Millthorpe School

Headteacher’s Report to the Governing Body Wednesday 10 July 2013

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1. Student numbers a. Admissions and Leavers b. Totals in each year group

2. Student progress a. Progress grades – KPIs b. Results of recent examinations

3. Student Behaviour & Attendance a. Exclusions – figures & trends table b. Exclusions – figures & trends graph c. Commentary d. General behaviour

4. Attendance & punctuality a. Attendance – latest figures & trends b. Punctuality – latest figures & trends

5. Teaching Quality

6. Staff issues a. Resignations b. Appointments c. Staff welfare

7. Financial Summary

8. Complaints & Community Relations

9. School Events before the next meeting

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1 Student Numbers Action?

Admissions and Leavers since 8 March 2013

Seven students have left Millthorpe School.

Year Group Leaving Date Destination 8 26.03.13 Home educated 8 27.03.13 Montgomery School, Blackpool 8 17.04.13 Fulford School 10 27.03.13 Danesgate 10 19.04.13 Easingwold School 10 30.04.13 Danesgate 10 10.05.13 York High School

Eight new students have joined us.

Year Group Joining Date From 7 25.04.13 County Durham 7 05.06.13 Canon Lee School 7 18.06.13 York High School 7 18.03.13 Immigration 8 07.05.13 Manor CE Academy 9 22.04.13 York High School 9 18.03.13 Immigration 10 03.05.13 Fulford School

Totals in each year group at 3 July 2013

Year Males Females Total Year 7 97 99 196 Year 8 92 79 171 Year 9 110 88 198 Year 10 91 85 176 Year 11 111 83 194 Totals 501 434 935

NB: Includes single registration students and dual registration-main students. We also have three subsidiary dual registered students for whom we receive no funding.

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2 Student Progress Action?

Progress Grades

KS3 Indicators (Y9)

English Maths Level 6+ 66% 78% Level 5+ 93% 97%

KS4 Indicators

Proportion of students predicted to gain 5A*-C or better

Y10 Y10 Y10 Y11 Y11 Y11

Target Autumn Spring Summer Autumn Spring Result Y10 n/a 79% 84% 84% Y11 n/a 88% 82% 84% 90% 95%

Proportion of students predicted to gain 5A*-C inc Eng & Maths or better

Y10 Y10 Y10 Y11 Y11 Y11 Target Autumn Spring Summer Autumn Spring Result Y10 68% 63% 65% 65% Y11 70% 57% 56% 63% 66% 70%

Proportion of students predicted to make 3 levels progress in English

Y10 Y10 Y10 Y11 Y11 Y11 Target Autumn Spring Summer Autumn Spring Result Y10 73% 87% 89% 86% Y11 75% 82% 83% 80% 80% 81%

Proportion of students predicted to make 3 levels progress in Maths

Y10 Y10 Y10 Y11 Y11 Y11 Target Autumn Spring Summer Autumn Spring Result Y10 68% 76% 78% 80% Y11 70% 67% 64% 63% 56% 73% 79%

Results of recent examinations

None to report. Year 11 results due August 22nd. There will be a brief report via email to governors that weekend and a fuller report for the first FGB in September.

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3 Student Behaviour Action?

Exclusions – figures & trends table

Term 7 8 9 10 11 Total

10-11 Autumn 3 2 3 3 11

10-11 Spring 1 3 5 3 1 13

10-11 Summer 2 4 8 5 1 20 11-12 Autumn 1 5 5 25 36

11-12 Spring 5 4 9 3 21 11-12 Summer 3 2 4 9

12-13 Autumn 1 6 4 4 11 26

12-13 Spring 3 1 7 5 5 21

12-13 Summer 3 4 3 4 3 17

Grand Total 14 33 38 62 27 174

Exclusions – figures & trends graph

Commentary Exclusions for the year are very slightly lower than for 2011-12 (64 compared to 66). The overall rate is lower than national average. More detailed figures and charts were discussed at the recent Quality & Curriculum Committee.

