Key Priorities

Key Priorities 2025-26

That all children, no matter their barriers, receive well-planned and challenging teaching in a safe, respectful, 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.

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 improve fluency skills, especially in multiplication in Years 3 and 4.

Belmont develops the whole child - spiritually, morally, culturally 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.

Everyone is a leader

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