These priorities are a summary of the school improvement priorities for this academic year (2023-24).
Effectiveness of Leadership and Management
- To develop evidence based Federation Teaching and Learning Principles to ensure consistency, whilst maximising impact on all learners.
- To ensure that professional development is evidence led and effectively tailored for all staff, to maximise impact on all learners.
- To further strengthen middle leadership expertise, systems and evaluation to check how well pupils are retaining new knowledge, skills and concepts across the intended curriculum.
Quality of Education
- Mathematics: To develop children’s accuracy in mathematical factual knowledge to aid fluency and secure mathematical understanding.
- Writing: To further embed a process approach to writing, developing writing fluency and accuracy in transcription, sentence construction and revising and editing skills through extensive instruction and practice.
- Early reading: To improve the progress of disadvantaged and SEND pupils.
Behaviour and Attitudes
- To further develop more effective learning behaviours to maximise engagement and learning in the classroom.
- To ensure all children understand how to be safe online and establish respectful learner-on-learner relationships.
- To support families to reduce incidences of persistent absence across the school and improve overall attendance.
Personal Development
- To ensure that there is a wide-reaching and comprehensive mental health strategy for the school community; children, families and staff.
Effectiveness of Early Years
- To further develop communication and language approaches to improve pupil outcomes (particularly those who are disadvantaged) at the end of Reception.
