School Improvement

Overview

The role of the School Improvement Service is to support and challenge schools, their communities and the local authority to achieve the highest standards possible and provide the highest quality of education for the people of Rotherham. The aim of the Service is to offer the best possible advice and support to Elected Members, the Executive Director of Education, Culture and Leisure Services, headteachers, teachers, governors and parents on matters concerned with:

• raising standards
• improving the quality of teaching and learning
• improving the quality of leadership and management

In order to support the development of and to ensure that all Rotherham schools are autonomous, self-improving schools and that no school is identified through OFSTED inspection as a school of concern that School Improvement Service promotes:-

• high quality leadership and management
• high quality teaching
• successful and enjoyable learning experiences for pupils
• effective management in schools
• efficient use of resources
• equality of opportunity for all.

Achieving the Vision

• To fulfil the Council’s statutory monitoring and intervention requirements for education
• To ensure key corporate priorities and processes are met e.g. Community Strategy, Corporate Plan, e government, equalities and diversity, IiP and Performance Management
• To support the development and delivery of Children and Young People’s Services [C&YPS]
• To develop, implement, monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the EDP
• To monitor and evaluate school’s performance
• To identify, target and evaluate strategic support to identified needs of schools, including Governing Bodies
• To co-ordinate the range of initiatives and services to target schools to achieve maximum effectiveness
• To developing schools to be autonomous, self-assessing and self-improving schools within a collaborative framework
• To provide external validation of schools’ self-assessment outcomes
• To raise attainment across all Key Stages with a particular emphasis on KS 1
• To raise attainment, particularly in KS4 and literacy and numeracy in KS2
• To raise attainment at KS 3 through the effective implementation of the KS 3 Strategy [LPSA]
• To modernise secondary education through Excellence in Cities, Leadership Incentive Grant and 14-19 developments
• To sustain the implementation of the national Workforce Remodelling agenda.
• To improve the quality of leadership; management [including Governors]; learning & teaching and; collaboration & partnership in and across all schools
• To challenge and support schools linked to target setting, ensuring the effective use of data to support school’s improvement plans
• To develop an understanding of assessment for learning
• To improving the quality of teaching, including the induction of NQTs, recruitment and retention of teachers, CPD for managers and the development of ASTs.
• To develop and extend the use of ICT in schools
• To support Health Education including: drugs education; PSHE and Citizenship curriculum support and; support for school aged mothers
• To ensure the effective use of good practice to improve the performance of all schools
• To monitor and evaluate the performance of the service
• To develop a modern, qualified and dynamic workforce appropriate to the Service’s and school’s changing needs
• To develop the individual and collective capacity of the SIS to achieve stated targets and objectives.

Contact:
Principal Administrative Officer
fiona.radford@rotherham.gov.uk
Telephone:  01709 822555