We would like to share our school development priorities for this academic year. Our school was last inspected by Ofsted in July 2023 and we were judged to be ‘Good’. One area of improvement was identified:

'In a few subjects, routines used to check pupils’ knowledge and skills are not firmly established. As a result, teachers are not able to identify and address gaps in pupils’ knowledge as accurately as in other subjects. This means pupils do not achieve as well as they could. Leaders should continue to develop their approaches to checking pupils’ understanding in these subjects so that teachers have the information they need to provide timely and effective support to pupils who do not understand and remember key subject content.' Ofsted July 2023

Our priorities for 2025-26 are:

1. Attendance: We continue our drive to improve attendance rates for children across all phases of the school (SEND, vulnerable, PPG) – sustaining.
2. To continue our drive to address financial constraints caused by our falling roll with a view to increasing pupil numbers and raising our profile as the school of choice in our local community - sustaining.
3. To review adaptation for children with SEND / EAL in our maths mastery curriculum - embedding.
4. To review our English curriculum to ensure that teaching in Reception and KS1 focuses on high-quality transcription and sentence instruction, using small steps of progress to gradually develop broader writing skills in KS2, in line with the DfE’s new Writing Framework - developing.
5. To promote oracy and the acquisition of vocabulary to support children’s writing development, with a particular focus on children with EAL and SEND - embedding.