SURREY GOVERNORS WEBINAR - TUESDAY 23RD MARCH 2021 - Schools Alliance for Excellence
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SURREY GOVERNORS WEBINAR TUESDAY 23RD MARCH 2021
TODAY’S HOSTS
Maria Dawes Ruth Murton Jane Winterbone
CEO Governance Adviser Assistant Director of
SAfE and STSN SAfE Education
SCC
All Surrey children are our collective responsibility 3
THIS SESSION
• COVID - latest updates - Maria
• Update from SCC - Declining need for
Primary Places - Jane
• Accountability without statutory data and
Ofsted – Maria and Ruth
• Internal appointments to the role of
Headteacher - Maria
• Review of Headteacher Performance
Management processes and practices - Ruth
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COVID - LATEST UPDATES
Maria Dawes
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SCHOOLS FULL REOPENING:
8 MARCH 2021
From 8 March:
• Attendance is mandatory for all pupils (except
those who are clinically extremely vulnerable or
need to self-isolate).
• Schools are required to provide remote education
for pupils who are unable to attend school because
they are following government guidance.
• Essential control measures must be in place to
minimise COVID-19 transmission.
• Schools should have reviewed risk assessments
(and update where necessary) in advance of 8
March.
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RISK MANAGEMENT AND SAFETY
Individual schools risk assessments are the foundation for all decision
making. It is therefore crucial that risk assessments are comprehensive,
transparent and ‘living documents’.
• The role of the governing board Governing boards should seek assurance from
school leaders that risk assessments have been carried out and that relevant
policies are brought up to date as needed.
• As always, safeguarding and the wellbeing of pupils and staff should be a priority.
• Most of the control measures set out in the updated guidance replicate those
implemented in September 2020.
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KEY CHANGES TO THE GUIDANCE
Asymptomatic testing for school staff, secondary
school pupils and families
• Secondary and primary school staff will be given kits for
twice weekly testing at home.
• After the first three times (where secondary pupils were
tested at schools) they will be provided with lateral flow test
kits for twice weekly testing at home.
• There will be no testing of primary pupils.
• Staff and pupils with a positive LFD result will need to follow
self-isolation guidance and obtain a PCR test to confirm the
result.
• Close contacts of anyone who tests positive must not attend
school for ten days.
• Adults in households with children at school can access LFT
kits by collecting a home-testing kit from a designated
collection point, or if unable to travel to a site, by ordering a
kit online. Tests are not available from schools.
• All testing is voluntary
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KEY CHANGES TO THE GUIDANCE
Use of face coverings in secondary schools
• The guidance recommends that all secondary pupils and staff
wear face coverings in all indoor environments in secondary
schools (including classrooms) when social distancing cannot be
maintained.
• Exemptions (such as pupils who rely on visual signals for
communication) apply.
• Pupils in primary schools do not need to wear a face covering and
they should not be asked to wear one.
Wraparound care and extra-curricular activities
• Schools are encouraged to resume before and after school
activities that help parents to attend work and support pupils’
wider education.
Adjusting start and finish times
• Whilst overall teaching time should not be reduced, schools can
stagger start and finish times to keeps groups apart as they arrive
and leave.
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GCSE AND A-LEVELS
• Teachers get training & support from exam boards and
others (SAfE, PC etc)
March • Decisions on ‘basket’ of evidence
• Share likely approach with pupils
•Start assessments
End of March •Exam board support materials available
Possible questions for governors to ask:
•Assessments and internal QA
Between April & 14 June •Collation and decisions on grades • How will we ensure that grades are awarded
fairly and consistently?
•Submission to exam boards
Before 18 June • What support and training are we putting in
place to prepare our teachers for this process?
•Exam boards will conduct QA
June & July • Do we have adequate operational plans in
place to deal with the administrative burden
10 August
•AS and A-level results day of awarding grades and handling any appeals?
• What is being done to understand and
12 August
•GCSE results day alleviate concerns pupils and parents have
about teacher assessed grades: how has the
•A window for pupils to appeal
school’s plan been communicated to them?
After results
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LA UPDATE
DECLINING NEED FOR PRIMARY PLACES
Jane Winterbone
11Births in Surrey
• Surrey has followed national trends with increases in births
from 2002, and a peak in 2012 – an increase of 22% in a
decade.
