St. Ethelbert’s Catholic Primary School

Improvement Plan

2017 – 2018

Headteacher: John Letts

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Chair of Governors: Claire Turner

Budget Implications:

Total Cost of School Plan

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The school was last inspected by Ofsted Section 5 Inspection on 9th & 10th July 2015 and was judged as ‘Good’.

Outcome Judgements:

Overall Effectiveness / Leadership & Management / Behaviour & Safety of Pupils / Quality of Teaching / Achievement of Pupils / Early Years Provision
2 / 2 / 1 / 2 / 2 / 2

Areas for Improvement identified from the last inspection:

  • Achievement in writing needs to match reading and mathematics Nearly there
  • Marking and feedback needs to be consistently of a high quality Nearly there
  • Spelling skills need to be improved to match or better National expectations Complete
  • The most able pupils need to make rapid progress by more demanding work and time to undertake these tasks. Nearly there

These areas for improvement are the key priorities for the School Plan

1. Effectiveness of Leadership & Management

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2. Quality of Teaching, Learning & Assessment

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3. Personal development, Behaviour & Welfare

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4. Outcomes for Pupils

  • Rigorous monitoring of pupils’ progress and of teaching through new teaching protocol and new SLT
  • Ensure action plans show exactly what will be done to raise standards to help leaders and governors to check progress and actions in place by end of Term 2
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  • Ensure teachers can show progress in lessons and books
  • Teachers use the new assessment recording effectively
  • Writing standards to improve further
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  • Monitor and evaluate accident and behaviour
  • Pupil referral team to act on pupils not engaging fully
  • Improve statistics on punctuality and attendance
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  • To analyse present data (Pupil Asset) for second year of new tests and teacher assessments and use information to maximise outcomes for all pupils in all classes.
  • Monitoring new 10% focus groups

1. Effectiveness of Leadership & Management

Areas for Improvement – What needs to improve to meet the outcome?

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Success Criteria – What will success look like by July 2018?

  • Rigorous monitoring of pupils’ progress and of teaching through new teaching protocol and new SLT
  • Ensure action plans show exactly what will be done to raise standards to help leaders and governors to check progress and actions in place by end of Term 1
/ Senior Leaders will:
  • Monitor Middle Leaders
  • Access data to drive school forward
  • Interrogate the Ofsted schedule to move school to ‘outstanding’.
  • Work with and inform stakeholders
  • Re-energise disadvantage data after PP Leader absence and retirement
Middle Leaders will:
  • Accurately monitor the standards of teaching & learning and books with report to HT.
  • All subject leaders plan actions that will impact directly on quality of teaching and achievement of pupils and have a subject week.
  • Evidence the impact their actions have made and present their evidence to Governors.
Governors will:
  • Have a clear and detailed understanding of what actions leaders have taken to improve outcomes and the impact of these actions against the school’s milestones
Impact on teaching & learning:
  • Target of 100% of teaching will be good to outstanding. Teachers to be mindful of not being too didactic when introducing the lesson.
  • Developmental marking is of highest standard, pupils regularly respond with relevant improvements and new protocol followed.

Termly Milestones – refer to milestones for Leadership and Management

Actions

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Lead(supported by as applicable)

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Costs / Resources

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Monitoring & Evaluation

Who?

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When?

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What?

Journey to Outstanding KCC course
Monitor the new protocol
Governors meet and agree and have ownership of SIP
Training for DH and U3 teacher / HT
HT
Chair / HT
HT / £1400
£1000 supply
Nil
£2000 / JL / KL / CB
JL/ KL / CB / Subject leaders
Governors /HT/DHT
HT / 3/11/17
Every term
Oct. 2017
On-going / Follow the actions that will support the school’s journey
Monitor closely planning, books, lessons, marking and response
Ownership and understanding
Safeguarding, NPQH, appraisal, CCRS,other needs

Evaluation:

LeadershipMilestones:
Term 2 / Implications for next term:

2. Quality of Teaching, Learning & Assessment Outcome - Teaching to be judged through triangulation as securely good or better by July 2018

Areas for Improvement – What needs to improve to meet the outcome?

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Success Criteria – What will success look like by July 2018?

  • Ensure teachers can show progress in lessons and books
  • Teachers use the new assessment recording effectively
  • Writing standards to still improve
/ Teachers will:
  • Assess learners’ ability accurately
  • Create purposeful learning by planning it to build on learners’ prior attainment
  • Plan tasks that are appropriately matched to the needs of the learners
  • Establish clear and specific success criteria within lessons
  • Time lessons appropriately so that teacher talk develops thinking and explain expectations but learners have sufficient time to develop new skills
  • Teaching Assistants are deployed effectively to have an impact on learners’ outcomes throughout the lesson
  • Marking and feedback will be more focused to showing pupil progress and supporting assessment moderation
Learners will:
  • Talk about what they have learned
  • Know what they need to do to improve
  • Respond to feedback and act on it
  • Are engaged and enthusiastic about their learning
  • Pupils’ resilience will improve and desire to improve will be more apparent
  • Show consistent on-task behaviour
Impact on teaching & learning:
  • 100% teaching will be good or outstanding in all areas
  • Termly milestones are met

Termly Milestones Overview

Term 2

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Term 4

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Term 6

20% Teaching to be judged through triangulation as outstanding
100% good+ / 40% Teaching to be judged through triangulation as outstanding / 60% Teaching to be judged through triangulation as outstanding

Term 2

Milestone

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Actions

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Lead(supported by as applicable)

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Costs / Resources

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Monitoring & Evaluation

Who?

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When?

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What?

