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 GROW a broad, balanced and creative curriculum which is evidence informed
- 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
- Further support Children’s wellbeing across school
- 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’
- Embed our adaptive teaching techniques for allFurther develop our PSHCE work in line with the 9 protected characteristics
Maths
We are going to:
- Develop children’s understanding of mathematical concepts further
- Embed the children’s use of visuals and manipulatives
- Extend our work within the North West Math’s Hub develop ‘Mastery’
- To embed the use of ‘lesson Studies’
- To continue to develop the whole school’s ‘Maths Vision’
- Embed the consistent and progressive use of and understanding of mathematical vocabulary
- Further develop a consistency in approach to the teaching of mental calculations
- Enable children to have an understanding of the use of math’s in the outside world
English
We are going to:
- Establish a consistent approach to teaching phonics using the ‘Little Wandle’ scheme, reading books, resources, assessments and on-line resources
- To continue to raise standards in writing and increase the number of children attaining greater depth
- Ensure children have a greater understanding of sentence construction and teachers a consistent approach to teaching writing
- 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