Willoughby School

School Improvement Plan - Summary

2017 – 18

Assessment and Progress

  • All pupils to make at least good progress and at least 25% of pupils outstanding progress.
  • New assessments and certification system (AQA certificates) to be introduced and embedded.
  • Termly EHCP reviews and updates for each pupil to be completed and shared with parents and carers.

Attendance and Behaviour

  • Pupil attendance to be over 90%.
  • Behaviour to remain consistently good or outstanding.
  • Attendance and Behaviour to be tracked and monitored school wide, using MIS (Integris).

Education Health and Care Plans

  • EHCPS to be the focal point of assessment and progress when reporting to parents using the termly reviews.
  • EHCPSto influence in curriculum design and innovation to ensure these meet identified needs.
  • EHCPS to be individualised, working documents.

Finance

  • A comprehensive, long term financial plan to be devised which ensures the school priorities spending on agreed priorities.
  • School fund to be managed and overseen by independent trustees.
  • Staffing to be reviewed in line with predicted income.

Leadership and Management

  • Staff on UPS to have a clear and defined whole school role.
  • Leadership and Management structure to be reviewed in line with predicted income and school need.
  • Leadership roles and responsibility holders to be supported to undertake appropriate National Professional Qualifications to enhance whole school provision.

Personnel

  • Ensure a sustainable staffing structure, in line with pupil need.
  • Staff to model the Willoughby Way.
  • Staff to be supported through effective performance management. Teachers performance management and pay, to be linked.

Premises

  • The school, Hot Spa to be updated.
  • Long-term premises plan to be devised to meet the maintenance and growth needs of the school.
  • Corridors, front of house areas and staff room to be redecorated upgraded.

Pupil Premium

  • All Pupil Premium students to make progress in line or above the mean average of pupil progress.
  • Pupil Premium students’ progress and outcomes to be reported on a termly and then yearly basis.
  • Those receiving Pupil Premium to be tracked individually as a group, with any specific barriers identified and appropriateintervention strategies as needed.

Safeguarding

  • Maintain a culture of safeguarding for all members of the Willoughby Community.
  • Staff to receive the relevant training appropriate to their role.
  • Safeguarding reporting forms to be updated in line with current practice and guidance.

Teaching & Learning

  • The ‘Forest School’ project to be launched and embedded.
  • Extracurricular activities to play a key part in the wider Willoughby Curriculum.
  • Eight ‘Topic Afternoons’ to be experienced by all pupils, over the course of the year.

2016 Ofsted Report – Next Steps

  • Pupil attendance rates improve
  • Increased rigour is applied to the assessment of pupils’ learning in a wider range of subjects all teaching is of a consistently high quality
  • The school website is compliant with DfE requirements.