20% Teaching to be judged through triangulation as outstanding
100% teaching judged to be good /
  • Triangulation monitoring in Term 1with SLT
/ SLT / Supply
Cover
£1000 / CB HT & DH / By end of Term1 and end of Term 2 / Lesson monitoring:
100% of teachers using effective HLO/LO and S.C.
100% of teachers meeting needs of all groups
Book Monitoring shows lessons are building on prior attainment
Teachers can clearly demonstrate progress with confidence
Staff CPD on teaching protocol improvements / Subject Leaders / CPD £2000 / HT
CB-maths
KL - English / 6 sessions in Term 1 and 2 / Book scrutiny that shows adherence to protocol
Evaluate TA impact from training given in Every Lesson Counts. / CTs / £3000 / SLT / T.A.’s deployed effectively and having an impact on accelerating learning

Evaluation:

Milestones / Implications for next term:

3. Personal Development, Behaviour & Welfare

Areas for Improvement – What needs to improve to meet the outcome?

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Success Criteria – What will success look like by July 2018?

  • Monitor and evaluate accident, child protection and behaviour
/ Use of ‘My Concern’ to generate reports for analysis
  • Pupil referral team to act on pupils not engaging fully
/ Use of specialist SENCo TA team to support pupil’s not giving 100% - including support and recommending training for solving problems. Unengaged pupils engaged.
  • Improve statistics on lates and attendance
/ Pupils arriving between 8:45 and 8:55 in class and a reduction in absences based on last year.

Evaluation:

Milestones / Term 1 Percentage attendance
Term 1 Lateness
Term 1 Behaviour
Term 1 exclusions
Term 1 analysis and percentage improvement targets for Term 2

4.Outcomes for pupils–To meet all targets set for Statutory Assessments 2018

Areas for Improvement – What needs to improve to meet the outcome?

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Success Criteria – What will success look like by July 2018?

  • To analyse present data (Pupil Asset) for third year of new tests and teacher assessments and use information to maximise outcomes for all pupils in all classes. (see specific year related issues)
  • Data shows that the school needs to work on GDS at maths in KS1 (below LA/NA) and KS2 (maths progress is minus when reading and writing are positive)
Impact of new 10% focus groups – emerging to expected and expected to exceeding / Individual pupil targets will be met
Triangulated Evidence shows
  • Expected data more accurate
  • Gap analysis acted upon
  • Last year’s pupil asset data analysed
  • Attention to NFER data
  • The gap is closing between writing and reading /maths
  • The gap is closing between those Disadvantaged and all pupils, in all classes, in all subjects at all key stages
  • Measurable data clear for governor monitoring
  • Improve teaching of maths at GDS.
Each class will move 3 pupils upwards from each category over the year.
Targets for Statutory Assessments / 2016 Data / 2017 Data / Targets for July 2018
% Children meeting the expected standard
EYFS GLD / 74%
(0% GDS) / 81%
(0% GDS) / 85%
Phonics Screen Year 1 / 72% / 61% / 85%
Pupils achieving the expected standard in Year 2
Reading
Writing
Maths / 70%
70%
80%
(13%
GDS) / 71%
58%
74%
(13%
GDS) / 85%
(20% GDS)
Disadvantaged pupils achieving the expected standard in Year 2
Reading
Writing
Maths / 67%
67%
67% / 63%
63%
75% / 85%
Pupils achieving combined Reading, Writing, Maths, ScienceSPaG in Year 6 / 50% / 69%
(10% GDS) / 85%
(33% GDS)
Disadvantaged pupils achieving the expected standard in combined Reading, Writing, Maths & GPS in Year 6 / R=80%
W=70%
M=70%
S= 80% / 100%
100%
100%
100% / 100%
Pupils achieving the expected standard in Year 6
Reading, Writing
GPS, Maths / R=70%
W=77%
M=73%
Sp=76% / R=79%
W=89%
M=79%
Sp=83% / 85%

Termly Milestones Overview

% of pupils on track for combined

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Term 2

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Term 4

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Term 6

Nursery am
Nursery pm
Reception
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4
Year 5
Year 6

Term 2

Milestone

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Actions

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Lead(supported by as applicable)

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Date

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Costs / Resources

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Monitoring & Evaluation

Who?

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When?

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What?

To monitor school each term in line with new assessments
Each class monitored for each subject for emerging, expected, exceeded and combined / SLT / Every term / N/a / Gov / Each term / Data sheet in Gov. Report.

Evaluation:

Milestone Met %
Not Met %
Exceed % / Implications for next term:

Starting Point

Pupil Asset Data September 2017 – Start of Term 1

Year 6 / Year 5 / Year 4 / Year 3 / Year 2 / Year 1 / Rec
ROLL / 29 / 30 / 30 / 30 / 31 / 31 / 30
Reading exp+ / 97% / 92% / 73% / 97% / 77% / 84%
Reading
GDS / 43% / 26% / 0% / 33% / 27% / 6%
Writing exp+ / 90% / 83% / 53% / 81% / 61% / 83%
Writing GDS / 43% / 20% / 0% / 20% / 20% / 3%
Maths exp+ / 90% / 92% / 77% / 90% / 77% / 77%
Maths GDS / 53% / 43% / 3% / 20% / 7% / 3%
SPAG exp+ / 90% / 73% / 80%
SPAG GDS / 7% / 7% / 7%
Science / 90% / 92% / 83% / 77% / 77% / 84%
Combined
Exp+ / 90% / 80% / 70% / 59% / 64% / 81%
Combined
GDS / 34% / 10% / 13% / 13% / 3% / 0%

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