Aspiration • Ambition • Achievement
Helston Community College Quality Improvement Plan 2013/14
Objective - to enable students to fulfil their potential by achieving the following targets:
KS3
KS4
KS5
Meet FFTD targets for 2 levels of progress, Level 5+ and Level 6+ in Core subjects.
FSM6 students to meet FFTB target for 2 levels of progress in Maths and narrow the gap.
72% 5 A*-C inc EM 77% expected progress English 77% expected progress Maths. (Service family students to exceed)
62% 5 A*-C inc EM FSM6 67% expected progress English FSM6 67% expected progress Maths FSM6 and achieve a VA of 1000.
To achieve ALPS Teaching & Learning average of 3 for Year 13 and 4 for Year 12.
Literacy and Numeracy
Areas for
Improvement
Raise levels
of student
literacy and
numeracy
across the
curriculum
Actions:
Bud.
PD
Success Criteria
To continue to improve literacy at
KS3 through the Curriculum
Support Unit, incorporating the
Read, Write Inc programme for
Year 7 with a reading age of less
than 10yrs and SS of 95 or less.
To support low levels of literacy
through the DRIVE program.
Action plans for those students
receiving support to be placed on
SPOT.
Opportunities for
teachers delivering
RWI to moderate
assessments and to
disseminate good
practice.
Implement a consistent approach
towards marking of spelling and
grammar across the College
Literacy group to
disseminate
information to their
subject areas on a
regular basis to
ensure it continues
Improvements
in reading age
to be better
than the
chronological
time period. To
close the gap
between
reading age
and
chronological
age.
All exercise
books to be
annotated in
the same way
for correction of
spelling,
punctuation and
grammar.
Resp.
Progress
SMi
Current cohort
progressing at a faster
rate than chronological
time period. Currently
32 yr 7 students being
supported on RWI and
77 KS3 students being
supported on DRIVE to
improve reading and
spelling.
HoFs
Literacy group have
produced and circulated
expectations for all
classroom teachers
Aspiration • Ambition • Achievement
Helston Community College Quality Improvement Plan 2013/14
Objective - to enable students to fulfil their potential by achieving the following targets:
KS3
KS4
KS5
Meet FFTD targets for 2 levels of progress, Level 5+ and Level 6+ in Core subjects.
FSM6 students to meet FFTB target for 2 levels of progress in Maths and narrow the gap.
72% 5 A*-C inc EM 77% expected progress English 77% expected progress Maths. (Service family students to exceed)
62% 5 A*-C inc EM FSM6 67% expected progress English FSM6 67% expected progress Maths FSM6 and achieve a VA of 1000.
To achieve ALPS Teaching & Learning average of 3 for Year 13 and 4 for Year 12.
Literacy and Numeracy
Areas for
Improvement
Actions:
Key subject vocabulary to be
prominently displayed in all
classrooms and referred to during
lessons.
‘Literacy Lead’ from each subject
area to disseminate agreed
consistent practice for the delivery
of literacy within their subject area.
Bud.
PD
Success Criteria
Key word displays to
be relevant, updated
and checked by
HOF during learning
walks.
Opportunities for
literacy group to
meet regularly to
identify current
issues and monitor
literacy action plan.
Key words
evident and
discussed in
lessons.
Effective
dissemination
of literacy group
action plans as
a regular
agenda item at
subject
meetings.
Resp.
HOF’s
AHT
Literacy.
Progress
Key words in majority of
classrooms.
SMi to draw up list of
classrooms without
prominent displays.
Literacy
Literacy update now to
group lead & be added to subject
Literacy
agendas and progress
reps
checked against action
plans,
Aspiration • Ambition • Achievement
Helston Community College Quality Improvement Plan 2013/14
Objective - to enable students to fulfil their potential by achieving the following targets:
KS3
KS4
KS5
Meet FFTD targets for 2 levels of progress, Level 5+ and Level 6+ in Core subjects.
FSM6 students to meet FFTB target for 2 levels of progress in Maths and narrow the gap.
72% 5 A*-C inc EM 77% expected progress English 77% expected progress Maths. (Service family students to exceed)
62% 5 A*-C inc EM FSM6 67% expected progress English FSM6 67% expected progress Maths FSM6 and achieve a VA of 1000.
To achieve ALPS Teaching & Learning average of 3 for Year 13 and 4 for Year 12.
Literacy and Numeracy
Areas for
Improvement
Actions:
Design a Y7 and Y8 Numeracy
Curriculum to be delivered by the
maths department.
1. Identify and extract
appropriate content from
the existing KS3 maths
Schemes of Work
2. Create a teaching schedule
for Numeracy to run parallel
with maths lessons
3. Collate maths resources to
enable delivery of
Numeracy skills
4. Collate Numeracy
application contexts from
other subjects for use in
Numeracy lessons
Bud.
PD
Success Criteria
Opportunities for
Numeracy leads in
STEM subjects to
meet to identify
contexts in which
Numeracy is used in
their subjects.
Teaching
schedule and
resources in
use in Y7 and
Y8 Numeracy
lessons from
Sept 2014
Bank of skills
resources
available for
Sept 2014.
STEM subjects
to provide
contexts in
which
Numeracy is
used in Y7 and
Y8 by Sept
2014.
Resp.
JHt /ASt
ASt/Maths
Dept
Subject
leaders
Progress
Curriculum content
agreed. Teaching
schedule set up.
Flexi-INSET /
department time used
to start collating maths
resources for teaching
Numeracy skills.
Plan for cross-curricular
approach to Numeracy
shared with HoFs.
ASt working with IT
technicians to set up an
effective system to
share Numeracy
resources across all
subjects.
Aspiration • Ambition • Achievement
Helston Community College Quality Improvement Plan 2013/14
Objective - to enable students to fulfil their potential by achieving the following targets:
KS3
KS4
KS5
Meet FFTD targets for 2 levels of progress, Level 5+ and Level 6+ in Core subjects.
FSM6 students to meet FFTB target for 2 levels of progress in Maths and narrow the gap.
72% 5 A*-C inc EM 77% expected progress English 77% expected progress Maths. (Service family students to exceed)
62% 5 A*-C inc EM FSM6 67% expected progress English FSM6 67% expected progress Maths FSM6 and achieve a VA of 1000.
To achieve ALPS Teaching & Learning average of 3 for Year 13 and 4 for Year 12.
Literacy and Numeracy
Areas for
Improvement
Actions:
Create a Numeracy resource bank
for use in all subjects to
demonstrate:
1. standard methods used in
maths and Numeracy
operations
2. potential misconceptions
and mistakes made by
students
Literacy Curriculum
Bud.
PD
Success Criteria
Whole school
training session on
Numeracy strategy
Consistent
practice
observed
through
monitoring
procedures.
Resp.
JHt/HoFs
PRe/GGo
Progress
Flexi-INSET /
department time used
to start collating maths
resources to show
standard teaching
methods.