School Improvement Plan Summary 2022-2023

Our school improvement priorities this year focus on the roll out of the new Curriculum for Wales and supporting recovery from the negative effects of the Covid pandemic on children’s learning and well being.  For example, we have made a strategic decision to spend all of our ‘Recruit, Recover, Raise Standards: Accelerating Learning Programme’ grant (the RRRS grant) on extra staffing hours in order to support children where it’s needed; in providing extra interventions or in extra individual or group classroom support.  Our priorities in our school improvement plan are:

Use technologies (for example SeeSaw, B Squared) to support effective learner progression and support staff in developing a shared understanding of progression.   In other words, how can we capture learning more effectively over time, for example in areas such as Health and Well Being and Expressive Arts.

Enable teachers to use assessment information to inform their teaching to support and challenge all pupils appropriately. This builds on the previous target, having captured learning and agreed where that places a child on their learning journey, how are we going to use that information to ensure that they make progress?

Engaging with the CSC/RCT writing project - Improve standards of pupil writing by building on the pupil baseline assessments with clear ‘next steps’ for the pupils to actively engage them in their learning journey.  A continuation of a joint RCT/CSC project to improve standards in pupil writing.  Essentially, last year we measured a baseline for children’s writing as a ’writing age’, this year we will be looking at effective teaching leading to progress against those baselines.

Improve standards in incidental Welsh and in classroom teaching of Welsh by achieving the Siarter Iaith Silver Award.  Building on our work following the achievement of the Bronze Award. 

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