This year our targets are as follows:

Priority 1: Safeguarding

• Continue to prioritise safeguarding through regular staff training, clear procedures and consistent monitoring.  This ensures staff remain alert to emerging risks and able to respond appropriately, with safeguarding practice kept under continual review.

 Priority 2: Inclusion

• Leaders will maintain and build on exceptional standards of inclusion, ensuring that barriers to learning and well-being for disadvantaged pupils, those with SEND, and other vulnerable groups are continually reduced, so that all pupils experience highly positive outcomes and opportunities to thrive.

Priority 3: Quality of Education – Achievement

• Overall attainment is broadly in line with national, with pupils generally well prepared for the next stage of education, employment or training.
• Increase greater depth attainment across KS1 and KS2.
• Improve KS2 reading (EXS & GDS), including vocabulary and inference.
• Embed extended writing across the curriculum.

Priority 4: Quality of Education – Teaching and the Curriculum

• Continue to embed well-planned, highly responsive teaching across all subjects and phases, ensuring that knowledge and skills are developed securely and progressively for all pupils.

Priorty 5: Early Years In School

• Strengthen system leadership by sharing expertise and effective practice with other schools and professional networks to support wider educational improvement.

Priority 6: Attendance and Behaviour

• Continue to maintain exceptional standards of attendance and behaviour by reinforcing the school’s inclusive culture, ensuring all pupils feel a strong sense of belonging by providing ongoing, tailored support for pupils who need additional help with attendance or behaviour, using highly skilled staff and evidence-informed interventions to achieve measurable improvements.

Priority 7: Personal Development and Well Being

• To maintain exceptionally high standards of pesonal development and well-being, ensuring all pupils feel supported, develop detailed knowledge and skills, and make a strong contribution to the school’s inclusive culture.

Priority 8: Leadership and Governance

• Continue to develop and maintain exceptionally high standards of leadership and governance by ensuring that governors, leaders at all levels, and staff remain fully engaged with the school’s strategic priorities, collaboratively driving continued improvement and sustaining excellence across all areas of the school’s work.