ALL SAINTS RC HIGH SCHOOL

I visited All Saints RC High School again yesterday with Mike Garnock-Jones, to see Clare Scott, the headteacher and had a great session discussing the school's involvement in Made in Sheffield.

Mike and I outlined the fact that the pilot phase was ending and we wanted to review, evaluate and further develop the work we have been doing. We wanted headteachers strategic overview and to know how the schools see the future for the programme, how we can make it sustainable and how we might continue to fund developments alongside the maintenance of the elements schools value and want to keep.

Clare has recently been appointed as headteacher and she welcomed the opportunity to find out more about Made in Sheffield. All Saints is involved in the Glass Academy and the computer science element of Made in Sheffield. We discussed the fact that initiatives like this have come and gone in he past and we agreed that to create a more sustainable model, schools needed to develop a strategic approach which embedded the ambassadors element into the leadership development element and the skills and vocational elements into the curriculum. We also discussed the importance of staff CPD, which was a critical element to developing teacher understanding and expertise and vitally important where the DfE and OFSTED were promoting such a different model for the curriculum.