SOMERSET CHALLENGE. FAMILY C – DRAFT DELIVERY PLAN 2014 – 15
(Westfield, King Arthur’s, Whitstone, Maiden Beech, Kingsmead, Chilton Trinity, Selwood)
The delivery plan for Family C will focus on improving the Quality of Teaching and Learning
Objectives
Activities
Stakeholders to engage Indicative budget
Outcomes
INTRODUCTION
This plan is proposed to outline activities that will be undertaken during the second year of a three year programme to improve the
quality of Teaching and Learning across our Family of Schools
The programme will seek to:
 Share strengths and development areas across the whole family
 Provide a personalised programme to meet the individual needs of each individual school involving staff at all stages of
their careers
 Raise levels of achievement across all schools
STRAND 1
To develop a secure
understanding of the
quality of Teaching and
Learning in each of our
schools.
Host Head to identify
any particular area(s)
for focus during initial
visit
Learning Walks
In conjunction with
Heads, to agree up to
three priorities for future
development (projects)
following feedback
from observations
All schools to share their
development projects
with all Family C schools
Observation of lessons
Joint Feedback
/Observed feedback
Observation of any
relevant paperwork
A minimum of 2 Heads
to visit each school for a
whole day
Supply budget
7 x 2 x £200
Transport costs
Host school to provide
at least 2 Senior Leaders
to conduct joint
observations
Quality of Teaching and
Learning across host
school discussed at end
of Day 1 and
areas of strength and
development identified.
Action Plan written and
circulated across all
Family C schools
Success criteria clearly
identified for each
individual school
STRAND 2
To revisit each school to
assess the progress
made with the Teaching
& Learning
development projects
Focus : Action Plan from
Strand 1 visits
Learning Walks
Joint Observations
Analysis of lesson plans,
Teaching & Learning
observation data
Discussion with Senior
leader i/c Teaching &
Learning.
STRAND 3
To revisit each school to
assess how the projects
are being embedded
into Teaching and
Learning across
individual departments
(Departments to be
selected by host
Headteachers)
At least two Senior
Leaders (Deputy Heads
/Assistant Heads) to visit
each school
Supply budget
7 x 2 x £200
Transport costs
Host school to provide
two senior/middle
leaders to conduct joint
learning
walks/observations
All schools to have
raised the % of good
and outstanding lessons
by at least 5%
At least 50% of Requires
Improvement teaching
to be now judged as
good or better
Senior Leader i/c
Teaching and Learning
Heads of Department to
self-evaluate using DAIR
(Data, Actions, Impact,
Review) model and to
present findings
At least one Senior
Leader and one Middle
Leader from two
separate schools to visit
each Family C school
Learning walks
Host school to select
subject area for review
Supply budget
7 x 2 x £200
Transport costs
All Departments judged
at least good in terms of
the quality of Teaching
and Learning
Action plans for
Departments failing to
secure “good”
Joint Observations
Analysis of lesson plans
and data to show
progress over time
Host school to provide
Senior/Middle Leaders
to carry out joint
learning walks and joint
lesson observations.
Less secure
Departments to be
buddied up with
stronger departments
from other Family C
schools
STRAND 4
To showcase high
quality Teaching and
Learning to NQTs/RQTS
(and early entrants to
the profession) giving
staff new to the
profession the
opportunity to visit
similar departments
across other Family C
schools
STRAND 5
To assess the success of
the development
projects, sharing findings
across all Family C
schools
Lesson Observations
At least 2 NQTs/RQTs
form each school to visit
Analysis of resources
and Schemes of
Learning
Supply budget
7 x 2 x £200
Transport costs
Discussions with
NQTs/RQTs across other
schools
To buddy staff up across
Family C schools so that
there is an exchange of
Professional dialogue
and sharing of lesson
resources.
Learning Walks
Presentation of projects
by all Family C schools
(after school hours –
TeachMeet type
activity)
To move at least 2 staff
from each school to
next category ie
Requires improvement
to good or good to
outstanding
Headteachers
Senior Leaders
Governors
Transport Costs
All schools to have been
successful in moving
forward on at least two
development areas (as
measured by their
individual success
criteria)
Governors involved in
Middle Leaders
assessing the success of
the projects and
Newly qualified
developing further their
Teachers
knowledge and
understanding of school
improvement work
STRAND 6 – LOOP BACK TO STRAND 1 & BEGIN PROCESS AGAIN WITH AMENDED/NEW AREAS FOR DEVELOPMENT