Accelerate Achievement

Accelerate Achievement supports school leaders and teachers in completing rigorous self-evaluation across subject areas/departments and any aspect of the school as well as, of course, the school as a whole. It takes full account of Every Child Matters Key Outcomes in completing school review and self-evaluations documents, including the Ofsted SEF-summary.

It will help schools routinely manage their evidence in ways that will be particularly useful during Ofsted inspection and will support working in the future with school improvement partners and other stakeholders.

However, Accelerate Achievement goes even further in providing a range of tools for school leaders. School improvement plans can be generated from criteria identified within the self-evaluation. Comprehensive staff management tools can be used to record and complete staff assessments. Evidence from lesson observations, and views of parents/learners can be captured through surveys and used in rigorously reviewing the school’s performance in coming to robust self-evaluation judgements.

What's new in accelerate achievement 3

Revised Key Indicators of Performance (KIPs) directly in-line with OfSTED reporting procedures

This high level self-evaluation tool continues to allow you to assess your school/faculty/department against the Key Indicators of Performance as identified through the new OfSTED framework, including the separate frameworks for sixth form and Early Years provision. The facility to add your own key indicators to evaluate the individual needs of the school, remains.

Streamlined forensic assessment criteria

Following feedback from existing users the number of criteria used for completing a forensic assessment against any one of the KIPs has been streamlined to ensure quality of evaluation.
On-line SEF for use at whole-school/departmental/faculty level
The School Review and Self Evaluation tool has been replaced by a direct copy of the updated SEF – this can be used at any level of leadership to evaluate performance.

Milestone reports linked to Balanced Scorecard visual reporting facility

The balanced scorecard and milestone facilities help to support a school/academy in monitoring their performance against their strategic goals, giving Governors, SIPs and other partners an overview of all key indicators of performance, their targets and the staff responsible. The 'traffic light' system continues to be used to show the school whether they are making progress on a specific key indicator.

Bespoke Lesson Observation facility mapped against key OfSTED criteria

A new lesson observation proforma has been added to link directly into the OfSTED framework that can be tailored to meet the needs of the individual school/academy – these can still be mapped against the KIPs and Criterion so that they can be used as evidence in support of your school self-evaluation.