Kingswood Partnership

GovNet’s 4th Annual Education ConferenceThursday, 22nd May, 2008

David TurrellHeadteacher of The Sir Bernard Lovell Schooland Joint Chair of The Kingswood Partnership

Collaborative Diploma Delivery

Curriculum Framework

Quality Assurance and Kingswood Partnership Quality Assurance Framework

Focus for the day

THE KINGSWOOD PARTNERSHIP

Incorporating 14 – 19 Education at:

Downend School : The Grange SchoolHanham High School : Kingsfield School

Mangotsfield School : The Sir Bernard Lovell School and

City of Bristol College - Soundwell Centre

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Construction Creative and

MediaEngineering Society, Health and

DevelopmentIT

THE KINGSWOOD PARTNERSHIP Employers Training Providers Other FE Providers Higher Education

Public ServicesSport & Leisure Retail Travel & Tourism

Humanities Languages Science

2008

2010

Land-based & Environment

Manufacturing Hair & Beauty Business Admin & Finance

Hospitality & Catering

2009

The Kingswood Partnership Diploma Delivery Groups

A Partnership core team:• 14 - 19 Co-ordinator • Assistant 14 - 19 Co-ordinator • Business Links Development Manager • Two Offsite Student Support Managers• Director of E-Learning

+ Administration/Finance/Data/E-Network support

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• Management structure• An agreed three year development plan • Annual subscriptions/Fees structure• Quality Assurance framework• Common Post 16 timetable/single specifications• Common Post 16

applications/assessment/reporting/guidance systems

• Shared database/website/prospectus• Common calendar e.g. Professional Learning

Days/parents’ evenings • Extra-curricular activities

Summary

September 2008

Column 1

Science

Column 2

Principal Learning

Column 3

Additional or Specialist Learning

Choose ONE Science course These courses are studied all day on Wednesday.Choose ONE course from the list below

Pleases express your interest in ONE course from the following list (following the options evening, further guidance and help in making a choice from this column will be given to all students)

Single Science with Design & Technology(Restraint Materials)= 2 GCSEsOrDouble Science Award= 2 GCSEsOrApplied Science=2 GCSEsorTriple Science= 3 GCSEs(This course may be available within the Kingswood Partnership to students gaining L6+ in their Science SAT examinations – in order to complete this course, students may be required to attend additional twilight sessions each week)

Business Diploma (BTEC)Construction and the Built Environment Diploma (City of Bristol College)Engineering Diploma (Downend and Mangotsfield Schools)Creative and Media DiplomaChoose from :Art and DesignOrDesign and TechnologyOrMulti-MediaorPerforming Arts and MediaHumanities (GCSE) – choose any 2 from History, Geography, Philosophy & Ethics or Sociology Information Technology DiplomaPublic Services Diploma (BTEC)Society, Health and Development Diploma Sport Diploma (BTEC)

Children’s Care, Learning and Development (BTEC Certificate)Geography (GCSE)History (GCSE)Sociology (GCSE)Psychology (GCSE)Art & Design (BTEC Certificate)Media Studies (BTEC Certificate)Music ( BTEC Certificate)Performing Arts (BTEC Certificate)Photography (GCSE)Product Design (GCSE)Food Technology (GCSE)Textiles Technology (GCSE)Textiles Art (GCSE)Information Technology (BTEC Certificate)Business Studies (BTEC Certificate)Foreign Language courses (CBLC)Japanese, Mandarin, Russian or Spanish availableConstruction and the Built Environment courses:A range of Specialist Construction courses are available at City of Bristol CollegeEngineering courses:A range of Specialist Engineering courses are available at Downend and Mangotsfield schools

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Quality Assurance

QA

Quality Assurance andThe Kingswood Partnership Quality Assurance Framework

Quality Assurance

ChallengeHow can a collaborative partnership assure high and comparable standards of teaching and learning across different centres as a student entitlement?

Requires• a Quality Assurance process which will enable quality to be

measured in a way which strengthens collaboration, improves practice, celebrates best practice and is client focussed

• a robust framework for enhancing and assuring quality across 7 Partnership Centres which can be externally verified and which will link to a range of internal and external evaluative processes

The European Foundation for Quality Management Model

Policy and Strategy

Partnership and Resources

People

Leadership ProcessesKey

Performance Results

Customer Results

SocietyResults

PeopleResults

Criteria for Quality Management © EFQM (2002)

How do the Partnership’s Personnel and resources achieve improved results in performance for stakeholders and the wider community?

What is the role of leaders in shaping the quality policy and strategy?

What are the QA processes that will enable improved results?

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Quality systems which are:

• relevant and manageable• student focussed• transparent• evidence-based

and which invest in staff

Quality Assurance

The essential components for the framework

Quality Standards

for verification

CriteriaBy which quality is judged

Assurance Systemswhich establish how quality is judged

Quality Assurance

Framework ContentsPrinciples, including Communication Principles

Framework Strands• Learning and Teaching• Assessment• Achievement• Retention • Leadership and Management• Shared Professional Learning

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An example from the QA Framework: Achievement Strand

StandardAchievement and progress by students taught wholly or partly at another institution should match or better their progress in their Home Centres

Criteria• Comparative data indicates at least matched progress

with home centres• Partnership Centres use value added nationally

recognised measures required to judge student progress

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Useful links

www.sblonline.org.uk

and

www.kingswoodpartnership.org.uk

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