• 2013 saw a dramatic decline in births, dropping in Surrey by
668. There have been year on year decreases in births since.
In 2019... Surrey births
• there were 557 fewer 2000-2019
births than in 2018
• Surrey had the lowest
birth rate since 2002
• births have dropped by
14% since 2012Applications for Reception places in Surrey schools • SCC provided over 4,500 additional Reception places in its schools to cope with the demand generated by increased cohorts. • Cohorts from 2012 birth peak started school in September 2016, but the number of applications have fallen year on year since. • The number of applications for Reception places in Surrey schools for September 2021 has fallen by a further 553 since 2020.
Applications for Reception places in Surrey schools BUT • This pattern of decline is not uniform across all of Surrey and there may still be pockets of exceptional demand in the primary phase due to housing developments. • It is also too early to quantify what impact, if any, the pandemic will have on the birth rate in Surrey.
Identifying sustainability issues If you are: ▪ Struggling with pupil numbers and are forecast to have a falling number of pupils in your planning area ▪ Badly affected by the NFF and reduction of lump sum ▪ Finding it difficult or impossible to produce a balance budget, recruit or struggling to keep your buildings and IT up to scratch. ▪ Working in isolation and feeling uncertain about the school’s future Then you can: ▪ Start a conversation within your governing body about possible ways forward ▪ Ask Surrey to help facilitate or support that conversation ▪ Have a conversation with other local schools
Examples of what can be achieved
to support schools
• Amalgamation
• Most recent - Christ Church C of E Aided Infant School, Virginia
Water with Englefield Green Infant School and Nursery to form a
new infant school.
• Federation
• Most recent - the federation of Shere CofE Aided Infant School with
Clandon CofE Aided Primary School
• Federations already exist between a number of schools in Surrey
• Join a Multi Academy Trust (MAT)
• As of 1 March 2021, 175 of Surrey schools are academies, and of
those, 153 belong to a MAT.ACCOUNTABILITY WITHOUT STATUTORY DATA
AND INSPECTION
Maria Dawes and Ruth Murton
17WHAT GOVERNORS SAID “In our case we’re a challenge and
support school under SAfE so we
“…it’s always an issue to actually be sure have that as a fairly important
that the data you’re getting is totally external validation of what we’re
accurate. I think a lot of it is about trust. I doing”
think if you don’t trust your head or your
SLT or you don’t have a good relationship
with them they are going to be nervous
about telling you things that you might not
want to hear” “…We have a link governor
assigned to attainment and
“Staff, parents and pupil surveys progress and general curriculum
and feedback provide useful matters …”
qualitative insights into how we
are doing”
18WHAT GOVERNORS SAID “Collaboration can be cross trusts
or other groups of schools for
“We have always relied on
moderation can provide
baseline testing not just the
reassurance”
SATs data by using a variety of
recognised materials”
“Governors are assigned to work “It’s been about working with local
with members of SLT, so they work schools to see the local picture, so
collaboratively so the quality of that we know that when we’re
the report that came to the assessing the children we’re on
Governing Body changed the track with everybody else locally.”
nature of the conversation”
19HEADTEACHER RECRUITMENT – INTERNAL
APPOINTMENTS
Maria Dawes
20INTERNAL APPOINTMENTS
The School Staffing (England) Regulations 2009 states in paragraph
27 that you must advertise the position unless there are
‘exceptional circumstances’
21KEY POINTS
If it is agreed with the SAfE /and or the Diocese that the role is
not going to be advertised, then there are three expectations on
governing bodies.
You will need to:
1. Formally (in governing body minutes) articulate the exceptional
circumstances that lead you to not advertise.
2. Clearly demonstrate that you have followed the same transparent,
rigorous selection process that you would have followed with external
candidates. Again this should be recorded and minuted.
3. Be clear about any ‘ring-fencing’ for the internal application process
All Maintained Schools 22DEVELOPMENT OF THE HT APPRAISAL SYSTEM
AND OTHER UPDATES
Ruth Murton
23PURPOSE OF PROJECT
Why are we doing this project? What do we hope to achieve?
• To grow inspirational leaders who can • Introduction of a new approach
develop and lead the best schools developed by schools for
• Headteacher’s in Surrey believe the schools; delivered by SAfE
current systems and approach can be
improved • A trusted source of well trained
external advisors to support our
• Often there is lack of rigour in current
process and in the quality of external schools
support provided • Address the risk of a
‘complacency cycle’
24Poll
Would you be interested in using a new approach to Headteacher
Performance management led by SAfE?
25NEW GOVERNOR BULLETIN
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