Sherburn CE VC Primary School

School Development Plan

2017-2018

School Improvement Plan

Contents

Our Mission Statement, Educational Aims and Objectives

A Commitment to Children and Young People

Annual Calendar of Events and Activities

Three year Strategic plan

Action Plan for Literacy

Action Plan for Numeracy

Action Plan for Church Distinctiveness and RE

Action Plan for EYFS

Action Plan for SEN provision

Action Plan to Improve the quality of teaching

Action Plan for British Values

Action Plan for Language Links

Action Plan for Governors

Consultation and Briefing Schedule

Monitoring and Evaluation Schedule

SDP Self Evaluation

SHERBURNCHURCH OF ENGLANDPRIMARY SCHOOL

‘Working together, putting children first within our Christian family’

Statement of Aims and Values

In consultation with pupils, parents, governors, community members and staff our aims and values were generated.

Aims

We aim to serve our community by providing an education of the highest quality for children of all faiths and none within the context of Christian beliefs and practice. We believe in working together to make sure that school is a safe, secure, friendly and purposeful place where children are safe, encouraged, challenged and supported to do their best and learn.

Values

We valueenriching the children’s spiritual and moral development nurturing a sense of family by working in partnership with home, church and the community.

We valueensuring all pupils are literate, numerate and are able to make informed life choices and have the capacity to be successful.

We valueinspiring a love for learning and at all times challenging the capacity of the individual to attain their greatest potential.

We value ensuring children are independent, resilient, confident, self disciplined and have a sense of self worth.

We valuedeveloping understanding, consideration and mutual respect for other religions, races, cultures, gender, people with disabilities and the environment.

We value ensuring truthfulness, compassion and love are present in everything we do.

October 2015

The Diocese of York

A Commitment to Children and Young People

The Diocese of York believes

All human beings are loved by God and are of unique worth to God whatever their gender, ethnicity, ability or age.
Children and young people have a special place in the Kingdom of God.
The Church values and appreciates children and young people in the same way as all other members of the Church family.
The Church should provide children and young people with a safe and welcoming environment and actively involve them in its life.
Appropriate support, training and encouragement should be provided for all who work among children and young people.

The churches of the Diocese of York commit themselves to engage with children and young people in a wide range of contexts, with the aim that all children and young people should have the opportunity to become fully alive in God by:

Experiencing God

For example:hearing and learning from the stories of God; knowing God’s love through our Lord Jesus Christ; experiencing God through relationships with others; recognising that faith affects all aspects of life; developing gifts for mission and ministry.

Developing a relationship with Godby the Holy Spirit

For example: enjoying prayer and worship that is accessible and appropriate; creating their own worship; leading and teaching others.

Helping to further God’s Kingdom

For example: evangelism by children and young people, telling their own stories of God; working for a better society; caring for others, both near and far; working for justice and peace.

Caring for God’s creation

For example: sharing what we have with others; acknowledging the Christian responsibility to the poor, the weak, the needy and future generations; actively caring for the environment.

Being valued by and valuing the Church

For example:participating fully in the life of the Church; being recognised in decision-making; taking responsibility for their part within it.

Diocese of York Children and Youth Committee

June 2007

‘Working together, putting children first, within our Christian family’

Sherburn CE Primary School - School Improvement: Annual Plan/Calendar of Routine Management and Administration 2017-18
Term  / Summer Term 2017 / Autumn Term 2017 / Spring Term 2018
Governance
Strategic planning. meetings, sub-committee meetings, preparing, school profile, appraisal planning, target setting, budget etc. /

Setting up new arrangements as per reconstitution
SEF Update
SIAMS review with foundation govs
SDP setting
Self evaluation Procedures checked
FGB meeting
HT report
Training lists distributed
Induction New Governors
Monitoring

Committees and Terms of references review
Governor posts distributed
Appointment of the Chair/Vice
Training lists distributed
GB meeting x2
SEF Update
SIAMS review with foundation govs
SDP review
HT APPRAISAL
JAPR with SIA and KS2 target setting
HT report
Induction New Governors
Monitoring

SEF Update
SIAMS review with foundation govs
SDP review
GB Meeting
HT report
Training lists distributed
Induction New Governors
Monitoring

