Strategic Priorities for Schools 2016-2019 Thomas of Aquin’s Draft School Improvement plan 2017-18 Strategic Priorities for Schools 2016-2019 St Thomas of Aquin’s RC High …

St Thomas of Aquin’s Draft School Improvement plan 2017-18

Strategic Priorities for Schools 2016-2019

St Thomas of Aquin’s RC High School

School Improvement Plan 2017-18

There will be four progress reports on the school improvement plan in which colleagues are invited to take part in

1. End of October

2. Mid December

3. End of March

The following 4 key priorities reflect those of the National Improvement Framework (NIF) and are for all schools and establishments 2016-2019.

1. Improvement in children and young people’s attainment/achievement, particularly in literacy and numeracy.

Analysis and evaluation of intelligence and data, 1.2 Children and young people leading learning, and 1.3 Strategic planning for continuous improvement

2.3 Quality of teaching, Effective use of assessment, and Planning, tracking and monitoring

3.2 Attainment in literacy and numeracy and Attainment over time

2. Closing the attainment gap between the most and least disadvantaged children and young people.

1.3 Developing a shared vision, values & aims relevant to the school & its community

2.3 Quality of teaching, 2.4 Targeted & universal support, and Removal of potential barriers to learning

3.1 Ensuring Wellbeing, Equality and inclusion, 3.2 Equity for all learners, and Attainment over time


3. Improvement in children and young people’s health and wellbeing.

1.1 Ensuring impact on learners’ successes and achievements, 1.2 Children and young people leading learning, and 1.3 Strategic planning for continuous improvement

2.1 Arrangements to ensure wellbeing, 2.4 Targeted & universal support, and 2.3 Planning, tracking and monitoring

3.1 Wellbeing

4. Improvement in employability skills and sustained, positive school leaver destinations for all young people.

1.1 Analysis and evaluation of intelligence and data &1.3 Strategic planning for continuous improvement

2.2 Skills for learning, life and work, 2.3 Quality of teaching, and 2.6 Collaborative planning and delivery

3.3 Increasing employability skills

CEC priority- All schools and establishments should engage in professional learning programmes for all staff in relation to promoting accessibility and equalities, with

particular regard to children and young people with autism - (Authority led)

Priority: National Improvement Framework Priorities


Tasks

Priority

By Whom

Resources Timescale Impact &

Quality Indicator

benchmark Revisit and redefine the school community’s vision and values

Consult staff, pupils, parents (Sept ‘17)

Share draft consultation paper with stakeholders (Oct-Nov ‘17)

Draft version of V&V with consultation findings (Jan 17’)

Complete V&V process (March ‘18)

Priority 2

SLT/All Staff

In-services

CAT/DAT

Leadership meetings

Pupil/Parent Council

meetings

May 2018 All staff took part in the August

in-service vision and values

exercise. Pupil Council has

completed the vision and values

exercise. Parents have returned

views from the Award Ceremony

presentations. Take 5 meetings

this year are focusing on V&V.

Feedback from

Staff/pupils/parents delivered at

October in-service.

Pupils continue to meet with

Acting HT regarding Take 5.

A draft vision and values

statement has been written.

Feedback from staff, pupils, and

parents has been used in the

statement. This has been shared

with staff, pupils at Key Adult and

emailed to parents.

Faculties to complete a S1/S2/S3 BGE course outline for each subject

within the Faculty linked to subject Es &Os, assessments, and

Literacy, Numeracy, and Health wellbeing

Share Faculty BGE planning good practice (May ‘17)

Identify amendments needed for BGE Faculty planning (Jun ‘17)

Update BGE plans (Jun ‘18)

Priority 1 and 2

CLs with SLT link

support

Leadership meetings

Faculty meetings

DAT time

June 2018 CLs shared Faculties plans with

SLT in June – found on server in

CL Folder. September Leadership

meeting, colleagues discussed

HMIE good practice in BGE

planning.

Faculty plan updates – identify

Faculties who have updated

Acting HT meeting with all CLs

in May to share BGE plans. Then

all BGE plans to be placed on

school website in Faculty areas.

