Key Priorities

Key Priorities 2025-26

That all children continue to receive well-planned and challenging teaching

• To incorporate and embed research on best practice teaching methods into our classrooms, with particular reference to feedback and behaviour and relationships;

• To continue to improve teaching and attainment in reading and writing particularly those with low prior attainment;

• To continue to improve teaching and attainment in reading and writing particularly those with low prior attainment;

• To embed approach to presentation and handwriting across the schools;
• To map out an engaging and developmental curriculum.

That all children continue to learn and achieve in a safe, respectful and tolerant environment

• To ensure the lowest  attaining children  make accelerated progress;

• To ensure we have high expectations for our EAL/deprivation / Black /Turkish/Kurdish/ SEND children and have worked to  remove any barriers to achievement;

• To establish a shared policy for managing behaviour, including anti-bullying;
• To establish a playground buddy system with the Infant School to support positive relationships and citizenship.

To promote children spiritually, culturally, mentally and physically

• To embed and extend links across the schools  that create awareness of our children as responsible citizens;

• To ensure all staff are positive disruptors of inequality, combat bias and support the reprogramming of the thinking of our whole school community;
• To continue to develop our approach as  a ‘mentally healthy school’ for children and staff.

To ensure everyone is a leader

• Senior leaders across the federation have clarity of purpose regarding the new shared ethos;