Key Priorities: Reference: Objectives: Activities and Resources: People: Time Scale: Success Criteria: Monitoring Dates Leadership and Management 1: Governance – strengthening governance (September SEF Outcome) To strengthen the strategic leadership capacity of the governing body Implementation of NGA Review. (October 2014) Linking of committees to key activities and KPI Strengthen links of governing body to Self Evaluation through the SEF Cycle. JG, SB, Gov. Body By Summer 2017 we will: Produce a CPD opportunity for governors Ensure that the Governors have constructed and reviewed the SEF cycle at each stage and not all in one go. School governance to be judged as outstanding through self-review – revisit of NGA consultant – autumn term 2017. Each Full governors meeting Leadership and Management 1: Governance – strengthening governance (September SEF Outcome) To Strengthen the Monitoring Capacity of the governing body. To attach members of the governing body to key areas of the school: SEND, Safeguarding, English and Humanities, Maths and Science, PSE and Applied Learning JG, SB, Gov. Body By Summer 2017 We will: Attach a member of the Governing Body to each of the defined areas. Governors able to monitor progress of SDP more effectively Monitoring of school activity via Middle leadership Each full governors meeting
Leadership and Management 2: Strengthening Middle Leadership To build the capacity of the middle leadership team Evaluate the leadership capacity of middle leaders – using middle leader standards SB, LK and MLT By Christmas 2016 to have strengths and weaknesses of Middle leaders identified Production of CPD and performance targets Christmas 2015 – Easter 2016 Reference: Objectives: Activities and Resources: People: Time Scale: Success Criteria: Monitoring Dates Leadership and Management 3: Securing School Status To make a decision regarding the school and academy status. To produce a briefing to governing body making a recommendation regarding academy status and then produce an action plan or set a date for further review. SB, HG, PS, JGib, YP. The governing body to receive a recommendation and vote regarding Academy Status between October and Christmas 2016. Academy order received July 2016. Conversion date set for January 1st. Action Plan to follow depending upon decision. Report produced and decision made Full Governor meeting Leadership and Management 5: Financial Management To bring greater transparency and autonomy to financial planning in Pilgrim School. POST CONVERSION PROJECT Leadership and Management 6: Improving To ensure that staff take greater responsibility for their own Progressively induct all staff to Blue Wave Swift. All Teaching Staff Planning cycle to be produced by end of September 2016 All performance objectives are SMART and related to teacher standards October 2016, Easter 2017
the rigour of Performance Management performance management To ensure that that there is a range of evidence used for performance management reviews To ensure that there is a more secure link between performance management, self review and strategic planning. Ensure that when objectives are set 1 is based on pupil progress for teachers. objectives are based upon teacher standards and job description One objective is based upon personal development That Performance Management activities are planned to produce evidence that is indicative of progress towards performance management objectives That Self evaluation and Strategic planning is closely aligned with the performance management cycle. Objectives to be drawn from SEF / SDP / Teacher Standards by October 2016 Use of Blue Wave Swift to collate performance management evidence against targets by Easter 2016 Use of Blue Wave through the year to collate evidence Production of planning and self evaluation cycle that fully integrates CPD with self evaluation and planning
Reference: Objectives: Activities and Resources: People: Time Scale: Success Criteria: Monitoring Dates Leadership and Management 7: Improving the Rigour of Self Evaluation. To ensure that is outstanding self evaluation taking place within the school. To link school self evaluation fully to OFSTED evaluation criteria. To use Blue Wave Swift as a tool for self evaluation Developing the QA Calendar to incorporate a wider range of self evaluation evidence – especially that of pupils and other key stakeholders. SB, SLT, MLT, Governing body Plan do Review Cycle to be in place by October 2016 Use of Blue Wave Swift to produce full SEF October half term. Revision of QA Calendar by Oct ½ term Cycle of whole school improvement by Oct. ½ term Full integration of SEF, CPD and Performance management and SDP Christmas 2016, Easter 2017. Reference: Objectives: Activities and Resources: People: Time Scale: Success Criteria: Monitoring Dates Teaching and Learning 1- Establishing learning intentions with pupils. To make absolutely explicit learning objectives (intentions) with pupils both in individual lessons and through sequences of lessons with the use of Advanced organisers. Staff INSET time on making learning intentions explicit through advanced organisrs. PS SB In Core subjects by Christmas 2016 Non- Core subjects by Summer 2017 Pupils will be able to describe their learning intentions in a lesson Pupils will be able to relate their learning in a single lesson to a sequence of learning. Lesson observations, Learning Gov. Visits.
Teaching and Learning 2 - Strengthening progress in Maths Use of an SLE from the Minster School SL and team SLE in Nov. 2016 Action plan produced and being implemented by maths / science group After the visit by the SLE the maths and science group will have an action plan that allows accelerates pupil progress. Gov Curriculum and Standards Teaching and Learning 3 – Strengthen the Development of Curricular Literacy and Numeracy (SEF Outcome) – see intervention as well. To identify the cross curricular links and strategies that support the development of literacy Commission an SLE to produce a report and action plan for literacy across the curriculum. SB, LK, JO By April 2017 Action Plan identified to promote literacy across the curriculum. Gov Curriculum and Standards Reference: Objectives: Activities and Resources: People: Time Scale: Success Criteria: Monitoring Dates Teaching and Learning 4: Increasing levels of cognitive challenge in a lesson. Staff to understand the principles of challenge (from PFACE) Staff to increase repertoire of strategies to increase CPD time via Weds. Workshops. SB, PS and Staff INSET in September INSET in March to know what a Zone of Proximal Development is. Staff to know and Understand Bloom’s Taxonomy To Have a visual aid for Bloom’s Taxonomy Learning Walk 1 and 2
challenge but reduce stress in lessons. Staff to have increased use of between 3-5 strategies for Challenge in lessons. Teaching and Learning 5 – Improve written feedback to Incisive levels To produce incisive written feedback that promotes a growth mind set. Meet with middle leaders INSET time. LK< SL, JO< SR, CA, YP, all staff INSET on September 2016 CPD time on Wednesday workshop For staff to set and pupils to respond to feedback that promotes deeper thinking, applied learning and a growth mindset. April 2016 Behaviour and Safety 1 To raise school attendance figures and implement direct strategies to combat poor attendance Improve targeted monitoring of attendance by individuals and groups. Individual and base rewards to be developed. . DB. BL. CN, JS All staff. Ongoing Majority of pupils from all discrete groups will have increased attendance to 75% of provision by Easter 2017. By Summer expectation is that all pupils will attend for 82% of their provision (+5% on last year) Weekly DB and BL and through assessment weeks on QA Calendar Reference: Objectives: Activities and Resources: People: Time Scale: Success Criteria: Monitoring Dates Behaviour and Safety 2: To Pupil Resilience Pupils to receive targeted intervention through analysing the Pilgrim 16 scores and to be assigned to groups that support their identified needs. All RSO staff , TT staff. Pupils to receive half term of provision with review at the end and then the opportunity for further half term provision depending on outcomes. Pupils meet identified score (RAG) criteria to be included in group eg below 50% assessed as Red. The expected progress is a 6 point increase in 1 long term. Initial assessment and then half termly review.