School Development Priorities

SDP 2023-24

Codifying Culture

• UAB approach to anti-bullying across the school

• Zones of Regulation to provide emotional education and regulation strategies

• ‘When The Adults Change’ approach to relationship and behaviour management

Why: to provide a shared language and consistent approach for children from all staff throughout the day and to help children develop their emotional maturity.

Diversity

• ensuring the school curriculum is inclusive and diverse to represent our community

• Children should be able to see themselves in their learning

• Children should be exposed to diverse cultures, wealth, abilities, interests and communities

• Curriculum emphasis on RE

Why: the school community has diversified significantly in recent years, child survey for ABA scored low on sense of belonging.

English Writing

• assessment of writing: greater use of Insight across the teaching sequence; visible success criteria to start units and for final independent writing

• writing across the curriculum using a recently taught English unit (Eg. writing a newspaper about the eruption of Vesuvius having completed a newspaper T4W sequence in English earlier that term)

• Use of RE stimulus for writing (link to Diversity target)

• Whole school spelling system - what can we do to develop spelling

Why: more able attainment in writing is lower than reading and maths. In-house data suggests spelling gaps are more prevalent. Writing outside of English books can lack grammatical levels.

Sustainability

• Improving the sustainability of the school: lighting, solar panels reducing the carbon footprint of the school and making energy cost savings to the budget

• Further enrichment of pupil experience: gardening, Eco Council, recycling

• Creating global citizens that take pride in their environment through curriculum links and initiatives

Why: to further strengthen the work begun in 2022-23

Strategic Thinking

The school leadership team are always planning ahead and developing the improvements to the school in a careful and structured way. We have launched 'Leading Teaching & Learning' as a way to share some snippets of our thinking and processes with parents.