The School Improvement Priorities identified for 2024/2025 are:

RE, Catholic Life of the school and Collective Worship

• Update and share the DSED for Catholic Life, RE and Collective Worship to ensure all stakeholders have an understanding of the schools evaluation and progress.
• Continue to expand curriculum delivery of the new RECD with staff across the school beginning to follow resources available

• Ensure the RE curriculum is a core subject and central to the school’s curriculum offer
• Develop staff understanding and implementation of Ten-Ten resources for assemblies   

Quality of Education

• To strengthen the PSHE and RSE curriculum offer through the use of Ten-Ten resources working in partnership with the MAT
• To further strengthen teaching and learning in RE to ensure pupils see this as a corner stone to St Joseph’s Curriculum, structuring the curriculum so that RE is central. 
• Develop a revised Maths curriculum and assessment model which supports closing gaps in pupils knowledge and understanding through focused interventions.

Behaviour and Attitudes

• To ensure children have a desire to learn and share their learning, through acquisition of fixed knowledge and enjoyment of the curriculum both in school and out of school.
• Secure Assessment for learning practices across school to ensure all children keep up and are supported by quality first teaching and learning strategies based in AFL pedagogy
• To ensure the children have a secure understanding and awareness of British Values.
• To further strengthen our management of attendance, behaviour and assessment through use of Arbor and evaluate the benefits of becoming a Google school.

Personal Development

• To strengthen opportunities for well-being across key stakeholders including children and staff. 
• To focus on the development of the person to provide opportunities for extensive personal development. 
• To implement the use of CPOMS into the school systems to record Safeguarding and SEND concerns

Effectiveness of Leadership and Management

• To strengthen the Chaplaincy provision in school supporting the implementation and review of Celebrations of the word.
• To increase opportunity to review, share and moderate teacher assessments especially with other settings through working alongside the MAT.

Early Years

• Enhance the curriculum provision to ensure there are no limits or barriers to achievement regardless of background, with a focus on challenge and interaction for children and staff specifically during work time. 
• To develop stronger working practices across the team to ensure a shared vision is implemented.

The School Improvement Priorities identified for 2023/2024 are:

RE, Catholic Life of the school and Collective Worship

• Updating and sharing the DSEF for Catholic Life, RE and Collective Worship
• Begin to trial the new RECD with all staff across the school and develop resources (powerpoints)

• Develop prayer life in school with Liturgy leaders from each class delivering self-planned collective worship.

Quality of Education

• To ensure attainment across all year groups matches or exceeds National averages in Maths (KS1 70%, KS2 73%) supporting misconceptions and enabling opportunities for assessment in maths to be strengthened by teaching pedagogy.
• The curriculum content of Science and PE should enable pupils to develop detailed knowledge and skills with greater confidence from staff.
• To further develop subject leader deep dives to measure outcomes for pupils’ achievement including disadvantaged and pupils with SEND.

Behaviour and Attitudes

• To ensure children have a desire to learn and share their learning, through acquisition of fixed knowledge and enjoyment of the curriculum both in school and out of school.
• To ensure parents have a greater knowledge and understanding of behaviour and contribute towards the life of the school in tangible ways (food banks, clubs, reading partners, stay and play)
• To further strengthen the attendance procedures, especially for vulnerable pupils, by beginning with a MAT attendance policy and procedure.

Personal Development

• To strengthen opportunities for children to children to share their knowledge and understanding follow development of children’s fixed knowledge and understanding across all areas of the curriculum, ensuring children acquire fixed knowledge and we as staff are able to evaluate the knowledge gained through our curriculum delivery. 
• To ensure parents have a greater knowledge and understanding of behaviour and contribute towards the life of the school in tangible ways (food banks, healthy eating week, clubs, reading partners, stay and play)
• To focus on the development of the person to provide opportunities for extensive personal development (outstanding) through school council values and debates, making children resilient and independent

Effectiveness of Leadership and Management

• To continue to ensure opportunities for continual professional development, including pedagogical content for staff which is aligned with the curriculum and enables for shared leadership in the school’s approach to the curriculum review and implementation.
• Teachers need further opportunity to review, share and moderate teacher assessments especially with other settings.

Early Years

• We need to enhance the curriculum provision to ensure there are no limits or barriers to achievement regardless of background, with a focus on challenge and interaction for children and staff specifically during work time. 
• To strengthen engagement of children to sustain higher levels of concentration through EYFS resources and staffing to enrich the curriculum with greater ambition with a focus on discussion of subject matter by all parties.