School Development Plan Priorities

1. Quality of Education

• Embed new English long-term plan and teaching of Reading & Writing to improve outcomes for all pupils
• Review and revise the Maths Curriculum to rapidly improve outcomes for all pupils
• Introduce a new Computing and On-Line Safety Curriculum
• Introduce a new curriculum for French
• Introduce the new RE Agreed Syllabus across the school
• Improve consistency of assessment for foundation subjects ensuring progress for all pupils
• Continue to develop pupils love of reading through daily reading time and use of library
• Identify and fund key External Education visits and visitors to enhance the curriculum
• Identify and incorporate into the PSHCE curriculum opportunities for to promote and support positive mental health and resilience
• Embed and expand appropriate interventions across the school to support progress, keep up and catch up
• Continue to support all pupils in order to close the gap between disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged pupils in all year groups, in R, W & M, particularly boys
• To further develop appropriate use of the Outdoor Environment for learning across all year groups
• Revise, resource and effectively implement the PE curriculum to support skills progression and the range of competitive opportunities for all pupils
• To gather pupil voice about RE and Foundation subjects in order to further develop more engaging and effective teaching and learning leading to higher outcomes for pupils

2. Leadership & Management

• Continue to develop Leadership roles through focussed CPD and dedicated release time
• Ensure budget is able to maintain and enhance current staffing structure, with additional funding streams explored.
• Support staff in meeting the needs, more effectively, of the wider group of SEND pupils now attending the school through a programme of effective CPD and use of in class support/resources
• Improve outcomes for all pupils through further developing understanding and delivery of Quality First Teaching in the classroom
• Continue to explore ways to ensure all staff have a good work-life balance through identifying and adopting working SMART and developing positive WELL-BEING practices

3. Other Areas

• Improve the environment for learning in both the classroom and outdoors
• Increase opportunities for developing high quality parental engagement
• Continue to identify the barriers to learning and meet the needs of our most impoverished pupils
• Improve attendance of all pupils, especially those identified as Persistent Absentees in 2021-22

Priorities for Whole School Development in 2022-23:  The above areas have been identified from: the analysis of end of year data; monitoring throughout 2021-22; areas from SDP 2021-22 which require further consolidation or embedding; as well as pupil voice surveys; a parent survey and comments across the year; comments from both a staff well-being survey and SWOT analysis undertaken at the end of academic year 2021-22.