General Behaviour We have studied our records of behaviour since September 2011 when we introduced our Positive Achievement System. There is clear evidence of a significant improvement in general behaviour over this time scale which we can share in detail with the School & Community Committee in the Autumn. We are now grading Millthorpe as grade 2 (Good) for Behaviour and Safety. S&C Cttee

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Attendance – latest figures & trends

WHOLE SCHOOL

To 02 07 2013 To 02 07 2012 Total % Total % Total % YEAR % AA % UA Attend Absence Attend Year 7 95.3 4.0 0.7 4.7 94.6 Year 8 94.7 4.2 1.1 5.3 94.7 Year 9 94.5 4.3 1.2 5.5 93.8 Year 10 94.9 4.2 0.9 5.1 93.0 Year 11 * 93.3 5.2 1.5 6.7 92.6 Whole School 94.5 4.4 1.1 5.5 93.7

* Year 11 attendance up to 09 05 2013 when exam period and study leave began.

VULNERABLE GROUPS

To 02 07 2013 To 02 07 2012 Total % Total % Total % % AA % UA Group Attend Absence Attend EM 94.4 5.1 0.5 5.6 91.2 FSM 92.3 5.1 2.6 7.7 85.2 School Action 90.2 8.4 1.4 9.8 88.8 School Action + 89.8 7.4 2.8 10.2 85.4 Statemented 92.1 6.5 1.4 7.9 89.5

NB: Vulnerable groups’ attendance includes Year 11 study leave.

Punctuality

YEAR % Lates to 02 07 2013 % Lates to 02 07 2012 Year 7 0.6 0.7 Year 8 1.5 1.2 Year 9 1.9 2.7 Year 10 3.0 3.5 Year 11 3.5 4.7 Whole School 2.1 2.6

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5 Teaching Quality Action?

Since September, 2012, 83 observations have taken place in addition to Performance Management as part of the school’s drop-in observation process. These observations are no- notice and take place for at least half an hour – either in the first or second half of the lesson. Lessons are given an overall grade as well as up to 15 sub-grades to isolate particular elements such as homework, behaviour, and challenge.

Overall, the percentage of lessons seen at Good or better has risen from 70.6% during the previous year to 82.5% this year.

Of those 83 observations, 5 were graded as Inadequate and these related to five individual teachers. Of these, two have either left the school or will leave at the end of the academic year. One teacher was seen again as part of the same drop-in cycle and received an improved grading. The remaining two teachers were seen a second time and did not improve significantly enough (the grading was either Inadequate or Requires Improvement) and so were put into a support plan. One member of staff has improved significantly and is now achieving the Good grading more consistently (though they continue to receive support) – the other has now begun the formal stages of capability.

At the other end of the spectrum, 24% of lessons seen have been graded as Outstanding. This category has seen the greatest growth over the year with the percentage of Outstanding lessons at 22% at the end of the first cycle. Gratifyingly, in two of the three cases where staff have moved up a grade, they cited the targets given from the last drop-in as a key reason for the move.

58% of lessons have been seen at the Good grading, leaving 12.7% of lessons at Requiring Improvement. In some cases members of staff seen teaching Requiring Improvement lessons were later seen teaching securely Good lessons, suggesting the number of teachers teaching regularly at the lower grade is less than 12.7%. Next year the support plan – this year used to target teachers working at the Inadequate grading - will be extended to include these teachers. They will receive bespoke support from the newly appointed team of Lead Teachers directed by our new Assistant Head, John Bates.

In addition to these headline figures, some key trends have emerged during observations. The quality of subject knowledge from staff is excellent and is used to create engaging and interesting expositions in the majority of lessons seen. Management of poor behaviour is also a strength in most lessons. The observations have also brought out key areas of development:

• Across the board, assessment is still an area for development with staff not sharing the process of marking with students frequently enough to give them a sense of what they must do to improve. This was Good or better in 68% of lessons and we would like to raise this in the next academic year. • Additionally, the quality of independent work – notably through the setting of homework but also through sustained independent tasks in lessons – needs developing. This has improved in-year having climbed from 66% to 71% Good or better in-year. This is largely because of the target setting process after each observation. Improvements in independent work would also build resilience and strengthen participation, impacting on the Learning grade and improving the quality of behaviour in the minority of classes where engagement was a factor in behaviour. • We saw high levels of challenge in some classes which contributed to outstanding progress, but there were too many lessons where the challenge should have been higher.

