School Improvement - St Cuthbert's RC Primary School

Overview of School Improvement Priorities 2016-17

Effectiveness of Leadership and Management – Increase capacity at all levels of leadership to include effective use of monitoring to impact teaching and learning.

Success Criteria:

Increased capacity at all levels of leadership, leaders involved in the monitoring of their own subject area.
To further embed the schools’ vision and fundamental SMSC
To ensure the safety and well-being of pupils at all times.

Further develop the role of Governors in monitoring

Quality of teaching – Increase standards of Maths, Reading & Writing across KS1 & KS2 (100% of teaching to be at least good)

Success criteria:

All pupils will make at least good progress across all subjects and all year groups.
Effective practice will be shared; increasing the % of teaching that is good and outstanding to 100% from 70% in summer term 2016.
Children are more resilient in their approach to learning.
Interventions continue to impact on progress, particularly for PP groups compared to nationally.
Assessment system is embedded and shows progress and attainment.

To increase awareness of E- Safety and Staying Safe.

To sustain the sense of our global community.

To further develop children’s spiritual development.

Success Criteria

All children and staff have a wider understanding of safety within the curriculum.
Children have a greater understanding of how to stay safe on line and in the community
Children have a greater understanding of their school saints and can plan and lead worships to celebrate the life of their Saint.
Further young leadership programmes are created at school.
Links with French schools are strengthened through correspondence
International School Award achieved.
Links to RE Action Plan

Outcomes for Pupils: To develop the use of formative and summative assessment to improve pupil attainment and achievement so that above 80% of all pupils are achieving age related expectations at both Key Stages.

Success Criteria:

All pupils continue to consistently make good progress throughout all year groups especially in Reading, Writing and Maths
Teachers know the attainment grades and progress for all pupils and use this to inform their planning
Given their starting points the standards of attainment of all groups of pupils are likely to be at least in-line with national averages with many pupils attaining above this
A higher percentage of Year 6 children to achieve the expected standard in Reading, Writing and Maths combined. This should increase on the 2016’s 61% that met the combined score.
A higher % of children to achieve the expected standard in Reading, Writing and Maths in Year 2 than in 2016.
A higher % of boys attaining ‘At Greater Depth’ in reading and writing at the end of all key assessment points – EYFS, Year 2 and Year 6.

Success Criteria