'The school development plan fully outlines the main developments for the future' - OFSTED

School Improvement Priorities 2025 - 2026

Every school has a School Improvement Plan.  Our plan reflects priorities highlighted by parents, staff, governors and children.

Priority 1:

Continue to ensure that all pupils attend well.

We will aim to continually reinforce high pre-pandemic expectations in terms of good attendance and punctuality. We are aiming for all children to achieve 96%+ attendance. An attendance cup is awarded every month to the class with the best attendance. The winning class is also highlighted in the newsletter to parents.

Priority 2

To continue to ensure that children learn exceptionally well across the curriculum.

In order to continue to maintain high standards, we will continue to prioritise the professional development of all staff and leaders to ensure children benefit from the highest quality provision. In particular, we will be reviewing latest evidence based effective teaching strategies and incorporating these into our teaching. 

In the new AI era, we will continue to build on the use of AI and how this can be used to support staff and pupils for a range of purposes in line with St Luke's School vision for teaching and learning.

In all that we do, we will ensure that we continually review our adaptive practice to support those with additional needs. In 2025-2026, we will continue to provide reading and maths interventions to close any gaps where these are present.

Priority 3:

To further improve the distinctive Christian character of the school

As a Church of England Primary School, we provide education within a Christian context. Our core values of 'Thankfulness, Love and Hope' are central to our vision for the school.

We will continue to engage in social action and to be courageous advocates for change locally, nationally and globally.  As a Gold Global Neighbour school, key to our curriculum is the 'promotion of 'international mindedness'.  See our curriculum page for further details. We want to encourage children to think and understand how they can contribute to an increasingly global world.

Priority 4:

To continue to maintain high standards in Reading, Writing and Maths throughout the school

Whilst our children perform well in end of year tests, we continue to aim to further improve reading, maths and writing.  As a Little Wandle Champion School, we will maintain our high standards of phonics and reading provision.

We will also be reviewing the writing texts that we use to teach writing and considering how we can further develop children as independent writers.

As a Maths No Problem school, we will continue to use a Maths Mastery approach and use Maths No Problem, a text book based Maths scheme and Numbersense. We will also review how we use the bar model when teaching Maths and continue to make use of Times Tables Rockstars and the 1 minute White Rose app to develop children's number skills and knowledge of times tables facts.

Priority 5:

To continue to maintain high standards of behaviour at all times

Visitors to the school often comment on the good behaviour of our children. This is because we focus on this at all times. We will continue to focus on maintaining high standards of behaviour throughout the school next year, making use of positive rewards and clear sanctions to set high expectations and promote good behaviour. Please see our 'Behaviour Policy' via the link below.

In 2025-2026, we want to further improve the playground by developing the outdoor area and introducing an even wider range of games and activities for children to enjoy. 

Priority 6:

Encourage our children to stay safe and healthy; continue to maintain a healthy lifestyle through the taught curriculum and extra curricular activities.

In all that we do, we will promote the importance of healthy eating and staying safe.

We will continue to hire sports coaches and take part in a range of sports competitions throughout the year and continually review extra-curricular activities available. We will also be purchasing a new minibus.

As a Smartphone Free Childhood School, we will also be promoting this with families and sharing Smartphone Free Childhood Resources.