School & Early Years Improvement Service (SEYIS)

Working in partnership to achieve the best outcomes for children and young people.

The SEYIS Team delivers statutory and core school improvement support in the London Borough of Enfield.  The team consists of experienced advisers, including current Ofsted inspectors and specialist early years, SEN and governance advisers.  The team works in partnership with you to strengthen leadership and management, improve teaching and learning, build capacity at all levels and improve outcomes.

In the academic year 2024/25, each LBE maintained school will have a termly visit with their Link Adviser. We will also be offering those school a half day for headteacher performance management at no cost. From Sept 2024, schools will be allocated an EYFS advisor from a school that has achieved Outstanding in their Early Years phase, within this Ofsted inspection cycle. The Early Years support offer includes the following:

• Ofsted Window (awaiting or due within the next 12 months)
• Early Years Core Offer
• Setting up Nursery Provision
• Supporting documentation package

The SEYIS team is strengthened by using a pool of well-regarded external consultants who are quality assured by the LA and given training on the local context.  When a school or setting buys a package, it is discussed with the school’s link adviser.  Individual days within the package may be allocated to either LBE staff or to consultants, depending on the expertise needed.  We will work with the Professional Learning team to draw up a bespoke commissioning plan for each school, if there is need.

There is also a traded SLA offer that provides highly effective, responsive support tailored to meet individual school improvement needs. Bespoke professional learning may be included.  Depending on what is needed, or who is delivering this training, it will count as a half or whole day of the time from a package. Individual days can be bought at any time.

There are a number of packages below that can be bought that provide economy of scale for schools.  There are suggestions about how a school might wish to use the time that they buy.  Discussion with Head/SLT will inform the commissioning plan for each school that has bought a package, ensuring that support is tailored to individual contexts’, but initial conversations may be able to identify the best use of the days.  This will ensure that the school is able to tailor the support to their individual context.

School Improvement Package One: 9 days

The following suggestions are examples of how the days could be used. Schools would discuss how to use their days with the Link Adviser.

• Feedback on the school self-evaluation and forward plan (1 day - half day onsite, half day prep and write up)
• Curriculum health check (2.5 days – two advisers on site for one day, plus prep and write up time)
• Working with three middle leaders to support and challenge the quality of curriculum (curriculum conversations 1.5 days –on site for one day, plus prep and write up time)
• 2 targeted learning walks (2 days – four hours on site per walk and write up)
• Interviews with Governors and pupils (1 day to include prep and interviewing Governors and pupils)
• Targeted Ofsted support and Ofsted training for staff and Governors (1 day including prep time, and for two sessions, one with each group)

School Improvement Package Two: 6.5 days

The following suggestions are examples of how the days could be used. Schools would discuss how to use their days with the Link Adviser.

• Curriculum health checks (2.5 days – two advisers on site for one day, plus half a day prep and write up time)
• Working with three middle leaders to support and challenge the quality of curriculum (curriculum conversations) (1.5 days including prep and write up time)
• 2 targeted learning walks (2 days – four hours on site per walk and write up)
• Half day quality website check

A number of these activities would be expected to run concurrently.

School Improvement Package Three: 5 days

The following suggestions are examples of how the days could be used. Schools would discuss how to use their days with the Link Adviser.

• Four additional half day link adviser visits (3 days including write up time)
• One day review from link adviser (1.5 days including prep and write up time)
• Half day quality website check

Although purchasing the above packages provide an improved economy of scale for schools, you can opt to purchase individual elements of these three packages.

Peer to peer reviews with external QA – 4.5 days

This is based on three schools wishing to work together.  The total price quoted is split between the three participating schools.  If you would like to do this with a different number of schools, please ask for a price.

• 1 day for the adviser to consult with the schools, arrange dates and hold a scoping meeting with the three headteachers
• 1 day per school for the adviser to work with the heads in each school to conduct a review
• 0.5 days for adviser to follow up (write up will happen in the final review meeting of each day onsite.)

Function: Headteacher Performance Management

• Half a day as external adviser. This is offered at no cost to a school for all LBE maintained schools.

Outcome: Acts as a supportive and challenging partner by an annual meeting with headteachers and support for governors. Raising attainment for all pupils, including vulnerable groups.

In addition to these packages, we offer a bespoke half day consultancy fee of £350 and a full day fee charged at £600. These are standard consultancy fees whereas in some cases an expert consultant may have a higher daily charge. Please email sts@enfield.gov.uk with details of your bespoke requirement so we can price and advise accordingly.