Key Priorities

Key Priorities 2025-2026

Quality of Education

• Improve pupil outcomes across core subjects by ensuring a well-sequenced, ambitious curriculum is delivered consistently across all year groups.
• Enhance the quality of teaching and learning through targeted CPD (Continuing Professional Development) focused on evidence-based pedagogical strategies and subject-specific teaching.
• Develop consistent assessment practices that inform teaching, identify gaps in learning early, and support accelerated progress for all pupils, particularly disadvantaged and SEND learners.
• Promote reading for pleasure and academic success, ensuring early reading and phonics provision is high-quality and effectively monitored.

Personal Development

• Strengthen pupils’ personal development by enhancing the PSHE curriculum, promoting wellbeing, and ensuring all pupils have access to a wide range of enrichment opportunities.
• Promote inclusion, character education, and pupils’ understanding of diversity and British values through the curriculum and wider school life.

Behaviour and Attitudes

• Increase pupil attendance and reduce persistent absence by embedding a proactive attendance strategy, improving parental engagement, and providing timely interventions.
• Foster a positive school culture where behaviour expectations are clear, consistently applied, and underpinned by respectful relationships and shared values.

Leadership and Management

• Develop subject leadership capacity and confidence by providing clear expectations, time for leadership responsibilities, and access to coaching and subject-specific networks.
• Ensure subject leaders effectively monitor, evaluate, and improve their areas to raise standards across the curriculum.
• Embed a shared vision for school improvement through strong communication, inclusive leadership, and alignment between governors, leaders, and staff.
• Strengthen collaboration within and beyond the school by engaging with local networks, a new Multi Academy Trust and community stakeholders to share practice and drive improvement.

Safeguarding and Inclusion

Threaded through all areas

• Maintain a strong safeguarding culture where staff are vigilant and responsive, and safeguarding policies and practices are fully embedded and regularly reviewed.
• Promote inclusion and equality of opportunity for all pupils, ensuring the curriculum and school ethos support success for every child.