Quality Assurance Processes and Schedule at Wave
It is important to us, as a Trust, to ensure that there is efficacy, clear systems, accountability and processes to support continual improvement for all of our settings.
The main principles to Trust Improvement are:
- Vision, values and strategy- we ensure that these are features of the work we do and regularly articulated
- Capacity- we are continually talent spotting and increasing the capacity within the Central School Development team
- Collective Commitment- whilst we recognise the individuality of all our settings, we strive to ensure that we all support and challenge each other
- Robust Data- our knowledge is based on real time, reliable and robust data- we ensure that Academy Development is shared, thereby ensuring that assumptions are not from one source alone
- Processes- we set clear time frames and expectations for all our leaders, at whatever level they work, to ensure regular, timely and reliable monitoring takes place
- To celebrate and promote innovation, and share best practice across the breadth of our schools
We intend to:
- Provide ethical leadership
- Ensure that all monitoring is based on our vision and values
- Establish effective efficacy
- Support systems leadership
- Monitor, support, challenge and where needed, intervene
- Provide scalable collective Academy improvement
We aim to implement this by:
- Ensuring that monitoring is provided by internal and external partners
- Continue to develop a collaborative culture
- Manage resources strategically
- Have diarised, clear processes in place for monitoring
- Ensuring data is real time, intelligent and informed
The impact of this will:
- Ensure that we provide a quality service
- Ensure that there is a continued improvement agenda
- Further develop collective ownership and partner working
- Allow for continuous talent spotting to take place
- Inform Trust CPD needs
- Ensure equity and efficiency
- Support positive outcomes for all of our pupils
Mechanisms may include:
- Internal monitoring
- External monitoring
- Dashboard meetings
- Peer-to-peer evaluation meetings
- Pupil progress meetings
- Subject monitoring and audits
- Self-Evaluation
- Observations/ learning works/ book and marking scrutiny
- Safeguarding audits
- Stakeholder questionnaires
- Monitoring Hub meetings and Board meetings
- Class Based Pupil Assessment
- Monitoring Hub Visits
- DfE Educational Expert Visits
- External pupil based assessments
Our quality assurance focuses on a variety of pertinent areas and includes:
- Staff Wellbeing
- Parent and pupil voice
- Management of systems
- Compliance
- Learning, Teaching and the curriculum
- Safeguarding
- Data
- Behaviour
- Compliance
The framework is accompanied by further monitoring by the Local Authority, Monitoring Hubs, Board of Trustees and Ofsted.
