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Schools Told to 'Get Their Act Together' the million-pound not-so-free schools: book review: bailouts for the true cost of interrogating failing schools gove’s project school training page 3 page 11 page 20 SCHOOLSWEEK.CO.UK FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 2018 | EDITION 127 PORTER: WHY TEACHERS SHOULD SWAP THEIR CLASSROOMS FOR CELLS PROFILE P16-17 SCHOOLS TOLD TO ‘GET THEIR ACT TOGETHER’ Trusts failing to comply with new Baker Clause requirement PICKING APART Leaders argue there’s been little promotion of new law 2017 GCSE EXAM ALIX ROBERTSON DATA PAGES 3,6-7 @ALIXROBERTSON4 Investigates Page 5 HAVE YOU BOOKED YOUR TICKETS TO THE FESTIVAL OF EDUCATION YET? 21-22 JUNE 2018 BROUGHT TO YOU BY SAVE 20% ON TICKETS BY BOOKING BEFORE THE END OF JAN #EDUCATIONFEST | VISIT EDUCATIONFEST.CO.UK TO BOOK NOW 2 @SCHOOLSWEEK SCHOOLS WEEK FRIDAY, JAN 26, 2018 Edition 127 MEET THE NEWS TEAM schoolsweek.co.uk Shane Laura Experts Mann McInerney MANAGING EDITOR CONTRIBUTING EDITOR (INTERIM) @SHANERMANN @MISS_MCINERNEY TOM [email protected] [email protected] Please inform the Schools Week editor of any errors or issues of concern regarding this publication. 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Schools week is proud to be a member of ST GEORGES C OF E SCHOOL – HEAD OF Learning & Skills Events, SCIENCE – SALARY MPS/UPS PLUS TLR 1 HTTP://9NL.ES/5O4G Consultancy and Training Ltd 161-165 Greenwich High Road London SE10 8JA TO ADVERTISE YOUR VACANCY WITH EDUCATION WEEK JOBS AND SCHOOLS WEEK T: 020 8123 4778 PLEASE CALL 020 81234 778 OR EMAIL [email protected] E: [email protected] SCHOOLSWEEK.CO.UK EDITION 127 FRIDAY, JAN 26, 2018 3 NEWS 29 schools share £2.6m in last-ditch funding JESS STAUFENBERG Harrop Fold School which recently featured in WHO GOT WHAT? the Educating Manchester series on Channel 4. @STAUFENBERGJ GRANT RECIPIENT GRANT AMOUNT AWARDED Exclusive This ‘good’-rated school is struggling with a UFFCULME SCHOOL £213,000 An emergency government funding pot large financial deficit but is unable to secure CAMBRIDGESHIRE EDUCATIONAL TRUST £202,065 for schools “in danger of imminent failure” emergency funds to help. WOOD GREEN ACADEMY £172,789 handed out £2.6 million to 29 schools in the “It’s difficult because there’s this perception CHEADLE HULME HIGH SCHOOL £167,000 past year, Schools Week can exclusively reveal. you’re a good school and you don’t need UNITED LEARNING TRUST £150,000 But it hasn’t always helped: one school is the money,” said Drew Povey, the school’s ORCHARD HILL COLLEGE ACADEMY TRUST £149,206 in the process of closing down despite three headteacher. “But we do have real challenges ARTHUR TERRY LEARNING PARTNERSHIP (MULTI-ACADEMY TRUST) £144,275 separate handouts worth over £400,000 in and it would be great to apply for help with a CHEADLE HULME HIGH SCHOOL £136,000 total. chance of getting it.” DIOCESE OF CHELMSFORD VINE SCHOOLS TRUST £135,140 The emergency fund was established in Povey said large amounts of money should ASHLEY DOWN PRIMARY SCHOOL (BRISTOL PRIMARY TEACHING SCHOOL ALLIANCE) £107,085 April last year as part of the Department for be spent where pupils’ futures were at risk, CHEADLE HULME HIGH SCHOOL £100,875 Education’s Strategic School Improvement but warned it should not be withheld “until CORSHAM PRIMARY SCHOOL (PICKWICK LEARNING) £94,901 Fund, and can only be awarded under disaster struck”. RUSHEY MEAD ACADEMY (RUSHEY MEAD EDUCATIONAL TRUST) £74,900 “exceptional circumstances.” “There’s