Guided by our Christian vision, “Hand in hand we will become kind, collaborative and courageous citizens of our community and the wider world”, this overview outlines our core priorities for the academic year ahead.  

Our School Development Plan (SDP) for 2026-7 works on celebrating the successes and achievements which we have made and further embedding the work we have done over the past 4 years.

Each year we also take forward main priorities that have been highlighted from evaluating the previous years attainment. 

As a whole school, year this year we have identified the following priorities:

English

Ensure that motor skills are developed and refined across the school building on the strong start in Early Years,  continuing through to the end of Year 6 so that handwriting is fluent and enables children to write easily and well. 

We will also continue to strengthen spelling across the school.

We will continue to work with families to understand the importance of further reading at home and while our children are at school, ensure all pupils have access to high quality texts in the classroom daily.

We will review the impact of our work on oracy over the past 4 years with a particular focus this year on the use of tiered vocabulary across the curriculum.

Maths 

As a proud member of the NNKIN (Nurturing Number Knowledge In Northumberland) programme, we are continuing to further develop our provision for the highest quality of teaching and learning of maths that establishes the fundemental knowledge and skills of mathematics from EYFS into KS1.

From analysing the recent and previous KS2 SATs, as well as our in-school monitoring, we are also driving for rapid recall of times-tables knowledge as well as fast and accurate use of all computation methods in order to ensure that children are reaching the end of sections of work and test papers to show their true potential.

Again, through both question-level analysis of the KS2 SATs papers and our own assessments and monitoring, we will be focusing on strengthening our teaching and learning of fractions, measurement, algebra and ratio & proprtion.

To develop the teaching and learning of maths further, we will increase the use of manipulatives and suitable practical resources in our maths lessons across school.

We will continue to ensure that motor skills and number recognition are secure so that accurate and clear number formation is established quickly and sustained.

PSHE / RHE 

Last academic year saw us run consultation work with stakeholders across our school community regarding our PSHE/ RHE curriculum. This culminated in us updating our units and lessons with ones that are more in context with our school. These chosen units seek to inspire and engage the children's learning not just in theorectical but practical opportunities. We have completed one year of our two-year planning cycle but already the impact of these changes are evident: higher confidence and social skills, the awareness and ability to keep themselves safe both physically, mentally and online and to name but a few.

We will seek to gain and provide as many experiences and real-life learning opportunities as possible to capture, develop and inspire the children's understanding, knowledge and skills. This not only will drive the development of skills and knowledge presently, but also enables the children to continue their high-quality and confident education at their next schools. These experiences and exposure to further aspirational opprtunities also aid inspiring career ideas and promote links with our communities.

So that our curriculum remains broad and balanced we have subject leads  for each curriculum area who  have their own action plans and priorities that they work with our staff team on for each subject area annually  with priority been given on the main SDP on a rolling programme.
Over the past 4 years all curriculum subjects have been given high priority and we are now looking to embed, refine and review these subjects over the School Year 2026-7 and will move forward for priority on our main SDP 2027-8 as required.