The document discusses improving school performance through effective leadership and staff development. It outlines the principles of HMIe inspection which focus on outcomes and impact, self-evaluation, partnership working, improvement, proportionality, and best value. Key indicators of school performance include improvements in performance, learners' experiences, supporting learning, curriculum, and self-evaluation. Data is used to monitor performance, set targets, and provide a holistic measure of each pupil's progress. Examples of performance tracking, results analysis, and wider achievements are also provided.
3. Having all learners or users at the heart of
inspection and review
Independence, impartiality and accountability
Equality and diversity
Transparency and mutual respect
The ten principles provide a key point
of reference to inform the development
of any new approaches to inspection or
review.
Observing practice and experiences directly:
focusing on outcomes and impact
Building on self-evaluation
Partnership working with the users of our
services and other providers/scrutiny bodies
Improvement and capacity building
Proportionality, responsiveness and
assessment of risk
Best value
HMIe Inspection
4. HMIe - three main questionsachieve? five key indicators
How well do young people learn and and the
1.1 Improvements in performance
2.1 Learners experiences
How well does the school support young people to
develop and learn?
5.1 Curriculum
5.3 Meeting learning needs
How well does the school improve the quality of its
work?
5.9 Improvement through self-evaluation
5. QI 1.1 Improvements in performance
Standards of attainment/progress over time
Context of establishment
Attainment/progress data trends
Teaching, learning meeting needs
Teacher expectations
Overall quality of learner's achievement
6. Development of the four capacities
Development of personal and social skills
Improvement in attainment/progress and
achievement
Delivering the Establishment's vision
Impact of the school improvement plan
Improvements in performance
7. Standards of attainment/progress over time
Attainment was very good in all key metrics
To quote HMIe: "QAHS are performing better or much better
in all key metrics when considered against their Comparator
Schools." - Information from STACS.
Projects linked to our Confucius
Classroom
8. Data rich
Use of Access databases
Tracking and Monitoring Performance
Reporting to parents
Data regularly imported into STACS
charts and table format
Availability of data across the school for
all staff
Well developed system
Remembrance Day
9. Purpose
To obtain regular indications of individual pupil performance, subject performance, year group performance
and whole school performance
Based upon
Pupil Updates (teacher judgements, class tests, etc.)
Yearly Reporting (based on summative assessment)
Baseline data used to set targets
Use of Primary School AfE data (formerly PIPs) and S2 AfE On line testing (formerly SOSCA)
A Celebration of Christmas
2012
10. Monitoring is more than tracking academic progress
Achievement Awards (including School awards, Saltire Awards, ASDAN, Youth Achievement Awards, etc);
Praise Awards and Positive Referrals
Monitoring will include Pupil Profiling which will ultimately contain comments from all stakeholders
(pupils, parents, teachers and relevant agencies if applicable) regarding each pupils progress in a holistic measure
Monitoring will include reference to attendance and behaviour
Each year should provide a full and frank appraisal of each pupil
Pupils presenting at the Gleneagles summit 2012 along with the group who attended the
summit
11. Performance Tracking System 2012-13
System Data
Pupil Details - Name, class, subject. set & course
Tracking Information - Pupil details, SQA, AfE & CfE
Pupil Reports - Pupil details & main report information
S1 Class Definition Information - Pupil details, PS AfE, CfE, ASN, Keep together, keep
Praise Awards - Pupil details, set and Praise Award result
Achievement Award - Pupil details & Award type
Positive Referrals - Pupil details, referral reason; set & subject
Attendance/Late Information - Pupil details, latest % attendance and lates
Daily Dozen Details - Pupil details, Tracking & Attendance/Late information
Classroom Observations - Class, DHT & Observation results
16. 6 of the12 key
metrics showing a 7
year progression
Quartile 1 or 2
17. 6 of the12 key
metrics showing a 7
year progression
Quartile 1 or 2
19. "The real role of leadership in education is not and
should not be command and control. The real role of
leadership is climate control, creating a climate of
possibility.
