School - development plans
Education is vital for individual
fulfilment, social cohesion and economic prosperity. Education
enables children to acquire knowledge and skills, to achieve their
full potential and to access all the world has to offer.
Education also enables people to live
together well through promoting appropriate attitudes and values.
In a technological world, education is also the key to economic
prosperity on which so much else depends that is vital for the
quality of life.
Education is therefore critical to the
future of the borough of Rochdale.
The
LEA
’s Five Year Strategic Plan,
covering the period 2002-2006, sets out a clear vision and
direction for education in Rochdale. Implementation will enable the
service to achieve its mission of “Excellence for
Everyone”. The strategic plan guides the production of more
detailed plans, of which this is one.
This Education Development Plan
focuses on the raising of educational attainment in the Borough. It
sets targets for the general performance of pupils at all levels,
and for improvements in educational provision.
Although the first Education
Development Plan had approval for three years it was criticised by
OFSTED
in
its inspection of the Local Education Authority in 2000. An updated
one-year plan was produced following recommendations made by
OFSTED, implemented from April 2001. In Summer 2001 the
DCSF
described the plan as providing a clear strategy.
This new Education Development Plan
for 2002-07 is building upon a plan that is less than one year
old.
It is a plan developed at a time of
change. The context of the school improvement programme is changing
rapidly.
Education
Development Plan 2002-2007 - the key plan for the raising of
educational attainment in the Borough. It sets targets for the
general performance of pupils at all levels, and for improvements
in educational provision. (912kb pdf file)
Education
Development Plan Review 2002-2003 - evaluation of the Plan's first
12 months. (2.3MB pdf file)