School Improvement Priorities 2023 - 24

PRIORITY 1

Improve Oracy and classroom talk

• Have an ambitious vision for oracy which ensures that teachers set high expectations for oracy in their classrooms.
• Build a culture of oracy which ensures that teachers value every voice.
• Have a sustained and wide-ranging curriculum for oracy in which oracy is explicitly taught
• Recognise that oracy is central to learning and elevates learning
• Teachers are able to appraise progress in oracy.

PRIORITY 2

Improve assessment of foundation subjects

• Establish systems and procedures for summative and formative assessment including whole class assessment templates, formative/summative outcomes from cumulative quizzing, explanative assessment tasks, structured assessment tasks
• Establish Pupil Book Study with all subject leaders to help quality assure the curriculum

PRIORITY 3

To embed an ethic of excellence across the curriculum

• Create a culture of excellence at Barrowford St Thomas
• Improve children’s work through producing multiple drafts, linked to critique
• Give the children more opportunities to make their work public
• Improve presentation of work, including handwriting

CHURCH SCHOOL PRIORITY

Ensure that our school’s distinctive Christian vision is established enabling pupils and adults to flourish.

• Improve the teaching of religious education in school through the introduction of the revised Blackburn Diocesan scheme of work.
• There are increased opportunities for our pupils to become courageous advocates.
• Prayer spaces are developed and used around school.
• Our children are enabled to reflect on different themes of collective worship and are involved in planning/delivering/evaluating worship