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North Lanarkshire Council

Learning and Leisure Services

Quality Improvement Framework

3rd December 2009

School improvement based on self-evaluation

Originally this was based on How Good Is Our School, then How Good Is Our School 2.

It still is but the latest version of How Good Is Our School is set within a wider framework - The Journey to Excellence

HMIE - The Journey to Excellence package

Part 1: The concept of excellence and the 10 dimensions Part 2: Examples of each dimension Part 3: How good is our school? and Child at the Centre Part 4: Planning for excellence Part 5: Case studies of excellent practice - HMIE website

How good is our school? and Child at the Centre

Provide a set of 30 Quality Indicators (QIs) which are the core tools for self-evaluation schools.

They are designed to help staff evaluate their current performance and to identify priorities for action.

The six point scale

LEVEL 6 excellent - outstanding or sector leading

LEVEL 5 very good - major strengths

LEVEL 4 good - important strengths with areas for improvement

LEVEL 3 adequate - strengths just outweigh weaknesses

LEVEL 2 weak - important weaknesses

LEVEL 1 unsatisfactory - major weaknesses

Quality IndicatorsFor each QI there are illustrations at each of

Level 5 - very good – major strengths

and

Level 2 weak – important weaknesses

How good is our management?

How good is our delivery of key

processes?

How well do we meet the needs of our stakeholders?

1. Key performance outcomes1.1 Improvements in performance 1.2 Fulfilment of statutory duties

2. Impact on learners, parents, carers and families2.1 Learners’ experiences2.2 The school’s success in involving parents, carers and families

3. Impact on staff3.1 The engagement of staff in the life and work of the school

4. Impact on the community4.1 The school’s success in engaging with the local community4.2 The school’s success in engaging with the wider community

5. Delivery of education5.1 The curriculum5.2 Teaching for effective learning5.3 Meeting learning needs5.4 Assessment for learning5.5 Expectations and promoting achievement5.6 Equality and fairness5.7 Partnerships with learners and parents5.8 Care, welfare and development5.9 Improvement through self-evaluation

6. Policy development and planning6.1 Policy review andDevelopment6.2 Participation in policy and planning6.3 Planning for improvement

7. Management and support of staff7.1 Staff sufficiency recruitment and retention7.2 Staff deployment and teamwork7.3 Staff development and review

8. Partnerships and resources 8.1 Partnership with the community, etc.8.2 Management of finance for learning8.3 Management and use of resources and space for learning8.4 Managing information

9. Leadership 9.1 Vision, values and aims9.2 Leadership and direction9.3 Developing people and partnerships9.4 Leadership of improvement andchange

What key outcomes have we achieved?

How good is our leadership?

Successes and achievements Work and life of the school Vision and leadership

What is our capacity for improvement?: How good can we be?

Self-evaluationAt the heart of effective self-evaluation the are three questions

How are we doing?

How do we Know?

What are we going to do now?

Self-evaluation

From pupil, staff and parent surveys From analyses of pupils’

performance From observations of learning and teaching

combines evidence from a number of sources……..

Review of the Quality Framework - 2007

The Journey to Excellence provided the context for a review of the Quality Framework as part of a series of measures being taken to improve the support and challenge offered to schools and centres to allow us to secure a consistently high quality of educational provision throughout all of our schools and nursery centres.

The Quality FrameworkThree elements

• School (or Centre for early years establishments) Improvement Report

• School Improvement Plan

• School Improvement Visit

School Improvement ReportOrganisation

1. Key strengths

2. Good Practice

3. Evaluation – evaluative narrative under the 6 high level HGIOS questions

4. Assigning levels using QIs 1.1, 2.1, 5.1, 5.3 & 5.9

5. Areas for improvement

School Improvement Report

The report must be based on an on-going process of improvement through rigorous, effective self-evaluation based on consideration of impact and outcomes for children and young people.

School Improvement Report

1. Key strengths of the school / centre, a few key strengths each described in a sentence.

2. Good Practice This should be a brief narrative about an example of good practice chosen by the school / centre.

School Improvement Report3. Evaluation of the school / centre under the following six HGIOS 3

questions:

What outcomes have we achieved? This should be split into attainment and achievement

How well do we meet the needs of our school community?

How good is the education we provide?

How good is our management?

How good is our leadership?

What is our capacity for improvement?

School Improvement Report3. Evaluation

This section should consist of narrative which is descriptive, evaluative and indicates the impact of the work of the school in terms of outcomes for children and young people

. At the heart of the this evaluation should be the answers to the three questions:

How are we doing?

How do we Know?

What are we going to do now?

School Improvement Report4. Reporting on QIs

The core QIs are:

1.1 Improvements in performance2.1 Learners’ experiences5.1 The Curriculum5.3 Meeting learning needs5.9 Improvement through self-evaluation

A table should be used to indicate levels assigned to the above QIs.

School Improvement Report5. Areas for improvement

These should be the priorities for improvement and should articulate with the school improvement plan.