The work outlined is seen as holistic and designed to support the areas for development raised following a scoping meeting with the Headteacher and/or senior managers and Governors. Although identified as individual priorities, the work should be seen collectively with each aspect helping to inform future planning and directly impacting upon the whole School Improvement Agenda.

Supporting the Senior Leadership Team to embrace effective in order to raise standards and further enhance the quality of teaching and learning.

Three Year Strategic Planning, Overview, Monitoring and Evaluation involving appropriate stakeholders.

One Year School Improvement Planning, Overview, Monitoring and Evaluation involving appropriate stakeholders.

Systems of performance management which includes advice in relation to threshold applications.

Numeracy Action Planning, Overview, Monitoring and Evaluation involving appropriate stakeholders.

Literacy Action Planning, Overview, Monitoring and Evaluation involving appropriate stakeholders.

ICT Action Planning, Overview, Monitoring and Evaluation involving appropriate stakeholders.

Evaluation frameworks to review the performance of leaders in their diverse roles against threshold standards in order to both support the Headteacher in the collation of evidence to make decisions in relation to performance and in addition, to focus on the impact of leaders and managers on learning, teaching and school improvement.

Support in evidencing pay progression and the role of staff with Teaching and Learning Responsibilities.

Analysis to review and support the performance of teaching assistants in developing their roles. This work can be closely linked to the national the standards of Higher Level Teaching Assistant. Our aim is to enable senior managers to focus on the specific role of individual teaching assistants and their impact on the learning process.

Supporting Subject Co-ordinators to effectively lead and promote their subject specialism in order to raise standards and further enhance the quality of teaching and learning.

To monitor their impact as leaders.

To raise the profile of their subject.

To raise standards of pupil attainment.

To further enhance the quality of teaching.

To further enhance the quality of learning.

To monitor the delivery of their subject specialism by colleagues.

To fully understand and effectively implement the role specification of a subject leader.

To empower the subject leader to impact positively across the whole school.

To equip the subject leader with the skills to initiate effective assessment for learning.

Supporting the Governing Body to further enhance the effective governance of the school by increasing the skill and knowledge base of Governors and positively impacting upon the quality of teaching and learning within the school.

Strategic planning for improvement.

Strategic Action Planning.

Role specification.

Pro-active decision making.

Monitoring the quality of provision.

Assessing and evaluating standards of attainment.

Enhancing clarity of reporting outcomes.

Pre-inspection preparation.

Post-inspection planning.

Planning the Governors' year (timetabling of meetings/annual items for revision review etc.)

Providing advice in relation to objective setting for Headteachers as part of the annual performance review cycle.

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