School Development
As a school we continue to strive to further develop the learning, teaching and experiences offered within Norris Bank.
Following on from the success of last academic year, the Governors and I are proposing to build on our successes and develop the school further in the following four key areas based on data analysis and feedback from the Local Authority:
- GROW
- Inclusion for all
- Maths
- English
GROW
We are going to:
- Further develop a clear and precise breakdown of finite key skills that need to be taught and recalled by the children
- Introduce ‘letter Join’ as our handwriting scheme
- Monitor and evaluate our curriculum provision, progression and teaching using book studies and pupil voice
- Develop further modelling, explanation and retrieval strategies
- GROW our middle leaders through working on NPQ’s with the Teaching School ‘Bright Futures’ and the North West Maths Hub
- Grow our parental engagement further
- Ensure our subject leaders are able to evaluate the quality and participation of pupils within their subject
Inclusion for all
We are going to:
- Continue to raise attainment for all children and also our catch-up and pupil premium children
- Plan specific learning programmes for children who are SEND and working below their age related expectations
- Support children’s social and communication needs with ELSA sessions, Lego Therapy, SALT, RA and social skills groups
- Ensure we embed the use of ‘Stockport’s Entitlement Framework’
- Further support Children’s wellbeing across school with the development of a pastoral space
Maths
We are going to:
- Develop children’s understanding of mathematical concepts further using ‘Talk for Maths’
- Embed the children’s use of visuals and manipulatives
- Continue our work within the North West Math’s Hub for our sustaining stage of their mastery in maths programme
- Embed the use of ‘lesson Studies’
- Train all staff in number sense and number facts fluency programmes
- Trial ‘Maths Whizz’ as an intervention programme
- Further develop metacognition strategies within maths lessons
- Ensure there is appropriate provision for all children working below age related expectations
English
We are going to:
- Embed our approach to teaching phonics using the ‘Little Wandle’ scheme, reading books, resources, assessments and on-line resources
- Further embed reading across school focussing in on our reluctant readers
- Ensure teachers have a consistent approach to teaching writing and handwriting
- Use more ambitious, challenging vocabulary in their writing through planning for more DEAL narrative immersion strategies to be used
- Ensure the English team have a clear strategic overview of English across the whole school