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Commissioning is the name of the game...
Schools that have opted out of local authority control will need to commission services, programmes and extra-curricular programmes.
Here is a list of case studies showing how schools have done this.
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What makes a useful case study?
Sound monitoring and evaluation are necessary to build comprehensive and useful case studies. How you use the results of your monitoring and evaluation is important in keeping students interested and in attracting funding as well as the support of your school’s wider community. Ideally, if it contants the right, a useful case study does not have to cover more than two sides of an A4 sheet.
Monitoring and evaluation
Setting up monitoring systems at the very start of a programme or activity helps you gather valuable data, which can be used to:
- help assess how to improve activities or programmes
- provide evidence of targets achieved (for school improvement plans)
- provide feedback to key stakeholders (for example, school governors)
- gather invaluable evidence about why activities work well, which can play a crucial role in finding new funding for future activities or programmes.
Quick tips to get you started
When you begin thinking about how you will monitor and evaluate extra-curricular programmes or activities so that you can build useful case studies, here are three main areas of impact to focus on.
Attendance: at activities and the impact of participation on school attendance more generally
Attitude: the effects of activities on a student’s motivation to learn and on their behaviour in school
Achievement: the contribution that activities make to raising a student’s performance in all areas: internal school tests, their classroom performance and the quality of the homework they do.