School Development Plan
School Development Plan (SDP)
As a school we are continually, considering how we can be innovative and develop as a school. We make no excuses for wanting to make sure we concentrate on the children's basics of Reading, Writing and Maths, but look to develop the 'whole rounded' child, by offering a broad and balanced national curriculum.
Working closely with our partner school St Mary's and considering the strategic needs of our school, please find below the link to our 2024-26 SDP (School Development Plan.)
Considering our previous attainment and with our own school evaluation we have come up with four main areas for development over the next few years:
Target 1: Continued improvement in Maths.
Rationale and evaluation:
Monitoring and evaluations shows that the use of a range of mathematical resources (such as to develop procedural and conceptual understanding) is limited as manipulatives are not used consistently across the school.
Observations and samples of books shows that children are not always using the most efficient methods to solve arithmetic problems.
To increase the number of children who attain GDS across the school
Target 2: Develop improvements in Spelling
Rationale and evaluation: To be added by subject leader Richard Adams
Target 3: Development of SEND provision across school.
Rationale and evaluation: We believe that all children, including those identified as having SEND, have a common entitlement to a broad and balanced academic and social curriculum, which is accessible to them, and to be fully included in all aspects of school life as far as possible.
With a growing number of children at SEND support (Number of children at EHCP has consistently been above national averages and was last year 4.3%) we evaluate that we need to consider our SEND provision.
Target 4: Continued subject leadership development.
Rationale and evaluation: To ensure that we have the best curriculum possible, our subject leaders need to be developed to ensure we have consistency in how subject leaders monitor, evaluate and identify areas for improvement.
This is monitored regularly by school leaders, subject leaders and governors to ensure that the strategic aims of the school are met to ensure that the Teaching and Learning is good every day.
St.Helen's Targets: 2023-24
Strategic 3 Year Plan:
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Part 1 A quality education Maths: How are children’s procedural and conceptual understanding developed in tandem through the use of concrete resources to aid representation and structure and mathematical thinking? Prepare for 2024-25: To improve our approach to securing fluency of mathematical facts, such as ‘number sense’/arithmetic and times tables.
Reading for Pleasure: How does the teaching of reading facilitate a culture where reading is pleasurable for children?
Learning environments: How does our school learning environment promote the school ethos, vision and expectations? “The spaces children learn have the potential to transform the way pupils learn, at the same time as sending powerful messages about school expectations, values and beliefs.”
MITA Project: Evidence-based recommendations from the Maximising the Impact of TAs project to be embedded in whole-school practice. Please note this will be added as an additional SDP targets.
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Part 2 Leadership and Management- Continuous Improvement Curriculum: How does the connected curriculum support children’s personal development?
Subject Leadership CPD : Is there consistency in how subject leaders monitor, evaluate and identify areas for improvement?
SEND Support : How are our more vulnerable children across school supported to achieve our vision statement? Development of MITA project – deployment of adults, challenge for SENDK Children |
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Part 3 Pupil Personal Development Thrive: Are all children’s SEMH needs met? Continue to embed the Thrive system to help develop children’s SEMH OPAL and Play across the school: How does our environment lend itself to enhancing imaginative play and children independent skills? Behaviour and Attitudes: Are all children are explicitly aware of school values, routines and behaviours? Development of new behaviour policy which has very clear links to thrive practices and the restorative practices that we have in school.
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Click on the link below to see in more detail how we will try to achieve the aims on our SDP.
St.Helen's Targets: 2022-23
Continuously improve, developing quality and consistency in teaching and learning
1.Reading - Fully embedding the Reading changes to ensure quality, consistency and impact, for lowest 20% readers.
Phonics - new phonics programme implemented and embedded across the year for impact. Introduction of Read Write Inc Phonics programme.
Writing - Development in writing, sequence of teaching, spelling and handwriting programme/sequence is embedded in school.
Maths - Implementing new approach to teaching of times tables and times table policy.
Engaging with the ‘Teaching for Mastery’ programme with Boolean Maths Hub, implementing the ‘Five Big Ideas’ (NCETM)
Teaching and Learning - Creating ‘teaching and learning guide’ to support coaching and continuous improvement for staff
Partnership Targets
Curriculum Design
To fully embed the connected curriculum across the partnership to show the impact of the Curriculum
Subject Leadership
To develop the leadership skills of the subject leaders to ensure the intent, implementation and impact of all subjects is clear
Assessment Processes
To implement a common vision for assessment and standardised testing across the Partnership
Development of Teaching Assistants to enhance learning outcomes for all children
Involvement in the Local authority MITA project.
Pupil Personal Developments
To improve children’s enjoyment of play and to develop the school environment to better enable play for all children through the OPAL project and through delivery of extra -curricular clubs
To develop and embed a whole-school Thrive approach to enhance children’s Social Emotional Mental Health
Click on the link below to see in more detail how this will be achieved and who is responsible for each school development target.