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Exclusive Councils with ‘failing schools’ held by Labour Four of five councils labelled “ineffective” by Ofsted remain under Labour control Anti-academy campaigners suggest system of directly elected school commissioners

Politicians controlling local authorities branded school improvement inspections by the education The findings cast doubt on arguments made as failing by Ofsted increased their hold after local watchdog returned Labour councils in last week’s by anti-academy campaigners who say local elections last week. local elections. In Blackpool and Middlesbrough, democracy holds to account those who are failing Four of five councils labelled as ineffective after the party increased its majority. Continued on page 2 YOUR GUIDE TO sen FUNDING HOW CAN SCHOOLS SECURE THE BUDGET TO DELIVER HIGH-IMPACT OUTCOMES?

See pages 18 & 19 2 @SCHOOLSWEEK SCHOOLS WEEK FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2015 EDITION 29 NEWS Voters shun watchdog and stick with Labour SCHOOLS WEEK TEAM CONTINUED FROM FRONT THE FIVE ‘INEFFECTIVE’ LOCAL AUTHORITIES Editor: Laura McInerney JOHN DICKENS & SOPHIE SCOTT [email protected] Local authority Party Election result Change in seats from Head designer: Nicky Phillips previous election Designer: Rob Galt school children in schools overseen by the Blackpool Labour Held council Gained one seat Sub editor: Jill Craven local authority. James Croft, director at the Centre for the Middlesbrough Labour Held council Gained eight seats Senior reporter: Sophie Scott Study of Market Reform on Education, said: Walsall Labour Lost majority Lost three seats Senior reporter: Ann McGauran “Local elections should be something of a day of reckoning for authorities that have failed Wakefield Labour Held council Stayed the same Senior reporter: John Dickens to improve the quality of the schools they Doncaster Labour Held council N/A due to boundary changes Senior reporter: Freddie Whittaker maintain. “Responsibility for education is splintered Reporter: Billy Camden across multiple tiers of oversight and getting an inadequate education. Despite this, Funding Agency? It is not particularly clear. Photographer: Ellis O’Brien governance, and is but one of many varied Labour councillors gained a seat last week. “We are not necessarily committed to the responsibilities councillors may hold. Labour also held majorities in Wakefield local authority model, but it would be better Cartoonist: Stan Dupp “These and other factors peculiar to local and Doncaster, both judged ineffective. than a company running a school.” Financials: Helen Neilly elections mean that a council is hardly likely However, the party lost its majority in He suggested a system of directly elected to fail to get re-elected simply because of the Walsall. The council is still in limbo as no commissioners, similar to the police and Victoria Boyle low quality of schooling.” party was a clear winner last week. The other crime commissioners introduced in 2012. Sales manager: Hannah Smith Last year Ofsted found Middlesbrough four councils listed on Ofsted’s website under Mr Croft added: “Does this mean that Council’s arrangements for supporting improvement inspections did not have local central government brokering of takeovers by Sales administrator: Jasmin Fergus-Aghamiri school improvement to be “ineffective” elections this year. sponsors is the answer? Well, no.” Administration: Frances Ogefere Dell with attainment levels well below national Alasdair Smith, secretary of the Anti Although research suggests a positive and averages. Academies Alliance, said: “I don’t think you sustained effect on attainment when failing Contributors: Stephen Tierney The watchdog said none of its secondary can say this means local democracy isn’t schools are turned into academies, Mr Croft Natasha Porter schools ensured pupils achieved well. effective. noted that performance between sponsors was But Labour last week increased its majority “With a local authority there is a route to highly variable. Bruce Liddington in the borough from 25 seats in 2011 – a one- raise issues, through your local councillor. “There is good evidence internationally Emma Hardy seat majority – to 33. This is much more effective compared with an to suggest that greater autonomy in the Christine Counsell In February Ofsted told Blackpool Council academy. governance and management of local schools Elizabeth Houghton that it still had “significant weaknesses”, “Where does a local parent go to raise has beneficial effects, while central brokering despite being judged ineffective back in concerns at an academy? The headteacher, the leaves the system vulnerable to variable November 2013 with more than 2,500 children regional schools commissioner, the Education sponsor quality.”

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JOHN DICKENS close, as it has done in physics. @JOHNDICKENSSW But he added: “Like physics, active encouragement in secondary school by New figures have revealed stark gender teachers will make a difference.” divides in certain AS and A-level subjects. Ofsted’s figures show, however, that for But while the well-publicised gaps in physics every three girls taking AS-level physics and maths feature prominently, computing has there are 10 boys. Girls made up just 8,951 the biggest divide between boys and girls. of the 39,307 pupils. Fifty-seven per cent of Ofsted figures, published on Tuesday, show girls continued taking the subject at A-level, that only one in ten pupils who took the subject compared with 71 per cent of boys. Girls are at AS-level last year were girls, making up just also outnumbered in further maths, ICT and 707 of the 8,196 intake. accounting and finance. Laura Ferguson, schools team co-ordinator But the figures show a role reversal in at the Tech Partnership, a network of subjects such as sociology, psychology, and employers that works to inspire young people art and design. Only 9,613 of the 39,107 pupils into technology careers, said: “These are not who took sociology were boys. And in art and particularly surprising figures. Take-up by design, boys made up 9,838 of the 38,553 pupils girls has been particularly low. at AS-level. “There are a few reasons. Technology and A Department for Education spokesperson IT are considered geeky and just for boys and said: “We want to make sure decisions some of it has to do with the curriculum not girls make are not driven by tired gender being inspiring enough.” stereotypes, but by their talents and interests. But she said the new GCSE curriculum was “We are working hard to encourage changing the landscape. “We’re already seeing girls to embrace subjects that open doors a positive response and a need from schools to to traditionally male-dominated sectors – use more inspiring resources.” including IT –and to make sure they’ve got A new computing curriculum was the knowledge and skills they need to succeed introduced in September with the aim of regardless of where they choose to work.” teaching children as young as five how to The department has backed the industry-led code. The syllabus includes computer science, Your Life campaign, which aims to encourage information technology and digital literacy. more girls to take up STEM subjects, and Only four of the 40 A-level computing launched Your Daughter’s Future, a career pupils at Alex Weatherall’s current school in guide for parents. Yorkshire are girls. There are no plans, as yet, to address the The soon to be head of computing at David imbalances in female-dominated subjects. Young Community Academy, in Leeds, said: The figures are the first single source of data “The new curriculum will mean pupils will be showing the numbers and proportions of girls introduced to coding at primary school, where and boys progressing from year 11 to AS-levels there is very little gender separation. Girls and and from AS to A-level. boys tend to try all the same things, there isn’t It is expected that Ofsted will continue a stigma.” collecting and monitoring the data over the He is convinced that the gender gap will course of the next parliament. The £1m free school (now shut) Free Schools Week Webinar

SOPHIE SCOTT Rt Hon. Nicky Morgan MP Laura McInerney Jonathan Simons head of education, @SOPH_E_SCOTT which can be re-used) and £92,218 on legal education secretary editor, Schools Week and technical adviser fees.” Policy Exchange The failed Durham Free School cost the The Discovery New School, a primary taxpayer almost £1 million, a Freedom of school based in Crawley, closed last April What does a Conservative Information request has shown. and reportedly cost the taxpayer £3 million. The 94-pupil secondary school, which was It opened in September 2011 but funding was government mean for forced to close by the education secretary terminated after Ofsted criticisms. on March 27, was open for less than two Its annual reports showed it had spent education? academic years. almost £2.5 million before it opened on Nicky Morgan (pictured) ended the refurbishment and development and in Monday, May 18 2015 school’s funding in February after an Ofsted acquiring its site. 16:00 - 17:00 | online webinar report said teaching and learning was Durham’s governors had threatened to “weak” and pupils were “prejudiced”. launch a judicial review, claiming that The school opened in September 2013. Ms Morgan was “biased” in her decision In response to the FOI request, the to close the school. However, the school Department for Education said the school confirmed they would not continue with received per-pupil funding at the same rate the process when the end of funding was as “all other state funding [sic] schools” in announced. the local authority. The school’s pupils, who were in years “Durham Free School received £300,000 7 and 8, have been transferred to other in pre-opening funding. This is the flat rate secondary schools in the area. grant given to all secondary free schools. Free school advocates have pointed “The school was on a temporary site with to school closures as evidence that the a peppercorn lease from the local authority. government is serious about school quality. To date £304,881 has been spent on capital Ms Morgan said at the time of Durham’s Sponsored by | Contributing partner | costs with £212,663 spent on construction closure that quick action was “one of To register visit | works, furniture, fittings and equipment and the great strengths of the free school schoolsweek.co.uk/webinar ICT (much of which was for ICT equipment programme”. 4 @SCHOOLSWEEK SCHOOLS WEEK FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2015 NEWS Morgan leads the Tory charge back into power

david laws nicky morgan sam gyimah Graham Stuart Role: Role: Education Role: Role: Minister secretary Parliamentary Chair of for schools under secretary the education Constituency: for childcare and committee Constituency: Loughborough education Yeovil Constituency: Constituency: East Surrey Beverley and Votes: 25,762 (49.5%) Holderness Votes: 18,865 (33.1%) CLOSEST RIVAL: Votes: 32,211 (57.4%) Votes: 25,363 (48.2%) Matthew O’Callaghan, WINNER: Marcus Fysh, Conservative, Labour, 16,579 (31.9%) CLOSEST RIVAL: Closest rival: Helena CLOSEST RIVAL: Closest rival: Margaret 9.3% MAJORITY: MAJORITY: 40.4% MAJORITY: 23.2% 24,178 per cent (42.5%) MAJORITY: 17.7% Windsor, UKIP, 9.553 (17%) Pinder, Labour, 13,160 (25%)

nick boles tristram hunt nick gibb edward timpson Role: Role: Shadow Role: Role: Minister for education secretary Minister for Parliamentary skills and equality school reform under secretary Constituency: for children and Constituency: Stoke-on-Trent Constituency: families Grantham Central Bognor Regis Constituency: and Stamford and Littlehampton Crewe and Votes: 12,220 (39.3%) Nantwich Votes: 28,399 (52.8%) Votes: 24,185 (51.3%) Votes: 22,445 (45%) Marietta King, UKIP, CLOSEST RIVAL: : Closest rival: Mick CLOSEST RIVAL: HAROLD, UKIP, 7.041 (22.7%) CLOSEST RIVAL: Closest rival: Graham CLOSEST RIVAL: Adrian Heald, Labour, 9,410 (17.5%) MAJORITY: 35.3% MAJORITY: 16.7% MAJORITY: 29.6% Jones, UKIP, 10,241 (21.7%) 18,825 (37.7%) MAJORITY: 7.3%