Continue to share assessment data with school community to develop

a data rich approach to improvement in performances

Priority 1 and 2 Leadership meetings

Faculty meetings June 2018 Insight data shared with all staff in

September: L/N @ L4-5; S4-S6


Share Insight Data

Share Standardised scores

Share CfE Levels

CLs with SLT link

support

DAT time cumulative tariff scores; S4-6

Attainment v Deprivation; S4-S6

Breadth & Depth v VC.

HT attending Faculty attainment

meetings.

Tracking report spreadsheets has

SIMD data.

CLs sent out new P7-S1

Standardised scores in August.

Insight presentations at October

in-service and November Parent

Council.

Leadership team supported with

Deep Dive course comparator

Insight information. 2018

Leadership meeting to focus in

Insight CPD.

Prelim analysis spreadsheets

completed by S4-S6 DHT

covering L5, L6, &L7

performance. S4 pupils at risk has

been circulated to all faculties.

All spreadsheets placed on

Leadership folder and shared at

February Leadership meeting.

S4 pupils at risk at missing out in

achievement/attainment has been

shared with all CLs since January.

Faculties working with

individuals to maximise focus and

support.

Faculties to share good practice in Achievement of a Level and

development of Benchmarking in the BGE

Learning and Teaching working group to lead school in

Achievement of a Level good practice (Sept ‘17)

Learning and Teaching working group to share good practice in

Moderation and Benchmarking (Feb 17)

Priority 1 and 2

Faculties/ CLs/staff

DAT time

Leadership meetings May 2018 CAT session in September on

sharing good practice on

Achievement of a Level:

Examples for English/Social

Subjects/Art/Computing.

Leadership meeting 5th October

focussed on Leadership

understanding of Moderation and

Achievement of a Level. Next

Steps for staff to share Level 3

examples in L/N/HWB.


DHT S4-6 attending CEC

Moderation good practice group +

L/HWB co-ordinator.

CL English on QUAMSOs group

for Moderation.

Numeracy Benchmarks identified

across BGE subject areas. Next

steps will be to roll this out in

HWB and Literacy.

MG to update Learning and

Teaching plan after completing

CEC 2.3 QI return.

Consolidate and refine new Higher assessment and coursework (and

National 4/5 courses where necessary)

Discussion item on Leadership meetings

Priority 1 and 2

CLs

DAT

Faculty meetings March 2018

Colleagues attending SQA

understanding standards events

where change of coursework or

new exam is being delivered. E.g.,

HE, Dance, D&M.

SQA updates circulated to all staff

throughout the year.

All Faculties to ensure that their Faculty website pages have course

outlines, home study information, and shared exemplars of pupils’

work.

Use of DAT time and identified member of staff

J Payne to liaise with Faculties (Oct ‘17)

Priority 2

CLs and staff

Faculty time and DATs May 2018 Jenny Payne and CS have met

with PC member to look at areas

of the website to improve.

JP has 2 hours a week to support

refreshing the school website.

All Faculties some content to the

school website. May 2018 to be

identified as a slot to continue

with updating information –

especially in the BGE.

J Payne has run support seminars

for staff to support placing

information on the website. This

will continue into session 2018-

19. This is a key communication

priority for 2018-19.


Continue to develop in-school provision and Partnership Working to

support a range of flexible and varied pathways in the Senior Phase,

with particular regard for youngsters with ASNs

Leadership meetings to discuss Curriculum pathways

December TT loading sheet meeting between HT&CLs/PSLs to

annual review flexible pathways.

Priority 1,2 and 4

SLT/ Leadership Team

16 + group

Leadership meetings

16+ Meetings

TT Loading sheet

meetings

March 2018 Draft Course Choice sheets for

S2, S3, S4-5 emailed to CLs in

September to discuss at FMs.

October in-service Leadership

meeting to discuss the Draft

course sheets and timeline.

Individual meetings with CLs-

AHT will take place in December.

Continue to use transition groups

to support identified pupils with

their progression pathways.

Careers Fayre planned and led by

J Ritchie, C Thomson, and G

Kelly helped pupils and parents

with understanding of positive

destination pathways.

