The Academies Education Directorate at Oasis Community Learning has put in place a School Improvement Strategy to secure ongoing improvement across all our Academies. We refuse to accept that there is a ceiling on what can be achieved and we continue to set ourselves increasingly challenging targets.
As part of this strategy, we deploy a range of highly experienced practitioners to impact on the work of our Academies and address barriers for improvement. Our school improvement team includes successful headteachers, current Ofsted inspectors, National Challenge lead advisers and subject specialists.
We are also developing strategic partnerships with a number of proven key providers who are working with us in such areas as attendance, literacy and raising GCSE attainment. We are working in partnership with the National College to put in place training programmes for our middle and senior leaders to develop leadership capacity. We have also formed a strategic relationship with Future Leaders, enabling us to recruit talented leaders that are committed to work with students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
A systematic and focused approach to monitoring the progress of our Academies takes place throughout the year. This includes the reporting of Key Performance Indicators every half term and a formal strategic review of the work of the whole academy twice a year.
We carry out regular on-site reviews, based on the Ofsted framework. This enables us to identify both good practice and areas of weakness. Good practice is shared nationally across our academies, whilst areas of weakness are targeted for extra support and carefully focused monitoring to ensure that the required progress is achieved.
Our Principals form part of a national network committed to raising standards and developing highly effective practice and they all attend our National Forum three times a year. We have also established a national group of lead practitioners and advanced skills teachers to support our vision of setting a standard of high expectations in teaching and learning through the sharing of outstanding practice.
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