School Improvement Priorities 2025 - 26

PRIORITY 1

Improve outcomes and overall attainment in writing

• To have an ambitious vision for writing which ensures that teachers set high expectations for teaching and learning in writing in their classrooms.
• To craft a progressive and modern curriculum for writing allowing children to be immersed in quality practice.
• To celebrate and share high quality written outcomes.
• To recognise that oracy is central to learning to write and elevate our writing using oracy strategies.
• Teachers are able to accurately appraise progress in writing.

PRIORITY 2

Improve low-level behaviour

• To review and reimplement our behaviour policy with consistency and fairness for all.
• To celebrate and promote positive behaviour.
• To create school leaders amongst the children to model and uphold high standards of behaviour.
• To effectively monitor and proactively respond to repeated incidents of poor behaviour.

PRIORITY 3

Improve SEND provision and outcomes

• The SENDCo for school will be established with suitable and current training.
• Children with SEND will have clear pathways to identify needs and offer support.
• Provision for children with SEND will be ‘different from/additional to’ in all classes.

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 development 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.