JOHN DICKENS picking up nearly half the votes. Conservative Marcus Fysh won with a 9.3 victory for the Scottish Nationalist Party @JOHNDICKENSSW Children’s minister Edward Timpson also per cent majority at around 6am on Friday, which won all but three of Scotland’s 59 Conservative education ministers all held dismissed earlier doubters and won back his overturning Laws’ 5,313 vote majority. seats. their seats last week after the party stormed Crewe and Nantwich seat with a 7.3 per cent Respected across the coalition, SNP MPs have tended to abstain from into Westminster. majority, although he had to wait until after Conservative education committee chair voting on English-only legislation in the past, Education secretary Nicky Morgan led the 9am on Friday for confirmation. Graham Stuart tweeted that Mr Laws was: “A which includes education as it is one of the Tory charge and obliterated weeks of polls The previous education team’s only Rolls-Royce mind coupled with phenomenal powers devolved to the Scottish Parliament. suggesting that Conservatives and Labour ministerial casualty was Liberal Democrat work ethic. Education’s loss.” But a party spokesman told Schools Week were neck-and-neck. David Laws. The former schools minister lost The party is yet to confirm its future that MPs would vote on issues affecting the Labour targeted Ms Morgan’s marginal his Yeovil seat in a “cruel and punishing” plans for appointing a new education UK as a whole, and that more details would Loughborough seat, but she won with a night for his party as they dropped nearly 50 spokesperson. be outlined in the coming weeks with the relatively comfortable 17.7 per cent majority, seats. The night also marked a resounding announcement of a shadow cabinet. Hunt keeps his shadow cabinet post FREDDIE WHITTAKER further education and skills as @FCDWHITTAKER shadow education minister. Birmingham Selly Oak MP A mini reshuffle of Labour’s shadow team Steve McCable also remains in the following the party’s election defeat has not team, as does Baroness Hughes of affected its education line-up. Stretford, who served as a children’s Acting Labour leader Harriet Harman, who minister in the governments of became party leader following Ed Miliband’s Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and resignation on Friday, made minor changes former Unison policy and public to the shadow cabinet following the defeat of affairs director Baroness Jones of key politicians. Whitchurch. But she announced on Monday that Mr Hunt hinted at a leadership Tristram Hunt would remain as shadow run when he told Sky News that he education secretary, despite rumours that he wanted to be “one of those voices” TRISTRAM HUNT KEVIN BRENNAN YVONNE FORVAGUE may make a bid for the party leadership. involved in reshaping the party A Labour spokesperson told Schools Week following its disappointing performance at the behind it.” If Mr Hunt does run, he will be up against that the rest of Mr Hunt’s team will also polls. He said Labour was “on the side of the declared contenders Chuka Umunna, the remain in place. He said: “We are in a really deep hole and we underprivileged, on the side of the NHS, on shadow business secretary and Liz Kendall, Cardiff West MP and former teacher Kevin need to pull together. the side of a fantastic state education system”, the shadow care minister. Shadow home Brennan will continue as shadow schools “I do want to be one of those voices but it’s but also on the side of “those families who secretary Yvette Cooper was said to be minister, while Yvonne Fovargue, the MP more than about just leadership, it’s about how want to shop at John Lewis and go on holiday planning an announcement as Schools Week for Makerfield, will retain responsibility for the party’s led and the political philosophy and build their extension”. went to press SCHOOLSWEEK.CO.UK EDITION 29 FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2015 5

Westminster’s newest schools sector MPs

JOHN DICKENS “I was always interested in education Eastbourne, was a teacher for 15 years, Frome, left school with three O-levels and @JOHNDICKENSSW and it was working in learning support that and is a governor at two schools and an worked as a cleaner and bouncer before Exclusive really awakened my interest in taking it independent schools inspector. studying music composition at the Royal Former teachers, a schools inspector and the further.” Writing on her website, she says that College of Music. chair of governors at a free school are among He completed his training with TeachFirst education was the “driving force” behind her He went on to teach music at a London the new MPs welcomed into Westminster and taught at St Mary’s Church of England parliamentary push. “Reform will always be school before setting up his own mobile this week. Primary School, in Rochdale, from 2012-14. with us,” she wrote. “Higher standards must phone ringtone company in the 90s. Just 24 of all 650 MPs in 2010 were Mr Wragg, who lives in his constituency, be continually reached for and it’s a fast- Writing a blog last year, titled “My rant on former teachers, according to the National says he is broadly supportive of his party’s changing world. music teaching in schools”, he called Foundation of Educational Research. This curriculum changes, but says schools should “Curriculums change, organisational for “bringing back the proper teaching of time a handful of the new intake will bring not be over-zealous in pursuing academy structure too - but for me, one thing holds music theory and history to every single education experience to Westminster. status. “Different types of schools can all true. It’s still about people. Who doesn’t school child”. Of the 74 new Conservative MPs, Schools work well in this education system.” remember a good teacher?” Over in Labour’s new cohort, Ilford North Week has found at least five with an What will he miss the most about Suella Fernandes, who held Fareham, MP Wes Streeting is the former head of education background. teaching? “Getting into school on a Monday Hampshire, for the Conservatives, is education at Stonewall, the lesbian, gay William Wragg, who won Hazel Grove, morning and hearing the great stories from a lawyer who co-founded the Michaela and bisexual charity, where he headed Greater Manchester, with a 15.2 per cent pupils about their weekends, and thriving Community [Free] School in Brent, London, homophobic and bullying workshops in majority, spent two years teaching before in the environment of children as a live where she is now chair of governors. schools. leaving to focus on his election campaign. receptive audience. She also set up the Africa Justice Joan Ryan, who won back the Enfield “I always wanted to do something different “I have a less receptive audience now than Foundation, a charity that supports legal seat she lost in 2010, taught at a number of before getting into politics full time,” he told I would at the front of a classroom!” education and training in Africa. schools in London, most recently, Hertford Schools Week. Caroline Ansell, the new MP for David Warburton, MP for Somerset and Regional College in Hertfordshire.

Caroline Ansell Suella Fernandes Wes Streeting Joan Ryan David Warburton William Wragg

Two-thirds of new MPs went to a comprehensive school

PAUL OFFORD TABLE 1: PERCENTAGE BREAKDOWN OF SCHOOL BACKGROUNDS OF MPS @PAULOFFORD ELECTED FOLLOWING THE GENERAL ELECTION (EDUCATED IN THE UK)

New MPs in the 2015 intake are far more Independent Comprehensive State Selective likely to have attended a comprehensive ALL MPs 32 49 19 school than their re-elected counterparts, suggests new research. Conservative 48 34 18 Research by the Sutton Trust shows that Labour 17 64 19 almost two-thirds (64 per cent) of the new intake after last week’s general election Lib Dem 14 57 29 went through the comprehensive system, compared with 44 per cent of those who were SNP 5 90 5 re-elected. Other 24 29 48 But the proportion of newly elected MPs who attended independent schools stood at 28 per cent, only 6 per cent less than the figure TABLE 2: PERCENTAGE BREAKDOWN OF SCHOOL EDUCATION OF MPS BY GENDER AND ENTRY TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS for re-elected MPs. Meanwhile, 48 per cent of Conservative Independent Comprehensive State Selective MPs were privately educated, compared with 14 per cent of Liberal Democrats, about 5 per Male 35 45 20 cent of SNP MPs, and 17 per cent of Labour background,” he said. Female 26 58 16 MPs. “Today’s figures remind us how important Dr Lee Elliot Major (pictured), chief it is that we do more to increase levels of New in 2015 28 64 8 executive of the Sutton Trust, which was social mobility and make sure that bright Existing MP 34 44 22 founded in 1997 to improve social mobility young people from low and middle income through education, said more still needed backgrounds [with parents who could not to be done to encourage people from state afford to send them to independent schools] Out of those MPs who were privately The research was based on data compiled schools to pursue a career in top-level have access.” educated, almost one in ten went to Eton. by the Sutton Trust and public affairs politics. Almost a third (32 per cent) of MPs in the A record number of female MPs (191) were consultant Tim Carr from public sources, “If parliament is truly to represent the new parliament went to fee-paying schools, elected on Thursday and only a quarter of requests to candidates in marginal whole nation, the best people should be according to the research, far higher than the them were privately educated, compared with constituencies and those in seats where the able to become MPs, regardless of social 7 per cent for the general population. 35 per cent of their male colleagues. previous MP was not standing again. 6 @SCHOOLSWEEK SCHOOLS WEEK FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2015 NEWS MINISTERIAL LINE-UP ENSURES MANIFESTO WILL BE ‘IMPLEMENTED IN FULL’ FREDDIE WHITTAKER @FCDWHITTAKER My priority is ensuring that we spread the excellence,

he top team at the Department for that our reforms have helped to nurture, everywhere. Education emerged from David TCameron’s reshuffle relatively That means having a real focus on tackling unscathed, signalling a continued commitment to education’s direction of travel underperformance, having high expectations for every child and over the past five years. The minor shake-up may not surprise the supporting our excellent school leaders and teachers. schools sector, as Mr Cameron backed Nicky Morgan for the top job before the election. We want the profession to have stability, so that they can get Those who worked hard to build relationships with the previous ministers can now use that on with doing what they do best and we can make sure our leverage in the new parliamentary term. Several other key re-appointments, reforms are working well. including George Osborne’s continued tenure as chancellor and the renewal of Theresa The manifesto is the programme for government, and the May’s stewardship at the Home Office, signal that the government is sticking to its plans. Prime Minister is determined to see it implemented in full. When For education, that is likely to mean continuation of the academy programme, more free schools, more university technical colleges and continued pursuit of the “fundamental British values” agenda. Ms Morgan’s re-appointment was NICKY MORGAN announced over the weekend, followed by EDUCATION SECRETARY drip-fed announcements that Nick Boles, Edward Timpson, Nick Gibb, Lord Nash and Sam Gyimah would return. The reappointment of Nicky Morgan, a former The only conspicuous absence is Liberal lawyer and University of Oxford PPE student, Democrat David Laws, who held the schools came as little surprise as she had received David minister brief. Mr Gibb steps in; his former Cameron’s backing when she confirmed that she post as minister for school reform no longer wanted to continue her work. exists. Re-elected with an increased majority in her The only new addition is Caroline Loughborough constituency last Thursday, Ms Dinenage, who will hold the DfE’s equalities Morgan is expected to continue to attempt to be the brief alongside her ministerial position in the more union-friendly face of school reforms started Ministry of Justice, now under the control of under her predecessor Michael Gove. EDWARD TIMPSON Michael Gove. Rumours of his return to the First elected in 2010, she previously served as top slot in education proved unfounded. parliamentary private secretary to David Willetts CHILDREN AND Education unions have cautiously and financial secretary to the Treasury. welcomed the stability at the DfE. FAMILIES MINISTER Brian Lightman, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said he particularly welcomed the re- The newly promoted Edward Timpson appointment of the “highly experienced” Ms is likely to use his new position to Morgan, Mr Gibb and Mr Boles, claiming they NICK GIBB would provide “much-needed consistency continue the work on special education and stability”. SCHOOLS MINISTER needs and disabilities that he started as a He added: “We believe that there now exists parliamentary under-secretary. a golden opportunity to take forward our Seen as a safe pair of hands who education system from being a good one to Nick Gibb, the author of the new curriculum, is also consistently delivers results on time, being a great one.” one of the longer-serving parliamentarians in the In an open letter to Ms Morgan, Dr Mary DfE’s ministerial ranks, having served as MP for it’s likely Mr Timpson will be given Bousted, general secretary of the Association Bognor Regis and Littlehampton since 1997. extra responsibilities as the DfE seeks to of Teachers and Lecturers, warned the Mr Gibb is well-known and liked on the back-benches implement its policies swiftly during the education secretary that she faced “a and could prove useful in garnering support from opposition leadership race. number of key challenges” including teacher grassroots members of the parliamentary party. A former barrister and, like Nick recruitment, workload and an “ever-more A former accountant and law graduate who once Gibb, a Durham University alumnus, punitive inspection system”. contested the Stoke-on-Trent Central seat currently “These are difficult times for education. occupied by shadow education secretary Tristram Mr Timpson has served as the MP for Our children and young people are under Hunt, Mr Gibb served as education minister from 2010 Crewe and Nantwich since he won a by- increasing pressure, caused primarily by to 2012, and again from July last year. election in May 2008. intensive testing, and yet neither employers nor universities are convinced that this is preparing them for life after school. We are seeing the results of this pressure on He said the Conservative manifesto had “It relied on the same tools as before: higher Language enthusiasts will also watch to children’s mental health and well-being.” been light on issues such as pupil numbers, stakes, more testing, more autonomy. These see if Ms Morgan sticks to an election pledge, In a blog, Russell Hobby, general secretary funding and teacher retention, and risked have their place but no ‘policy lever’ works though not part of the manifesto, that a future of the National Association of Head Teachers, righting the “last war” on autonomy and effectively when pushed to extremes. Conservative government would “guarantee also warned that Ms Morgan would need a accountability, rather than the “future war” on “These are now well worn. Nicky Morgan the future” of GCSEs and A-levels in minority “fresh vision”. school capacity for improvement. may need to develop a fresh vision.” languages such as Turkish, Polish and Bengali. 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MINISTERIAL LINE-UP ENSURES MANIFESTO WILL BE ‘IMPLEMENTED IN FULL’ Exclusive the Prime Minister spoke last Friday he made clear What the manifesto says that we would govern as One Nation with a clear commitment to

