Context – Park High School
1638 students
11-18 years old
60-70% advanced bi-lingual learners
14% on free school meals (below national
average)
Over 40 home languages spoken
Growing number of new arrivals
Growing Somali community
Context – Park High School
Exam results consistently very good and
well above national average outcomes
Last two Ofsted Inspections were graded as
Outstanding (2009 and 2013)
Change:
There is nothing more difficult to take in
hand, more perilous to conduct, or more
uncertain in its success, than to take the
lead in the introduction of a new order of
things
– Machiavelli
Change: Towards 2016
New National Curriculum in both primary and secondary sector
New GCSE’s both content and grading
GCSE Mathematics and English teaching begins one year before
other subjects
New accountability measures at end of KS2 and KS4
Ongoing importance of Ebacc as an additional accountability
measure
Vocational courses – still not clear how these will develop
Post 16 peformance tables
New SEN Code of practice being implemented but the final version
not yet published.
This?
Or this?
Usually this….
Key stage 2 tests: Pupils’ progress in secondary school is based on how they do in these
tests yet the way these will be assessed and graded has not yet been decided, even
though the consultation was held last year.
2013 – Amar arrives in Year 7
His data profile will be based
on KS2 SATs scores in reading
and writing, mathematics with
teacher assessment score in
science.
English 4 mathematics 4 and
science 4 would be the
national expectation for the
end of KS2
We also have an extensive
range of pastoral information .
2016 – Amar arrives in year 7 The
proposal is that:
He will have a score ranging
between 80 and 130.
100 will be the measurement
equivalent to 4b currently and will
indicate that Amar is ‘secondary
ready’ (the scale is a sliding one)
Amar’s parents will also be
informed how his attainment
compares with other students
nationally.
New GCSE grading and awarding: English and Maths are supposed to be ready for
teaching for September 2015 but we don’t know yet what the new grades will mean. For
example, what will be the equivalent of a current grade C or an A*. The Ofqual
consultation on this has been delayed.
Course content published 2013
Exam specs still not available for schools to plan
Other subject, first teaching is September 2016
Course content published for Geography, History,
MFL, Ancient Languages, Science Combined and
Science Single April 2014
Exam spec – working in progress
Assessment…guess what? All change
First teaching of other new
GCSEs.
September 2016
November 2016
May/June 2017
August 2017
Teaching of linear AS and A
levels in a second group of
subjects.
Last chance to re-sit maths,
English and English
language exams.
First exams for new A levels
Final exams for many
in the first group of
First exams for new GCSEs
current GCSEs including
subjects.
in English language, English
biology, chemistry, physics,
First exams for standalone,
literature and maths.
science, additional science,
linear AS qualification in the
additional applied science,
second group of subjects.
history and geography.
First results for new A levels
in the first group of
subjects.
First results for standalone,
First results for new GCSEs linear AS levels in the
in English language, English second group of
literature and maths.
qualifications.
Last results for unitised
(modular) AS and A levels in
the second group of
subjects
First cohort through with new exams
Current Y8s:
2017 – these students will have numbers for English
and Maths
They will have grades for other subjects
Current Y7s:
2018 – these students will have all numbers and will
come with a profile dictated by the new assessments.
Our new accountability measures:
The new secondary school accountability system begins in 2016. It
includes two new measures, Attainment 8 and Progress 8.
Attainment 8 – the student’s best 8 results in:
• Maths, English and the three highest point scores from Science, Computer Science,
History, Geography, Languages, plus the three highest from any other GCSE subject
Progress 8 – type of value added measure which that students’
results at the end of GCSEs are compared to the actual achievements
of other students with the same prior attainment.
What are the knock-on effects:
Seismic change at every stage while continuing to
deliver existing provision
No additional planning time provided centrally
Our currrent year 8 could potentially have both
numerical and letter grade GCSE results
Our current year 7 are likely to be your first cohort
to have gone through the entire new structure
General election – what will stay or go?
Teacher training
How do we prioritise the myriad
challenges?
Long history of meeting change head on;
Our core purpose:
What do we want a Park High Student to be
like?
How do we organise learning to achieve
this?
How do we know we’ve been successful?
What are our values
The outcome we aim for:
Students……
Critical Thinking and problem solving (e.g the year 9 student with the robot
which solves the rubic cube)
Collaboration across networks and leading by influence
Agility and adaptability
Initiative and Entrepreneurialism
Effective oral and written communication
Accessing and analysing information
Curiosity and imagination
Don’t work in isolation and keep your
eye on your vision:
Share and share again
Open door policy
Regular bite-size opportunities
Cross subject AND cross phase
Highly valued
Evidenced as effective (impact evaluation)
Threaded through whole school programmes
Relevant
Practical
Promulgate the message constantly
The outcome we aim for:
Staff…….
What students have told us:
To see that what they are learning prepares them
for life in the real world
To be inspired to be curious, which is fundamental
to life long learning
To encounter flexibility in how they are taught
Be excited to become even more resourceful so
that they will continue to learn outside the formal
school day
Final thoughts
•
Carpe diem
•
Own the changes, don’t let them own you!
•
Don’t keep doing the same thing and expect
the outcomes to change
•
How do you know what you offer will continue
to be fit for purpose?
•
Transition
•
Networking
•
Roller coaster! – This too shall pass!