Curriculum and Assessment
Baseline assessments, STAs', target setting, etc /

KS1 and KS2 SAT’s

Optional Tests KS2
EYFS Profile completed
School Target Setting
Reading assessment
Writing assessment
Maths assessment
Science assessment
Individual Targets Set
Long Observations EYFS
Update pupil tracking
Individual Targets Set and sent with Annual Reports

EYFS Profile
School Target Setting
Reading assessment
Writing assessment
Maths assessment
Science assessment
Individual Targets Set
Long Observations EYFS
Intervention groups

EYFS Profile
School Target Setting
Reading assessment
Writing assessment
Maths assessment
Science assessment
Individual Targets Set
Long Observations EYFS
Intervention groups

Staff appraisal
Training days/events, appraisal, etc. /

Training Days
Professional Development courses as identified on Action plans

Training days
Job descriptions update
All staff APPRAISAL
HT APPRAISAL
Professional Development courses as identified on Action plans

Training Days
Interim APPRAISAL meetings
Professional Development courses as identified on Action plans

Finance /

Standards fund finishes
Finance meeting
Finance team SDP costings, Budget review and start budget 2015-16 discussion

Monitor return
LMS return

PLASC return to county
Start Budget
Standards return in
Set new start budget Finance team

Monitoring and Self Evaluation
(See schedule) /

Church Schools SIAMS Review
Work Scrutiny
Lesson Observations
Planning scrutiny
SEF Update
Assessment Scrutiny
SEN/GAT Review Pupil Mapping update
Policy review

Church Schools SIAMS Review
Work Scrutiny
Lesson Observations
Planning scrutiny
SEF Update
Assessment Scrutiny
SEN/GAT Review Pupil Mapping update
Policy review

Church Schools SIAMS Review
Work Scrutiny
Lesson Observations
Planning scrutiny
SEF Update
Assessment Scrutiny
SEN/GAT Review Pupil Mapping update
Policy review
EVC Audit January
SDP Audit with LA support

Parents
report writing, interviews
Parent Curricular Training evenings /

Regular FOSS meetings/fundraisers run throughout the year
Reports issued with targets
Open evening, consultations offered
SAT information distributed
Meeting for New Starter Parents
SEN Reviews

Regular FOSS meetings/fundraisers run throughout the year
Parent consultation evening
FOSS AGM
Inform of key aspects of our SDP
SEN Reviews
Prospective Parent Visits

Regular FOSS meetings/fundraisers run throughout the year
Parent consultation evening
SEN Reviews
Residential Trip meeting (every other year)

Community
Festivals, celebrations, social events. /

Leavers Service
Display in Church

Harvest celebration
St Hilda’s Day
Remembrance Assembly
Christmas Nativity/play and Fair

Display in Church
Shrove Tuesday Pancake
Mothering Sunday service and lunch
Easter
Display in Churches

Pupils
Events and activities run by school sports partnership run throughout the year /

Clubs start
Year 6 induction days
Leavers service and day out
Sports Day
Crucial Crew
Intervention Programmes
Transition conferences held in school
Growing up talk

Clubs
Children in Need day
Christmas event
Christmas fair
Christmas dinner, Party
Intervention Programmes (See learning converstaions)

