Analyse your IDSR and School Performance Summary – Identifying your strengths and areas for improvement for Secondary Staff

Audience: Secondary and Sixth Form Staff

School Impact

The course will enable you to have a secure understanding of the strengths and weaknesses in the school’s historic data and likely inspection trails at your next Ofsted inspection. It will also enable you to inform your trust, school and departmental improvement plans and self-evaluation summaries.

We will help you interpret and understand the data information in the new reports and shine a light on the areas to investigate that will inform your school improvement plans and evaluation summaries.
You will be coached and supported by ECM advisers to write an inspection data summary for your school using ECM materials. You will be provided with an ECM exemplar inspection data analysis summary to share ‘What a good one looks like’ and enable you to complete a high-quality document for your school or department.

By the end of the course you will:

be familiar with the IDSR published in the Autumn term and update in the Spring;
have a secure understanding of the data sources of the areas to investigate identified on the front page of your dashboard;
have interpreted and analysed the data in the IDSR charts and tables to identify your school’s strengths and weaknesses;
have identified lines of enquiry to inform your school improvement strategies;
have identified actions to address any weaknesses in the data;
be able to link the inspection data summary report analysis to your school self-evaluation and school development plans and be able to demonstrate leadership capacity during an inspection through having a secure understanding of your school’s data reports;
complete a school performance summary for your school using the ECM materials.

Facilitator
Venue & Travel Information

Peter Cox, ECM Education

Peter has considerable experience as a senior leader in secondary schools. As such he was a serving practitioner working for Ofsted as an additional inspector and was later seconded to Ofsted. He then joined CfBT, Ofsted’s inspection service provider in the north as Senior Managing Inspector, with special responsibility for schools causing concern in the primary and secondary phases. His particular expertise is in school improvement.

In September 2011 Peter became an independent consultant and continued to work as a lead inspector for Ofsted. He has led conferences and training on school improvement, including themes such as, inspection frameworks, leadership and management, teaching and learning and school governance. He works with several governing bodies as an external adviser for the headteacher’s performance management. Peter works with many primary and secondary schools, single academies and Multi Academy Trusts as their external improvement partner. Peter is also one of three Education Advisers for Birmingham City Council.

Peter is a Lead Inspector for the Independent Schools Inspectorate and an Education Adviser for the Department of Education’s Academy Performance and Brokerage Division. He also works directly to Sir David Carter in his National Sponsors Unit looking after one of the nine major national Multi Academy Trusts in England that includes primary, secondary and all through.

Peter has been an associate vice principal of an outstanding Multi Academy Trust in the North East of England working across their two secondary academies, three primaries and a studio school. Until recently he was an Interim Executive Principal of an 11-18 academy in the West Midlands. He is currently a Trustee of a Multi Academy Trust in the North West of England.

Peter has qualified teacher status, NPQH and a Masters in Education Management..

Skills Spotlight

Due Diligence Review
Headteacher Performance Management
High School
Inspection
Leadership and Management
Teaching & Learning

Hopwood Hall College

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How to get here

By Road: The Rochdale campus is 2.6 miles from junction 20 off the M62. Follow the signs for Rochdale town centre

By Rail: Rochdale train station is a ten minute walk from the Rochdale Campus through the town centre. It is also a Metrolink station, Manchester’s light railway system, which links Rochdale with Oldham, Bury and Manchester City Centre.

By Bus: The Rochdale bus station is approximately 5 minutes’ walk from the Rochdale campus. There are frequent bus services throughout the borough which terminate in Rochdale.

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