Ruth attended an interesting workshop at the Town Hall yesterday on raising educational attainment in primary schools within the City. Here are some notes she took:

There are 28 primary schools in the city
Latest Ofsted:

• none outstanding
• 14 good
• 11 satisfactory
• 3 inadequate

Trends from last inspection

• 22 inspected
• 6 up a grade
• 12 the same
• 4 dropped a grade
• 5 have received an interim assessment
• 1 not inspected since 2008

Early years foundation stage profile  – percentage achieving target points score is improving

• 36.7% 2008
• 39% 2009
• 50.4% 2010 ( national average is 52%)

This is encouraging! It means more children will start Key Stage 1 with good basic skills

KS2 is Ofsted’s main indicator
KS2 improving

but KS1 still a concern

Interventions happening (County led)
Extra Mile project has had especially good results

Factors slowing down the improvement

• Oversubscription – extra classes in Foundation and KS1 (and overcrowding?)
• High pupil turnover – parents swapping schools if there are spare places locally
• Higher percentage of children in the City with English as an additional language

Heads, governors, city and county officers and councillors got together to suggest ideas for improvement and a report will be written up of the results. Please contact us if you would like to be sent a copy