All of these areas have been highlighted in our next School Improvement Plan as key areas for staff to develop in teaching.

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6 Staffing Action?

6.1 Resignations / End of Contracts

Name Post Leaving Date Rebecca Donoghue Teacher of MFL Helen Lupton Teacher of MFL Philippa Rab Teaching Assistant (TA2) 31 08 2013 Sonia Short Teacher of English Ruth Thorne Head of Geography (Job Share)

6.1 End of Contract

Name Post Leaving Date Emma Pettit Teaching Assistant (TA2) 31 08 2013 Lorraine Watson Teacher of MFL 31 08 2013

6.2 Appointments

6.2.1 External Name Post Date of Arrival

Maisie Crook Science Technician 08 07 2013

Hiedi Storey Midday Supervisory Assistant 08 07 2013

Kate Abott-Astbury Teacher of Technology 01 09 2013

Tara Askew Teacher of Religious Education 01 09 3013

John Bates Assistant Headteacher 01 09 2013

Christine Bramwell Teaching Assistant (TA2) 01 09 2013

Hannah Brohier Teacher of Art 01 09 2013

Joshua Carmody Teacher of Geography 01 09 2013

Abbey Ellis Teacher of Music (maternity cover) 01 09 2013

Susan Fisher Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA) 01 09 2013

Philip Hughes Teacher of MFL (one term only) 01 09 2013

Erica Rose Teaching Assistant (TA2) 01 09 2013

Anthony Thomas Teacher of English 01 09 2013

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5.2.2 Internal

Name Post Start Date Tania Andrle Assistant Headteacher 01 09 2013 Graham Fairclough Head of Geography Department (Job Share) 01 09 2013 Justine Gray Head of MFL (one term appointment) 01 09 2013 David Winston Head of German (one term appointment) 01 09 2013

6.2.3 Vacancies

We have a continuous advertisement in place to recruit Midday Supervisory Assistants.

I am pleased to report that we have filled all teaching vacancies for 1st September. Due to the relatively late internal appointment of Ms Andrle to the Assistant Head position, we did not advertise for a Head of Modern Foreign Languages – this will be carried out temporarily by Ms Gray and we intend to advertise the permanent post during September.

6.3 Staff Welfare

At the end of term, we will be providing staff with a meal to say thank you for their hard work during the year, and also to say farewell to those colleagues leaving us.

There are plans in the new year to increase the number of social activities offered within school to build staff spirit and morale, and current ideas include a baking course, a cookery course and fitness class. Staff have been consulted on this and have had lots of ideas. We will share the results of the survey with staff and take it from there.

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7 Financial Summary Action?

Budget Summary These figures are taken from Period 1 Monitoring Report This reflects 8.3% of the financial year

Revised Actual Estimated Expected

Budget to Date Remaining Outturn Revenue Income £4,626,540 £4,377,289 £249,260 £4,626,549 Capital Income £20,406 £20,406 £0 £20,406 Total income £4,646,946 £4,397,695 £249,260 £4,646,955 Revenue expenditure £4,639,153 £420,645 £4,218,193 £4,638,838 Capital expenditure £20,025 £0 £20,025 £20,025 Total expenditure £4,659,178 £420,645 £4,238,218 £4,658,863 In year balance -£12,232 £3,977,050 -£11,908 £324 Opening balance £18,808 £18,808 £18,808

Cumulative balance £6,576 £3,995,858 £6,900 carried forward

Devolved Capital position This reflects the position as at 12 June 2013

12/13 Allocation Devolved Capital £20,406 Brought forward from previous year -£380 Total income £20,026

Actual and planned commitments to date:

Balance remaining £20,026

School Fund

The balance on the reserve account of the School Fund currently stands at £5,732.89

The balance on all accounts is £27,672.34

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Community Relations

Radio York – we have had several visits from Adam Tomlinson, breakfast presenter on BBC Radio York, who has spoken to English classes about his media work. Mr Tomlinson has agreed to present the Awards at our Annual Award Evening in the Autumn Term.