Y6 Booster
Intervention Programmes
World Book Day
Sport Relief Day

Target or focus for improvement /
Year 1 / Year 2 / Year 3
2018/2019
Summer
2016 / Autumn
2016 / Spring
2017 / Summer
2017 / Autumn
2017 / Spring
2018
CURRICULUM AND STANDARDS
Improve quality and consistency of all teaching. / Monitoring of teaching and learning through learning walks and formal observations – objective: all lessons to be judged at least good.
Raise attainment in Reading and Writing
To purchase reading books £500
To raise the number of children meeting the threshold score during Phonics Screening.
Teaching to Mastery course and grammar training
£265 / Review Appraisal Targets.
To develop accountability of subject leaders for raising attainment.
To improve rates of progress and challenge in writing.
Analysis of new KS1 and KS2 SAT tests to assess new weightings and the areas for development involved in these.
Ensuring that high ability children are challenged sufficiently in KS1 and KS2.
Maths resources £100 / To increase the proportion of good and outstanding teaching and the progress pupils make.
All children fluent in age-appropriate mathematics. / Monitoring the GLD and phonics in 2017 in comparison to 2016
Look at LTP alongside Luttons School
Improve planning to ensure clearer objectives.
Improve quality of challenge and pace.
Organise visits to other schools
Maths KS1 planning to be clearly differentiated.. / Monitoring of teaching and learning through learning walks and formal observations – objective: all lessons to be judged at least good with outstanding elements.
KS1 marking in maths to be effective.
ASSESSMENT
Raise standards of progress throughout the school / Implementation of 2016 tests.
Analysis of test results and Teacher assessments / To evaluate the impact of marking and AFL on children’s work. / Training on the new interim KS1 teacher assessments / Revise marking and feedback policy in preparation for Sept.
Introduce assessment for Language links.
Prepare a report on use of language links programme
STAFFING
To ensure the staffing structure matches the needs of the school and pupils. / Implementation of support plans as necessary
Involvement in Esk Valley Alliance to recruit Schools Direct colleagues.
To investigate partnership working with staff at Luttons (1 teacher/ TA across 2 schools) / To support the newly appointed KS2 teacher into their role. / Possibility of staff restructuring and redundancy with Statemented child leaving.
Organise visits to other schools to observe good teaching.
Colleague support across the federation with planning and marking. / Restructure of support staff.
To develop support staff roles to be more able to deliver specific and tailored interventions like Write Away Together and 1stclass@writing. / Ensure staff are deployed effectively to support children’s learning needs.
EARLY YEARS / Evaluate the CEM Base baseline assessment from starting points.
Assess effectiveness of teaching through end of year test to ascertain progress in EYFS year.
Focus : Raise attainment in Speaking and Listening and PSED.
To increase the number of pupils achieving a GLD / To provide high quality and well-resourced outside learning to develop children’s talk and communication skills
Focus : Raise attainment in Writing and Understanding of the World
Increase parental involvement / Focus : Raise attainment in Reading and Numeracy / Evaluation and analysis of 2017 results in comparison to 2016.
Evaluate objective led learning as a tool.
PUPILS
Vulnerable and SEN / Review learning conversation proforma
Increase parental contribution in order for schools and parents to work in closer partnership / To put in place procedures for EHCP reviews
Ensure that SEN pupils are being tracked on SEN tracking systems to show good progress. / Teaching Assistants to be deployed in line with their personal strengths and the current needs of the children and school especially relating to supporting behaviour.
Language Links assessments done. / Attendance at SEND conference and its impact on the delivery of SEND in school.
Language links intervention programme implemented.
Impact of Language Links analysed.
Transition arrangements for vulnerable pupil to secondary school. / To create a sustainable SENCo role across the federation.
To swiftly provide additional support for children who are below ARE to determine whether they have SENDs. / Parents to be involved at every part of their child’s development. IPM’S referrals, concerns to be shared and parent voice documented. To ensure that teachers meet with parents to update the IPMs at least 3 times per year – 2 of these can be during the Parents’ Meetings
CHURCH LINKS/COMMUNITY LINKS
To promote the distinctiveness of our Church of England School / To access training for the Understanding Christianity project.
Training and resources £350
Plan and organise a community lunch June 21st
Food and decorations £30 / Trial aspects of the Christianity project in RE lessons during the Autumn term.
Establish consistency in progression and standards.
Participate in Big Harvest festival. / Implement Godly Play as a way of developing spirituality
Resources £100
Develop a joint worship service for Easter / Complete Day 2 training for Understanding Christianity project.
Training and resources £350
Trail aspects of Understanding Christianity project in RE lessons during the Summer term.
Staff meeting based on assessment linked to Understanding Christianity.
Children to be able to identify the 4 core British values. / Develop Democracy through school council.
Develop Rule of Law through PHSE curriculum
Explore the resources linked to Understanding Christianity
Update SIAMS / Attendance at RE networks to ensure the most up to date information sharing occurs.
Develop Individual liberty through promoting religious celebrations.
Promote mutual respect and tolerance through worship and charity.
GOVERNORS / Training Plan for new Governors and continue with updating of skills of existing governors

