Moving beyond the floor target case study: Middlefield Primary School, Liverpool
Chapters
- 1 Moving beyond the floor target case study: Middlefield Primary School, Liverpool
- 2 The school-based issues
- 3 What was done by the school?
- 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: 2
- School name: Middlefield Primary School
- Phase: Primary
- Key stage: Foundation stage, Key Stages 1 and 2
- Local authority: Liverpool
- Ref: 00150-2008DWO-EN-01
School context and profile
Middlefield Primary School is a larger than average primary school situated in the southern outskirts of Liverpool. The school’s location is recognised by the LA as one of acute social need. Statistics show it to be an area of multiple deprivation with challenging social and economic circumstances.
- A very high proportion of pupils have learning difficulties and/or disabilities. The school is also resourced to provide 18 places for pupils from across the LA who have social, emotional and behavioural difficulties.
- The number of pupils who start or leave the school at random points throughout the year is very high.
- The school was opened in 2002 due to the amalgamation of two schools, and was invited to join the Intensifying Support Programme (ISP) for a second time in September 2005.
- The headteacher, who had been the deputy headteacher of the school since its creation, took up her post in September 2006.
- The New Relationship with Schools and the introduction of School Improvement Partners (SIP), coupled with the appointment of the new headteacher, has resulted in a productive working partnership which is effective in supporting and challenging the school to bring about improvement in standards using the ISP.
- The current SIP has worked with the school since October 2006 and the school was an LA project school 2006–07.
The school’s recent Ofsted report stated that the school needed to:
- raise standards and achievement in English, mathematics and science throughout the school
- improve the consistency of the quality of teaching and learning, including in the Foundation Stage (FS)
- improve levels of attendance.
| English | mathematics | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Level 4 | Level 5 | Level 4 | Level 5 | |
| 2005 | 54% | 2% | 42% | 12% |
| 2006 | 51% | 6% | 58% | 16% |
| 2007 | 79% | 40% | 81% | 42% |
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DiigoIn this section
- Access and engagement in RE: Teaching pupils for whom English is an additional language
- Aiming High: Meeting the needs of newly arrived learners of English as an additional language (EAL)
- Building Futures: Developing trust – A focus on provision for children from Gypsy, Roma and Traveller backgrounds in the Early Years Foundation Stage
- Confident, capable and creative: Supporting boys' achievements – guidance for practitioners in the Early Years Foundation Stage
- Ensuring the attainment of more advanced learners of English as an additional language (EAL)
- Ensuring the attainment of white working class boys in writing
- Ensuring the attainment of white working class boys in writing
- Excellence and Enjoyment: Learning and teaching for bilingual children in the primary years – CPD flyers and poster pack
- Gender: raising boys' achievement - key messages
- Narrowing the Gap: The Gender Agenda – making a difference in science
- New Arrivals Excellence Programme (NAEP): Case studies (DVD and booklet)
- New Arrivals Excellence Programme: CPD Modules
- New Arrivals Excellence Programme: Case study booklet
- New Arrivals Excellence Programme: Guidance
- Raising the attainment of Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Somali and Turkish heritage pupils: Guidance booklet
- Unlocking potential - raising ethnic minority attainment at Key Stage 3
Attachments and resources
See also
- Moving beyond the floor target case study: All Saints C of E Primary School, South Tyneside
- 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: Thornhill Primary School, Rotherham
- Moving beyond the floor target case study: Various primary schools, Salford
- Moving beyond the floor target: Holway Park Community Primary School, Somerset
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