a feeling that money is thrown at THE DALES TEACHING SCHOOL ALLIANCE £70,000 Funds are only given to trusts supporting schools once the horse has already bolted,” he LION ACADEMY TRUST £68,445 either an ‘inadequate’-rated maintained said. LION ACADEMY TRUST £68,445 school that is not converting to academy United Learning also received £150,000 to PLYMOUTH CAST £62,700 status, or an ‘inadequate’ academy which is support Sedgehill School in south London. The LORETO GRAMMAR SCHOOL £61,680 not moving sponsor. trust was advised to apply for the emergency LION ACADEMY TRUST £60,975 Coasting schools are also eligible, as are funding after Sedgehill was put into special NORTHERN START ACADEMIES TRUST (SKIPTON GIRLS’ HIGH SCHOOL, previously ‘outstanding’ schools which have measures in 2016, according to a United NORTHERN LIGHTS TEACHING SCHOOL ALLIANCE) £51,160 fallen to ‘requires improvement’, or any school Learning spokesperson. EAST ANGLIAN SCHOOLS TEACHING ALLIANCE (BASED AT NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL IN THE ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CATHOLIC MULTI-ACADEMY TRUST) £50,000 where “strong local intelligence” suggests it Sedgehill remains a maintained school as THE RUTLAND LEARNING TRUST £49,800 could drop to ‘inadequate’. it cannot find a sponsor, despite its close LEIGH ACADEMIES TRUST £40,175 Three separate grants of £167,000, £136,000 relationship with United Learning. The trust STUDLEY HIGH SCHOOL £38,354 and £100,875 were channelled to the Cheadle would not explain why a takeover has not TAUHEEDUL EDUCATION TRUST £37,000 Hulme High School to support the nearby taken place. PRINCE ROCK PRIMARY SCHOOL £32,229 Manchester Creative Studio, after a damning Taunton Academy in Somerset meanwhile THE SPONNE SCHOOL (THE SWAN TEACHING SCHOOL ALLIANCE) £30,000 Ofsted report plunged it into special measures. received £213,000 via nearby secondary CORSHAM PRIMARY SCHOOL (PICKWICK LEARNING) £19,791 Even though £403,000 has been spent academy Uffculm School in Devon. The on the school, the local regional schools school is now on its way to escaping special the emergency funding pot was a “good idea” said real-terms cuts to school budgets commissioner Vicky Beer warned parents measures. because exceptional circumstances can hit all meant more would be “pushed to the cliff last month she was running a consultation to Dan Moynihan, the chief executive of schools, particularly smaller ones with fewer edge”. consider closure, according to the Manchester Harris Federation, which has taken over resources. “Emergency funding may help here and Evening News. several underperforming schools but did not But Valentine Mulholland, head of policy at there, but what we really need is sufficient The situation contrasts with the fate of receive any additional funding, said he felt the National Association of Head Teachers, investment across the whole system,” she said. FEWER SCHOOLS ARE 365 secondary schools fall below the floor... COASTING, AT LEAST Fewer schools were labelled ‘coasting’ this boards, governors and inspections to “avoid SCHOOLS WEEK REPORTER year, according to the government’s latest data leaping to judgement on the basis of these @SCHOOLSWEEK release. performance tables”. Coasting schools are defined as having a More secondary schools have fallen below “They only tell us a limited amount about progress score of below -0.257 in 2017, and floor standards, according to new figures the true quality of a school.
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