I-E-L Interim Education Ltd
As a School Improvement Partner
With the demise of the national SIP programme, I am able to continue to provide support as a School Improvement Partner to secondary schools
My Aim
•To provide your school with a highly professional and experienced independent colleague, to offer SIP-like services.
•To work with you to support, advise and challenge your self evaluation and resulting school improvement programme, and to help extend your capacity to improve.
•To provide external validation of the quality and accuracy of your school self evaluation.
Objectives
•To provide your school with a flexible, agreed package of support.
•To provide a tailor-made programme of visits and agendas to suit your individual school needs.
To achieve this
•I will operate as a critical, professional friend and personal mentor to the Head teacher and senior colleagues
•I have had considerable and successful previous experience as a senior leader at secondary level in both substantive and Interim roles
•I am knowledgeable and up to date with the current issues and challenges facing schools, including the requirements of the new OfSTED framework
An Example Five Day Programme
Autumn term (two days)
•Preliminary visit/getting to know your school.
•Attainment and achievement focus: objective analysis and evaluation of available outcomes data, review of resultant strengths, development areas, actions.
•Target setting support.
•Review of your school’s improvement priorities and progress towards them.
Spring term (one day)
•Review of progress towards targets, associated tracking, interventions, impact.
•Review of progress against whole school priorities.
•‘Support and challenge’ for other key areas of school improvement eg teaching and learning, pupils’ behaviour and safety, leadership and management.
Summer term (one day)
•Further review of progress towards targets for the current final year cohort and against whole school priorities.
•‘Support and challenge’ to cover other key areas eg overall effectiveness, capacity to improve.
•Priorities for following academic year.
Other support for senior colleagues throughout the year (one day total)
•eg Support for the headteacher: face to face, email, telephone, as required.
Fee
Daily rate: £600 (inclusive of VAT) plus expenses This is inclusive of preparation, report writing and other follow up. Half days will be charged pro-rata.
Five days or more planned at the outset: discounted to £550 plus expenses per day.
Attendance at an evening Governing Body meeting will be charged as a half day ie £300 plus expenses, if this does not coincide with a pre-planned school visit.
