been reviewed and updated to include a rationale and guidance on how to develop and deliver “Learning at Home” activities for parents and carers – 03/11/14

Review Update - David How

Due to full agendas for March, May and July’s meetings, this will be update will be calen-dared at S&C Meeting: 03/10/16 Review Update 22/01/17 Sent out to all Governors for virtual review and discussion at a future meeting

AC-TION 8a –

17/10/11

Chris Warren AHT

Provide termly update on School Council activity. Update – Yr 6 student councillors presented an overview of their work to the governors at FGM 04/07/16

REVIEW Stu-dent Council to feedback their work at the last FGM in 04/07/16 ONGOING


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AC-TION 6 –

05/12/11

Lynne Allen Vice Chair

Portico Library have received £15,000 for out-reach work, focusing on “Children, War and Con-flict” and will be organising primary school projects, events and activities around next year’s Children’s Book Day. Portico are also hosting the regional final of “Poetry by Heart” – see website for details http://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk. Update18/01/16 The Portico Sadie Massey Awards for Young Readers and Writers [http://www.theportico.org.uk/prizes/young-readers-writers] - Janet Fitzgerald, the Portico primary school consultant and the Portico’s Outreach Of-ficer Aoife Larkin will be in touch with Gemma Nun-dy Update 18/01/16 Lynne Allan shared emails with Ruth Byrne and Gemma Nundy as subject leaders for Writing and Reading. Lynne allan to update this action.

ONGOING Lynne Allen to continue to up-date David How and Lead staff by email and feedback to the Standards & Curric. Comm. As appropriate

AC-TION 6a –

02/07/12

David How HT

Calendar updates on each of the school priori-ties: Schedule for 2016-2017: HT1 03/10/16 - Focus: Performance Data and

School Priorities for 2016-17 - Da-vid How & Chris Warren

HT2 14/11/16 - Focus: Clever Classrooms, led by Ruth Byrne

HT3 23/01/17 - Focus: Digital Leaders, led by Mi-chael Davenport and Beth Darby

HT4 13/03/17 - Focus: Summative Assessment in Science, led by Joanne Jeacock

HT5 08/05/17 - Focus: Developing as a Reading School, led by Gemma Hall

HT6 03/07/17 - Focus: Pupil Premium Intervention, Chris Warren; Inclusion & SEND, Emma Easmon

Agreed at S&C Meeting 03/10/16

ONGOING

http://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/


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AC-TION 5

– 03/11/1

4

Paul B-M Curric. Chair

SEN Priorities for development: School is committed to finding opportunities to promote awareness of living with disability and cur-riculum opportunities this year include:

Class discussions looking at carer is-sues/siblings with disabilities

Charity work

Sport

Community links – speaking to our local community about access and issues around mobility

Update – Review these Actions at next Curriculum Committee meeting 03/11/14 Update – Discuss the Development outline at next Curriculum Committee meeting 03/11/14 Update – Governors reviewed previous SEND pri-orities and agreed this year’s priorities will be in-formed by the school SEN priorities for develop-ment – Agreed 03/11/14 Update 18/01/16 Pauline Black to liaise with Emma Easmon, SENCO and report back to the commit-tee. Update 27/06/16 Emma Easmon, SENCO pre-sented a review of SEND and Inclusion to the S&C Committee

ONGOING

AC-TION 7a –

07/10/13

David How HT

RAISEonline: 1. David to send e-copy of the summary to all gov-ernors 2. David to email link to the school’s full report on the website Update – RAISE/ School Data/ Pupil Premium presentations to Governors will be calendared - first S&C Meeting of the year - School data and whole school priorities for academic year ahead; RAISE Online, first S&C meeting after publication; Pupil Premium, last S&C meeting of the academic year.

ONGOING

AC-TION 7b –

07/10/13

Chris Warren DH

Pupil Premium: 1. Chris to provide Pupil Premium summary for governors 2. Chris to provide consultant’s focus report when complete for governors Update – RAISE/ School Data/ Pupil Premium presentations to Governors will be calendared - first S&C Meeting of the year - School data and whole school priorities for academic year ahead; RAISE Online, first S&C meeting after publication; Pupil Premium, last S&C meeting of the academic year.

