School Improvement Priorities 2024 - 25

PRIORITY 1

Improve Oracy and classroom talk

• Have an ambitious vision for oracy which ensures that teachers set high expectations for oracy in their classrooms.
• Build a culture of oracy which ensures that teachers value every voice.
• Have a sustained and wide-ranging curriculum for oracy in which oracy is explicitly taught
• Recognise that oracy is central to learning and elevates learning
• Teachers are able to appraise progress in oracy.

PRIORITY 2

To embed an ethic of excellence across the curriculum

• Create a culture of excellence at Barrowford St Thomas
• Improve children’s work through producing multiple drafts, linked to critique
• Give the children more opportunities to make their work public
• Improve presentation of work, including handwriting

PRIORITY 3

To raise achievement and accelerate progress in mathematics, especially in reasoning so that above average proportion of pupils make or exceed the expected rate of progress.

• Improve the teaching of reasoning including providing strategies to allow children to access multi step and reasoning problems
• Provide intervention to support reasoning
•  Develop metacognitive strategies used by children to support independent work around mathematical reasoning

CHURCH SCHOOL PRIORITY

Ensure that our school’s distinctive Christian vision is established enabling pupils and adults to flourish.

• Improve the teaching of religious education in school through the introduction of the revised Blackburn Diocesan scheme of work.
• There are increased opportunities for our pupils to become courageous advocates.
• Prayer spaces are developed and used around school.
• Our children are enabled to reflect on different themes of collective worship and are involved in planning/delivering/evaluating worship