1. Support, Challenge and Collaboration Conference
Thursday 2nd July 2015

2. Welcome and Housekeeping
Introductions
Fire exits, toilets, refreshments, lunch etc.
Workshops located in…
Apologies from National College
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3. Alliance Update Now live on the website Core Offer 2015/16
Memorandum of Understanding 2015/17
(a two-year sign-up)

4. Alliance Update The management and administration team grows
Band 5, 15 hours per week - Administrator to be appointed
£33k LA Improvement Partnership Funding
60 ‘pre-paid’ SLE Days
Grahame Shepherd – developing leadership capacity at all levels across the north of the LA
Brenda Higgins – leading SLEs and PSTs (Peer Support Teachers) for the 2015/16 academic year
Kate Williamson – developing our model of ‘Partnership School Review’ alongside colleagues from all clusters within the Alliance.
A number of ‘pre-paid’ reviews

5. Alliance Update Executive Board – Quality Assurance Meeting
They considered:
Evaluations from network meeting and CPD events
Partnership School participation
School to School Support work
50 Partnership School annual evaluations (only 3 missing – thank you!)
Some facts, evaluations and considerations…

6. No. of schools represented
Alliance Update
Network Group
No. of Attendees
No. of schools represented
Early Years Foundation Stage 62 32
English 16 13
Mathematics 18 12
Modern Foreign Languages 24 15
Science 21 14
SENCO 43
Writing Moderation
Admin and Business Managers 22
Chair of Governors’ 27
No Network Group’s evaluation rated less than 94% good or better – most were 100%

7. Alliance Update – CPD Facts!
‘Headteacher Challenge Groups’ provided a new and flexible way of challenging our leaders. 31 headteachers took part – 100% who returned an evaluation said they would continue working in this way next year, either with the same or different colleagues.
18 New HLTAs have been trained and have passed their assessment – 100% pass rate so far!
16 middle leaders completed their National Professional Qualification for Middle Leadership

8. Alliance Update – CPD Facts!
19 NQTs took part in the Alliance’s NQT Programme
18 RQTs took part in the Alliance’s RQT Programme
118 colleagues were trained by Target Tracker across 39 schools as part of the Assessment Working Party’s solution to ‘Life without Levels’
62 teaching assistants from 20 schools attended the TA development sessions

9. Alliance Update School to School Support
11/12 SLEs have been deployed either to support schools or to lead aspects of our CPD programme. In total 76 days of support has been provided.
9 PSTs have all been utilised to provide demonstration lessons. In total, 31 visits to PSTs have been completed, many observations being watched by a number of teachers.

10. Alliance Update School to School Support
The Alliance has provided support for 7 schools via the ‘School to School Support Fund’ (for schools with an Requires Improvement judgement for Overall Effectiveness). Of these schools:
1 moved into a category
1 stayed at ‘Requires Improvement’
2 moved to ‘Good’
1 is awaiting publication of the report
2 are awaiting inspection

11. Future Plans – School Evaluations
Earlier dates, full schedule produced for the whole year and avoid changing them
Secondary Involvement
Better use of data to inform planning at cluster level
Leadership Development Opportunities
Clarify direction of travel – NPQML or something else?
Deputy/Assistant Headteachers’ Programme – NPQSL?
Church School Leadership and developing the distinctiveness of our VC and VA schools
Secondment opportunities – across LA borders

12. Future Plans – School Evaluations
Life After Levels Agenda
Moderation, moderation, moderation!
Opportunities for potential ‘Alliance Moderators’
What constitutes good attainment and progress?
Preparing for the revised KS1/KS2 statutory assessment
ITT – 13 Trainees for 2015/16
3 Lead schools, each with a Lead Mentor
Richmond Methodist, Brompton-on-Swale, Bedale

13. Future Plans – School Evaluations
Curriculum Support Teachers for PE
4 CSTs Appointed
Supporting schools’ use of the Sport Premium Funding
School to School Support
Headteacher Challenge Groups
Partnership School Review
New Ofsted Framework Training
RAISEOnline/Data Collaboration Workshops

14. Appointments – Autumn Term
Specialist Leaders of Education
Peer Support Teachers
Consultant Headteachers
Local Leaders of Education
National Leaders of Education