Induction training
Modern governor

To hold the HT to account for the quality of teaching. / Agree formal documentation for federation with Sherburn and Luttons School
Implement Federation of schools and formation of new GB / Joint Strategic Development Committee to maintain focus on collaborative working and partnership between the two schools / New FGB in place to govern both schools.
ACTION PLAN FOR SHERBURN CE SCHOOL
KEY ISSUE/AREA FOR IMPROVEMENT - Literacy
Reason: Improve spelling across all ages (Ofsted key issue)
Actions to achieve target / Persons responsible / Start date / Finish date / Resources and costs / Monitoring Person and Method / Notes on Progress
1. Spelling Policy
Review spelling policy to ensure that it is up to date with current practice in classrooms – adapt to meet changes as a result of this Action Plan. / Literacy Coordinator / September 2017 / December 2017 / N/A Directed Time / Policy to be shared with Head Teacher and Governors Autumn FGB.
2. Consistent approach to marking.
Ensure marking is consistent across the school to help develop spelling further. / Literacy Coordinator & Class Teachers / May 2017 / July 2017 / Directed Time - Staff Meeting to share ways to mark spelling to ensure consistency. / Literacy Coordinator – Book Scrutiny: WC 10th July 2017.
3. Teachers to trial new spelling scheme developed by Twinkl.
Develop consistent approach across the school. / Literacy Coordinator & Class Teachers / WC: 24th April 2017 / June 2017 / N/A – School already has a subscription.
Directed Time / Literacy Coordinator – Book Scrutiny: WC 10th July 2017.
Staff feedback – Staff Meeting Summer Term.
4. Spelling homework to start in Year 2 and to be directed to strategies to use for spellings.
Encouraging children to practice and apply spelling rules in different contexts. / Literacy Coordinator & Class Teachers / WC: 24th April 2017 / June 2017 / N/A Directed Time / Literacy Coordinator – Book Scrutiny: WC 10th July 2017.
Head teacher planning scrutiny and learning walks.
5. To ensure children spell accurately within the writing process.
Develop key strategies and success criteria to be used to support the spelling progress every time children write. / Literacy Coordinator & Class Teachers / September 2017 / December 2017 / N/A Directed Time / Literacy Coordinator – Book Scrutiny: WC 27th November 2017.
Success Criteria
Spelling has been improved so that it is at least as strong as the children’s skills in using punctuation and grammar.
Milestones
June 2017
Consistent approach to spelling is being taught across the school. Spelling homework is set weekly.
July 2017
A consistent approach to the marking of spelling is evident in all children’s books.
December 2017
There is visible improvement to the children’s spellings.
Spelling policy is up to date and being applied consistently.
Children are applying spelling rules in all forms of writing.
Evaluation arrangements
HT and EDA to evaluate the impact of these measures and HT to report finding and next steps forward to FGB
Cost effectiveness and value for money
ACTION PLAN FOR SHERBURN CE SCHOOL
KEY ISSUE/AREA FOR IMPROVEMENT - Maths
Reason : Ofsted key issue ‘Raise the expectations of what the most able can do and achieve in KS1’
Actions to achieve target / Persons responsible / Start date / Finish date / Resources and costs / Monitoring Person and Method / Notes on Progress
To ensure planning is clearly differentiated so pupils can demonstrate basic, advancing and deepening skills. / KS1 staff / April 2017 / July 2017 / None / HT and FGB
Planning scrutinies weekly.
To ensure that marking is used effectively to move children’s learning on. / KS1 staff / April 2017 / Dec 2017 / None / HT and FGB
Book scrutinies
Week beginning June 26th 2017
Week beginning Sept 26th 2017
Week beginning Feb 10th 2018
To provide increased opportunities for children to apply their knowledge to real life problem solving and mathematical reasoning. / KS1 staff / April 2017 / April 2018 / None / HT and FGB
Planning scrutinies weekly.
For 100% of all teaching in maths to be at least good. / KS1 staff / April 2017 / July 2017 / None / HT and FGB
Performance management observations.