Coursing timeline and SLT/IST

coursing meetings have helped

streamline the coursing process.

Analysis meeting of coursing in

session 2017-18 will take place in

May to ensure pathways for all

S4-6 pupils offer flexibility and

variety.

Continue to refine a Tracking, Monitoring and Reporting system

across all years to ensure consistency of reporting and learners’

conversations to raise attainment for all, including a focus on gifted

and talented learners, LAC, young carers, pupils with ASN and

youngsters from the lowest SIMD deciles

Draft attendance policy completed (Oct ’17)

Consultation of attendance policy (Dec ’17)

Completed attendance policy (March ’17)

Priority 1 and 2

T&M Working Group

CAT and DAT time

Working group time June 2018 Attendance policy update – In-

service programme Jan 2018.

Attendance at BOSCH seminar at

Larbert HS will support the L&T

group to enhance use of tracking

sheets.

The attendance policy will be

completed by May 2018.

Implement the school’s Key Adult programme to support learners’

needs through high-quality universal support

Implement Key Adult programme (Oct ’17)

Analysis and sharing of good practice (Jan ’18)

Evaluate 1st year of Key Adult (May ’18)

Priority 3

SLT/KA co-ordinator &

All Staff

In-service time

CAT time March 2018 Key Adult programme ready for

implementation in October. KA

Planning and materials placed on

staff server. Pupil Assemblies

identified for 24th of Oct. Start of

KA programme on the 25th of Oct.


Key Adult programme

implemented since October break.

Weekly updates given to all staff

via C Taylor. Key Adult tracking

discussions now in place. January

in-service slot to discuss next

steps.

The Key Adult programme has

been running for 5 months. Staff

and pupil evaluations are taking

place in order to ensure the

delivery of universal support is

improved for session 2018-19.

Literacy, Numeracy, ICT, and Health and Well-being working

groups to develop policies on sharing good practice and enhancement

of learning for all pupils

Group to share L/N/HWB plan with staff (Sept ’17)

Focus of Sept and May learning visits (Sept/May) - To be updated

Priority 1 and 2

Working Groups/All

Staff

CAT time

Working group time June 2018 Literacy, Numeracy, and HWB

plan shared with all staff at

September CAT session. LI/HWB

co-ordinators attended CEC

Moderation and Benchmarking

CPD session in Oct.

Numeracy Peer mentoring

initiative for S1 pupils starting in

Oct.

Symbols for Lit/Num/HWB

shared with all staff in Jan 2018

INSET.

HWB co-ordinator attended

HMIe HWB event.

ICT school managed laptops kept

in SFL to support pupils.

MG to update Learning and

Teaching plan after completing

CEC 2.3 QI return.

Develop S1-S3 IDL opportunities across the school through the

Learning and Teaching working group

All faculties to participate in 1xS1-S3 IDL project by 2018-19

Priority 1 and 3

L&T Working Group

Development Time May 2018 Refocus on this task in light of

HMIe guidance.

Implement recommendations from the local 1+2 languages’ strategy.

AHT/DHT/CL and Faculty to collegiately plan P7-S1-S3 curriculum

for next 2 years (May ’17)

Priority 1 and 2

CL Mod Langs & MM

DAT time

Faculty meetings June 2018 Acting CL ML has met with Lead

Teachers in associated primaries.

Identified current areas of good

practice within cluster and a


Curriculum plan shared with associated primaries (Jun ’17)

Review throughout year

means of sharing practice and

resources via one drive. Looking

at identifying training needs in

primaries (French) and how to

meet these needs. I lesson a week

given to primary transition.

The school has completed the

March CEC audit for 1+2.

Cluster Meetings have been

organised with 1+2 Leads in the 4

cluster

primaries to ensure that we

have consistency in our

Curriculums.

Implement directives from the STEM strategy to develop practice,

raise awareness and support sustained, positive destinations in this

field

Stem co-ordinator to share Science STEM courses with all Faculties

(Sept ’17)

S1-S3 STEM plan produced incorporating learning in all 4 Faculty

areas (Dec ’17)

Priority 2,3 and 4

STEM Co-ordinator

Development Time

June 2018 M Wilson is the STEM co-

ordinator for St Ts.

