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Introduction

• Welcome – Chair of Governors
• Introduction – CIB Independent Chair – explaining

format for the evening and officer roles (for questions)

• Presentation – IB (15 minutes)
• Q & A (Rest of Meeting) All Officers
• Close

School Modernisation

Consultation on proposals to :

• Change the age range at John Summers High School

from 11-18 to 11-16 by September 2016

• Close John Summers High School by September 2017

Changing Context

• Prioritising Quality of

Learning

• Need to prioritise Pupil

Teacher Ratios (PTRs)

• Teaching Assistants

Reduced

• 52 posts lost this year
• More expected….

School Modernisation

We do this in order to secure:

• Educational improvement
• Resilient School Leadership
• Suitable Buildings
• Best use of resources

We need to ensure that we secure and maintain high quality learning opportunities for all children and young people across the County

School Modernisation

School Organisation Policy 2010 & 2015 refresh

• Secondary provision be planned to work towards

the following models :

• Aim for at least four form entry, providing 600 11-16

pupil places

• Review post-16 provision where the number of pupils

falls below 150 for three years in succession

Why Are We Proposing Change?

Unfilled places

• Wales Audit Office (WAO) advice and the Welsh

Government (WG) target - maximum 10%

• 36% unfilled pupil places at John Summers High

School (Sept 2014) rising to 43% in Sept 2016

• 2113 unfilled pupil places (18%) in the secondary

sector and rising

• John Summers High School is projected to have 305

11-16 pupils by Sept 2015

• There will be an approximate total of 568 unfilled places

in other local Secondary schools by Sept 2016

Why Are We Proposing Change?

Diminishing Resources:

• Insufficient current and projected pupil numbers to

sustain secondary provision at John Summer High School

• With budgets reducing annually on-going concern that

the Governors would find it ever more difficult to meet the full requirements of the National Curriculum and the Learning and Skills Measure, and provide all appropriate support for learners

• Rising Pupil teacher ratios to unsustainable levels in

future years

Why Are We Proposing Change?

Suitable Buildings

• Significant issues, with Suitability and Condition, DDA

access

• Significant Capital investment required to make the

building fit for purpose

• The Council is unable to form a successful capital

business case to Welsh Government for external capital investment

• The Council’s own capital investment would not be

possible for the same reasons

Why Are We Proposing Change?

Educational Improvement

• Historical school performance outcomes positively

acknowledged

• Currently the school is in Welsh Government

Categorisation 4 Resilient School Leadership

• Confidence in existing Acting Head
• Long term, potential difficulty recruiting for permanent

head given the school’s current and future pupil numbers

What if…..

The Next Steps

Initial Consultation process:

• Consultation responses by 17th July 2015
• Consultation report to Special Cabinet late July 2015.
• Next consultation period – Statutory Notice – Autumn

2015

• Objection Report to Welsh Minister mid October 2015
• Ministerial Determination anticipated by February 2016

Responses can be given…

• At the meeting
• By completing a questionnaire on-line at

www.flintshire.gov.uk/schoolmodernisation

• By completing a response form and returning it to the

School Modernisation Team, Education and Youth, County Hall, Mold, Flintshire CH7 6ND, or

• Alternatively putting your responses/questions in writing

to the School Modernisation Team, Education and Youth, County Hall, Mold, Flintshire, CH7 6ND or email: 21stcenturyschools@flintshire.gov.uk All documents are available online at www.flintshire.gov.uk/schoolmodernisation