BarfordStPeter’sCofEPrimarySchool(VA)

3YearStrategicPlan

September2017–AUGUST2020OverallEffectiveness Achievement Teachingand

Learning

BehaviourandSafety

EarlyYears Leadership

OurStrategicObjectivefortheSchool2017-2020

WeaimtomakeBarfordStPeter’sCofEPrimarySchoolatrulyoutstandingschool,recognisedforaneducationalenvironmentandChristianethosthatdeliversthebestpossibleoutcomesforeachofitschildren.Weendeavourtolaystrongandsecurefoundationsfor

futuresuccessineducation,employmentandsociety.

OurVisionfortheSchoolWestriveforexcellentstandardsbyharnessingthepotentialofeveryoneofourchildreninastimulatingcaringenvironmentwhichlaysfoundationsforlifeandskillsforthefuture.OurValuesOurvaluesguideeverythingwedoatBarfordSt.Peter’sandunderpinourstrategicplan:1. Everychildisknownandtreatedasanindividual,andofferedaneducationmatchinghisorherparticularneedsandstrengths;2. Weworkinclosepartnershipwithfamilies;3. WeplaceastrongemphasisonChristianbeliefsand

values;4. Wedevelopeachchild’spotentialinahappy,caring

environmentaswelay‘foundationsoflife’onwhichtobuild.

OurAims1. ToprovideanunderstandingoftheChristianfaithandothermajorworldfaiths.2. Topromoterespectforallpeoplewhetherornottheyhaveaparticularfaith.3. Tocelebrateandacceptculturaldiversity.4. Toprovidearich,relevantanddistinctiveeducation.5. Tonurturetheindividualwithinouruniqueenvironmentenablingthemtoreachtheirfullpotential6. Toembracefamilyandcommunitylinkstosupportpupils’development.

BARFORD ST PETER’S STRATEGIC OVERVIEW – 2017- 2020

OverallEffectiveness Achievement TeachingandLearning BehaviourandSafety EarlyYears Leadership

SENIORLEADERSHIPTEAM(SLT)ANDBOARDOFGOVERNORS(FGB)THEMES STRATEGY PLANS(toimplementstrategy) SUCCESSCRITERIA RESPONSIBILITY

LEADERSHIP .

Leaders are highly ambitious and have an uncompromising drive to ensure the highest levels of achievement for all children from their starting points.

• Develop the SLG as a highly effective leadership group • Ensure that BSP is operationally Ofsted-ready • Engage parents and the local community in support of the

school’s strategy. • Put in place organisational frameworks to ensure policy and

procedures run smoothly. • Ensure that support for learning is integral to all procedures

and the children are at the foremost of all we do. • Leadership of BPS is built on a platform of trust between all

members of the team and have clear realistic goals. This runs through everything in the school, creating a calm and purposeful environment in which staff and children can work together.

• Maintain or improve our Ofsted rating of Good at our Inspection in 2018;

• All governors have full understanding of the inspection process and sufficiently informed to respond to inspectors’ questions;

• School Leadership Group works effectively and purposefully to support and deliver BSP’s strategy.

SLT FGB Strategic Leadership Group

GOVERNORS Ensure a committed and energetic team of governors with a comprehensive range of relevant skills capable of contributing to excellent governance from the outset.

• Develop a robust succession plan for key governor roles; • Support the succession plan with strong recruitment,

induction and mentoring schemes; • Ensure a full complement of governors.

• A full complement of governors who work as a team to enhance the already successful Board.

SLT FGB Strategy Team

FINANCE & RESOURCES

Implement the high quality educational infrastructure, i.e. budgets, staffing, space, equipment and physical resources, maintenance & health and safety, to achieve BSP’s educational strategy and plans.

• Review the school’s educational infrastructure needs termly; • Work energetically to raise additional funds to meet

infrastructure needs; • Implement major infrastructure projects including the new

kitchen, storage containers etc.

• The financial management of the school is secure and resources are available to support an outstanding education for all.

• Delivery of major projects such as new kitchen.

SLT Resources Committee Infrastructure Committee

STAFFING

Ensure that the staffing structure meets the demands of a growing school.

• Refine the format of a 3-year rolling staffing plan and agree and implement staffing targets.

• The school has a staffing structure that reflects the needs of a growing school with the capacity to employ more specialised staff in the future.

SLT FGB Strategy Team Resources Committee Infrastructure Committee

STRATEGY PLANS SUCCESSCRITERIA RESPONSIBILITY

SINGLEFORMSTRUCTURETobesingleformbySeptember2019

With the physical infrastructure already in place, ensure that funds are available for the additional teacher post required in 2019 to implement fully a comprehensive single form structure.

• Well planned expenditure to ensure money is available to employ a new teacher in 2019, despite outside influences in the budget such as a 2% wage rise for support staff.

• Termly Finance meetings. • Successful recruitment process.

Single form structure fully implemented in 2019

SLT Resources Committee FGB

EDUCATIONALACHIEVEMENT

Senior Leaders have robust monitoring systems and procedures in place to ensure continual improvement in teaching, learning and assessment.

• In line with the observations of the school inspection in 2014, sustain improvement in reading in KS2 and consistently robust standards in marking and feedback across the school.

• Introduce a baseline for all Year Groups at the beginning of each year from September 2018.

• Further develop robust monitoring systems, including governor monitoring, to ensure the school is bridging the gaps.

• Provide bespoke CPD to raise the quality of teaching and learning in line with an ever changing political, economical and educational climate.

• Ensure that SEND provision enables all adults to meet confidently the needs of all the pupils. Identify trends that will impact on the school in the future.

• All staff are vigilant in monitoring pupils’ academic achievement over time, taking account of both attainment and progress including disadvantaged pupils, the most able pupils, and pupils who have special educational needs and/or disabilities.

• The Board of Governors are actively engaged in monitoring visits to help provide an evidential basis for their understanding of childrens’ performance..

SLT Staff P&S FGB

EARLYYEARSOutstanding

• Maintain the Outstanding judgement made by OFSTED in 2014.

• Refine and improve intervention teaching in order to raise the percentage who achieve a Good Level of Development (GLD)

• Further develop adult engagement in child-initiated play in order to enhance learning opportunities

The outstanding judgement in early years educational provision recognised in BSP’s 2014 Ofsted inspection has been maintained.

SLT Staff P&S FGB

BEHAVIOURANDSAFETYOutstanding

• Maintain the Outstanding judgement made by OFSTED in 2014.

• Recognise the implications of the continuing growth of our catchment area and school and ensure we continue to meet the needs of individual pupils and families.

• Ensure that pupils feel they have an active voice within the school community, understand the need to stay fit and healthy and ways in which they can do this, and are aware of how to stay safe and where to find support if they need help.

• Ensure that British Values are embedded in the school curriculum and ethos.

Maintain the outstanding grade for Behaviour and Safety of children as recognised in BSP’s 2014 Ofsted inspection.

SLT Staff P&S FGB

OVERALLEFFECTIVENESS

• Improve on Good with Outstanding elements • Develop new leadership roles to ensure consistency in robust accountability at all levels (e.g. new Inclusion Manager and new Deputy Head).

• Review after-school provision (enrichment clubs, extended schools) to ensure a wide range of pupil opportunities.

Successful outcome of 2018 Ofsted inspection.

SLT FGB Strategic Leadership Group