Halfway Nursery Infant School/School Improvement Priorities

School Improvement Priorities 2022-23

Our priorities for 2022-23 are to identify gaps and ensure progress in relation to the following areas:

1. Quality of Education
2. Behaviour and Attitudes
3. Personal Development
4. Leadership and Management
5. EYFS provision

Our priorities for 2021-22 were:

To identify and address gaps in English and ensure good or better progress, particularly improving outcomes for boys and Pupil Premium children
To identify and address gaps in maths and ensure good or better progress, particularly improving outcomes for boys and Pupil Premium children
To ensure our most vulnerable families and learners receive well targeted support to improve outcomes for children
To support the physical, mental and emotional health and wellbeing of pupils and staff
To develop further the broad and balanced curriculum, ensuring it is relevant to support education recovery

Our priorities for 2020-21 were:

To identify gaps and re-establish good progress in Literacy (phonics, reading, writing and increasing vocabulary)
To identify gaps and re-establish good progress in Mathematics
To ensure catch up support enables disadvantaged, SEND and vulnerable pupils to make substantial progress
To support the physical, mental and emotional health and wellbeing of pupils and staff
To develop a Recovery Curriculum to support pupils recover from teaching and learning missed

Last year (2019-20) we worked hard to improve the following priorities:

To embed recent improvements in the teaching of reading and phonics so that pupils’ outcomes are consistently above national averages, particularly improving outcomes for boys and Pupil Premium children.
To develop further the quality of maths teaching and leadership, in order to narrow the gap in attainment for Pupil Premium children at end of Key Stage 1
To improve outcomes for the most vulnerable children pastorally, academically and holistically, including disadvantaged pupils and children with multiple vulnerability factors
To raise the profile of physical, mental and emotional health and wellbeing of pupils and staff
To continue to strengthen leadership capacity in and across our partnership of school/s to strengthen further the quality of teaching and learning across our curriculum, developing a more outward-facing school.