Go for the upper edge of yourcomfort zone

HM Inspectorate of Education

•Teachers keep encouraging me by saying nice things and helping me when I’m stuck. (Pupil)

•I want to do really well so I can be an actress (Pupil)

•It’s teaching young people about not being happy with less than the best. (Teacher)

Ethos - voices

•We’re never satisfied. We’re ambitious. We always want to do better. (Headteacher)

What kind of school do we want?

HM Inspectorate of Education

•Inclusive school•Integrated community school•Health promoting school•Eco-school•Active school•Specialist school•School of ambition

An excellent one!

HM Inspectorate of Education

Young people should become

successful learnersconfident individualseffective contributorsresponsible citizens

Curriculum review

HM Inspectorate of Education

So that young people are:•safe•fulfilled and valued•healthy•successful in achieving•active•respected and responsible•included

With a moral dimension!

Vision statement for children

How good is our ethos?

Three simple questionsHow good are we?How do we know?What are we going to do about it?

Scale of goodness

Excellent

Very good

Good

Adequate

Weak

Unsatisfactory

“Good is not good enough”

Improving quality of service and outcomes

QIs

EIsPIs

Broad approaches - evolution

Effectiveness or improvement

Improving School Effectiveness

Excellence

Your fired!

Core business

People

Leadership

Your fired up!

Learning

Relationships

Leadership for

learning

Shift in emphasis over time

Input

Process

Outcome/Impact

Educationist view

Input = commitment of leaders and people

Process = directing this to the core work

Outcome = success for all learners

Overall model – how good are we?

Whatdo

we achieve?

Do all learners achieve

all they can?

How good are

things like learning, teaching,ethos?

Do we leadfor learning?

Do we do theright things anddo things right?

Can we do better?

Success Work Commitment

HM Inspectorate of Education

•Respect and caring for self (physically, mentally, emotionally & spiritually)

•Respect and caring for others (interdependency and respect for diversity)

•A sense of social responsibility (social coherence, awareness of social mores)

What are ethos outcomes - relationships?

What are ethos outcomes - wellbeing?

HM Inspectorate of Education

•School climate is significantly associated with protective factors (active coping, stress management, healthy normative beliefs), the prevalence of functional complaints and medicine consumption in individual schools

•Being contented, healthy and successful

•Excellence is when social capital becomes cultural and economic capital

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go

T S Elliot

What does a school with an ethos of excellence do?

HM Inspectorate of Education

•works hard and has fun: knows the bottom line about learning

•focuses determinedly on success for all, involves the young people in deciding what success is and celebrates it

•creates a positive view of the future

•has agreed and spelled out the highest expectations to young people, staff and parents

•has well-developed leaders at all levels

A school with an ethos of excellence also

HM Inspectorate of Education

•involves parents and knows and acts on their views

•makes collaboration a way of life and accepts and builds on other professionals’ views

•puts learning for all at the heart of its professional activity

•values all those who help children learn

•is happy, healthy and safe and well-developed relationships based on mutual respect and responsibility

Certe, toto, sentio nos in kansate non iam adesse