social justice, he, like me, firmly believes that education is the key School standards • Reduce the ‘burden’ of • Requiring every 11-year- Ofsted inspections to achieving that. old to know times tables by • Encourage the growth of heart, perform long division Teach First So that’s why we’ll challenge areas of under-achievement, and multiplication, read a • Increase the number of book and write a short story teachers able to teach demand improvement and offer opportunity to everyone. • If children do not meet Mandarin Level four in their ‘exams’ at • Support an independent Creating a school system that allows every child, regardless of the end of primary school, College of Teaching they must resit at secondary background to achieve their potential.” school Maths and science • Require all pupils to take • Train an extra 17,500 maths GCSEs in the ‘English and physics teachers over Nicky Morgan Baccalaureate’ subjects – the Parliament Education secretary English, maths, science, a modern foreign language, Protecting children and history or geography. • Introduce regional adoption • Limit Ofsted ratings for agencies, working across schools that ‘refuse’ to offer local authorities to match LORD NASH all Baccalaureate subjects. children. PARLIAMENTARY They will only be able to get a • Expand training UNDER-SECRETARY ‘good’. programmes for social workers, such as Frontline. OF STATE FOR SCHOOLS Ensuring school places, with • Continue to tackle all forms John Nash is expected to continue with his academies zero tolerance of failure of bullying. brief and lead the charge, promised in the Conservative • Continue to expand • Require age verification manifesto, for the forced academisation of schools. academies, free schools, for all sites containing A somewhat unexpected re-appointment (rumours studio schools and University pornographic material and were that he would step down), Lord Nash will Technical Colleges. age-rating for all music continue to work in the face of concerns about • Open at least 500 new free videos. conflicts of interest, fuelled by his involvement with schools Futures Academies, which he founded in 2005, and • Introduce new powers FE, skills and apprenticeships Pimlico Academy, where he is the joint chair of forcing any school receiving • Create 3m new governors. a ‘requires improvement’ apprenticeship starts over Lord Nash was created a Conservative peer rating to be taken over by the course of the next in January 2013 to coincide with his ministerial new leadership unless it has parliament. appointment an improvement plan • Continue to replace lower- • Allow all good schools to level classroom-based FE expand, whether maintained courses with high-quality schools, academies, free apprenticeships. SAM GYIMAH schools or grammar schools. • Ensure there is a University CHILDCARE MINISTER Technical College within School funding reach of every city in The Conservatives’ free childcare pledge was a key • Commit £18bn for new England element of the party’s manifesto, so Sam Gyimah’s school buildings • Abolish employers’ national role has become centre-stage now that they have a • Continue to provide the insurance contributions mandate. pupil premium protected at on earnings up to the Expected to oversee plans to give working parents current rates upper earnings limit for an extra 15 hours of free childcare on top of the • Continue providing free apprentices under the age of 15 already offered, Mr Gyimah is also a big fan of meals to all infants 25. nursery places in academies. Expect this to come up. • Not allow state schools to • Roll out more degree-level The University of Oxford PPE graduate was first make a profit apprenticeships. elected for East Surrey in 2010, and has previously • Least-well funded authorities served as a government whip and parliamentary have already had increases in private secretary to the prime minister. funding, and this will be the baseline for future funding.

NICK BOLES Teaching SKILLS MINISTER • Expect every teacher to be With no Conservative the expansion of the trained in serious behaviour plans to include 16 to Conservatives’ plan for and stopping low-level 19 education within the a university technical disruption budget ringfence, Nick college “within reach of • Reduce time spent on Boles faces a tough job as every city”, while splitting paperwork skills minister. his time between the DfE • Introduce bursaries for the The MP for Grantham and the Department for most ‘in-demand’ subject and Stamford will Business, Innovation and • Pay good teachers more also have to oversee Skills. 8 @SCHOOLSWEEK SCHOOLS WEEK FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2015 NEWS Convicted criminals want to Chloe Smith, she’s the people’s choice . . . work in schools, SOPHIE SCOTT @SOPH_E_SCOTT First names Surnames records show Chloe Smith really is topping the polls. JOHN DICKENS Not only did the Norwich North Conservative 1. Jack – 98,007 1. Smith – 75,888 @JOHNDICKENSSW Exclusive MP come up trumps last week with an increased Murderers, paedophiles and heroin dealers majority, but she has the most popular female are among thousands of convicted criminals first name and the most common surname of 2. Thomas – 80,419 2. Jones – 45,917 who have applied to work in classrooms England’s schoolchildren. across the country, Schools Week can reveal. A Department for Education list of the 1,000 Our investigation found more than 16,000 most popular names in English schools, released 3. Joshua – 78,830 3. Ahmed – 36,879 people with criminal convictions applied to last week, shows that there are 64,487 girls called work as a teacher or teaching assistant in Chloe and 75,888 children with the surname of the past three financial years, despite having Smith. 4. James – 70,512 4. Khan – 36,874 more than 44,000 offences between them. The list was released after a member of the Criminal record checks reveal applicants public filed a freedom of information request had 12 child sex offence convictions, including asking for the most popular first and surnames 5. Daniel – 67,277 5. Taylor – 36,386 two for gross indecency with a girl under of children currently at school in England. 16 and six for making indecent pictures of It was compiled using the autumn pupil children. Two applicants had been convicted of census of 2014. 6. Chloe – 64,487 6. Williams – 36,308 murder, three for attempted murder and one Princess Charlotte of Cambridge may be the for soliciting to murder. most famous baby at present, but the list reveals We also found more than 700 drug dealing there are already more than 43,000 Charlottes in 7. Harry – 63,296 7. Hussain – 35,683 convictions; 30 of them for peddling heroin. schools across the country. Three were for kidnapping and another 70 Her uncle, Prince Harry, shares his first name related to arson. with 63,296 pupils. 8. Oliver – 63,136 8. Ali – 34,165 A total of 228 convictions were for loitering Mohammed, commonly thought to be the most or soliciting to use a prostitute. popular first name in England, first appears Most convictions were for drink driving at number 63 – with several spelling variants 9. Emily – 61,204 9. Brown – 34,151 (5,815) and shoplifting (3,537). littered throughout the remainder of the list. It is unknown how many of the applicants The chart is also one of the few places this could now be working in schools because it is week where Edward beat David (89th and 92nd 10. Samuel – 57,959 10. Johnson – 24,831 up to the employer whether to give them a job. respectively). Nick did not make the top 1,000, But working with children requires an nor did Nigel. enhanced Disclosing Barring Service (DBS) check, formerly known as a CRB check. It is against the law to appoint anyone on a list of SATs nerves stop children eating people barred from working with children. Brian Lightman, general secretary of the ANN MCGAURAN of a crescendo. Speak to any Association of School and College Leaders, @ANNMCGAURAN head in the south-east and said: “Schools are rigorous in carrying out you will find there’s a great pre-employment checks. Practice in this area The National Association for Primary prevalence of private tuition is extremely closely inspected by Ofsted. Education is calling on the government in preparation for SATs.” “The majority of checks are clear. However, for better ways of measuring primary According to Mr Coe, occasionally applicants have a conviction in school performance after a poll showed that SATs, which started out as their past for a relatively minor offence which most pupils taking SATs in year 6 felt so an assessment of children’s was clearly an aberration. In such cases pressured that they were too nervous to eat. attainment at the end of schools may still decide to employ them if NAPE spokesman John Coe said the primary school, had morphed they are certain there is no risk attached to results of the poll by Kelloggs of more than into a measure of a school’s this.” 1,000 children who took their key stage 2 quality. Schools Week obtained the figures under the tests last year “are a bit staggering really”. It As a former head, he could Freedom of Information Act from the DBS. was published in the week that year 6 pupils not blame school leaders We asked for the total number of people who are taking the tests in English, maths and for being concerned about applied for positions from April 1, 2012, to science. their results. “Ofsted will be March 31, 2015, and the criminal convictions Sixty-eight per cent of the children told the looking at the data and the that showed up. The roles applied for included pollsters that they felt pressured, with 60 per media will pick up bad results. head and deputy posts, teachers and teaching cent claiming that their teachers had told The stakes are high for every assistants. The list of convictions did not them the tests were important for the school school.” include the date of the offence. league tables. Anne Lyons (pictured), head Last year, 375,449 DBS checks uncovered Twenty-two per cent said they lost sleep of St John Fisher Catholic 5,383 convictions (1.4 per cent). It was a during their SATs and 59 per cent said they Primary School in Pinner, similar ratio for the previous year with 5,189 had missed breakfast. Eight even said they Middlesex, said her pupils had convictions revealed by 348,958 checks. smoked before the tests. taken the tests “in their stride”, but that the year 6s will all have taken part in a range of In the 2012/13 year there were 356,547 In a second poll of more than 1,000 parents school had “aspirational parents - and those sports.” applications with 6,289 convictions revealed of children who took their year 6 tests last who aren’t get swallowed in”. A spokesperson for the Department for (1.8 per cent). year, one in five said their child was too One child was told he would get a holiday Education said: “No young person should The figure has reduced since 2013, after nervous to eat before the exams. if he achieved a top level. be left behind. It is vital young people leave new filtering methods ruled that some older Mr Coe said: “We will want to be talking to Ms Lyons said she had “an issue” with primary school secure in the vital skills and minor convictions should no longer be government ministers in the coming months crude league tables that set one school of reading, writing and maths that will disclosed. to find a more sensitive and accurate means against another. “It is not a good way to help them go on to succeed at secondary The government said at the time that while of measuring performance in the primary judge if a school is successful or not. It does school. Tests are a key part of this process, protection of children was of “paramount years and better ways of measuring schools. nothing to improve schools at all.” demonstrating that pupils have mastered importance”, the new checks struck a balance “The tensions of heads and teachers Her school ensured pupils had a well- those skills and reassuring parents that between protection and avoiding unnecessary are being transmitted to pupils. This rounded education. “The whole of our key their children are receiving the best possible intrusion into people’s lives. problem seems to be rising to something stage 2 learn to play an instrument and our education. SCHOOLSWEEK.CO.UK EDITION 29 FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2015 9

Scratch and mix: it’s a new music GCSE

ANN MCGAURAN use CDs or a lap top during their performance. a component that allows quite free rein, giving students @ANNMCGAURAN Curriculum developer for music at AQA Jeremy Ward the chance to study rapping, beatboxing, DJ-ing and said: “DJ-ing is an incredible performance skill, and the sequencing.” Students can show what they know about “scratching” and kids relate to it. It’s in line with technology and what the A spokesperson for exam board Pearson said the “turntableism” as one exam board embraces DJ-ing skills kids are doing.” performance section of its GCSE music specification as an option in its new GCSE music exam. Bands now want to get their music on to games consoles contained a section that allowed students to perform in AQA has remixed its syllabus to offer pupils the chance rather than into the charts, Mr Ward said – “so it’s all tying a variety of ways, including DJing. “This performance to shout out their DJ credentials. in with where students are spending their time”. element, and the DJ-ing option, will continue in our new As part of the performance section of the new exam He stressed that the syllabus was specific in terms of the GCSE music specification developed for first teaching in specification, pupils can show a combination of the skills expected to be demonstrated. “We wanted to make 2016.” technical skills and the methods required for a DJ set this a worthwhile way forward for the students, but it’s got Plans for all the exam board’s new music GCSEs will instead of playing a more traditional instrument, such as to have purpose and value. be available to teach from September 2016, and are being the guitar or piano. “We’ve taken our time, done our research and consulted submitted to the regulator Ofqual for accreditation. Required performance skills will include “scratch” experts to see what they think. It’s been endorsed by a lot of An Ofqual spokesperson said: “An awarding organisation routines, a technique associated with hip-hop music, teachers who have seen it.” must demonstrate to Ofqual’s satisfaction that it is capable which produces different sounds by moving a vinyl record AQA is not the only board bringing in DJ-ing. OCR’s of complying, on an on-going basis, with all of the general backwards and forwards on a turntable. draft new GCSE music exam will also include it. Marie conditions that apply in respect of the qualification for But students will not be restricted to vinyl; they can also Jones, OCR’s subject specialist for music, said: “There’s which it is seeking accreditation.”

