Emley First School

Focus for 2025 – 2026

• In line with curriculum overhaul which has ensured fidelity to the NC objectives, embed strategies, policies and procedures for assessing and assessment of all children in all subjects
• Focus upon mathematics, in particular pace and coverage as we continue to have a significant number of children working below age related expectation across school.
• Focus across school on Number Sequences and Timetables as a very low proportion of our Y4 scored full marks on the Times Table check (Timetables)
• Focus upon the curriculum taught and resourced specially for children with an additional need such as neurodiversity

How do we make decisions about what to put in our School Improvement Plan?

Our School Improvement Plan is based on the analysis of pupil data and attainment each year. We look very closely at each child across the whole school and set learning targets accordingly. Alongside this we listen to parents, governors, our staff and of course our children to see what they feel we are doing well and what we could do better.

From this a plan is drawn up closely linked to our budget and performance management procedures. We have short, medium and a longer three year vision for the Improvement of our school.

None of this can be achieved without outstanding teachers and teaching assistants.

All teachers and teaching assistants have performance management reviews. All teachers and teaching assistants engage in further training to keep us abreast with current government policy and to extend our own teaching and management skills.