Boys achievement
Sticking on the ‘narrowing the gap’ agenda I created a poster for the staffroom and staff work areas. Again, help yourself. The resoultion is should be sufficient for an A4 poster. The quote is adapted from the most recent DFE …
Data for learning
Dashboard for governors
Tomorrow the new, two-page data dashboard for governors will be announced by SMW. More data unleashed into wild, well primarily to governors (though I provided the same data just this past week, and by series or data collection to show …
Inexorable world of data
Warning – data post. Codes, tables, letters and far too many abbreviations. This afternoon I find myself on a data quest. How to handle B/N grades for KS2 with and without Teacher Assessments (TA) for the process of calculating progress measures? …
Explaining Upper, Middle and Lower Bands
We are in the process of preparing all the schools data ready for analysis. It is not a glib comment. We really are setting up from a meagre starting point. Burning the candle at both ends. We are in the …
ATL 3-2-1
No, it is not some 80’s reference to win ‘Dusty Bin.’ It is an update to the letters and meetings that followed the ATL 3,2 and 1 band letters sent home this week. The letters, available if you want them, clearly …
ATL – presentation
The ‘Attitude to Learning’ effort continues. ATL bands are now in SIMs. They will appear on reports going out this week and next and the assemblies start tomorrow. Some colleagues might say that we are ‘presenting’ the ‘Stars and bars’ ATL …
Stars and bars – ALT impact
This afternoon I received an email about the ‘practicalities and cost’ of the ATL ‘stars and bars’ reward system. If I am honest, the main expense is staff time. Every cycle our staff enter 2000+ grades, that is a significant staff investment …
ATL grades – impact
So the data has been interrogated and discussed. It has been prepared and shared with those who can use it to make a difference. It is important to know that the bands are calculated employing statistical principals and as a result each cohort …