Talk:Outwood Academy City Fields

Wakefield City Academy Trust

This is a very wide topic that needs a stand alone article - WP:BRD. Wakefield City Academy Trust exists as a redirect, so I intend to de-merge. --ClemRutter (talk) 23:09, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

Flattening the grass and behavioral management

1. Hazell, Will. "Exclusive: Outwood Grange uses crisis managers to explain 'flattening the grass' policy". Tes. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
2. Dickens, John (14 February 2019). "'Flattening the grass': what's really going on?". Schools Week.
3. Roberts, John (11 December 2018). "Legal challenge to Outwood Grange over use of 'consequences room'". Tes. Retrieved 4 January 2020.</ref>

I reverted an good-faith edit by Darren-M last night and directed the talk here. There are three WP:RS above for anyone who wants to research this further.

• It was difficult to find secondary sources with anything positive to say about the management of this school, and there was nothing available on the buildings, the curriculum. The school has been forceably refactored to OGAT after the previous scandal at when it was Wakefield City Academy. QGAT it appears obtained an Outstanding Ofsted, in 2013 (at a time when this was achieved by just having the policy documents in place). It is seven years out of date.

• When we see Outwood Grange uses crisis managers to explain ‘flattening the grass’ policy we should be alerted that there is an attempt at news manipulation in process. To prevent legal action the TES is obliged to put in a disclaimer from the school- but from the WP POV, although TES is a secondary source, a quote from the subject of the article must be regarded as primary. The quote itself is a classic example of how to make it look as if you are denying it- while not actually telling a lie. To the savvy it means 'Yes you got us´ The TES immediately balances it with further examples of abuse.

• There are claims of breaching WP:N, by not mentioning that it is done at other schools. It would certainly move into WP:OR if we listed them all. If we did we would mainly find other OGAT schools or Delta Academies Trust schools whos CEO has strong links with OGAT.

• Discipline is not a non-neutral word, it is used very precisely by the educational communitity, Ofsted uses 'Behavioural Policy'. Download Parrs Wood Short Ofsted to see how safeguarding /behaviour is reported.

• We also have the structural problem of how we document MATs, one openly runs an 80:20 policy- where 80% of all matters are decided centrally by the trust (a not for profit company) while leaving 20% to the school (an education institute). What goes where in WP? When the MAT has been forced on the community do we try to preserve WP:N, from their perspective or that of the company? I edit within the schools project so my judgement is skewed in that direction.

Please join the debate and help improve all the schools listed in Delta and OGAT. ClemRutter (talk) 12:14, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

Hiya @ClemRutter:. Thanks for your comment; I stumbled across this when reverting vandalism last night and gnomed it mainly from a stylistic/copyedit POV so don't have strong thoughts/knowledge on this area. I would just add that I'd opened a NPOV discussion on the main OGAT article re how it covers this element: Outwood_Grange_Academies_Trust#Discipline. Might be worth thinking about how we interlink the two for consistency. Darren-M talk 13:10, 4 January 2020 (UTC)