Strategic Development
School Development Priorities 2025-2026
We aim to:
Secure excellence in education and care across our school so that every child thrives academically, personally and socially.
By:
Embedding a high-quality inclusive curriculum, developing effective leadership and resource management, nurturing the whole children, ensuring all voices are valued and establishing a successful school based nursery.
In order to:
Enable every pupil to achieve their full potential and leave Gayton Primary School equipped with the knowledge, skills and character to make a positive contribution to their community and the wider world.
Critical Success Factors:
CSF 1: We need a high-quality curriculum that inspires, challenges and meets the needs of all learners.
CSF 2: We need pupil outcomes in all key areas to be strong.
CSF 3: We need leadership structures which are clearly defined, distributed and effective at all levels.
CSF 4: We need children who use talk effectively to reflect on, deepen and share their learning.
CSF 5: We need all children's voices to be heard, valued and acted upon.
CSF 6: We need to embed inclusion across all areas of school life so that every pupil is able to succeed.
CSF 7: We need secure financial and resource management systems that ensure long term sustainability and best value.
CSF 8: We need to nurture the development of the whole child so that every pupil grows academically, socially and emotionally.
Projects:
Project 1: We will upskill all staff and governors in understanding and applying the expectations of the new Ofsted Education Inspection Framework (EIF) to ensure a shared vision of high-quality education across the school.
Project 2: We will introduce more project work into our curriculum to make learning more meaningful and engaging for our children.
Project 3: We will implement a new music curriculum providing more performance opportunities for all pupils.
Project 4: We will successfully recruit a new Deputy Headteacher, upskill our new SENDCO and ensure all leadership and subject responsibilities are strategically aligned with the current and future needs of the school.
Project 5: We will introduce a new school council model allowing the voices of all children to be heard.
Project 6: We will launch Seesaw across the school and use this to improve parental engagement and communication with our parental community.
Project 7: We will develop and implement an inclusive strategy that embeds inclusion across all aspects of school life.
Project 8: We will launch a new inclusive attendance framework, upskilling staff and parents and will ensure that the attendance of SEND and disadvantated pupils is above comparators of similar schools.
Project 9: We will embed strategies that foster purposeful talk, empowering pupils to reflect on their own learning and support one another through effective self and peer assessment.
Project 10: We will implement our business plan to open a school based nursery expanding the school's age range by Sept 2026.
Project 11: Embed the SHREC framework across F2 to ensure high quality interactions.
School Development Priorities 2024-2025
We aim to:
Create a nurturing environment where we foster growth and confidence in every child to achieve their full potential.
By:
A shared belief of 'positive minds, positive futures.'
Providing the highest quality educational experience.
Seeing our children as individuals and supporting them to achieve their full potential.
Promoting our nurturing environment and school values in everything we do.
In order to:
Create ethical, confident and responsible learners who contribute to a better world.
Critical success factors:
CSF1: We need to define and develop leadership structures across the school.
CSF2: We need secure systems that accurately measure the effectiveness of the quality of our curriculum.
CSF3: We need inclusive learning environments for all pupils including SEND and disadvantaged pupils.
CSF4: We need expert teachers trained and equipped with the necessay skills, tools and understanding.
CSF5: We need strong outcomes and comparators.
CSF6: We need a strong crew school culture.
Projects:
Project 1: We will improve the lived experience of SEND and disadvantaged pupils.
Project 2: We will raise standards of teaching and learning through expert teaching.
Project 3: We will review leadership structures within school with a particular focus on middle and senior leaders.
Project 4: We will implement child engaged assessments.
Project 5: We will review the history and geography curriculum ensuring secure evidence for endpoints are embedded.
Project 6: We will implement a crew culture across the school.
Project 7: We will review our mastery approach to maths to ensure the fundamentals of fluency through varied and frequent practice.
Project 8: We will refine subject leadership roles and responsibilities to ensure systems for monitoring and evaluating subject areas are effective.
Project 9: We will refine early years curriculum documentation to reflect our current practice including curriculum progression, outdoor learning and continuous provision.
Project 10: We will produce a reading for pleasure strategy.
Project 11: We will incorporate project work more into our curriculum.
Project 12: We will refine subject leader curriculum documentation to include: intent, implementation and impact.
School Development Priorities 2022-2024
Please find below an overview of the school's strategic development priorities.