Scrutiny Councillors are interested to find out how effective the tools and techniques for intervention are for schools in Swansea and plan to speak to different Headteachers in Swansea’s to gauge the opinions of the different interventions used in schools in the locality. The Schools Scrutiny Panel Councillors will meet with the Headteacher Peter Evans from […]
How effective are the tools and techniques for intervention for schools?
Regional education scrutiny meets again
Scrutiny Councillors from across the six local authorities will meet again at the end of September. The purpose of the group is to help ensure the best educational outcomes for children in the Education Through Regional Working (ERW) region by supporting effective scrutiny to support consistent scrutiny across the six councils share scrutiny good practice […]
Reviewing School improvement in Swansea
Scrutiny Councillors will, at their meeting on 1 September, take their annual look at how the school improvement service is progressing. This will include reviewing how the quality of teaching and learning and the consistency of teacher assessments are improving. The Hub Head for Education and Improvement covering Swansea and Neath Port Talbot areas will attend the […]
So what is happening in education scrutiny in Swansea?
Swansea Councils education scrutiny body, the Schools Performance Scrutiny Panel, has the role of providing ongoing challenge to schools performance in order to ensure that pupils in Swansea are receiving a high quality education and that it is meeting its objectives to improve schools standards and pupil attainment. The up-coming meetings for this Panel are: 1 September at 4.00pm […]
Festival sees more than 40 schools across south west Wales Sharing Excellence
More than 40 schools from across Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Neath Port Talbot, Pembrokeshire, Powys and Swansea shared their success stories at ERW’s (Education Through Regional Working) conference. The ‘Festival of Sharing Excellence’ took place on Thursday, July 7 at the Brangwyn Hall in Swansea.The aim of the event was to share the most effective strategies and practice […]
So how is education through regional working performing for Swansea?
The Schools Scrutiny Performance Panel will on the 14 July to discuss the Education Through Regional Working (ERW) business plan for 2016-2019 with the Chief Executive of the regional body. The Business Plan outlines the region, of which Swansea is part, vision for improvement which is,,, “consistently high performing school network across the region with every […]