Moving beyond the floor target: Slade Green Junior School, Bexley
Chapters
- 1 Moving beyond the floor target: Slade Green Junior School, Bexley
- 2 Barriers to improvement
- 3 The school-based issues – what needed to change?
- 4 Local authority support and challenge
- 5 Sustainability – what next?
- Date: Jan 2008
- Programme: Improving Schools Programme (ISP)
- Focus: Tackling underachievement in schools causing concern
- Number in series: 15
- School name: Slade Green Junior School
- Phase: Primary
- Key stage: Key Stage 2
- Local authority: Bexley
- Ref: 00150-2008DWO-EN-01
- % of free school meals: 33%
School context and profile
The school serves an urban area of very high social deprivation. The school has three-form entry and there are three ability sets per year group for literacy and numeracy. Close liaison is achieved with the infant school that shares the same site and there is a well-established transfer programme.
- Number on roll: 255
- Age range: seven to 11 years
- A third of pupils receive free school meals (FSM).
- The majority of pupils (71 per cent) are white British, although recently there has been a rise of pupils who are black African in origin (12 per cent).
- Attainment prior to school entry is generally very low.
- There is also a higher than average number of pupils with special educational needs, especially those requiring a statement of special educational needs.
Key Stage 2 level 4+ results:
2005 English 58%; mathematics 58%
2006 English 63%; mathematics 60%
2007 English 73%; mathematics 73%
In this section
- Improving the use of ICT in the Foundation Stage: Bath and NE Somerset
- Intensifying Support Programme (ISP): Sheffield Working in partnership
- Moving beyond the floor target: Christ Church C of E Primary School, Lambeth
- Moving beyond the floor target: Holway Park Community Primary School, Somerset
- Moving beyond the floor target: Oak Green Primary School, Buckinghamshire
- Moving beyond the floor target: Slade Green Junior School, Bexley
- Moving beyond the floor target case study: All Saints C of E Primary School, South Tyneside
- Moving beyond the floor target case study: Colburn Primary School, North Yorkshire
- Moving beyond the floor target case study: Grange Community Primary School, Suffolk
- Moving beyond the floor target case study: Leagrave Primary School, Luton
- Moving beyond the floor target case study: Sinclair Primary School, Southampton
- Moving beyond the floor target case study: Stoke-on-Trent LA
- Moving beyond the floor target case study: Various primary schools, Bradford
- Moving beyond the floor target case study: Various primary schools, Salford
- Moving beyond the floor target case study: White's Wood Lane Junior School, Lincolnshire
- Sustaining Success case study: Lancashire, Preston West Children's Centre
Attachments and resources
See also
- Intensifying Support Programme (ISP): Greenwich Pupil progress meetings in ISP schools
- Intensifying Support Programme (ISP): Southampton Supporting engagement in learning through the ISP
- Moving beyond the floor target case study: Farmilo Primary and Nursery School, Nottinghamshire
- Moving beyond the floor target case study: Middlefield Primary School, Liverpool
- Moving beyond the floor target case study: Thornhill Primary School, Rotherham
- Moving beyond the floor target: The Beeches Primary School, Peterborough
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