General principles for targeted support

The primary team are using elements of the improving schools programme to challenge targeted schools, particularly planning, prioritising, monitoring and termly review. This is a ‘bespoke’ service that targets the needs of the school following a robust analysis of data and school context.

The following factors are used to allocate consultants to work in schools (not necessarily in priority order):

school SEF indicating specific needs
results from the Single Conversations with heads and sips identifying areas for development that fall under the remit of the Primary Strategy
schools identified by Ofsted as 'cause for concern'
schools in Ofsted categories
schools falling below 100 for Value Added over three years
schools falling below 65% at KS2 and below 70% at KS1 in English and/or maths
data fed through the schools' own tracking and Ealing held data – this includes cohorts operating well below age-related expectations, significant numbers of children underperforming in relation to prior attainment
school possessing unique sets of challenges
schools with 'complex and multiple needs'
the school's capacity to manage increased number of inputs and improve

Some schools are allocated to PNS programmes using information from the above factors; others are allocated consultant support based on their specific needs.

Consultancy support

This is an entitlement for all targeted schools and amounts to a maximum of up to four days support per term in any targeted school. These may look like:

one day for data analysis, planning meeting and review meeting
two days for delivery/support/challenge of targeted support. The focus of the core support will be on developing leadership capacity and subject knowledge with the subject leader or promoting curricular target setting
one day for monitoring and preparation of support

Ongoing monitoring of the work and problem solving will be mainly between the consultant and subject leader/SLT. Information from this monitoring will be used in the review meetings. Consultants will complete visit reports and sent to the attached sip for the school.

Final review / evaluation

This will establish an exit strategy including feedback from headteacher and SLT on impact of support and how the attached SIP will monitor this in the future.