School Improvement Priorities 2022 - 23

PRIORITY 1

Ensure that our curriculum is clearly sequenced towards cumulatively sufficient knowledge and skills for future learning.

  • The construction of our history, geography and science curriculum is further improved in its design, ensuring it is more ambitious, coherently planned and sequenced for robust progression, allowing teachers to focus on the lesson.
  • The construction of our computing curriculum is further improved in its design, ensuring it is more ambitious, coherently planned and sequenced for robust progression, allowing teachers to focus on the lesson.
  • The core component units of knowledge in all other subjects are clearly identified and carefully sequenced to ensure that children cumulatively acquire the key knowledge that they require for future learning.

PRIORITY 2

Raise achievement and accelerate progress in mathematics so that above average proportion of pupils make or exceed the expected rate of progress.

  • Fluency in all pupils is further developed including the introduction of the ‘Mastering Number programme’ in Reception to Year 2.
  • Improve the teaching of variation, representation and structure and mathematical thinking through establishing teaching for mastery in all classes
  • Improve teaching and intervention to ensure that we identify and address learning gaps.

PRIORITY 3

Improve the progress children make in reading

  • The teaching and assessment of phonics/early reading in EYFS and Y1 ensures that higher standards are achieved.
  • Assessment of reading is more effective and informs next steps.
  • Ensure that children who are lower ability or off-track, make accelerated progress through well planned and focused reading and phonics intervention. (also part of SIP 4)
  • Ensure that more able pupils are appropriately challenged in reading
  • Improve opportunities for ‘reading for pleasure’ across the school.

PRIORITY 4

Improve the provision of targeted academic support for individual pupils

  • Targeted interventions are effective and follow the EEF TARGET system (Timing, Assessment, Resourcing, Give it time, Expert Delivery, Teacher links)
  • Children with SEN make good progress as we continue to build an ongoing, holistic understanding of our pupils and their needs

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