EDITOR’S COMMENT @miss_mcinerney | [email protected] “No one congratulates the captain who entire ministerial team, makes it seem as if subjects being given first preference. exist or not, the public has spoken. The steers his ship around the storm rather than “steady goes the ship” might now be a more It is, as I said in an online piece last Friday Conservatives have a clear mandate through it.” appropriate naval metaphor. morning, like Gove’s plans – but on speed. for their reforms – with Nicky Morgan For several years in schools, this saying To think this, however, is to underestimate Many in the teacher community will treat particularly liked among her constituents was apt. Reform upon reform, and Michael Ms Morgan and her party’s ambition. this with sadness. If “shy Tories” are a real (see page 5) – and while implementation Gove’s persistent characterisation of a The manifesto pledges (on page 7) are thing, Tory teachers may be the should be watched closely, it would be sector in the grip of “the blob”, made school worth a re-read in the surprising light of a shyest of all. Trying to find demeaning to the public’s preference to leaders feel like they were in a storm wholly-Conservative government. some to comment on stories dismiss Conservative plans off-the-bat. whipped up for effect. The promises are strong on is so difficult it can make you In England democracy means the winner The reappointment of Nicky Morgan, a academisation, free schools, more testing, believe there aren’t any. takes all. The school community need to calmer force over the past year, and her and on more “rigour” – or, at least, academic But whether they brace themselves for that. 10 @SCHOOLSWEEK SCHOOLS WEEK FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2015 EXPERTS: What a Conservative government will mean STEPHEN NATASHA TIERNEY PORTER Executive director of the Blessed Deputy head of education at the think-tank Edward Bamber Catholic Multi Academy Policy Exchange Trust, Blackpool The system could be given the freedoms to be great It’s a chance to hit It looks like a busy five years for Nicky key levers to head off the perfect storm Morgan: 500 new free schools, an extra that is beginning to gather: in seeking 17,500 maths and physics teachers needed, information, before the election, about the the accelerator new headteachers for schools “requiring workload challenges facing schools, she improvement”, and the academisation of knows that: Ofsted needs extensive reform, There are the challenges of securing system is overseen and managed through failing and coasting secondary schools possibly replaced with validated peer-to-peer sufficient places, teachers and funding, further development of the regional schools accountability and the incoherent sequencing but with a majority government and commissioners. It could address teacher he education secretary has a lot to do and pace of curriculum changes need to an experienced secretary of state, the supply by paying off student loans for new after wielding her “stick” during the be rethought with school leaders thinking government has an extraordinary entrants while they remain teaching, and Telection campaign: primary heads about what will have a significant impact opportunity to push through bold offering housing, transport and childcare whose pupils can’t do their times-tables on children’s learning. Ms Morgan has the education reforms packages to attract staff to more challenging to be removed; children retaking SATs at opportunity to be one of the most admired areas. Five hundred new free schools will the beginning of secondary school; do the secretaries of state by doing less but doing it he election has given David Cameron offer greater choice to parents, and should EBacc or forget ever being considered an much, much better. Her natural and his government an enormous continue to be set up wherever there is outstanding school. Plus, Ofsted will be Tory tendencies may also kick in and she Tboost. Not only have they managed demand and a high quality bid is presented. reformed and budgets will be tightened. sees schools and academies in the same to secure a majority, but Cameron is now the However, budget cuts may be rendered way as small business; less regulation and fourth longest-serving Conservative leader insignificant as there simply are not enough less central direction. in recent history, as well as the first sitting Broad pledges teachers to employ – already a reality for prime minister to increase his party’s vote some schools with the four-day school week share since 1955. This gives the government in the manifesto a possibility before the end of this parliament. Teacher supply a real opportunity to continue their agenda The baby boomers of the 1960s are heading for of reform. In education, the reappointment could be taken retirement and the improving economy and and school of Nicky Morgan, who now has almost a private sector may be more appealing to top year’s experience, shows a desire to further much further graduates than working all hours in a school, places are the two build on and develop the reforms of the last only to be continually told that you are not government. good enough. Teachers want a life. massive challenges There are unquestionably things that need A second term Conservative government The leadership shortage also could become to be implemented from the last parliament – could also make bold moves to reform Ofsted, a full-blown crisis as the pervading culture of Teacher supply and school places are the for example, on curriculum and assessment perhaps giving schools a greater role in their mistrust and fear leaves fewer people wanting two massive challenges over the coming – as well as challenges around recruiting oversight through peer review, combined to lead schools and a limited capacity for years. There is a commitment to extra capital enough teachers in an improving economy, with a slimmer framework of one judgment system leadership and peer-to-peer support. funding to meet the growing demand for creating enough school places, and dealing of quality and one judgment of capacity All this may happen at a time when an extra places, but the detail is rather light on teacher with tighter budgets. But the Conservatives to improve, as we suggested in our report 500,000 children and young people enter our supply. More recruitment via TeachFirst may would be wrong if they thought that this last year. And schools could be supported schools. be a challenge with an improving economy meant that “steady as she goes” is all they to manage these new demands by the DfE For children who have been tested to within and, as to an extra 17,500 maths and physics could or should aim to do over the next five finally introducing the long-awaited national an inch of their lives and forced to follow teachers . . . well, I’ll be so delighted if the years. Second terms are traditionally when funding formula, with as generous protection a narrow restricted curriculum, schooling government pulls it off that I’ll eat Paddy governments hit the accelerator – consider for losing schools as the department can becomes something to endure rather than Ashdown’s hat and Alastair Campbell’s kilt. the privatisation of British Telecom in the wring out of the Treasury during the something that enriches their lives. Parents It’s a big ask unless we reform the culture second Thatcher term, or the bold moves on Spending Review. and employers become frustrated within within the system and schools, starting with a reforming health and education and welfare In wider children’s services, the DfE might an ever-changing and incomprehensible different relationship between the education under Blair in the 2001-2005 parliament. look to offer schools greater control over examination system and free schools, like any secretary and the profession. Early signs show A second term Conservative Department other services including youth, children’s start-up in business, take flight and bomb with promise and she may well be able to operate for Education (DfE) will start with the social care and mental health – similar to equal measure. under the radar, protected from publicity implementation of their manifesto, meaning Labour’s Every Child Matters agenda but more But dig beneath the robust rhetoric and you by the small matter of an in/out of Europe academisation for all under-performing clearly (as successfully shown in Harlem) hear a different tone: “We believe that teaching referendum and constitutional change within schools, key stage 2 resits for children below under the management and budgetary is a highly skilled profession ... It’s about the United Kingdom. the floor standards in English and maths at control of the school as the universal listening … rebuild bridges with the teaching Commentators are reflecting on how the the end of primary school, and compulsory children’s service. profession … tackling things like workload, election of 2015 has so many similarities to EBacc at GCSE. Yet these broad manifesto In early years, the 30-hour childcare pledge Ofsted inspections, and building on all the 1992. The Conservative government will be pledges could be built on and taken much may well be developed into a wider childcare lessons I’ve learned in the last 10 months.” keen to avoid the memories of 1997 casting further. Academisation could well be offer, with a new push on quality as well as The next five years may be the best of times its dark, gloomy shadow over the final years developed along the lines recommended quantity of places. This may lead to a large with the Department for Education, schools, of this administration. Some people believe by Policy Exchange last year, meaning increase in the number of school-based professional associations and unions, local education could go into meltdown, but there is every school converting in an organised nursery places, strengthened changes to the authorities and academy trusts all working also the chance that the system could be given programme over the next five years and, for admissions code to allow poorer children to implement a school-led system that the freedoms to be great. primaries, federating with other schools in a to move from nursery to school across one takes collective responsibility for ensuring manner of their choosing. setting, as well as moves to allow stronger every child receives a good education. The Stephen Tierney blogs at Leading Learner Nicky Morgan and her team may also providers to take over weaker to offer greater education secretary has in her grasp some and tweets as @LeadingLearner look to make changes to how our whole contestability in the market. SCHOOLSWEEK.CO.UK EDITION 29 FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2015 11 EXPERTS that class size is not a proxy for school they don’t have the resources. They do, and improvement must use them wisely. • They have proved that you can build good So school leaders will need to get better BRUCE new school buildings for less than half at negotiating: whether in collaborative what was once the norm groupings of peers, or with potential suppliers. • Evidence shows that schools – teachers, They can learn that compromise is not a LIDDINGTON leaders and governors – are less good than sign of weakness, and, above all, they will Education consultant specialising in they should be at getting value for money appreciate that savings are a means to an end; academies and free schools (VFM) from their income not an end in itself! And they will need to get • Unions have concentrated on the “crisis” of more political. teacher recruitment and the “crisis” of an With a new Conservative government, here Thoughts from after the election ageing teacher population – both without are some questions school leaders, staff and coming up with constructive solutions governors should ask: The Conservatives have a clear majority. School budgets will be severely under beyond the “cut the excessive workload” 1. Given that local authorities (LAs) have lost So what is the reality for school leaders, pressure throughout the new parliament. It panacea so much funding – and therefore influence governors and teachers? doesn’t help that the press too often equates We cannot afford to ignore the fact that: over education in the past 15 years – how any sum – especially cuts – in terms only of • About one third of the state money that realistic is it for teachers and schools to any of us will remember the 1997 how many teachers will go. Teachers are vital, goes into education ends up in the private look to them for support? election and the glow of Tony but they are not the only game in town in a sector, with for-profit companies running 2. Are LAs doing enough to re-shape their MBlair’s campaign mantra: education, well-run school. Many successful academy good VFM contracts roles? education, education! We recall, too, the sponsors find that coherent staffing policies • The best schools already save thousands 3. Are the new regional schools excellent, school-sympathetic secretaries of can save money for other things, while every month by tendering and letting commissioners (RSCs) doing enough to state for education under Labour – Blunkett, standards rise. watertight contracts that cost less but raise standards? Morris, Johnson, even Balls – as well as deliver more 4. Should the RSCs have oversight of all Andrew Adonis’ passionate commitment to • Few schools have taken advantage of the schools? helping the more deprived children reach Teachers are increased spending autonomy over the 5. What training would help heads and parity of achievement through the academy past 20 years governors let better-value contracts? programme. not the only game • Critically, heads and governors have the 6. Can performance management of teachers Michael Gove was more divisive. His right, through performance assessment, to ever work? academy expansion and free schools in town in a well- control their salary bills, just as they have 7. Is it ever fair for a close colleague to have dynamism have changed provision, had the right to control employee numbers a key role in deciding the level of another probably forever. His multi-academy trusts run school for 25 years. Not all have done that teacher’s pay? are a genuine structural alternative to local • Above all, school leaders can now reward 8. If annual pay rises stop, how will teachers authorities. But he perhaps underestimated The reality is: outstanding performance, encourage stay motivated? how much you need allies as well as enemies. • The money available for schools will improvement, and reduce the drain on 9. Central government controls and Few of us will forget wondering if he decline sharply standards and budgets by having staff who initiatives have declined. But can schools meant that we were part of “the blob”. Nicky • Ministers believe that schools don’t need to are less than good or outstanding. It will be trusted to improve themselves? Morgan has been rewarded for her more have as many teachers as they say they do not be popular or comfortable. But woe 10. Is collaboration with other schools ever emollient approach. • They also know there is strong evidence betide school leaders who complain that more than additional workload?

