The School Improvement Priorities identified for 2018/2019 are:
RE, Catholic Life of the school and Collective Worship
To ensure that the school culture enables and promotes staff and children opportunity to excel in RE, Catholic Life of the school and Collective Worship.
To further develop child led liturgy to strengthen enjoyment and enthusiasm for RE and collective worship
To promote and support mental health, well-being and RSE in school through a revised policy and practice in RSE using approaches such as ‘The Big talk’
Effectiveness of Leadership and Management
To ensure leaders and governors have a deep, accurate understanding of the school’s effectiveness across core subjects informed by the views of pupils, parents and staff (inc co-ordinators) and a clearer understanding of progress towards agreed success criteria.
To further develop the role of middle leaders so they are able to evaluate the impact of the actions they take to improve pupils’ learning and use this to inform future actions.
Quality of teaching, learning and assessment
To develop teacher CPD and resourcing for GP&S through new GP&S Rainbow Grammar sessions
across the school in order to exceed the National Standard of 77% ARE.
To develop teacher CPD and resourcing for Maths Mastery and Literacy Mastery in order to
strengthen the curriculum offer in these core subjects and maintain standards of achievement
with a focus on supporting vulnerable groups.
To ensure all children including vulnerable groups, especially disadvantaged children, make realistic
and sustained progress across the school with teachers identifying and supporting any pupil who
falls behind and enables almost all to catch up, checking understanding systematically andoffering
timely support to reach targets in each cohort to meet / exceed LA figures as follows KS2 GP&S
FSM6 63%, EAL 77%, SEN 33% / Reading FSM6 61%, EAL 66%, SEN 34% / Maths FSM6 62%,
EAL 75%, SEN 34% and KS1 Reading FSM6 58%, EAL 70%, SEN 27% / Writing FSM6 50%, EAL
68%, SEN 17% / Maths FSM6 59%, EAL 75%, SEN 27%
Personal development, behaviour and Welfare
To achieve the ADHD friendly school kite mark through a drive towards providing appropriate
learning experiences for all vulnerable groups of children and gain the Gold mark for being an
‘Altogether School’. Further developing Mental Health pastoral care and support in school.
Outcomes for Pupils
To improve teaching, learning and attainment in GP&S across the school to exceed national figures of 77% and ensure the combined figure for all three subjects exceeds the National figure remain above the floor standard of 65% combined.
To they identify more precisely the barriers to learning for disadvantaged pupils, implementing actions to overcome them and evaluating their actions more sharply to establish what works well, supporting greater rigour in evaluation.
The School Improvement Priorities identified for 2017/2018 are:
Effectiveness of Leadership and Management
· To ensure the school assessment system is reviewed following introduction of new assessment materials with a focus on measuring impact especially for vulnerable groups and high achievers (G&T).
· To ensure leaders and governors have a deep and accurate understanding of the school’s effectiveness and Catholic Ethos of the school informed by parents, pupils and staff views. And use this to focus on improving impact of their actions.
Quality of teaching, learning and assessment
Personal development, behaviour and Welfare
Outcomes for Pupils
The School Improvement Priorities identified for 2016/2017 were;
Effectiveness of Leadership and Management
Quality of Teaching, learning and assessment
Personal development, behaviour and Welfare
Outcomes for Pupils