Minutes:
The Education Durham Support and Provision Lead advised Members that the Agreed Syllabus was currently waiting for a delegated decision and a copy of the syllabus was with the communications team for their approval and to check copyright, but no issues were anticipated before the launch.
Members were advised that the Chair was working with C Robson on the launch dates and the programme for the launch days.
Following a number of questions, the Education Durham Support and Provision Lead advised Members that the Agreed Syllabus would not be available on the website, but electronic copies would be circulated. She was aware that some schools share the agreed syllabus on their website as they were obliged to publish their curriculum.
The Chair advised Members that they were planning on holding 2 launch dates for Primary Schools, 1 for Secondary schools and a half day for Specialist Schools and provided details of the proposed programme.
The Education Durham Support and Provision Lead advised Members that C Robson was carrying out a separate piece of work with special schools on progress and assessment across all subject areas.
In response to a question, the Education Durham Support and Provision Lead advised Members that approximately 5 or 6 secondary schools were academies and around 85% of primary schools were still maintained schools so there were around 20/25 academies but that number was rapidly changing and would be around 30 by the end of the year. The exact figures could be provided to Members if required.
The service currently worked with 90% of primary schools in terms of school improvement and 80% of secondary schools. There were currently 5 or 6 academies that they did not work with.