This was our third Parents' Forum information that included an update on the new build, supporting parents with understanding assessment data and an explanation of school performance tables.

1. This Forum is not….
• The place to raise questions/make comment about individual
members of staff
• The place to discuss a specific incident or dissatisfaction with the
school’s response to a specific incident relating to your child
• The place to make personal, accusatory or unprofessional remarks
relating to any of the information discussed

2. The Purpose of this Forum is….
• To ensure parents understand the rationale leading to key curriculum
and organisational decisions
• To facilitate positive communication between parents and the school
in an environment based on mutual respect
• To provide parents with the opportunity to raise questions with the
leadership team of the school

3. This Evening’s Presentation:
•New build update
•Communication with parents update
•School performance measures explained

5. Communication with Parents
Whole School Priority for 2017-18
• Individual year group presentations in September have set up communication for
the year, key staff to contact etc.
• Subject overviews have been shared with parents at the start of the term
(subsequent overviews to be emailed).
• KS4 Progress Tracking Reports increased to 6x per year.
• Termly feedback on assessment in all subject areas is signposted for parents in
student books with an orange sticker.
• Feedback?

6. A Guide to Progress Tracking

7. A Student

9. There are four ‘Reasons for
Concern’:
• Behaviour
• Engagement
• Homework/Coursework
• Organisation

10. • If your child continues on
their current path, these are
the GCSE results they will
achieve

11. • Takes KS2 data for all pupils in the country
• Tracks how the students do in their GCSE
examinations
• It then works out the average GCSE result
for every KS2 grade
• We call it ‘Expected Progress’
• These grades are not targets as they not
challenging enough in most cases.

12. • Consider your child as an individual not a
data point
• We aim very high - aspirational but
possible

13. Key Performance Measures

14. Percentage of students achieving 5 GCSEs
(or equivalent) at A* to C, including English
and mathematics

15. Percentage of students achieving 5 GCSEs
(or equivalent) at A* to C, including English
and mathematics
"When a measure
becomes a target, it
ceases to be a good
measure.”
Goodhart’s Law

17. Percentage of students achieving 5 GCSEs
(or equivalent) at A* to C, including English
and mathematics

18. Percentage of students achieving 5 GCSEs
(or equivalent) at A* to C, including English
and mathematics
C/D borderline students are vital
• A B grade student getting an A*?
• An A* student getting a B?
Just enter English Language,
that way you don’t have to
teach them difficult books
When? If they can get a C in
year 9, why not? How many
goes? Keep trying!
BTecs regarded as easier
than GCSEs: Top set doing a
level 2 in nail technology
services? Worth 2 GCSEs.
Horse care? 4 GCSEs.

19. Abandoned because:
• Too easy to ‘game’
• Measures attainment (intake) not progress
• Creates perverse incentives that damage
education

21. • Put her into exams a year early to get
the passes in the bag (this can reduce
stress and workload)
• It doesn’t matter if she gets a B when
she could have scored an A*
• Do a range of vocational subjects
because you have the staffing in
place, she enjoys it, and the grades
count to league tables
• She can no longer access a highly
selective university

22. • He makes super strides in a range of
academic subjects
• He smashes his estimated grades,
which were mostly Bs
• He gets 10 A*s
• His ‘data’ can be matched by a C in
English Language, maths, and a BTec
in horse care

23. The New Measures
•Progress 8
•Attainment 8
•Basics
•EBacc

24. The New Measures
•Progress 8
•Attainment 8
•Basics
•EBacc

26. Calculating Andrea’s Attainment 8 score
English
Mathematics
EBacc
Other
1
2 3
EBacc
EBacc
Other
Other
English Literature: 7
Maths: 4
Geography: 5
Core Science: 6
Additional Science: 6
English Language: 4
Music: 5
Art: 6
• To produce the Attainment 8 score, these grades are first added
together.
• Maths is double weighted. In Andrea’s case, English Literature is also
double weighted since she has also taken English Language.
• The resultant score (in this case, 54) is then divided by 10 (the 8
subjects, plus the double weighting of English and Maths.)
• This example student has therefore achieved an Attainment 8 score of
5.4
(8+14+6+6+5+6+4) / 10 = 5.4
Maths: 8
English Literature: 14

27. • Will sit exams at the end of year 11
• Will ‘fill all the buckets’
• Will be able to attend a selective
university

28. • Will get an incredible Progress 8 score
• The school will rightly go up the
league tables

29. Our Data

33. The New Measures
•Progress 8
•Attainment 8
•Basics
•EBacc

34. Basics
English and Maths pass

36. EBacc