Dumfries and Galloway

Maxwelltown High SchoolRaising the attainment of girls

Contact details for more information:Rachael Williams, DHT, Maxwelltown High School (gw08williamsrachael@ea.dumgal.sch.uk)

Aim and driversPrimary drivers Secondary drivers

Possible theory of what actions can be tested to

deliver the driversPDSA ideasAim

For all S4 girls in deciles 1, 2 and 3 to achieve in line with national expectations by August 2015

Parental Involvement and engagement

High levels of attendance at school and increased engagement with classes

Teacher and pupil involvement and engagement

Parent meetings and improved communication and liaison

Parental input to program

Shared parent / pupil / teacher responsibility for weekly targets

Promotion of supported study opportunities with pupils and parents

Assertive 1:1 mentoring and continuous monitoring and sharing of data

EMT awareness and involvement in the program

Individual teachers contribute to weekly plans and communication between teacher and pupil is improved

More teachers become involved as the program spreads

Parental meetings at regular intervals to discuss progress (aligned with parent evenings?)

Parent / pupil / teacher feedback on weekly targets

Parental meetings at regular intervals to discuss progress (aligned with parent evenings?)

Parent / pupil / teacher feedback on weekly targets

Plan weekly mentoring

Identify support opportunities

Review of data at meetings

Plan weekly mentoring

Identify support opportunities

Review of data at meetings

Information sharing at meetings

PT and teacher enhanced involvement

Information sharing at meetings

PT and teacher enhanced involvement

What measurements are we planning to make?Measure name Type

(process, outcome or balancing)

Driver addressed by this measure Operational definition*

INSIGHT DATA

OUTCOME Stretch Aim Attainment of all girls in deciles 1,2 and 3 to be in line with national expectations by August 2015.

% subjects where weekly targets are being completed

PROCESS Pupil/teacher responsibility for completing weekly targets

(subjects where targets are being completed / all subjects studied) x 100

% weekly pupil progress records that parents sign and/or comment on

PROCESS Parent responsibility for completing weekly targets

(Number of weekly records that parents sign and/or comment on / Total number of weeks) x 100

% parent meetings attended by parents

Process Parental engagement (parent meetings attended by parents or carers / total number of meetings agreed) x 100. Parent meeting is defined as a face to face meeting in which a conversation takes place about the learning of the pupil. The location and length of meeting is not important.

Pupil punctuality and attendance

Process Attendance and punctuality show pupil engagement in education

% improvement in attendance and % improvement in punctuality as recorded by SEEMiS

Pupil performance in tracking and monitoring

Outcome Improved attainment Positive changes to Tracking measures in all subjects (homework, effort, behaviour and meeting target grades) as recorded by SEEMiS

Tracking Progress Measures

We have a Glow group (restricted to teachers involved in mentoring)

Once the tracking sheet is set up, we all add our data as we get it.

Does the parental engagement at the start have an impact on the rest of the project?Does parental engagement improve over the year?

What lessons have been learnt and what changes will be made for the next time?

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Parental Engagement – revised plan for second set of testing

pupil conversations letter home reply slip returned

reply slip chased phone call unanswered call

discussion with parent

The new arrangements for engaging with parents demonstrate that improvements have been made.

Lessons learnt and next stepsKey successes•Significant improvements made to communication with parents.•Very positive teacher views regarding the impact on the engagement of the pupils involved.

Greatest challenges•Paperwork•Maintaining focus on the RAFA groups whilst managing competing demands on time

Next steps for improvement:•Rolling out the programme to more pupils and involving more teachers in target setting and mentoring•Taking the lessons learned so far and using the data collected to impact on other improvement areas