retaining the pupil premium. This dedicated struggling schools, academy conversion can funding for pupils from poor families has distract from the important job of improving revolutionised the way school leaders and teaching and learning. Consequently we EMMA governing boards are held to account for are concerned at the government’s pledge improving the lot of these children. to make all requiring improvement schools It is, however, a real possibility that we will become academies. KNIGHTS not be able to find a good teacher for every There is also a pragmatic question of where Chief executive, class and we have real concerns about the academy sponsors will come from. Multi- National Governors’ Alliance mechanisms for ensuring the right number academy trusts, particularly smaller ones, of good school places exist in the same places are wary of taking on additional challenging as the children. We can’t be frittering money schools as the reality of the responsibility away on extra places where they are not sinks in. Capacity is not elastic and school needed. improvement can’t simply be done as a Monday afternoon add-on. Let’s take a deep breath On the upside, this Government gets school It’s going to be governance. It is the first administration in a long time, perhaps ever, to really understand and make changes a governing board’s place in the complicated a torrid time for world of holding the school system to A Conservative government with Nicky others. The last government was not brave account. Credit must be given to Lord Nash Morgan as secretary of state gives some enough to tackle the underlying problem of school finance for promoting the importance of having chance of stability to allow schools to funding disparities, which mean schools in capable governors in every school, and we implement changes already in the pipeline some counties are down to their last penny will continue to make the case for insisting while others, particularly in the big cities, are Clearly regional school commissioners are upon volunteers being trained before they n the National Governors’ Alliance (NGA) building up surpluses. The government must here for the duration, no doubt becoming take up this crucial responsibility. manifesto published a year ago we called not shy away this time. even more powerful players. But there will The recruitment of willing and able Ifor a period of stability, the most called- Fundamental reform of capital funding need to be more of them if they are to make volunteers is no easy task. Of course we for request by our members – governors allocations is also required, or we will see a difference. Currently they often firefight in welcomed the Conservative manifesto pledge and trustees across England. A Conservative more and more school buildings crumbling. schools that have already plunged into chaos. to make volunteering for three days a year government with Nicky Morgan as secretary And we are greatly worried about sixth-form We need a system where this happens less a workplace entitlement for employees in of state gives some chance of this happening. funding; if we keep on the same trajectory, often as schools become resilient places that large companies and the public sector. The Although governor responsibility for school schools will struggle to offer a broad can set their own vision and deliver it. Inspiring Governors Alliance set up last year budgets is often overlooked by commentators, curriculum. NGA has always taken the view that no to encourage volunteering also needs to have school governors are eminently qualified Any funding reform needs to continue particular school structure guarantees some seriously senior profile if it is going to advise on school funding. The next few ensuring that poverty and other success. Most independent evaluations of the to get sufficient traction, especially in those years are going to be a torrid time for school disadvantages are taken into account, and academies movement show that while some parts of England where it is most difficult to finance, but let’s not generalise – it will be far the NGA breathes a huge sigh of relief are examples of successful turnarounds, it recruit. The prime minister himself would do more taxing in some parts of the country than that the Conservatives have committed to isn’t a panacea. It has also been shown that in well to lend his voice to the cause. 12 @SCHOOLSWEEK SCHOOLS WEEK FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2015 PROFILE

“Education is not designed for the poor”

DAVID MCQUEEN

SOPHIE SCOTT When I’ve finished playing football, if you want to have a He brought friends home from church on a Saturday, and @SOPH_E_SCOTT chat, we can have a chat. later, when married, would bring teenagers he was working “School can be horrid. I’m not going to grab somebody with as a youth worker back for dinner at the weekend. David McQueen, speaker, executive coach and facilitator and make them be in the popular group, because they might A few minutes into our chat, his wife of 20 years, just be happy where they are. But I was just as happy being Madeline, pops in to give him a tenner, gently mocking him t is the morning of the general election and I’m in the life and soul of the party over here, or sitting down in the for losing his belongings. Radlett, Hertfordshire to meet David McQueen. corner over there with people who wanted to listen to some He explains how they met 27 years ago at a gospel concert I McQueen, who runs Magnificent Generation, a pupil mad, crazy rock, or some Human League or some weird, in Milton Keynes. “She was actually going out with one of mentoring programme, bounds into a local Caffè Nero with alternative pop music.” my friends, but I didn’t steal her!” so much energy and enthusiasm that it knocks me back. A mantra instilled in him from a young age – “if you have They met again, when she was single, and for the next “Sorry, I’m a bit late [he’s actually on time], I’ve lost my keys an opportunity to make a difference in someone’s life, take three years maintained a long-distance relationship while and my wallet. I have no idea how I managed to lose both.” that opportunity” – has influenced his attitude and work. she lived in Leicester and he was still in London. He seems unfazed so we jump right into the interview. I “[My parents] recall this story that on one of my first days “The phone bills were horrendous. In the first quarter am treated to an hour of McQueen dynamism. of nursery I said, ‘Why am I here in the sandpit? I didn’t when we were going out, the combined phone bill came to Born the second of three boys, he says he has always been come to play in the sand, I came to learn!’. Then I would go £900 – we were on the phone every day! So that’s £300 a a “people person”, an extrovert “determined” not to become over and break up fights and be the peacemaker and talk to month between us – I had to dip into my savings, my mum the forgotten middle child. people who were on their own, so it’s apparently something put a lock on the phone… I found out there was a way to tap Describing himself as the “big mouth” and the joker, he that has been there from quite young.” phones with a coathanger so I was a proper criminal. We was just as happy at school with the popular crowd as he His parents both came to England in 1966, his mother were very devious.” was with the shy, quiet types. from Barbados and his father from Grenada. The pair arrived His parents wanted him to be a doctor, engineer or “I hate seeing people lonely, I have a real issue with that. on the same day – although they did not meet until later. lawyer. A year of law at North London Polytechnic put him I would be playing a football match or something like that He says it was his upbringing in the strong African off the latter. and I could see somebody on their own and I would just Caribbean community of Harlesden, north London, and later From 19 he tutored young people in his spare time and start talking to them: ‘How’re you doing, blah, blah, blah. Harrow in the 1970s and 80s, which shaped his character. soon became a mentor for young, black students at the SCHOOLSWEEK.CO.UK EDITION 29 FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2015 13

IT’S A PERSONAL THING

What was the first album you bought? Michael Jackson’s Off the Wall

If you could have any “superhero power”, what would it be? Flying

Where would you live if you had a choice? Anywhere where there is sunshine all year round.

What is your favourite thing to do in your spare time? Read. Fiction, history and philosophy

If you could have coffee with anyone, dead or alive, who would it be?

Nelson Mandela Clockwise from above: McQueen with Sir Richard Branson; speaking at the SSAT conference last year; with young people as part of the TV show Vocation, Vocation, Vocation, broadcast in 2007

DAVID MCQUEEN Curriculum Vitae

Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. modern trends and remain the “cool dad” – referencing “In my early 20s, a friend of mine, her daughter was current music and cultural points relevant to the pupils he BORN one of the first black students to go to Cambridge … but works with. she committed suicide, the pressure was too much. I His passion is engaging young people – from those in April 7, 1969 found out later that being the best and brightest in school pupil referral units to those in independent schools – to do EDUCATION meant nothing when you went to Cambridge, which was the best they can. dominated by independent middle-class white students who “One of the things I am really frustrated with sometimes 1981 - 1985: Whitmore High School didn’t understand your experience. As a black teenager she is that, institutionally, education is not designed for the 1985 - 1988: Harrow College felt totally out of her…” poor. . . or the disengaged. even though money has been He trails off. “Unfortunately she lost her life.” thrown at it. 1988 - 1989: London Metropolitan He set up Magnificent Generation when he was 33, “The reality is that the only way education is going to 14 years ago, and has since been touring schools across be treasured and valued for those who don’t have access College, law the country to help young people in the run-up to their to money or the knowledge that others have, is to CAREER exams. He visits about 30 schools each year, alongside change a lot of other things too. Housing, proportional his work as a public speaker. (His website says he once representation, politics… 1991 - 1999: Accountant, various roles presented on television). “I consider it a privilege and an honour being able to 1999 - 2004: IT consultant, various roles “There was no one doing it so I set my own up business. do what I do; being able to get into schools and get that I started speaking in schools and doing a lot of assemblies message out there, knowing that for some kids they have 2004 - present: Magnificent Generation, about getting students ready for exams. I did research never had somebody come in and tell them they are brilliant around that as well.” and they can do it. education company, managing director He also noticed there was no consistent careers advice “Some kids just won’t know that. So, having been able 2014 - present: Narratively, presentations “unless you went to private school”, though, even there, he to do this stuff for 13 years, and as an educator for 25 years, says, there are issues. that for me is great. skills company, managing director As father to two teenage girls, he attempts to keep up with “It’s a legacy and it’s a real honour.”

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can’t do”, “I’m worried they will find out I’m Transforming Teacher At the core of the book is a vivid and a fraud”, “I can’t do this job when I have a Education disturbing account of teacher educators’ family.” work. Teacher educators spend vast amounts I admit to not applying for jobs because Authors: Viv Ellis and Jane McNicholl of time on “relationship maintenance”, there was one thing I didn’t have experience Publisher: Bloomsbury shoring up school-HEI partnerships in and being subjected to looks of horror ISBN-10: 1472507207 with endless reactive and proactive because I attended a weekend education ISBN-13: 978-1472507204 communication. conference when, “as a mother”, I should Reviewer: Christine Counsell, senior This is not a sentimental plea for pity on have been with my family! lecturer, University of Cambridge faculty behalf of the beleaguered teacher educator. The conclusion is a rallying call to all of education Nor are the authors defensive of the status women: “This week, find the fierce women quo. The argument instead moves toward in your life and ask them if they’ve ever said what is lost to education more broadly. And or thought the five things above. The beauty he title of this book brought on a the authors conclude with a new vision of starting the conversation is realising, in flashback. As a young deputy head, I of the “co-configuration” of knowledge, all probability, we have thought them or Thad a very kind principal devoted to achieved across diverse education personnel, said them or both. I hope that somewhere in the professional development of his senior and a challenge to universities to fight for that conversation, you find yourself feeling leadership team. In our weekly meetings, we a reconceptualisation of the nature and a little more fierce.” had a friendly running argument production of academic capital I don’t know about you, but I’m starting about the most intellectually itself. Our blog reviewer of the week today. difficult aspects of our job. For As an HEI-based teacher is Emma Hardy, primary school him, teaching was something educator of 18 years, much of this teacher and union activist The Ugly Duckling: Tales from the that clever staff sorted out early in resonated. But some did not. A @emmaannhardy Frontline their careers. I took the view that strength of the authors’ study is By @leadinglearner whatever the strategic complexity their use of “cultural-historical” of senior leadership, nothing analysis looking at the “object” Every teacher can remember the mental was as academically demanding of teacher educator work. Their The 39 steps and physical exhaustion of finishing their nor as important as the new realisation that much activity is By @mikercameron NQT year; a year that experienced teachers curricular knowledge produced about “relationship maintenance will often look back on with embarrassment when wrestling with the infinite (RM)” is inspired. At the same There was little relief at the end of what as they recall, “yes I did try that...” When complexity of planning a year 7 lesson on the time, I wondered if the object is still eluded. has been one of my most exhausting I started I had a wonderful, experienced, Romans. I looked at my own equivalent of RM over and emotionally draining weeks as other kind and supportive female role model – I was deadly serious, and troubled. a fortnight. Yes, it is vast and relentless. But educationists widely echoed my shock and and it angers me that such people seem Searching for role models in headteachers what does it do? About 80 per cent of it is pain at the election result. One of the many to becoming extinct. In this blog Stephen who took account of that complexity on with subject mentors in schools and it’s a things that angered me was the number of Tierney highlights concrete things a school-wide basis, I found none. At one shared wrestling with problems in history left-wing “purists” despairing at the result management teams can do to try to support meeting, scheduled to plan my preparation education, often ostensibly micro-problems, despite, having done nothing but attack the NQTs and increase retention in schools. for headship, I announced that I wanted to but always macro by implication. Of the Labour party for being “Tory-lite” for years. However, the final line is a reality check: be a teacher educator. It’s not that I wanted four articles I’m currently producing, three However, you can forgive everyone their whatever leaderships in individual schools to be “an academic”, it was that the ordinary are co-authored with these mentors. Their horror and incredulity when faced with try to do, they can only hope “the new academic work of an ordinary teacher knowledge feeds mine and together we the reality of the Conservative manifesto government help[s] rather than hinder[s]”. produced a knowledge surplus that a school render it explicit as we re-shape the for schools, including gems such as using does nothing with. I had to leave school to content of the course, most of which is Ofsted to force schools to take the EBacc Dear Parents get closer to the classroom. taught by them. It is also a shared battle and increased academisation…I can only By @MichaelT1979 At the heart of this thought-provoking against insularity. wish all educationists had read this sooner. and original book are questions about Perhaps this is the sort of “co- If there was one blog I could choose to relationships between knowledge creation, configuration” that the authors mean. Women in Education: 5 Things Fierce highlight the confusion removing levels at knowledge mobilisation and professional Whatever the explanation, it still points to Women Don’t Say the same time as altering the curriculum education. These lead to further questions the profound importance of this courageous By @BennieKara has created for parents and teachers, this about the proper role of knowledge- book. I could not put it down. Like all would be it. Under the guise of restoring producing public institutions in a democracy. good books it left me with new questions. When reading this blog I became “rigour”, the government created “chaos”. What is “academic work”? And what ought to If “teacher education” is a troublesome increasingly aware that I had either These changes have only succeeded be the academic work of a “teacher educator” category, the deeper root may be that morphed into “that dog” from “that car because of the incredible ability of teachers in higher education? “teaching” is a troublesome category. Too insurance” advert or Ed Miliband as I to make things work for the children in Studying 13 HEI-based teacher educators, often construed as a generic process to be withheld the compulsion to shout “hell their class – arguably the fall-out has not Ellis and McNicholl suggest that not enough managed and then judged by the deceit of yes!” at the end….and then leave quietly in been greater because teachers are too good academic work is happening and that the obvious (the proxy of results), it should embarrassment. at their jobs! education and teacher education are the rather be seen in terms of its object – the Every point made on what strong women If you are questioned by parents as to poorer for it. The problem has structural kinds of knowledge we build in pupils and in education don’t say, I have heard from why their child appears to have “gone origins beyond the control of lecturers who the nature of a teacher’s knowledge that other female teachers, many times. The backwards”, show them this blog. As the are, in effect, “proletarianised”, and unable might make it happen. points Bennie picks apart are: “Behaviour next five years stretch fearfully before to make academic capital out of their labour. NEXT WEEK: in this classroom would be much better if I us remember Michael’s final comment: Even job advertisements, they argue, expose The Spider Strategy: Six Steps had a male learning support assistant”, “they “As ever, teachers will be doing the best the teacher educator as a “troublesome to Outstanding don’t respect me because I am a woman”, to provide the best possible education category”. Its contradictory expectations of By Marcella McCarthy “I can’t apply for that job because there’s within the parameters set by the “super teacher with a research profile” are Reviewed by: Colin Grimes one bullet point on the job description I government.” beyond the normal demands of a university. SCHOOLSWEEK.CO.UK EDITION 29 FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2015 17

