Strategic Priorities

• To continue to achieve better outcomes for children by further developing:
  • Pedagogy and subject knowledge of staff through high-quality professional development, reflecting current cognitive research 
  • Children’s cognisance of their learning and thinking (metacognition)
  • High-quality feedback and precision teaching
• To embed, monitor, support and enhance provision to ensure good progress of SEND pupils and those who are not on target to meet end of year expectations
• To ensure all children make good progress and are increasingly achieving mastery in all phases in Maths, focussing on high-quality lessons and increased opportunities for reasoning 

• Launch 2 year old provision to support early help and increase roll

Continuous school improvement  priorities

• To embed anti-racism culture which actively challenges systemic racism, bias (unconscious and systemic), labelling and racism
• To further develop oral communication so that all pupils can demonstrate their understanding, converse, debate, express feelings and ask questions and to embed effective use of peer and self-assessment across the curriculum
• To promote innovation and efficient use of resources to further drive our sustainability agenda
•  To continue to strengthen family and community engagement through communications, workshops, events and forums, enhancing school presence in our community
• Continue to support families and increase attendance and decrease rate of persistent absenteeism
• Continue to improve reading progress through early reading focus, embedding high-quality phonics provision, reading choice, a purposeful reading spine, and securing vocabulary development
• Continue to develop leaders at all levels through CPD and engagement with professional qualifications
• Continue with robust budget oversight with both monitoring and projections working well to ensure quality of education is maintained and risks known and planned for