Kingswood Partnership GovNet’s 4 th Annual Education Conference Thursday, 22nd May, 2008 David Turrell Headteacher of The Sir Bernard Lovell School and Joint Chair of The Kingswood Partnership

Collaborative Diploma Delivery Curriculum Framework Quality Assurance and Kingswood Partnership Quality Assurance Framework Focus for the day

THE KINGSWOOD PARTNERSHIP Incorporating 14 – 19 Education at: Downend School : The Grange School Hanham High School : Kingsfield School Mangotsfield School : The Sir Bernard Lovell School and City of Bristol College - Soundwell Centre Kingswood Partnership

ConstructionCreative and Media EngineeringSociety, Health and Development IT THE KINGSWOOD PARTNERSHIP Employers Training Providers Other FE Providers Higher Education Public ServicesSport & LeisureRetailTravel & TourismHumanitiesLanguages Science Land-based & Environment ManufacturingHair & BeautyBusiness Admin & Finance Hospitality & Catering 2009 The Kingswood Partnership Diploma Delivery Groups

A Partnership core team: Co-ordinator Assistant Co-ordinator Business Links Development Manager Two Offsite Student Support Managers Director of E-Learning + Administration/Finance/Data/E-Network support Kingswood Partnership

Management structure An agreed three year development plan Annual subscriptions/Fees structure Quality Assurance framework Common Post 16 timetable/single specifications Common Post 16 applications/assessment/reporting/guidance systems Shared database/website/prospectus Common calendar e.g. Professional Learning Days/parents’ evenings Extra-curricular activities Summary

September 2008 Column 1 Science Column 2 Principal Learning Column 3 Additional or Specialist Learning Choose ONE Science courseThese courses are studied all day on Wednesday. Choose ONE course from the list below Pleases express your interest in ONE course from the following list (following the options evening, further guidance and help in making a choice from this column will be given to all students) Single Science with Design & Technology (Restraint Materials) = 2 GCSEs Or Double Science Award = 2 GCSEs Or Applied Science =2 GCSEs or Triple Science = 3 GCSEs (This course may be available within the Kingswood Partnership to students gaining L6+ in their Science SAT examinations – in order to complete this course, students may be required to attend additional twilight sessions each week) Business Diploma (BTEC) Construction and the Built Environment Diploma (City of Bristol College) Engineering Diploma (Downend and Mangotsfield Schools) Creative and Media Diploma Choose from : Art and Design Or Design and Technology Or Multi-Media or Performing Arts and Media Humanities (GCSE) – choose any 2 from History, Geography, Philosophy & Ethics or Sociology Information Technology Diploma Public Services Diploma (BTEC) Society, Health and Development Diploma Sport Diploma (BTEC) Children’s Care, Learning and Development (BTEC Certificate) Geography (GCSE) History (GCSE) Sociology (GCSE) Psychology (GCSE) Art & Design (BTEC Certificate) Media Studies (BTEC Certificate) Music ( BTEC Certificate) Performing Arts (BTEC Certificate) Photography (GCSE) Product Design (GCSE) Food Technology (GCSE) Textiles Technology (GCSE) Textiles Art (GCSE) Information Technology (BTEC Certificate) Business Studies (BTEC Certificate) Foreign Language courses (CBLC) Japanese, Mandarin, Russian or Spanish available Construction and the Built Environment courses: A range of Specialist Construction courses are available at City of Bristol College Engineering courses: A range of Specialist Engineering courses are available at Downend and Mangotsfield schools Kingswood Partnership

Quality Assurance Q A Quality Assurance and The Kingswood Partnership Quality Assurance Framework

Quality Assurance Challenge How can a collaborative partnership assure high and comparable standards of teaching and learning across different centres as a student entitlement? Requires a Quality Assurance process which will enable quality to be measured in a way which strengthens collaboration, improves practice, celebrates best practice and is client focussed a robust framework for enhancing and assuring quality across 7 Partnership Centres which can be externally verified and which will link to a range of internal and external evaluative processes

The European Foundation for Quality Management Model Policy and Strategy Partnership and Resources People Leadership Processes Key Performance Results Customer Results Society Results People Results Criteria for Quality Management © EFQM (2002) How do the Partnership’s Personnel and resources achieve improved results in performance for stakeholders and the wider community? What is the role of leaders in shaping the quality policy and strategy? What are the QA processes that will enable improved results? Quality Assurance

Q A Quality systems which are: relevant and manageable student focussed transparent evidence-based and which invest in staff Quality Assurance

The essential components for the framework Quality Standards for verification Criteria By which quality is judged Assurance Systems which establish how quality is judged Quality Assurance

Framework Contents Principles, including Communication Principles Framework Strands Learning and Teaching Assessment Achievement Retention Leadership and Management Shared Professional Learning Quality Assurance Q A

An example from the QA Framework: Achievement Strand Standard Achievement and progress by students taught wholly or partly at another institution should match or better their progress in their Home Centres Criteria Comparative data indicates at least matched progress with home centres Partnership Centres use value added nationally recognised measures required to judge student progress Quality Assurance

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