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Within these three there are different types of model”: trust and respect each other, have a shared Effective partnership models partners. Schools might be partners with each other, vision of the future and communicate. By Dr Sam Baars and Loic Menzies with public bodies or with “non-state organisations”, It’s a shame in this respect that the reasons for such as businesses and charities. “Non-state entering partnerships are somewhat glossed over. (Read the research in full at organisations” covers a multitude of scenarios, ranging The authors suggest that they tend to come out of www.lmkco.org) “problems”: an issue arises and a school will go into a partnership to try to address it. But the case studies all “The report lacks focus on good practice, which, while heartening, does here has to be trust for a relationship to work – not chart how to identify a problem, how to seek out the which will be no great surprise to anyone whose examples of what right partner or give any examples of what might be a Tlove life does not resemble a Richard Curtis film. bad partnership. Without wanting to name-and-shame, But anyone whose personal life is a world apart from the some examples of the latter might have been useful to stuff of cinema would do well to read this research as might be a bad help schools to learn from other’s mistakes, rather than the advice is much the same as that of an agony aunt. conclusions that feel like a reiteration of the “trust, goals Whether you’re after a successful collaborative and communication” recipe for good partnership. partnership or a successful relationship, certain factors partnership” Which leads back to my initial comparison, always help: the “importance of a shared goal”; both partnerships and relationships. The language we partners respecting what each other does well; offering from partnerships with artists, musicians and other use defines our interactions as much as our actions. guidance – not criticism – when things are not done such “creatives” in the – creatively named – Creative “Partnership” rings particularly of the corporate sphere: so well, Communication is key, too, as are “high levels Partnerships, to a US-based investment bank in the case “relationship” of the social. of trust”. A series of case studies pays testament to the of the Bankers Trust and Morpeth School. It would be easy to sit behind a keyboard and effectiveness of these. Arguably, the report suffers in adopting such a broad polemicise about which sphere education should Chiefly a review of literature around partnership, the definition. In focusing on a wide range of partnerships be taking its language from, but that is ultimately report’s definition is broad, potentially too much so. the conclusions are quite general. Comparing the going to be the decision of the institutions involved, and There is an attempt to narrow it down to “three levels of features of a good partnership with those of a good the nature of the interaction they have with each other. partnership learning”: brokering, where a partner helps relationship isn’t flippancy: the principles of getting The broad definition of partnerships used might a school access sources of support; a partnership where along and working together are the same. In this way not be the most appropriate term for every interaction; the partner provides that support themselves; and a there is nothing particularly enlightening about what research into the different types might provide more network of partners supporting each other. the research finds to be the foundations of an “effective tangible suggestions on how to make them effective. A week in Westminster Your regular guide to what’s going on in central government

much (even though they are mostly the March meeting of its audit and risk made up of four people who studied law same people). assurance committee. at university, and two who did PPE at thursday: A fellow education-watcher also sent an Jacqui Smillie, from the National Audit Oxford. With so many lawyers knocking email on Thursday morning highlighting General Election Day. How would it go? Office, said during discussions about around one wonders why Michael Gove, What would it mean for schools? Could the DfE’s tweeting of Winston Churchill’s Ofsted’s strategic risks, that it would Victory in Europe speech. Apparently it who studied English, is the new justice Michael Gove re-emerge? Would Tristram be “useful” to “include a section on the was because schools across England were secretary. Hunt sashay his long limbs into the dashboard on ‘near misses’ or ‘things Department for Education (DfE)? So many celebrating the historic day. As our edu- that went wrong’.” She said this would questions. twitcher pointed out: “Isn’t it a bit rum for the DfE to tweet an ex-Tory PM’s speech give “give assurance” to the committee Wednesday: The DfE used the day to put out that issues are “identified and addressed “reminders” of all the things they had on election day?” We were too busy Year 6 pupils will have, mostly, finished appropriately”. done over the past five years. Policy listening to the great orator that we didn’t their SATs by the time you read this. But This sort of strategy is also used in papers were pushed to the forefront of have time to ponder an answer. today the Standards and Testing Agency their website and sent to anyone who other regulation industries and is put out a helpful explainer about how subscribed to their publication alerts. often considered to be a helpful way of school leaders can help children needing They were released under headings friday: avoiding incidences. It’s not a bad shout. additional arrangements, such as those such as “how we are offering free school WE ARE FINALLY OUT OF PURDAH! Weirdly, the minutes for November’s with special education needs or those meals to all pupils in reception year, year After weeks of no official statements, or meeting are still in “draft”. History, it who need to take the tests using braille. 1 and year 2 in state-funded schools in progress on policies, making everyone’s seems, really might be re-written. Considering the tests started on Monday, England” and “how the government is lives just that little bit harder, we are it might have made more sense to publish giving schools a greater role in training looking forward to getting straight this before they started. and developing teachers and leaders and answers again – and schools will be tuesday: On a side note, the DfE warned that if reforming their pay and performance”. able to continue with plans to convert you talk about the content of those tests Since the election, these policy papers to an academy, or to hold consultations The six ministers leading the new on social media before Thursday, May 21, sit on the website under a banner (or protest meetings) about upcoming government’s education department you might get taken to the High Court reminding users that “this publication academy plans. were revealed today. Not a huge amount and have an injunction slapped on you. was published under the 2010 to 2015 of change at the top but it is worth So keep those fingers off the keyboard. Conservative and Liberal Democrat You have been warned. nothing that with the departure of David coalition government” – presumably, so monday: Laws, who lost his seat, the team is now CHECK OUT @SCHOOLSWEEK FOR LIVE you don’t blame the new government too Ofsted published the minutes of the TWEETS OF WESTMINSTER EVENTS 18 @SCHOOLSWEEK SCHOOLS WEEK FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2015 Your guide to how SEN funding is calculated and allocated Ann McGauran N0TIONAL SEN FUNDING REFORMS @ANNMCGAURAN

The new funding structure for pupils with SEN in efa efa mainstream schools is now in place. How does it work? How, for instance, do schools secure the right budget to deliver high-impact outcomes and value for money? Commissioning local authority Commissioning local authority ith the Institute of Fiscal Studies SEND code of practice emphasises “person- outlining in recent reports the centred approaches” – with education, EARLY YEARS SCHOOLS HIGH NEEDS EARLY YEARS SCHOOLS HIGH NEEDS BLOCK BLOCK BLOCK BLOCK BLOCK BLOCK Wsignificant cost pressures on health and care plans (EHC plans) up to the school spending until 2020, school business age of 25 replacing statements of SEN for managers and special needs co- those aged up to 18. ordinators (Sencos) will have a hard SEN consultant Anita Devi fight to secure the funding needed (pictured) believes the reforms for SEN pupils. and the funding changes dovetail Creating a simpler, fairer and to reflect a significantly more transparent system was a coalition joined-up approach. Speaking at a aim and an intention of the special recent Optimus Education seminar, she educational needs and disability (SEND) outlined how SEN funding for mainstream ELEMENT 1 ELEMENT 2 ELEMENT 3 ELEMENT 1 ELEMENT 2 ELEMENT 3 reforms brought in from last September. schools is worked out from the dedicated Underpinned by the legislation in the schools grant (DSG), the core of funding Children and Families Act 2014, the new given to local authorities (LAs). MAINTAINED SCHOOLS ACADEMIES 3 ELEMENTS OF MAINSTREAM SEN FUNDING HOW DOES IT WORK? PLACE-LED FUNDING PUPIL-LED FUNDING Local authorities receive the dedicated schools In January 2015, LAs in England submitted 1 Basic per-pupil entitlement (i.e. school place) grant for all maintained schools and most their formulae for allocating their DSG schools academies in their areas via the Education block funding for 2015/16 to schools in their Funding Agency (EFA). The LA then consults area. Schools are funded using a maximum of with the “schools forum”, a body of local 13 clearly defined factors. Mandatory pupil-led

high-need, low incidence sen support for additional needs up to £6,000 2 (top up funding for support stakeholders, and they jointly set a local formula factors include the basic per-pupil entitlement, needs above £6,000) for funding maintained schools and academies. deprivation (using one or both of two indicators: Based on this, maintained schools then get their children eligible for free school meals or the allocated funding from the LA, while funding for Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index), + academies is recouped – a fancy word for “taken and optional pupil-led factors including looked- back” – from the LA by the EFA (from 2015-16 after children, prior attainment, and English as 5% Of age weighted pupil unit about 10 per cent of academies that are “non- an additional language. recoupment academies” will also be brought A requirement for the new formulae is that a into this process). The agency then gives the minimum of 80 per cent of block funding must + funding back. be allocated through pupil-led factors. free school meal funding WHERE DOES SEN FUNDING COME FROM?

Element 1: entitlement in 2015-2016. + Basic per-pupil entitlement The Department for Education’s initial This is used to make general provision for all £4,000 AWPU assumption is therefore idaci pupils in the school, including pupils with SEN, incorrect for many schools. Income deprivation affecting children index and goes directly to schools. It is the basic per pupil entitlement, with Element 2: every pupil in a school attracting an amount Notional SEN budget + called the age-weighted pupil unit (AWPU). This is an additional amount of money to There has been a general belief that the help make special educational provision meet looked after children amount of AWPU funding per pupil is about the needs of children with SEND. It’s called £4,000, but LAs are permitted to choose notional because schools can spend it in the different rates. The EFA’s schools block funding way that they think is best. Like element 1, it + formulae 2015/16 states LAs must specify a goes directly to schools. n0tional sen and deprivation funding n0tional sen and deprivation EAL primary AWPU of at least £2,000 and key stage In their funding formulae for 2015-16, LAs 3 and 4 AWPU values of at least £3,000. Most specify what percentage of funding allocated English as an additional language (81 per cent) of primary AWPUs are in the range through each factor contributes to the of £2,500 to £3,250, although there are a few notional SEN budget. The government has + significant outliers of more than £4,000. recommended schools use the notional SEN For key stage 3 AWPUs, 81 per cent of local budget to pay for up to £6,000 worth of special low prior attainment usually with authorities are allocating between £3,500 and educational provision to meet a child’s SEN. Hali statement £4,500 per pupil; for key stage 4 most (79 per Some 126 (83 per cent) of authorities are or ehcp cent) are allocating between £4,000 and £5,500 allocating between 5 and 15 per cent of schools 3 per pupil. Across all authorities, 76.2 per cent block funding as notional SEN. of funding is being allocated through basic Prior attainment is the most common SCHOOLSWEEK.CO.UK EDITION 29 FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2015 19 Your guide to how SEN funding is calculated and allocated N0TIONAL SEN FUNDING REFORMS MAXIMISING FUNDING, COSTING efa efa PROVISION – AND WHAT VALUE FOR MONEY LOOKS LIKE

