1. Providing a
Whole Education
at
Shireland
Collegiate
Academy
Sir Mark Grundy
Executive Principal
October 2013

2. Our context
 Inner city academy in West
Midlands
 1,100 students; 11-18.
 Built over 100 years ago and
serves an area of substantial
deprivation
 38.2% of students have
eligibility for free school meals
(63% Pupil Premium)
 22% have Special Educational
Needs
 15% live safeguarding issues
 64.7% have English as a
second language
 Judged as Outstanding in
2006 / 2010 / 2013

3. Our journey

4. Shireland Collegiate Academy
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Academy 2011
Sponsored Academy 2007
Trust School pilot 2006
Foundation School 2006
Primary School Federation 2005
Secondary School Federation 2003
Language College 1998
High School 1997
School opened 1907

5. Shireland Collegiate Academy
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Outstanding March 2013
Outstanding December 2010
Special Measures January 2010
Outstanding October 2006
Good June 2002

6. “Hero to zero” and back again

7. Key Maxims
• “We need to make every teacher an Outstanding
teacher.”
• “We tackled behaviour with absolute clarity”
• “ We need to do the maximum intervention with
the students furthest away.”
• “If we don’t do something truly radical with the
curriculum we will never break the cycle.”
• “If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll
get what you always got.” Mark Twain/Henry Ford/WE
Deming

8. The Transformation
• 24 % Jump in
5A*-CEM
87% 5A*-C
89% > 96%
Attendance
No Fixed
Term
exclusions
this year.

9. Getting the right balance
Provision
T&L

10. Decoding Learning
“Technology can enable schools to tap
into the wealth of expertise that exists
within their communities.
Technology can link learners with other
learners, experiences, and settings much
more easily and, often, cost effectively.”

11. Decoding Learning
“Flipped classrooms, or inverted classrooms,
use technology to allow learners to view
teacher exposition (Learning from Experts)
before the start of a lesson. This allows more
time for other forms of learning to flourish
during lessons, such as Learning through
Practising or Learning with Others.
To ‘flip’ their classroom, teachers present
learning materials online, perhaps created
using screen–casting technology, which
learners use to prepare in advance.”

12. A % here, a % there!
1% from headgear design
1% from saddle design
3% from core bike frame design
2% from suit design
And so on ....
"The aggregation
of marginal
gains."

14. “All groups of students make rapid progress,
irrespective of their background or ability
level.”
“Teaching is outstanding. Lessons are planned
extremely well to make sure they are demanding,
exciting and get the most out of all groups of
students. This is underpinned by innovative use
of information and computer technology (ICT)”.

15. Why Literacy for Life?
“The first, and most important ability you can
develop in a flat world is the ability to “learn
how to learn” … what you know today will be
out of date sooner than you think”
(Thomas L Friedman: The World is Flat)

16. Stars
A friend was walking down a deserted Mexican beach at sunset. As he
walked along, he began to see another man in the distance. As he grew
nearer, he noticed that the local native kept leaning down, picking
something up and throwing it out into the water. Time and again he kept
hurling things out into the ocean. As my friend approached even closer, he
noticed that the man was picking up starfish that had washed up on the
beach, and, one at a time, he was throwing them back into the water. My
friend was puzzled. He approached the man and said. "Good evening,
friend. I was wondering what you are doing." "I'm throwing these starfish
back into the ocean. You see, it's low tide right now and all of these
starfish have been washed up onto the shore. If I don't throw them back
into the sea, they'll die up here from lack of oxygen."
"I understand," my friend replied, "but there must be thousands of starfish
on this beach. You can't possibly get to all of them. There are simply too
many. And don't you realize this is probably happening on hundreds of
beaches all up and down this coast. Can't you see that you can't possibly
make a difference?" The local native smiled, bent down and picked up yet
another starfish, and as he threw it back into the sea, he replied, "Made a
difference to that one!"

17. Helping Others
“Outstanding schools,
which will take a leading
responsibility for providing
and quality assuring initial
teacher training (ITT) in
their area”. DfE 2012

18. A “Whole Education” approach …
…... is the only way to achieve
Outstanding!