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School Improvement

The School Improvement Service provides a wide ranging service which includes advice and development, key functions of monitoring school performance, setting challenging school targets and intervening on behalf of the Local Education Authority where improvement is not satisfactory, curriculum monitoring and evaluation, leadership development, governor services and technical ICT support.

The main functions of the service are:

  • monitor and evaluate the performance of schools;
  • provide advice and support to governors, headteachers, teachers and others involved in schools to assist improvement and, thus, support the raising of standards of attainment and achievement;
  • support innovation, research and collaboration;
  • tackle disadvantage through the provision of specialist support for ethnic minority pupils, particularly those for whom English is an additional language and for Traveller pupils;
  • support programmes such as Ruth Miskin Literacy (synthetic phonics), and the Virtual Learning Environment (web-based learning);
  • provide specialist technical support to schools.

    • NEW! Ofsted guidance "Improving performance through school self-evaluation and improvement planning" June 2006

    Improving Performance (189 Kb) through self-evaluation June 2006

    curriculum qca model draf (69 Kb) Curriculum Statement