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Policy Cabinet Report St Helens School Performance Overview – Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5, January 2019 Contents: Executive Summary ................................................................................................................3 Introduction .............................................................................................................................5 Government Education Initiatives and their impact on the LA ........................................6 Attainment in St Helens ..........................................................................................................6 Key Stage 4..........................................................................................................................6 Key Stage 5........................................................................................................................13 Progress Measures ................................................................................................................16 Progress Measures at Key Stage 4 ..................................................................................16 Closing the Gaps ..................................................................................................................18 Key Stage 4........................................................................................................................18 Recommendations for the Way Forward ..........................................................................20 Conclusion.............................................................................................................................20 2 Executive Summary This paper reviews the last academic year and reflects on the outcomes achieved by children and young people educated in secondary schools in St Helens. The report is provided to offer elected members a broad overview on the educational outcomes achieved in the St Helens secondary school sector, highlighting areas for improvement along with recommendations to consider. At Key Stage 4 in 2018 collective outcomes achieved in St Helens improved slightly compared to the previous year but significant work is required to ensure that the academic progress students educated in St Helens achieve in their Key Stage 4 studies matches and surpasses national averages. In terms of average attainment, Attainment 8, the outcome reported for St Helens has increased relative to the previous year and stands at 44.6 with St Helens one of only a minority of LAs in the NW region to show an improvement in average attainment between 2017 and 2018. However, the attainment 8 score reported for 2018, whilst an improvement on the previous year, remains below the regional (45.7) and national average (46.6). In terms of an initial overview the GCSE results reported for St Helens offer some areas of improvement compared to 2017, however, taken as a whole the KS4 2018 results for St Helens continue to remain disappointing. Outcomes at Key Stage 4 particularly with regard to students’ rates of progress compare unfavourably with national averages for progress (Progress 8). The progress that students make between Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 4 remains an issue of significant concern with students educated in St Helens continuing, on average, to make significantly less progress than that made by other pupils nationally. In addition, pupils educated in St Helens continue to make significantly less progress than they should in the core academic curriculum offer of English, Mathematics and the English Baccalaureate subjects. As a consequence a substantial number of schools located in St Helens continue to achieve rates of progress that are below average and for a minority of schools rates of progress that are well below average and below the governments KS4 floor standard. Disadvantaged young people educated in St Helens make less progress and achieve, on average, outcomes at Key Stage 4 that are below those achieved by non-disadvantaged pupils in the borough and disadvantaged young people nationally. In 2018, the average A level grade achieved by students educated at a Post 16 provider in St Helens was broadly the same as that achieved, on average, regionally and nationally. The main responsibility for improving outcomes for our children and young people lies with school leadership teams. They remain accountable for their school’s own performance through external inspection, and through governors and the local authority challenging them, where necessary, on outcomes and their effectiveness as leaders of education. However, the LA is committed to working with and supporting schools to improve and address the key issues underlying 3 underperformance at Key Stage 4. Later in this paper we set out some actions the LA has taken to prompt school improvement along with recommendations for members to consider. 4 Introduction 1. This paper outlines the picture on educational performance in St Helens at Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5. The headlines are supported by further detail and analyses in subsequent sections. The paper opens with commentary on attainment over Key Stage 4 to 5; then explores progress measures and is followed by a further section on closing the gaps between disadvantaged pupils and their peers. It concludes with some recommendations for Cabinet members to consider. 2. The information presented within this report covers exclusively the two of the three main phase of education: Secondary education - Children receive compulsory secondary education from ages 11-16. It covers key stage 3 and key stage 4 of the national curriculum. The information presented in this report illustrates the achievements of pupils at the end of secondary education (Key Stage 4 (KS4)). Post 16 education - The majority of young people continue to participate in education at age 16-18, studying advanced level qualifications such as A-levels or vocational qualifications in schools or colleges. The information presented in this report summarises the achievements of 16-18 year olds when they reach the end of advanced level study in St Helens schools and colleges. The following table sets out the framework that was in place for assessment in 2018. Key Stage Age Academic Assessment and expected attainment Year Key stage 4 Ages 14- Years 10 KS4 exams – Pupils work toward national qualifications, (KS4) 16 and 11 which are usually GCSEs, but also include other approved KS4 qualifications. Key Stage 5 Ages 16- Years 12 KS5 exams - Pupils work toward national qualifications, (KS5) 18 and 13 which are usually GCE A levels, but also include other approved academic and vocational KS5 qualifications. 5 Government Education Initiatives and their impact on the LA 3. Members may well be aware of the changes to the educational landscape induced by the Education Act 2011, which served to confirm the direction of travel on main phase education in England – increased school autonomy; a lower profile for an LA’s School Effectiveness Services; and an escalation in the role of academies, alongside initiatives such as free schools and studio schools. 4. St Helens LA’s School Effectiveness Service has adapted to meet the challenges of that Act, principally through review of the service and the LA’s Strategy in this field. That latter document, revised and published to schools in October 2015 after Cabinet sign off, categorises schools into three bands: Band A - good or outstanding schools; Band B – schools judged to require improvement or at risk of decline; and Band C - schools in categories of concern. The LA’s work with schools is focused on schools placed in Bands B and c. 5. A major central government initiative came into play in 2016. The Education and Adoption Act 2016 requires the Secretary of State to academise a school judged by Ofsted to be inadequate. It also requires the school’s governing body, and the relevant LA, to facilitate the academisation process. The Government’s direction of travel in education is clear – along with an increased role for the Regional School Commissioners, central government envisages greater school autonomy, and a significantly diminished role for the LA. The LA has a duty to promote high standards in its schools and continues to work with them to improve outcomes for children and young people in St Helens. We have set out, in more detail below, the principal educational outcomes for children and young people in St Helens in 2017/18, along with analyses. Attainment in St Helens Key Stage 4 6. In October 2013, the Department for Education (DfE) announced the implementation of a new secondary school accountability system that was subsequently delivered in 2016. The revised secondary school accountability system has a number of new headline KS4 measures - see below: Progress across 8 qualifications (Progress 8) Attainment across the same 8 qualifications (Attainment 8) The percentage of pupils achieving a grade 5 or above in English and Maths The percentage of pupils entering the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) EBacc average point score per pupil – a new measure for this year (2018) The percentage of students staying in education or employment after key stage 4 (destinations) 6 7. The performance measures listed previously replace long standing and widely recognised measures such as the percentage of students achieving 5+ GCSEs at grades A*-C including English and maths (5ACEM) headline measure, and the expected progress measures. 8. In 2018, an additional 20 reformed GCSEs graded on a 9-1 scale were sat by pupils for the first time,
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