ONGOING


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AC-TION 7c –

07/10/13

David How HT

“Focus Education Learning Challenge curriculum”: David to summarise progress and update gover-nors re. the new curriculum model at each Curricu-lum Sub-committee meeting Update: The Learning Challenge Curriculum is now embedded across school and future updates will be provided through this committee’s work as we receive updates, presentations and action plans from school leaders, in line with the agreed school priorities for development 2016-2017

ONGOING (Termly) CLOSED 03/10/16

AC-TION 5 –

13/01/14

Paul Barker-Mathews

School Logo: Paul Barker-Mathews will be liaising with a design-er from StudioG4 whose name is Charlotte. Ruth Whyatt has provided the link. PBM has received contact details and will be liais-ing with the designer; he has also received an offer of design/printing support and assistance through a parent and his firm (via the PTA) Update: Due to a lack of compelling reasons to make any immediate changes to the current school logo(s) the curriculum committee will continue to review this issue. Agreed – 03/11/14

ONGOING

AC-TION 10 –

06/10/14

Paul Barker-Mathews

Governor Guidance for visiting school/classes Update – Paul B-M presented three policy models for consideration; Curric. Comm. Members will pre-sent their recommendation to the FGB after review-ing the policies. Update – Curric. Comm. Agreed the Westminster

model policy for school visits – Westminster gov-erning body self-evaluation materials – sum-mer 2010 http://webfronter.com/westminster/governors/mnu6.html Paul B-M presented this model to FGM 10-11-14 for ratification Update – Paul B-M to revise model policy and pre-sent back to FGM Update – Governors’ visits will be organised into phases with a named governor identified to work with each phase. Agreed 03-11-14 Update – 11/05/15 All phases have a named gov-ernor link and there is an agreed protocol for visits and reporting Update 25/01/16 [FGM] Linked governors re-viewed and agreed at FGM; All governors have received pro-forma and visits guidance; Recom-mendation: All governors on the S&C committee to trial The Key for Governors [https://schoolgovernors.thekeysupport.com] and report back to this committee [14/03/16] re. useful-ness/relevance - We will then report our findings to FGB

REVIEW NOV15 JAN16

http://webfronter.com/westminster/governors/mnu6.html

http://webfronter.com/westminster/governors/mnu6.html


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AC-TION 11 –

06/10/14

Paul Barker-Mathews

Working Group on Holidays: Paul B-M, Sarah Turner & Helen Chilton Update – Paul B-M presented a report on the na-tional picture; Helen C reported back regarding the lack of data and academic research regarding any educational advantage in changing holiday times; Sarah T reported back that no changes are planned for the near future at Parrs Wood. Agreed 03-11-14

ONGOING Governors will continue to re-view as devel-opments arise

AC-TION 11 –

12/01/15

Paul Barker-Mathews

Paul B-M to contact One Education regarding the Beaver Road Governing Body entering into a ser-vice level agreement with One Education for gov-ernor support, which is approximately £500 p.a. Update – 23/03/15 Paul B-M to get a quote re. join-ing The Key for Governors: £595 +VAT Update – 11/05/15 Governors to trial The Key for Governors before a decision to buy-in governor support is agreed Update - 12/09/16 @ FGM: Governors reviewed the Key for Governors & the NGA governors’ sup-port package and agreed to join the NGA for the next academic year [£295 a year for all governors inclusive]

REVIEW NOV15 JAN16 MARCH 16 - Governors are trialling The Key to evaluate its usefulness - Feedback to committee 27/06/16

AC-TION 10 –

11/05/15

Andrew Harty

Paul Barker-Mathews, as Governor’s Safeguarding Lead, to report to this committee once every term regarding Safeguarding cases, referrals, investiga-tions and outcomes

ONGOING (Termly)

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