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School consultations
Improving outcomes for children in Medway is a
priority for the council and is at the heart of our Children and
Young People’s Plan. We want Medway to be a place where all
children enjoy learning and leave school with the qualifications,
personal achievements, skills and motivation to succeed in their
adult and working lives.
Increasing children’s achievements is a key
priority. In the case of under performing groups of pupils, we aim
to narrow the gap between their achievement and that of the Medway
and national averages.
In the past, children in Medway have started
school at levels significantly below national expectations. More
recently, performance at Foundation Stage (under five years
old) has been at the national average. On entry to infant
education, progress is made in line with the national rate, but
standards at Key Stage 1 (KS1) (five to seven years old)
remain below the national average for reading, writing and
mathematics.
Key Stage 2 (KS2) (seven to 11 years old)
results for Medway children have shown steady progress since 2006,
although they have not reached the ambitious targets we set and
remain below the national average.
Our Early Years Strategy is having a
significant impact on achievement in the key areas of
communication, language and literacy and on personal, social and
emotional development at the Foundation Stage. Our challenge is to
translate these gains into improvements at KS1 and KS2. In planning
the number and size of schools, the council has established a set
of school organisation principles. These are:
- popular and successful schools will expand
wherever possible;
- published admission numbers will be set in
multiples of 30, wherever practicable, to support schools in
curriculum planning;
- legislation prevents
five to seven-year-olds being taught in class sizes of more
than 30 and replicating this structure throughout then school will
assist in class organisation;
- the future of schools
with consistently low standards will be reviewed;
- the future of schools
that are or are at serious risk of becoming unviable will be
reviewed;
- the number of
transition points will be reduced wherever possible within the
phases of primary and secondary education.
In the primary phase this means creating schools
for pupils aged three to 11 and removing transitions for pupils
midway through the Foundation Stage and between separate provisions
for KS1 and KS2. In the secondary phase this means all schools
offering provision for students aged 11 to 19 within a
consortium.
You can submit your responses online or
by email to paul.clarke@medway.gov.uk.
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