Below, you will find our 2024/25 Improvement Plan, outlining our key priorities for the year ahead. This plan focuses on enhancing the learning experience, supporting student well-being, and fostering a strong partnership with our school community to ensure continued growth and success.
In addition, you can access our 2023/24 and 2022/23 Standards and Quality Reports. These comprehensive documents provide detailed insights into the progress and outcomes of our previous improvement priorities. They highlight key achievements, areas for further development, and the positive impact these initiatives have had on our students, staff, and overall school environment.
We encourage you to explore these resources to better understand our commitment to continuous improvement and how we are shaping the future of our school.
Our Improvement Priorities for this session are:
Priority 1: Wellbeing
New Campus - developing links with St.Joseph’s
CIRCLE - supporting inclusive practice within education. Strategies to support learners with additional support needs
HWB (Health & Wellbeing) Curriculum - review current curriculum and implement revised authority progression pathways
Priority 2: Creatvitiy
Mathematics - ‘Count with Me WDC’ - a developed approach that will increase teacher knowledge of how to plan opportunities for learners to build number sense, explore the structure of number, and gain and apply a range of mental number strategies that build flexible and agile minds.
Priority 3: Attainment
mproved School Attendance - developing approaches, strategies and interventions to improve pupil attendance
Visible Learning - pupils know what they need to learn, how to learn it, and how to evaluate their own progress.
Data - to increase staff knowledge in the use of data to plan improvements and clearly articulate the impact of interventions.
Priority 4: Employability
Problem based learning - Problem-based learning (PBL) is a teaching method that involves pupils actively engaging with real-world problems and applying their knowledge to find solutions. PBL encourages pupils to work collaboratively in small groups to analyse a problem, identify key questions, conduct research, and develop solutions.