What does SEN consultant Anita Devi says he has had “more success with an think is the best way for schools to £8.22 phonics intervention”. One-to-one identify what they have provided up to support is only used with pupils with Commissioning local authority Commissioning local authority the “£10,000 threshold”? She says the complex needs. threshold embraces elements 1 and 2 of The school’s provision maps include EARLY YEARS SCHOOLS HIGH NEEDS EARLY YEARS SCHOOLS HIGH NEEDS the funding and covers quality inclusive a three-tier system for the whole school, BLOCK BLOCK BLOCK BLOCK BLOCK BLOCK and personalised teaching of a whole year group and individuals. Each class (including reasonable adjustments), intervention in the area of need – such short-term additional interventions as cognition and learning – is listed and (wave 2) and low-cost elements of wave costings collected for provision. The year 3 higher needs interventions. She says group maps cover group size, frequency that if schools “align their provision and cost, while the individual provision management systems to the school maps cost the wave 2 and 3 interventions improvement cycle, then it is relatively for more complex needs. easy to evidence what is the core offer, Impact is assessed using goal ELEMENT 1 ELEMENT 2 ELEMENT 3 ELEMENT 1 ELEMENT 2 ELEMENT 3 and what has been provided additionally attainment setting (GAS), a common at wave 2 and 3 up to the £10,000 scale for assessment. The six-point threshold”. scale of measurement runs from three - MAINTAINED SCHOOLS ACADEMIES Paul Newby (pictured) is headteacher where progress is higher than expected, and Senco at Brickhouse Primary School to minus three – where progress is in Sandwell in the West Midlands. A considerably below baseline. “If I see an quarter of the pupils at his school were intervention in two or three, it is clicking PLACE-LED FUNDING PUPIL-LED FUNDING on the SEN register in summer 2014. into the area of VFM.” BASIC ENTITLEMENT PRIMARY AWPU-PER-PUPIL VALUES CHOSEN He says schools can use provision Mr Newby says the class teacher must 60 mapping to cost provision and review what the pupil can do now that interventions to maximise funding, he or she couldn’t do before. “Staff know 50 KEY ensure value for money (VFM) and they need to talk about what new skills 2014-15 identify high-impact interventions. He they are seeing.” 40 2015-16 uses it to provide an evidence base fully One-off spends, money for SEN linked to money that can show how that has “been top-sliced out” of the 30 much “top up” funding a child requires. budget and the costs of external agencies In his view, schools must be able to must be included in the provision 20 articulate their SEN spend, and school mapping, he adds. Number of LAs Number business managers must make sure 10 their Sencos have that information. “It’s a collective senior leadership 0 £2,000 £2,250 £2,500 £2,750 £3,000 £3,250 £3,500 £3,750 £4,000 £4,250 £4,500 £4,750 £5,000 £5,250 £5,500 £5,750 above responsibility.” to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to £6,000 £2,250 £2,500 £2,750 £3,000 £3,250 £3,500 £3,750 £4,000 £4,750 £4,500 £4,750 £4,500 £5,250 £5,500 £5,750 £6,000 Costing provision involves analysing Source: Education Funding Agency accountability, VFM, time and personnel. The average intervention at the school runs for eight weeks – but might continue for two terms. This allows time contributing factor to notional SEN with 146 of Anita Devi says that for schools applying for to assess outcomes at the start and the the 148 LAs featuring it in their formula. Most short-term cash or funding not linked to EHC end of the intervention. “VFM needs very authorities are also assigning a percentage of plans, “it makes sense to have spent up to the clear investment points.” their deprivation and basic entitlement funding £10,000 threshold”. The focus has to be on linking data to into notional SEN. Some LAs expect 5 per cent “Some call it £6,000 (for element 2), because impact. In his school, the most expensive of the age-weighted pupil unit to be included in the government insists that element 1 equates interventions are one-to-one, and he the notional SEN budget. to around £4,000 – but the element 1 range is Schools can spend less or more than the between £2,000 and £8,000. FORMULA FACTORS USED TO ALLOCATE NOTIONAL SEN notional budget on SEN, Ms Devi says. “It is not “If you are in an LA where you are getting ring-fenced.” £2,000 as element 1, then it would not be 160 appropriate for the government to say you 140 Element 3: have to spend another £8,000 (before getting KEY High needs block funding top-up funding). Some LAs have said that if 120 2014-15 This is funding for high-need low-incidence you can demonstrate element 2 at £6,000, then 100 2015-16 SEN that goes directly from the commissioning you will potentially get an amount of higher 80 LA (ie, the authority where the pupil lives) needs block funding.” to schools. It is provided from the high Some LAs are allocating the whole of the 60 needs block element of the DSG, and aimed high needs block funding to those with EHC Number of LAs Number 40 mainly, though not exclusively, at pupils with plans, while other LAs are building SEN EHC plans. capacity by providing short-term funding for 20 The government expects schools to high needs pupils as well as funding 0 have spent at least £10,000 out of their core EHC plans. In reality, Ms Devi says, “the law basic entitlement deprivation english as looked-after prior mobility lump sum an children attainment and notional budget before this funding can will stipulate that if a child has a need it has additional language be accessed. to be met”. Source: Education Funding Agency 20 @SCHOOLSWEEK SCHOOLS WEEK FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2015 School Bulletin Alfie with his twin Grace, parents and Freshwaters head Marios Solomonides Alfie’s school raises money for hospital

Andrei and James from Watford UTC undertaking the Toshiba programme school in Essex has raised £300 for central London to replace the faulty valve. Licensed to repair . . . in a UTC the hospital that helped to save the He was in hospital for five days and off Alife of one of its pupils. school for three weeks. group of computer science students at The school says the course also helped the Year 1 student Alfie Hunt, 6, from The school’s Parent Champions held a Watford University Technical College students to gain “inventory management Freshwaters Primary Academy, was found coffee morning in support of the hospital, A(UTC) have turned into tech wizards experience, added technology expertise and a to have an enlarged heart and liver when he raising £272.10. who can do their own laptop and tablet variety of additional transferrable skills”. was just two weeks old. Headteacher Marios Solomonides repairs. Principal Emma Loveland says: “This is He was diagnosed with critical aortic value said: “Anyone who helps our pupils in any The learners completed the Toshiba an excellent practical hands-on experience stenosis — a narrowing of the aortic valve — way deserves our support and that is why self-maintainer programme, which means for our IT students, helping them to build and has been in and out of hospital for much our coffee morning was in aid of the Royal they can now work out technological faults, valuable skills for the future.” of his life. Brompton. It also highlights to our pupils the select the spare parts required, and carry out The accreditation lasts for one year and can Last summer, Alfie underwent open heart wonderful work doctors and nurses do, day warranty repairs in-house. be updated with a refresher course. surgery at the Royal Brompton Hospital in in and day out.”

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he Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) will run a series of Tseminars this summer to help school leaders wanting to learn how to protect students from being radicalised. The sessions, which will offer support

and guidance to leadership teams in Barnes Primary School, London, pupils take response to new legislation and concern part in the Activity Challenge over the “impact of extremist propaganda” free online portal allowing schools on young people, come in the wake of and parents to test a child’s fitness the Trojan Horse scandal and, separately, Alevels has been set up. the flight of three London schoolgirls The Activity Challenge, created by charity from Bethnal Green Academy to Syria Fit For Sport, allows adults to log on, submit earlier this year. fitness scores after children have taken part It also follows a claim by the headteacher in activities such as jumping and running, of Birmingham’s Anderton Park School, and compare results with recommended Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson, that death levels. Kamal Hanif Sara Khan Anna Cole threats have been sent to teachers and Its launch comes as a recent Fit for Sport “dismembered cats” left on playgrounds. Birmingham’s Waverley School. Inspire, and ASCL’s parliamentary study of 10,000 primary children suggested This led to education secretary Nicky “Young people spend a lot of their time specialist Anna Cole will join Mr Hanif. that two-thirds were below recommended Morgan admitting the problems of on the web and social media and they can Ms Khan said: “Unfortunately, there have levels of fitness for their age group. extremism would not “be solved overnight”. easily get drawn into extremist ideas without been many myths propagated about what It also found 67 per cent were unable The Counter Terrorism and Security Act access to a counter narrative,” Mr Hanif says. the statutory requirements mean for both to reach targets in jumping, running and 2015 requires educational establishments The seminars will help schools to “pick schools and pupils. throwing; 24 per cent fell “significantly” to prevent young people being drawn into up the signs” and to use the appropriate “The seminars will clarify and help to below levels. terrorism. channels in dealing with concerns. guide schools how to safeguard children Chief executive of Fit For Sport Dean The seminars, planned for June and “This is about having a greater from extremists who seek to exploit them.” Horridge said: “Physical inactivity is a July, will aim to help leaders understand understanding around the issues of The seminars, which will be held in ticking time bomb for the UK’s health. the duties placed on them, to understand radicalisation and extremism, how to Bristol, Birmingham, Cambridge, London, Both parents and schools must make sure how propaganda on social media and identify situations and how to deal with Manchester, Leeds and Durham, are open children are spending enough time being the internet “grooms young people into them in an appropriate manner, without to ASCL members and non-members. active to improve their fitness and health extremist ideologies”, and give practical over-reacting and being alarmist.” levels now, and set them off on a journey to help and advice. Sara Khan, co-founder of the counter- Visit www.ascl.org.uk/events/ for an active life.” They will be led by Kamal Hanif, head of extremism and women’s rights organisation further information Visit www.activitychallenge.co.uk to take part SCHOOLSWEEK.CO.UK EDITION 29 FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2015 21 MOVERS & SHAKERS Your weekly guide to who’s new and who’s leaving

onathan Standen is the new head of 20 years at the school. Plymouth College. He was head of Mr Pollard, who was deputy head JThe Crypt School, a grammar school of Wolverley C of E secondary, also in in Gloucester. Worcester, says the “extremely strong He says his move to an independent Christian ethos” running throughout the school after 20 years in the state sector school gives it a platform to “not only feels like a “promotion” and he is looking go that extra mile”, but also “instil those forward to the “freedom” from many values” in the students. government initiatives. “In my career I have always found it “In the state sector we seem to be really best to have high expectations of my team focused on academic achievement. When and students — they typically live up to the powers that be [Ofsted] come and look those expectations and discover that they at your school they only give a scant look are capable of more than even they had at the wider aspects of education that are thought.” really important. Mr Pollard says the senior team will be “It is increasingly difficult to prioritise highly visible among parents and students Jonathan Standen Mark Pollard Fiona Kaplan extra-curricular enrichment opportunities under his leadership, which will help She says she is attracted by the and Chinese studies at the University of that are so vital to helping young people him to “develop excellent relationships, prospect of setting up a new school and Cambridge. develop a rounded personality. And improve communication, learning and plans on placing literacy, mathematics The 54-year-old says that she pursued that is something we will aim to achieve conduct” across the school. and citizenship at the “heart of a career in education after she had triplets here, whether it’s academic, sporting, everything”. and became “fascinated” by how young musical, theatrical, debating and so on.” Fiona Kaplan has been appointed the “I will be working with my team to children learn. The 47-year-old went to the University first head of Ark Byron Primary Academy, ensure outstanding academic results “I saw that young children absorb new of Nottingham where he studied ancient in Ealing, west London, which opens in and to ensure the children develop information at an amazing rate and that history and history. September. She was assistant head and citizenship skills and contribute their enthusiasm to make sense of the early years leader at nearby Wendell Park positively to their community.” world around them would make teaching Mark Pollard has taken over from Julie Primary School. Ms Kaplan studied modern languages the most satisfying and rewarding job.” Farr as the new headteacher at Bishop Ms Kaplan has been working in Perowne C of E College, Worcester. education since 2001, mainly in early If you want to let us know of any new faces at the top of your school, local authority or She is stepping down after more than years departments. organisation please let us know by emailing [email protected] Tongues will be wagging… Making sure you get seen and talked about in all the right places is crucial. Whether that’s through the material you produce or the stories you tell. And it’s even more important that you have the right support from an organisation that really understands your market...

