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Issue 28 Autumn 2008 Children and Young People’s Services The Bristol Governor www.bristol-cyps.org.uk Issue 27 - AUTUMN 2008 Included in this edition: Dear Governor Colleagues ■ News and Updates: The Road to Outstanding ....................2 I am delighted that the new school I am also pleased to report that year has enjoyed such a positive work to secure a strategic partner to Beckie Fleming ......................................3 start. The summer's test and exam deliver school improvement services No More KS3 Tests ................................4 results are encouraging. Both is quickly moving forward after a New Vetting & Barring Scheme ..........4 primary and secondary attendance short period of review. The name of ‘Virtual’ Headteacher for targets have been met for the first the project has been confirmed as Children in Care ....................................4 time, and exclusions have fallen ‘Excellence for All’, and the revised Diplomas in Bristol ................................5 significantly. Thank you to all timescale for securing a strategic Roll of Honour for Governing Bodies ..6 governors for your hard work to partner is September 2009. The National Recognition for Clerks............6 secure these improvements. project board will be consulting with Healthy Schools updates ......................7 One cannot fail to be excited, too, staff and stakeholders over the next 2-4 weeks to finalise the scope of Missing Message for Chairs? ................7 by the further transformation the contract. In relation to schools Diary of a School Governor..................8 taking place in Bristol's secondary schools. Provision is now more this consultation will be largely Under Scrutiny ......................................9 diverse than ever with five new through the project’s reference Academies and a 0-16 Learning group, which includes headteachers ■ Recommended Agendas: Trust joining Bristol's family of and governors. I will keep governors Full Governing Body Meeting 2 schools this September. I would like informed as this work progresses. Autumn 2008 ......................................12 to extend a big welcome to all new Thank you again, for all your hard Full Governing Body Meeting 3 governors involved with these new work and commitment to the Spring 2009 ........................................13 ventures. children and young people of Bristol. Cabinet's approval on 25 Yours Sincerely, ■ Getting it right - Guidance September of the Primary Review Improved outcomes for children and proposals (with the exception of young people......................................10 three linked proposals) heralds an How well is your Governing Body equally exciting and ambitious Heather Tomlinson programme of investment across doing?..................................................10 Strategic Director, Children, Young the primary sector. Clerking Matters..................................15 People & Skills. Don’t miss the next Clerks’ Network ..15 Working together and through the Changing the name of your school ....15 children’s trust partnership, we are Are you getting mail? ........................16 also driving forward the broader Every Child Matters agenda. This year sees £3.2 million invested in ■ Training, Forums and Conferences prevention and early intervention Bristol Governors’ Forum ....................16 services, and multi-agency referral Governor Training Programmes to panels fully in place across all ten December 2008 ..............................16-17 'localities'. Eight hundred Governor Training Programmes from professionals from a wide range of January to April 2009 ....................17-19 services, including schools, are Addresses and websites ......................20 trained to use the Common Assessment Framework and 53% of Bristol schools are already delivering the full Extended School core offer. Thank you to all governors for so positively engaging in these major developments. BRISTOL - A CITY WHERE LEARNING COMES FIRST 1 The Road to Outstanding News and Updates A 9am start on a Saturday?! Surely It's not all plain sailing, of course, not. Well, if you want to get to A review of the but we are moving in the right grips with being outstanding, it Bristol Governors’ direction and need to hold on to appears that early starts are that. For too long Bristol’s schools essential. How does it go? “The Conference 2008 have been marked out as being early bird catches the worm”? For Mayor Christopher Davies making bottom or near bottom of the “bird” read Bristol's committed the presentations. This was followed league tables and, therefore school governors and for “worm” by a minutes silence in memory of seemingly, hopeless. This must not read Outstanding Governing Beckie Fleming, of GDS, who died continue, and the results of Bodies, and, yes, I am sure that it so suddenly last month: a very 2007/2008 demonstrate that we are was worth it. poignant minute. Beckie will forever climbing out of the trough. The 2008 Bristol