School Development Plan

PRIORITIES:     Improve the quality of teaching and outcomes for pupils by:-

• Developing the roles of leaders so that they are regularly checking the quality of teaching, providing appropriate support and leading improvements (both whole school and targeted teachers – particularly those new to school)
• Reading – develop the teaching of comprehension
• Writing – embed the writing strategy and ensure that audience and purpose is clear and that pupils develop independent writing skills
• Maths – provide further support and guidance for teachers so that they can plan for progression, deepen pupils’ conceptual understanding of maths and challenge more able pupils.

Priority 1 – Leadership

• Further improve the rigour and effectiveness of Monitoring and Evaluation
• Develop the role of the new SEN leader to ensure that provision and outcomes are improved for these pupils
• Use assessment information more effectively to plan improvements and target support appropriately for pupil groups
• Develop the skills of governors so that they can hold leaders to account more effectively

Priority 2 – Reading

• Improve pupils’ independence in Writing by embedding the school writing strategy
• Develop strategies and initiatives to promote reading for enjoyment
• Improve provision in UKS2 to ensure that more able pupils are suitably challenged in reading

Priority 3 – Writing

• Improve pupils’ independence in Writing by embedding the school writing strategy
• Deepen teachers’ subject knowledge in GPS/Writing  so that feedback to pupils is more precise and effective
• Provide targeted support for teachers to improve the quality of teaching of writing

Priority 4 – Maths

• Improve the support for teachers to  enable them to plan for progression in maths and ensure that more able pupils are suitably challenged
• Improve the support for teachers to enable them to teach deeper conceptual understanding so that pupils can solve problems and reason in maths
• Provide targeted support for teachers to improve the quality of teaching of maths