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READERS’ WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU @SCHOOLSWEEK [email protected] email tweet WEBSITE REPLY WWW.SCHOOLSWEEK.CO.UK The day that one in six schools fell silent not always easy to define and it is often unclear how far it The day that one in six schools fell silent extends.” Elli Woollard, London This is partly true. Schools have a “Duty of care” to anyone who comes on to the school premises. Even to a Burglar! reply of the week I can understand the concern, and obviously Claire Gaskell, address supplied where a school has to close then it causes a huge amount of Free school blames EFA for early disruption to working parents (and, indeed, those looking closure for work). But if part of a school remains open while another I combine polling day with part is used as a polling station, doesn’t that encourage Graham Easterlow @bordellolife democracy? Parents will be more likely to vote, as they are Shocking and we are promised 500 more ‘free’ schools one of our 5 INSET days. As already in the building, and children are able to see the in the next 5 years! #concerned democratic process at first hand. Even where the whole there are no other public buildings in school is closed, at least parents with children at that school Penny Rabiger @Penny_Ten are already familiar with the building, and thus possibly more Yikes. @SchoolsWeek exposes another free school our local area, school has to be used likely to vote, if only for that reason. If other buildings were to close this year. Half-way through GCSEs too. used even more parents might stay away from their polling Desperate. as a polling station. I know it is going station on Election Day. When do we realise this is future generations we’re to happen every year (with council, putting on the back foot? :( Stuart Lock, Chingford Europe and police commissioner How we should combat teacher We are a polling station and close one classroom, cyberbullying elections) so I plan ahead and ensure cordon off some car park, allow access, and then get on with the school day. I’m sure this is not possible everywhere, but it Potty-Pinky @pinkperlz we don’t lose any time in school. It’s is possible to run most of the school most of the time. I’m not Students need to be held criminally accountable for sure why schools close completely. harassment just as teachers are accountable for safety. worked well for 4 years. My only issue Small is not always beautiful Has to be both ways. is that Election Day usually falls in a James Wilding, Berkshire All talk and lots of action bank holiday week and it’s the week As the proprietor and Academic leader of a large Rachel Lofthouse @rmlofthouse before SATs. independent school with 3 sites and 6 divisions covering ages Excellent reminder of collective role of school 3 to 18, I also agree that small is not beautiful for governing community in supporting speech/language bodies. Reality is that often there is no common denominator, development. and both governance and leadership needs skills and expertise unique to age and phase. DfE lets us look at register of board members’ interest Watchdog checks out safety faults in reply of the week 300 schools (Ed 27) Alex Weatherall @A_Weatherall This story shows how ridiculous the DfE are regarding receives James Allen, Suffolk transparency

I have read the report by Schools Week and it Would you trust a human to mark your a schools week mug! does highlight several good items for further discussion. work? Firstly, what are the accident statistics since schools became in charge of their own budgets? Have they gone up or Christian Bokhove @cbokhove down? Secondly, who are the people on site, now doing the Good that @nmmarking mentions marked H&S inspections? Are they being done in-house or by an improvements. Certainly opportunities formative independent company? assessment, summative still problematic… One line in the report does puzzle me though. It says: Key para is the penultimate one: I also have experience “Schools have a duty of care towards pupils, but this is that it makes T’s more aware of misconceptions etc.

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PRINCIPAL IN SOUTH EAST LONDON Dates: Apply by 08/06/2015. Job start, January 2016 Salary: Leadership Scale 7 (L29 - L39) £83,283 to £104,355 per annum (with potential enhancement available for an exceptional candidate) Location: South East London Contract type: Full Time Contract term: Permanent

The Citizen School Trust is recruiting for an inspirational leader who will be As well as achieving educational excellence, the Citizen School Trust will work able to turn the Trust’s ambitious vision for educational excellence and social across our neighbourhood using community organising methods aimed at social transformation into reality. As the Principal of our inaugural school, you will shape transformation. We believe this can be achieved through clear leadership, values- what will become an outstanding institution whose impact extends beyond the driven staff, and through partnerships between students, families, neighbours, and classroom. people and organisations across the public, charitable, and private sectors.

The Citizen School Trust was set up in 2013 by a team of school leaders, community Please download the Candidate Pack and application form on our website for more organisers, and public servants with the purpose of transforming learning, lives information. and communities through the development of an all-through school (4-19) in South East London.

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Your chance to make a New school, new building, real difference new opportunities Ark Elvin Academy joined the Ark network in 2014. Ark All Saints Academy opened in Camberwell in 2013 with Although the school has faced some recent challenges, we’re an intake of 120 pupils. As a brand new school that is growing working hard to give all pupils at the school an excellent year on year, we’re looking to recruit ambitious individuals to education. We need a committed staff team to make this join our team in September. happen.

English, maths, science, music and MFL teachers and lead We’re looking for Heads of Departments to lead on science, teachers needed to join our talented and committed staff team. geography, music, MFL and history.

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THE SOCIAL CHALLENGE The successful candidate will become our resident Maths guru with real responsibility to help develop long term strategies that drive Third Space. Your Children from poor backgrounds are twice as likely to fail academically. This is main role will be ensuring that our approach to teaching Maths develops a new unacceptable, and has major social and economic implications for our country. generation of student that are switched on to Maths. You will be required to travel internationally, not too bad if you like the sunny beaches of India and Sri Lanka! OUR BUSINESS STUDENT LEARNING LEAD Third Space takes a radical approach to this problem, using technology to connect Maths specialists from around the world to children in schools across the UK, Does it annoy you that emotional development and pupil wellbeing is often ensuring every child can have access to the individual support they need. Ensuring overlooked in the pursuit of ever improving student attainment? We work with we improve the confidence and attainment of the thousands of children we work 1000s of students each week, who are at risk of developing a fixed mindset with raises three challenges: creating good technology, training a global teaching towards Maths but more importantly their self-esteem and confidence. We want force and building effective relationships with our school community. Are you up your help to ensure that all students who use Third Space do so in a safe and to this? We prize curiosity, commitment and a determination for excellence. If you supporting way that develops confidence, a growth mindset, grit, resilience, etc. want a job that mixes purpose, ambition and innovation, and you believe you have Third Space recognises that if the education system fails to prevent this in primary these attributes, then read on... schools, these problems will only compound in secondary school.

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“The children love coming to the school and the staff really care about them” Educational Consultant 2013 Head of Mathematics Salary according to experience

Full Time, Permanent Trevor-Roberts School Required from September 2015

Trevor-Roberts School is a very popular and heavily oversubscribed independent day school for boys and girls aged from 5 to 13 years, located in Hampstead.

High success rates throughout the school are achieved through small classes and individual attention. Academic and social self-confidence and a sense of responsibility are built up in a happy atmosphere, geared to increasing motivation and encouraging pupils to fulfil their potential.

St Joseph’s Catholic High School We are now seeking an enthusiastic Mathematics teacher who would like the challenge of leading the department. Shaggy Calf Lane Slough Berkshire SL2 5HW The Mathematics Department is made up of form teachers in the Junior Department (Key Stages 1 and 2) and specialist Mathematics Teachers in the Senior Department (Key The Governors of this successful, popular and over-subscribed Catholic School wish to appoint Stages 2 and 3). Children are prepared for Common Entrance 13+ and the Independent Girls’ School Consortium 11+ examinations.

TEACHER OF GIRL’S P.E. You will be required to plan and organise the Mathematics curriculum throughout the Pay according to experience School, give appropriate written and oral feedback to parents on pupils’ progress, as well as organise lectures, outings and events to promote the department, and to teach We are looking to appoint a highly motivated teacher, to join a department where the Mathematics at key stages 2 and 3. focus is on ensuring students have a positive PE experience, making sure they continue participation through to the senior year groups. An outstanding teacher, with experience of teaching Mathematics up to Year 8, you’ll hold a degree in mathematics or a closely related discipline.

For further details of the job description and an application form please email [email protected] For more information see Closing date: 29 May 2015

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Are you a passionate and enthusiastic Class Teacher looking for an exciting We offer excellent CPD opportunities, career development and salary and opportunity to make a difference? We have a number of vacancies for NQT’s benefits. and experienced teachers to join our schools, starting in September 2015. Ideal candidates will: GLF Schools aspires to create a group of academies that have a reputation • Work well as part of a team, as well as being self-motivated and able for delivering an outstanding education for all children and students. to work independently Whilst operating as a part of a family, each school exists in its own right • Have the ability to enthuse and engage children in purposeful learning maintaining its own unique characteristics and individual identity. Whilst experiences each school serves to meet the needs of its local community, all are united • Be passionate about the children’s learning & welfare in their core purpose of providing an outstanding educational experience. • Have high expectations of achievement and behaviour

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ST EDWARD’S CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL Head of Primary Network Wivern Place, Runcorn, Cheshire WA7 1RZ 01928 572317 www.stedwardscatholicprimaryschool.co.uk Overview of SSAT Behaviour is excellent. Pupils are very welcoming and polite to visitors. They are keen to share their positive views about school. Pupils say they feel very safe at school and supported extremely well by the adults who work with them. (Ofsted October 2013) SSAT (The Schools Network) Ltd is an independent membership organisation dedicated to raising levels of achievement in schools. Our members include primary, secondary, special educational needs schools, academies, and schools from over 13 countries around the world. ASSISTANT HEADTEACHER VACANCY (Re-advertised) SSAT’s membership and professional development programmes help you achieve this balance. Group 1: L1 – L3 (Group 1) NOR 121 Required January 2016 (or earlier) They offer practical, schools-led advice for succeeding at Ofsted and raising attainment levels, but they also have the classic SSAT “extra ingredients”: long-term vision, a pioneering commitment We are a small, family orientated Catholic school, with wonderful children, supportive families and dedicat- ed staff. The Governors want to appoint a dedicated and enthusiastic Assistant Headteacher to join us. to student leadership, insights into the latest research and innovative practice and, above all, the challenge that comes from collaborating with other schools and teachers. The successful candidate will: • Be an outstanding classroom teacher with proven leadership skills and expertise in curriculum areas The Role and has the ability to take a key role in the leadership and management of the whole school. • Be an excellent classroom practitioner with high expectations of achievement and behaviour. The Head of Primary Network role is working with a wide range of primary schools and academies • Work collaboratively with staff, Governors, and parents to develop all children to their fullest potential. and is responsible for building growth of both membership numbers and other products and • Be a practising Catholic or committed to promoting the Catholic ethos of our school services across SSAT. Your key responsibilities will be delivering the annual business plan, We can offer you: ensuring that financial and delivery quality are maintained and built upon; maintaining and • A welcoming school with a strong sense of community and family. building upon the pace of growth of both membership numbers and financial objectives; • Dedicated and supportive staff, committed to high standards. continuing to develop partnerships which benefit our primary members as well as offering new • A highly effective and supportive governing body. • An inclusive school with happy, motivated, and well-behaved children who enjoy learning. opportunities for market growth; being responsible for building effective working relationships with schools, internal colleagues and partners. We welcome and highly recommend a visit to our school prior to applications being submitted.

Please contact our secretary Mrs Williams to arrange an appointment and to receive an application pack, or For more information see www.ssatuk.co.uk/jobs/ visit our website for details. Application forms should be returned to Mrs Ann Farrell, Chair of Governors via email to: sec.stedwards@ halton.gov.uk or via post to the school. The position is initially a maternity cover for up to 12 months, with a salary bracket of £55,000 - £60,000. Applications must be made using the CES application form. Closing date: Friday 19th June 2015 Shortlisting: Tuesday 23rd June 2015 Interviews: Wednesday 1st July 2015 Applications should include a CV and Covering Letter and be sent via email to [email protected] by Friday 15th May 2015. The Governing Body are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and the Assistant Headteacher must ensure that the highest priority is given to following safeguarding guidance and regulations. The successful candidate will be required to undergo an Enhanced check for Regulated Activity from the DBS. 26 @SCHOOLSWEEK SCHOOLS WEEK FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2015 jobs FOUNDING PRINCIPAL Organisation – One Degree Academy Salary Range – £70,000 - £90,000 negotiable depending on experience Closing Date – 31st May

We are a committed group of leaders in education If you have any questions or wish to receive further and business determined to transform learning details and application pack please email for disadvantaged young people in London. For [email protected] six years we have been leading the One Degree mentoring programme, which has doubled GCSE We will be recruiting other roles for our new and pass rates in English and Mathematics. Our vision unique school soon, keep checking regularly at is to establish a small, innovative and personalised onedegreeacademy.org. school, making use of the latest advances in learning technology. We are seeking a passionate and inspirational founding principal to turn our vision into an outstanding all-through free school, currently in the DFE pre-opening phase.

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