School aims and targets

"Senior leaders know their school very well and their evaluations are precise and accurate. They draw on their in-depth knowledge to generate tightly-focused action plans to rapidly drive identified areas forward. For example, leaders are honing in on improving standards in writing, as these are lower than those of reading and mathematics. Writing specialists lead training for staff and all teachers have writing as a target for improvement. "  (Ofsted 2014) 

We aim to:        
  • Equip children with the skills, knowledge and understanding they will need for life-long learning in the 21st century. 
  • Offer a broad and balanced education, maintaining high expectations of pupils’ achievements, with a strong commitment to improving the basic skills of all learners. 
  • Provide an extended range of experiences. 
  • Create a school community whose members can live a full, happy and secure life and achieve their full potential. 
  • Help children to develop creativity, originality and enquiring minds and become self-motivating learners. 
  • Provide a stimulating and caring environment which promotes positive attitudes to exploration, investigations and logical thinking. 
  • Help children to develop as moral and caring individuals with high self-esteem who are sensitive to the needs of others. 
  • Meet the needs and interests of all learners with a strong commitment to Inclusion and Equality of Opportunity for all. 
  • Encourage children to take responsibility and use initiative. 
  • Achieve a collaborative partnership between staff, parents, governors and other members of the community. 
  • Help children, parents and the community as a whole to become more aware of the environment and the need to conserve it.
Our Ofsted targets are (Nov 2014):
To raise the quality of teaching to outstanding and thereby accelerate pupils' progress by making sure that they:
  • challenge the most able pupils and to ensure they build on levels they achieve in the previous Key Stage.
  • make sure the disadvantaged pupils (although making good progress) reach the same standards of other pupils in the school or nationally.
Our Basic Skills Quality Mark targets are:
  • To increase the percentage of children in the Early Years Foundation (EYFS) attaining a good level of development.
  • To increase the percentage of pupils attaining the expected standard in the Year 1 phonics development.
  • To increase the attainment of pupils of average ability in reading, writing and mathematics by raising expectations about their capability of attaining above average scores.