Go for the upper edge of your comfort zone HM Inspectorate of Education

Teachers keep encouraging me by saying nice things and helping me when I’m stuck. (Pupil) I want to do really well so I can be an actress (Pupil) It’s teaching young people about not being happy with less than the best. (Teacher) Ethos - voices We’re never satisfied. We’re ambitious. We always want to do better. (Headteacher)

What kind of school do we want? HM Inspectorate of Education Inclusive school Integrated community school Health promoting school Eco-school Active school Specialist school School of ambition An excellent one!

HM Inspectorate of Education Young people should become successful learners confident individuals effective contributors responsible citizens Curriculum review

HM Inspectorate of Education So that young people are: safe fulfilled and valued healthy successful in achieving active respected and responsible included With a moral dimension! Vision statement for children

How good is our ethos?  Three simple questions  How good are we?  How do we know?  What are we going to do about it?

Scale of goodness  Excellent  Very good  Good  Adequate  Weak  Unsatisfactory “Good is not good enough”

Improving quality of service and outcomes QIs EIs PIs

Broad approaches - evolution Effectiveness or improvementImproving School Effectiveness Excellence

Your fired! Core business People Leadership

Your fired up! Learning Relationships Leadership for learning

Shift in emphasis over time Input Process Outcome/Impact

Educationist view  Input = commitment of leaders and people  Process = directing this to the core work  Outcome = success for all learners

Overall model – how good are we? What do we achieve? Do all learners achieve all they can? How good are things like learning, teaching, ethos? Do we lead for learning? Do we do the right things and do things right? Can we do better? SuccessWorkCommitment

HM Inspectorate of Education Respect and caring for self (physically, mentally, emotionally & spiritually) Respect and caring for others (interdependency and respect for diversity) A sense of social responsibility (social coherence, awareness of social mores) What are ethos outcomes - relationships?

What are ethos outcomes - wellbeing? HM Inspectorate of Education School climate is significantly associated with protective factors (active coping, stress management, healthy normative beliefs), the prevalence of functional complaints and medicine consumption in individual schools Being contented, healthy and successful Excellence is when social capital becomes cultural and economic capital

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go T S Elliot

What does a school with an ethos of excellence do? HM Inspectorate of Education works hard and has fun: knows the bottom line about learning focuses determinedly on success for all, involves the young people in deciding what success is and celebrates it creates a positive view of the future has agreed and spelled out the highest expectations to young people, staff and parents has well-developed leaders at all levels

A school with an ethos of excellence also HM Inspectorate of Education involves parents and knows and acts on their views makes collaboration a way of life and accepts and builds on other professionals’ views puts learning for all at the heart of its professional activity values all those who help children learn is happy, healthy and safe and well-developed relationships based on mutual respect and responsibility

Certe, toto, sentio nos in kansate non iam adesse