1. Welcome NEW HEADTEACHER MEETING Thursday 20th September Fiona Wright: Assistant Director Schools and ISEND, East Sussex County Council

2. National Policy Context
Policy for academisation of schools
School to school support to deliver school improvement
Teaching schools to provide additional capacity for school led improvement
RSC responsibility for improvement in maintained coasting schools
Brexit: impact on pace of policy change?

3. Role of the LA in a changing landscape
As the schools’ landscape develops and matures, East Sussex County Council will continue to:
Act as champion of children and young people and their parents, in particular the most vulnerable and disadvantaged.
Promote high standards of education and have high expectations of educational outcomes of all groups of pupils.
Safeguard and promote the welfare of children.
Plan the provision of sufficient good quality school places

4. East Sussex Excellence for All strategy
“We believe that East Sussex county is a fine place to grow up and our children deserve the best education possible to prepare them for life.” “Our vision is that every early years setting, school and college judged good or better and that every child and young person supported to prosper and achieve.”

5. Our commitment to partnership
All partnerships will need to build on the progress they have already made and further develop their capacity to plan, commission and provide effective support. This will necessitate further development of local leaders and governors with the expertise and vision required to work successfully across a number of schools

6. Leadership for a networked system
School collaboration as the driver for improvement:
Founded on a clearly articulated shared moral purpose
Underpinned by transparency, trust and honesty
Committed to effective peer review
Delivered through school to school support
Moving towards shared professional accountability

7. Transformational system leaders
Preoccupied with the interests of learners
Balance of professional judgement and support
Consistent and sustained approach to long-term reform
Teachers and leaders as part of the solution
Joint practice development as the key driver of change
Leads change at pace but builds coalitions

8. Meeting the challenge in East Sussex
Early Year and KS1 consistently above national average
Significant improvement at KS2 in 2018 but not yet in line with national average
KS4 progress in line with average but attainment consistently below
Underperformance for vulnerable groups
Exclusions and attendance need to improve

9. “Our strong belief is that all schools, 100%, should be involved in focused. Productive networks within which leaders, teachers and students challenge, support, innovate and learn from one another”
Inside-out and downside up (Jan 2016)
Steve Munby & Michael Fullan