Operational Support and Advice - Darley Dene

Provision of support and expertise to enable school to open for the 2019/20 academic year.  

Sharing best practice and operational support, providing additional staff capacity.

Aims

Due to adverse inspection judgements, high staff turnover, staff working to capacity and a time critical task of opening the school, additional support was required.  

The 242 pupils and their families immediately benefitted from the successful opening of the school.  

Background

St George’s Weybridge approached Darley Dene via the Lumen Learning Trust, offering support after learning that this local primary school had received an inadequate report from Ofsted in June 2019.

Building works are on-going and urgent advice and support was sought, the acting head had postponed the start of the new Christmas Term.

Resources

4 members of senior business staff made school visits – 10 staff hours.

6 members of grounds team helped clear and tidy site for 4 hours – 24 staff hours.

Impact

'Just a note to thank you so much for all you are doing at this interesting stage of our relationship with Darley Dene! It was so helpful to have you walk the site yesterday and help sense-check some of the areas we were concerned about. And today to have your Grounds Manager and his team on site today to shift and clear will make all the difference in our feeling positive about opening the doors to the children tomorrow' - Executive Principal Lumen Learning Trust

Frequency

Ongoing.