Governors’ Forum be in our hearts, and we all miss her As governors, we are always looking conference was the third in a trilogy very much. for ways to help our schools of conferences aimed at improving The main business began with Jan improve, and Malcolm Greenhalgh, the way governing bodies function Ormondroyd, the Chief Executive the keynote speaker for the day, and how they contribute to making officer of Bristol City Council giving took us on a long journey exploring an outstanding school. An her reflections on the city. Bristol is how me might achieve this. outstanding governing body must a great place to live and work, and Malcolm is an educational surely be the aim of all of us: if we we can forget this sometimes when consultant with many years are not aiming for the best, then we're getting bogged down in the experience of working with why turn up? But it's a lot easier to targets, policies, performance and governing bodies and his talk about being outstanding than attainments of our schools. Jan was presentation was packed with it is to actually get there. The very clear that education is challenges. He said at the outset conference was designed to fundamental to the success of the that he wasn't there to provide us recognise this and to help us all, city. We need to make sure that our with answers, but that he hoped even those who already are young people are prepared and to give us the right questions. outstanding. Remaining able to take their part in all our Each school is different, and it's outstanding can be just as futures. Then, as if to reinforce that impossible to provide a one-size-fits- challenging as getting there. being outstanding is possible, Airlie all solution. Complacency is a dangerous thing. Fife and Jackie Turner provided us One of Malcolm's main points was The day got underway with the with a great double act that the future is a foreign land, now traditional recognition of long summarising progress made this that we are trying to prepare our serving school governors, with Lord year in Bristol schools. young people for the unknown and 2 BRISTOL - A CITY WHERE LEARNING COMES FIRST Children and Young People’s Services that we owe it to them to be outstanding if we want them to be What should we focus on? outstanding as well. As Malcolm put Looking at recent Ofsted reports, it: Shift Happens. We need to be the most commonly identified ready for it. areas for improvement in the Asking questions is right and proper, quality of governance are: but sometimes there is a need to pin ■ New governor induction down some solutions and the processes afternoon sessions we designed for ■ Appropriate challenge and this purpose. A range of half a dozen support – the Chair governors led a range of short /Headteacher relationship workshops looking at aspects of ■ Involvement with school outstanding governing bodies, using leaders in monitoring and examples, tools and a great deal of evaluation processes focused conversation to get people News and Updates ■ Effectiveness of committees thinking how it could happen for in tackling strategic priorities their school. There is never enough time to do it all of course, and the Does your governing body need workshops were over way too soon, to focus on any of these staging but they were valuable starting The venue, BAWA centre, was posts on the road to outstanding? terrific and thanks to Governor Paul points for further work, deeper If you do, contact the Governor Francis for helping the Governor reflection and stronger action. Development Service to find out Development Service (GDS) to Getting to outstanding and staying arrange for its use. The GDS, with more about what training and there is by its nature a continuous the organisational skills and tireless support is available. process. A single conference, even commitment of Ana Tsoucalas, Miss the conference? one as good as this, is never the end made sure that the day ran of it. It wasn't even the beginning. It smoothly and effectively. Thanks to Don’t panic! The materials used was a staging post along the way, an them all, and also to Adrian Smith, on the day are available on the opportunity to sit down and think, a member of the Bristol Governors GDS website at www.bristol- reflect, share and observe how we Forum, who worked closely with cyps.org.uk/services/gds/conferen each of us strive to contribute to GDS to plan the day. ce-08. As it turned out, there were no school life in order to make our These include Malcolm worms but there were danish schools places where young people Greenhalgh’s presentation and a can prepare for a long and effective pastries and a great lunch. I know which I prefer. number of other papers designed life. The day may have been long, to support the development of Simon Bale, Governor, St. Mary but it was certainly worth it. an outstanding governing body. Redcliffe & Temple CE VA Secondary Beckie’s colleagues in GDS would Beckie Fleming like to thank everyone who has sent such kind condolences.
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