STEM plan placed on server in

Oct and shared with colleagues.

The “Race for the Line” STEM

project with CDT and Science

completed in March.

Implement the recommendations of ‘Developing Scotland’s Young

Workforce’ in the context of standards for Career Education and

skills development of our leaners.

Audit school career education experience (Sept ’17)

Identify areas for development in career education and skills

development (Oct ’17)

Liaise with business and Parent Council to support areas for

development (March ’18)

Priority 2, 3 and 4

SLT/All Staff

SLT meetings

DAT time

16+ meetings

June 2018 Draft audit of SfCE shared with

SDS.

Identified CAT session for April

2018 – input from SDS.

Transitions groups identified for

year 2.

CAT session March 16th:

Introduced the aims of Careers

standards to all staff. Through

Developing the Young

Workforce, the use of My World

of Work and understanding the

Marketplace by SDS, staff were

able to complete Standard for

Career Education Audit task.


Ensure the ICT refresh supports the upskilling of staff and the

learning experiences for all pupils in the school

Plan and implement use of sets of ipads in a box for Faculties (Oct

’17)

ICT group to plan and implement sharing good practice in use of

Ipads (Feb ’18)

Priority 1 and 2

All Staff

In-service time

CAT

DAT

June 2018 Limited update on ICT refresh.

State of play in October is that

refresh will be 100% but not for

monitors/printers.

November meeting with ICT co-

ordinator and then with BM.

Acting HT to identify allocating

an annual.

Classroom in a box strategy to be

considered for all faculties to

support the use of ICT.

Further develop and promote St Thomas’ as an inclusive learning

school to ensure consistent high standards across the school

Identify inclusive practice (Aug ’17)

Plan and implement inclusion through sharing good practice (May

’18)

Plan restorative practice CPD

Analyse and evaluate PPR and CP record keeping

Priority 2 and 3

L&T Working Group

CAT

Integrated Support time May 2018 All staff have experienced a 2-

hour Autism training cpd in

August in–service. Sept-Oct

learning visits are focussed on

inclusive practice. Restorative

CAT session planned for Nov

2017 after 3 colleagues attended

Bill CPD

ELKLAN: speech and language

support training course delivered

to Staff and PSAs

Restorative practice CAT session

led by BrBbBl working group.

Rationale for restorative

conversations presented along

with Faculty auditing a restorative

conversation template.

PPR and CP record keeping

evaluate and moved to same

storage space.

Develop a positive referral system policy to support ‘Better

Relationships, Better Learning, Better Behaviour’ policy

Identify positive referral system structure (Oct ’17)

Plan and implement (March ’18)

Priority 2 and 3

SLT/Working Group

Development time

DAT

CAT

March 2018 Audit of positive recognition

through survey monkey drafted.

Planned CAT restorative good

practice for No 24th.

BrBlBb Cat session in November

supporting teacher toolkit.


Emphasis on positive language

and primary and secondary

behaviours.

Staged intervention examples

shared.

Faculties returned positive

referral systems questionnaire.

Information to be shared in

May/June 2018.

Through research and local/national collaboration devise

policy and practice to make best use of the pupil equity

funding – see separate planning sheet

Priority 1,2,3, and 4

SLT/SfL/Leadership

team

SLT Time/

CAT/Leadership

meetings

August 2018 Coaches in place

Plan on server

S1-S3 pupils identified through

L/N/HWB measures

Letter out to all parents.

Targeted letter out end of Oct.

Coaching starting in Nov.

Coaches have completed Nurture

training.

Coaches has started meeting with

pupils

PEF plan has been updated on the

server and sent to all staff.

Coaches will meet with Integrated

Support Team in January to

continue refining targeted support

for identified pupils.

Textbooks to be bought for all S3

pupils moving on from PEF

coaching.

Room 2.33 identified as learning

and nurture hub.

BM to purchase furniture for

L&N room.

Continue to develop a communication strategy to further support

parental engagement: parental email and website development.