20. "We need a pedagogy free
from fear and focused
on the magic of children's
innate
quest for information
and understanding."
-- Sugata Mitra
21. education,
find a career that's fulfilling and rewarding,
and have a chance to live out their dreams
wouldn't just make us a more successful
country it would
also make us a more fair and just one.
22. "A colleague said to me one time, They
don't pay me to
like the kids. They pay me to teach a
lesson. I said
to her, You know, kids don't learn from
people they
don't like.
Rita Pierson: Every kid needs a champion
23. "What kind of school would have the
teenagers
ighting to get in, not fighting to stay out?
Geoff Mulgan: A short intro to the Studio School
24. "In all high performing systems
there is
individualised learning, teachers
have very
high standards and responsibility
is
devolved to the school level."
Ken Robinson:
25. Death Valley is dormant not dead! The seed
are there and are simply waiting for the
water."
Ken Robinson: How to escape education's
death valley
26. The next slides simply show a pictorial representation of
how
that simple effect of watering can indeed lead to a
blossoming of
potential and to wonderful opportunities that are eagerly
ceased
by pupils of all age and stages.
Give them a chance and wonder at what transpires!
29. Peace One Day
Conference - morning
Series of Debates - afternoon
Sports Festival - school day
Art and Photography Exhibition - all
day
Concert - evening
Monday 23 September 2013
33. What of tomorrow?
STACS has disappeared
Senior Phase Benchmarking Tool (SPBT) takes its
place
No comparator schools data - virtual school
More emphasis on positive destinations
Wider achievements
Social indicator of multiple depravation -SIMD
Additional Support Needs (ASN) data
47. " We have a number of groundbreaking
initiatives to
support and improve teaching and learning
in
Scotland such a Curriculum for Excellence,
the new
Professional Standards and Professional
Update.
These initiatives give us a unique opportunity
to
improve the learning outcomes of our
children
and young people and, ultimately benefit
Scottish Society"
Kenneth Muir - Chief Executive of GTC Scotland
Examples of the sports in our Commonwealth Cluster
48. "Business Leaders worldwide have
repeatedly
advanced the view that the 21st century
belongs
to those who are creative, collaborative,
and
intensely curious. People with ideas."
Ruth Wishart - The Creative Learning Plan
Creative Scotland
College Development Network
GTC Scotland
SQA
Education Scotland
Skills Development Scotland
QAHS v Morrison's Academy
Final - Fife and Tayside U16
49. Arrangements for inspecting schools in
"Our approaches to inspection and review have increasingly placed
more - HMIe
Scotland emphasis
on issues such as the extent to which an establishment or service has
developed the
ability to self-evaluate and drive its own improvement. In inspections,
we focus on
how an establishment is performing, the impact it is having on learners
and the
quality of leadership and management in building capacity for
improvement. We
carry out inspections taking account of the context and nature of the
school, its
children and young people and their needs. "
Some of our aspiring young runners meet Eilish
50. "The performance of Scotland's schools is good and
remarkably consistent but that, taken as a whole, the
system no longer ranks among the world's best"
By Diverse Means - Improving Scottish Education
Some Mandarin pupils in
our
Confucius Classroom
51. "Schools should be encouraged to innovate and take
well-considered risks"
By Diverse Means - Improving Scottish Education
Performers at
our
"Peace One
Day"
52. "We need to have a broad general education that is
consistently challenging. We do not need to search
for magic
bullets from other countries.
Curriculum for Excellence is the right agenda. It is
radical
and has enjoyed political and professional support."
Graham Donaldson- tess -January 2014
Peace One Day contributions - Maasai Warriors Peace Concert
Art work for the Art and Photography
Exhibition
53. We at Queen Anne
High School have a
dream to unleash the
potential of all our
pupils, to allow them
to flourish in the
opportunities of CfE
such that we do
indeed have successful
learners; confident
individuals; effective
contributors and
responsible citizens!
54. "And the day came
when the risk to
remain tight in the
bud was more painful
than the risk it took
to blossom."
Anias Nin