We have had great activity in Modern Languages outside the formal curriculum recently. On 8 May we hosted 40 students aged 11-16 and 4 teachers from College Lucien Vadez. They paired up with 40 of our students doing activities around school entitled “English Day” sampling a traditional Sunday lunch, playing rounders and doing quizzes. We also sent a group of 12 students on our first Spanish Language visit to Valencia for 5 days in May half-term. Mr Winston organised the trip. In March we hosted 15 students from Germany on the first leg of a student exchange. In June it was our turn to visit Germany and 15 students from Millthorpe developed their speaking & listening through 7 days of immersion. This June we hosted 40 students and 3 teachers from Oken Gymnasium. While this is not an Exchange, it allows our own students to speak to German teenagers and improve their oral language in an enjoyable way, possibly paving the way to pen-pal (e-pal ?) friendship. The visit was managed by Ms Gray from MFL.

I am pleased to report that a team of Year 8 students won an Innovation Award (Green Showcase) at a competition organised by the North Yorkshire Business & Enterprise Partnership and Nestle in June. We entered two teams after giving all the Year 8 students the chance to attempt the Challenge in lessons. The teams were supported by Head of DT, Mrs Frankland. Sports Day was a great success and we estimate that over 80% of students participated physically, with emotional participation from all, including the staff. Viking House were winners of Sports Day, and this added to their standing in the House Competition. Overall, Saxon House won the House Competition. Romans have promised revenge in 2014! Points won by a variety of means contributed to this including competitions for Chess, Danish Longball, Badminton and other things. Positive stamps, good attendance and good performance in school reports for effort also won points towards the House Competition. The spirit of the Houses has got off to a splendid start and the achievements of all were celebrated in House Assemblies last week, one of which was witnessed by the Chair of Governors. The Summer Concert was held on Tuesday 2nd July and was well supported by staff and parents. We said goodbye to an exceptionally talented group of Year 11 musicians who will be greatly missed. Many of them came in to rehearse for the concert after their exams had finished. We now look forward to the new emerging stars to take their place. There is a head’s blog article about this with photographs. Our Summer Fair, organised by the Friends of Millthorpe School was a great success, drawing more people into school than our first (very successful) 2012 Fair, and raising around £1,500 which the Friends will now spend on extras for the school. This year, they have funded our new Main Hall sound system, new sports kit for two teams, a glockenspiel, ten display boards, a visualiser and a printing press in Art. There is a head’s blog article about the Fair with pictures

Complaints

Since the last FGB there have been no formal complaints under our Complaints Procedure, though, as always, we have received a number of concerns which we have informally resolved. A complaint against the school has been made to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) alleging that we have failed to disclose information in line with the Data Protection Act rights of the complainant in relation to a long-standing dispute with the school. We have defended ourselves against the complaint to the ICO after taking some legal advice from York LA and await the decision of the Commissioner.

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9 School Events before the next meeting Action?

Date Event 10 07 2013 Full Governing Body Meeting 11 07 2013 Year 5 Café Day 12 07 2013 Year 5 Café Day 12 07 2013 Induction Day for new members of staff. 15 07 2013 Year 10 students second week of Work Experience. 15 07 2013 Charity Day 15 07 2013 Pre A level Paris Trip 15 - 19 July. 15 07 2013 Year 9 activities week. 19 07 2013 Summer Term Ends 22 07 2013 Scarcroft School Sports Day 10.00 am - 12 noon 22 07 2013 Disaggregated Training Day 23 07 2013 Disaggregated Training Day

08 10 2013 Year 6 Open Evening

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