Letter, email, and Phone practice reviewed and updated in light of

SLT/PSL/SfLL/CL structure (Dec ’17)

Priority 3

SLT

SLT Time December

2017

Draft CL letters written and

placed on CL folder.

School using email as means of

communicating with parents

New CL of ML has shared text

messaging communication policy


and school will adopt this in

February after seemis training.

Updated communication protocol

for parents who wish to liaise with

PSLs/HT has been streamlined

and will be shared with all parents

in Jan 2018 (email)

Weekly emails sent to parents on

Monday

CLs texting parents with

information about home learning,

assessments, good work,

detentions. Trailed until June.

Complete Policy updates in the following areas

1. School vision and values (May ’18)

2. Curriculum (Sept ’17)

3. Better b, better l, better r (May ’18)

4. Equalities and ethos (Oct ’17)

5. Learning and Teaching (June ’18)

6. Meeting learners’ needs (June ’18)

7. Absence management and cover

8. Fire protocol

9. Attendance and late coming

10. School Handbook (June 18’)

June 2018 Draft Curriculum policy

completed. Out for SLT

consultation before going to all

staff.

Draft Learning and Teaching

policy completed and to be shared

with SLT in January

Vision and Values statement

drafted and shared with Pupil

Council in March.

To be discussed…

Priority: Cluster Priorities/Transition

Tasks By Whom Resources Timescale Impact

Continuation of work with cross-section Learning Teams to

support literacy and numeracy, health and well-being and

curricular progression

Working Groups Cluster Development

Time

June 2017

Support the implementation of the 1+2 Languages’

Programme

CL Mod Langs &

ML + Primary

Link Teachers

1 + 2 Timetabled

Time

June 2017


Priority: Continuing Professional Development


Plan and implement a Leadership away day to enhance vision

and values of leadership in the school

SLT/Leadership

team Staff

CPD Time/ June 2018

Through PRD and Professional review enhance CAT/CPD

sessions to support bespoke needs of colleagues

All Staff CPD Time June 2018

Priority: Self Evaluation


Further develop self-evaluation through an agreed Quality

Assurance programme of events and opportunities

SLT/Leadership

Team

Team Meetings October 2017

Planning of In-service and CAT 2017-18 – Updated September 25th 20117

Vision and Values – 4 slots throughout the year

Learning and Teaching – 4 slots throughout the year

Pupil Equity Funding – 3 slots

Key Adult - 4 slots

ICT 3 slots – amended due to no update on refresh

BrBlBb – 2 slots


Website – 2 slots

Ethos and Equality – 1 slot

Attendance Policy – 1 slot

August

In-service

September

CAT 1

October

CAT 2

October

In-service

October

CAT 3

November

CAT 4

January

in-service

April

CAT 6

May

In-service

June CAT?

MAY

CAT 7

June

CAT 8

Attainment

(1)

Learning and

Teaching (1)

Achievement

of a Level

Pupil

Equity

Funding

update

(1)

1 in 5

Update of

SIP

Key Adult

Vision &

Values (2)

Learning and

Teaching

sharing (3) –

Co-operative

Learning

BrBlBb (1)

Restorative

practice

Update of SIP

Vision &

Values (3)

Developing

the Young

Workforce

School

Improvement

Planning

Pupil Equity

Funding (3)

SNC BrBlBb

(2)

Vision &

Values (1)

Learning and

Teaching

sharing good

practice –

Inclusion (2)

Leadership

Meetings

Pupil Equity

Funding (2)

Learning and

teaching: (4)

Vision &

Values (4)

Updating of

Faculty

website

pages (2)

SNC

Implement

Key Adult

programme

(1)

L/N/HWB

plan shared

with staff

CEC subject

meetings

+ Updating of

Faculty

website pages (1)

Key Adult

programme (2)

Evaluation of

1st Year of

Key Adult (4)

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Strategic Priorities for Schools 2016-2019 Thomas of Aquin’s Draft School Improvement plan 2017-18 Strategic Priorities for Schools 2016-2019 St Thomas of Aquin’s RC High …