KEY DEVELOPMENT AND PRIORITIES 2024/2025

1. Quality of Education 

• Continue to monitor the curriculum so that it is routinely strong in all subjects, coherently planned and sequenced towards cumulatively sufficient knowledge, ensuring that the children are retaining key learning (sticky knowledge).
• Continue to raise standards and accelerate progress in writing, including all groups of children

2. Behaviour and Attitudes

• To continue to encourage full attendance
• Pupils have positive attitudes and a commitment to their education through developing their emotional literacy.

3. Personal development

• To continue to support pupils to be physically, mentally and spiritually healthy and to understand how to be responsible, active citizens that contribute positively to society.

4. Leadership and management 

• Leaders continue to focus on improving their own subject and pedagogical content knowledge across Foundation subjects through targeted CPD
• Children’s subject knowledge through knowing more and remembering more is explicitly taught and cross-referenced to deepen their understanding of how the curriculum is connected across subjects and over time.

5. Quality of Education in Early Years  

• The EYFS curriculum provides no limits or barriers to children’s achievements, regardless of their backgrounds, circumstances or needs. 
• Early writing is systematically developed across the wider curriculum.