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The Work of the Dio iocesan Board of Education

Andrew Smith Diocesan Director of Education Diocesan Synod Saturday 10th November 2018

The Dio iocesan Board of Education

• 1. Our work with Schools
• 2. Our work with Partners
• 3. Our work with Parishes
• 4. Our work in the Future

The Dio iocesan Board of Education

Our work wit ith

Schools

Church of England Vision for Education

Deeply Christian, Serving the Common Good July 2016

Vision for Education

• The Church of England Vision for Education is

built around a core statement of Jesus to give ‘life in all its fullness’ (John 10:10).

• The vision document reflects that Church

school education is about ‘educating the whole person’, what the 1988 Education Reform Act sees as physical and intellectual development united with spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.

Our work with schools in line with the Vision

• Support for school leaders – CoEPQH,

Leadership Networks, Mentor support, Training for aspiring leaders in Church schools, RE scheme of work, SIAMS

• Support for teachers – Learn Teach Lead RE

networks, Newly Qualified Teacher support, adviser visits as part of the Service Level Agreement, Training on Collective Worship and RE, Understanding Christianity

• Support for Governors and Trustees

Our work with Church schools

Structures

• 29 academies across the Diocese
• 8 schools with conditional consent to convert or

pending

• 10 Multi Academy Trusts (MATS) with 1 more in the

planning

• The DBE’s strategic vision is to continue to promote

mixed MATS across the Diocese within excepted governance arrangements for Church academies

• 88 maintained schools – majority are voluntary

controlled

• Mixed system – maintained and academies

Our work with Church schools

Structures

• Significant pressures on school budgets – more than

‘the little extras’

• Increasing number of schools in deficit positions
• Reduction in Local Authority spending and provision

for Special Educational Needs

• More shared headship arrangements and schools

joining together in partnerships – Federations

• Church schools working in partnership with each other

and with community school partners

• Schools increasingly look to the Diocese

for support

Our work with 125 Church schools

High Academic standards:

• 110 (88%) judged to be good or outstanding by Ofsted
• 124 (99%) judged to be good or outstanding in SIAMS

Improving 4 year trend:

• Ofsted - Sept 2014 80% to Sept 2018 88%
• SIAMS – Sept 2014 90% to Sept 2018 99%

Significant changes in 2018/2019:

• New SIAMS schedule – changed judgements
• Changed judgements in Ofsted inspections
• New Ofsted framework in 2019

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Our work wit ith

Partners

Our work with Partners

The DBE has engagement with:

• 3 Regional Schools Commissioners
• The Department for Education
• Ofsted/HMI
• Teaching School Council and Alliances
• 8 Local Authorities
• The Church of England Education Office
• Other Dioceses – Leeds, Durham and Newcastle
• Other Dioceses – DBE Services (North West)
• MATS
• Individual schools and academies

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Our work wit ith

Parishes

Our work with Parishes

• Prayer Spaces in Schools events
• Experience Festivals training
• An invitation to visit new incumbents where there is a

Church school

• Chapter, Deanery Synod and Archdeaconry Days
• Churchwarden training days
• Clergy training and LyCiG
• Partner organisations – Archbishop’s Youth Trust,

Christian Aid, Heartsmart, Acts 435

• 4 Leavers’ Services in July 2019 – Northallerton,

Scarborough, Selby, Beverley – celebrations led by the four secondary schools for our primary and infant schools

The Dio iocesan Board of Education

Our work in in th the

Future

Our work in the Future

Aligning the DBE’s work effectively with the wider Diocesan strategy:

• Clear vision for children and young people, be they in

school, church or their community

• Oversight of children and young people’s work
• Changing committee structures
• Linking of work in schools and parishes, both church

schools and community schools

• Changing approach to supporting parishes with their

children and young people’s work

Our work in the Future

Changing approach to supporting parishes with their children and young people’s work:

• New Children and Young People’s Adviser
• Carolyn Edwards
• Currently the Programme Lead

for the Mission and Ministry degree courses at Cliff College

• Previously worked training

students in youth and children’s ministry, as a Children’s Evangelist and running events for Scripture Union

• Carolyn starts on 19th November
• Will commission consultant support for churches

The Dio iocesan Board of Education

Please pray for all schools and parish work with children and young people Do you have a passion for children and young people? If so, then the DBE is the place for you.