Our school priorities, for the academic year 2024-2025 are strategically focussed to enable the school to develop and improve in line with our vision and values.
Our School Development Plan (SDP) ensures that our effort and resources are focused and meaningful. The children are at the heart of every decision we make and our distinctive Christian vision of “In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.” (Matthew 5:16) underpins each decision we make to ensure that our children flourish socially, spiritually and academically; it is the measure of our success across all of the communities we serve.
This document is a constantly evolving, updated and reviewed by Governors and in the monitoring activities undertaken by the Senior Leadership Team and middle leaders across the school.
Whole School Key Priorities 2024-2025
| Leadership and Management |
- To ensure robust Safeguarding processes and procedures remain strong and are further developed so that safeguarding continues to be effective.
- To ensure that whole curriculum implementation is coherently planned, sequenced and delivered to effectively meet the needs of all learners.
- To continue to develop the effectiveness of subject Leaders so that teachers are driving improvements in teaching and learning to accelerate pupils’ progress, which leads to increased pupil attainment across the curriculum.
- To further develop the skills of the Governing Board, so that they are well-placed to monitor, support and challenge appropriately.
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| Quality of Education |
- To ensure the Little Wandle Phonics programme is embedded consistently so that the children have the skills to read fluently, Ensuring reading provision in KS2 supports all children to read fluently and confidently.
- To improve pupil attainment in Writing at KS1 and KS2, so that the % of pupils meeting ARE and GDS is at least in line with national expectations.
- To improve pupil attainment in Maths at KS1 and KS2, so that the % of pupils meeting ARE and GDS is at least in line with national expectations.
- To ensure curriculum planning and quality first teaching meets the needs of all pupils, including those with SEND.
- To develop assessment systems for the core curriculum and wider curriculum to ensure all teachers are able to accurately assess pupil’s knowledge and skills against endpoints.
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| Behaviour and Attitudes |
- To further develop processes and systems to ensure good pupil attendance for all groups.
- To develop the behaviour policy and the use of self-regulation strategies, so that pupils behave consistently well, demonstrating high levels of self-control and consistently positive attitudes to learning.
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| Personal Development |
- To further enhance curriculum experiences, including opportunities for outdoor learning, to develop pupil character and positive learning behaviours.
- To ensure equality of opportunity and diversity is further developed so that pupils have a deeper understanding and appreciation of difference in the world and its people.
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| Distinctive Christian Ethos |
- To ensure the shared definition and understanding of spirituality is embedded so that staff plan for spiritual flourishing with increased clarity and confidence.
- To adopt and embed the new ODBE RE Scheme of Work so that all pupils from EYFS to Year 6 have a coherent picture of Christian worldviews and other world views.
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