Key Priorities 2024-2025

Our Key priorities have been identified with the consideration that good practice in place must be sustained and evolved. Where areas are already a strength of the school, we continue to look at these as a key priority. 

1. Quality of Education

1.1 Attainment is in line with or exceeds national expectations

1.2 Pathways to Writing is embedded from Years 1 – 6 to ensure that outcomes in English are improved. KS2 writing to be in line with national expectations.

1.3 Phonics teaching and assessment ensures that early reading continues to be a high priority thus resulting in academic success across the curriculum and throughout school. Phonics data to exceed national and local data

1.4 Curriculum coverage and assessment ensures breadth, depth and quality outcomes for children

1.5 Children with SEND and those with disadvantage are supported well to make progress in line with their peers and/or individual targets

2. Behaviour and attitudes

2.1 Behaviour and attitudes around school demonstrate high expectations for self and others, as a result, all children achieve well.

3. Personal Development

3.1 Enhanced opportunities for children increase their educational and personal outcomes

3.2 Teaching of British Values is embedded within the curriculum and collective worship

4. Leadership and Management

4.1 Effective leadership and management ensure that staff and pupils are successful

4.2 Governor monitoring ensures that leaders are held to account effectively

5. Early Years Foundation Stage

5.1 Children receive a strong start to their school life, developing effective learning behaviours and a curiosity of their world.

How can Parents and Carers help with this?

Writing

• encourage your child to read widely as this really helps to develop their vocabulary.  Read daily, selecting texts with appropriate challenge and of different types. Discuss books and texts that are read. Read to your child and discuss texts. Model good reading behaviours in the household, children are more likely to enjoy reading if they have positive reading role models. 
• Talk to your children about their writing in school - show and interest and help challenge their ideas and vocabulary
• Help children to learn to spell words as per those set out in the national curriculum

The curriculum

• encourage your child to talk to the teacher about what interests them.
• Ask your children about what they are learning in school, show an interest in their curriculum

Assessment

The national expectations for what children are expected to know and do are significant. To see the expectations in each subject, have a look below.

Attendance
Most children attend school every day unless they are very ill, some unfortunately do not. As we are a small school this has a big impact on our overall attendance compared to national averages. Please remember;

• no holiday are granted in school time

• appointments for the doctor and dentist can usually be made out of school hours; please try to do this where possible

• if your child is very sick, please ring school (01945 700275) to let us know

• please provide medical proof if your child has an unavoidable medical appointment in school hours

• if there is an unavoidable appointment, please return you child to school for the rest of the day once the appointment is finished