School Development Plan
Together we nurture the genius in everyone.
Our school is a place where:
All children will be nurtured so that they enjoy coming to school, and feel happy and safe while they are here. Every child enjoys learning because teaching is inspiring, fun and challenging. Every child is full of potential and deserves to be set high expectations of progress and behaviour. All children have the right to be treated with respect, and to learn about their rights and responsibilities so that they can make a positive contribution to school and society.
All children have the right to be included and to succeed. Every child is unique; difference and diversity are welcomed and celebrated. All children will learn how to keep healthy, how to stay safe and how to be good learners. Every child can shine. All parents will be welcomed so that we can work in partnership.
School Development Planning 3 Year Summary
You will find Alexandra School next to Richmond Park, and close to the River Thames. Our school team is both creative and committed, and love to come up with engaging, relevant and enticing approaches to learning that are responsive to children’s interests. We use the local environment to design challenging, experiential and adventurous opportunities for learner engagement.
Our culture:
A school's culture is built by the people who are part of it. In our school, we are all learners, determined to improve. We care about our children, and nurture them as individuals. We welcome difference and celebrate diversity. We have high aspirations for every child, and work together to support our learners to achieve their best. There is a lot of love, a lot of laughter, and a lot of learning in our school.
Our learners:
We are very lucky with our learners! They are exuberant, enthusiastic, determined and articulate. They believe that with practice, perseverance, resilience and determination they can achieve the best they can possibly be. They are willing to learn from their mistakes, to listen to feedback from their peers as well as school adults, and to set themselves goals that are challenging and aspirational.
The learners in our school know that every individual is equally valuable, equally loveable, and has an equal right to be included. Our learners are always surprising us, and often make us smile.
Our teams:
Our teaching teams are passionate about learning. They want to offer an irresistible invitation to learn that will enable every child to achieve, and believe that children should feel secure, nurtured, listened to and happy. They believe learning should be fun. They work hard. We are open ten hours a day. Our Breakfast and After-School Club crew help many parents to balance their work and family commitments.
Our dreams:
At Alexandra, pursuit of individuals’ beliefs and cultures are encouraged and celebrated. All members of our community are given the opportunity to be involved, to innovate and to participate in our sense of community and camaraderie. In our world, everyone can make a difference. We believe that every child can learn, achieve and make valuable contributions to the community they will be part of – and we believe it is our job to make sure this happens.
Our parents :
As educational partners we want to work with our parents and carers, to use their skills and talents and to support them in the most important job they do – their children are our future. We know how to enable children to grow up as successful learners, confident individuals, and responsible citizens, believing that they can make a difference in our world. We provide ideas, opportunities and challenges for learning that will excite and motivate both parents and children.
Our future:
Alexandra is at the start of an exciting and challenging transition. We are going to change from an Infant School into a Primary School. We need to plan to make the very best of this opportunity so that our pupils will continue to enjoy an outstanding education.
We need to plan for the future, to hold on to what we know is important, and to create a Primary School that will nurture the growth of our Infant s so that they can become 11 year olds ready for the next stage in their educational adventure equipped with the skills, knowledge, attitudes and self-belief that will help them to achieve their dreams.
Our school development plan:
This document is a summary of the objectives we will be focusing on over the next three years, as we prepare for expansion and start the process. We are determined that the business of expansion will not detract from the quality of the provision our children deserve.
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Curriculum design: To develop our revised and expanding rich, challenging and experiential curriculum which develops their learning skills as well as providing balanced subject coverage through a cross curricular approach.
To ensure that children’s learning experiences during weekly PPA times are of a high quality and enrich the curriculum.
Quality of Teaching To continue to improve the quality of teaching and learning by focusing on innovative pedagogical practice.
Achievement To design and refine an assessment system that promotes high achievement without levels, (learning without limits).
Behaviour and safety: To ensure pupils’ social and learning behaviour inside and outside class is outstanding.
To ensure that children are taught to keep themselves safe
Leadership and Management To ensure that Alexandra continues to provide outstanding education as it expands. |
Curriculum design: To improve the Religious Education curriculum -redesign and integration.
To utilise the PE Primary Funding effectively to improve the quality, provision and sustainability of PE in our growing school.
Quality of Teaching To promote a life-long love of reading. To ensure an outstanding LKS2 teaching team is in place ready for Y3 September 2016
Behaviour and safety: To explore and identify a value-based behavioural management system appropriate for KS2.
Leadership and Management To ensure communication with parent body gives clear information about children’s learning, school’s vision for the future, and plans for expansion as they develop.
To improve subject leadership to support curriculum design and implementation.
To continue to improve year group management systems.
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Curriculum Design: To develop KS2 curricular planning through Y4 and to UKS2
Quality of teaching: To identify skills, knowledge and understanding gaps in KS2 team as we move towards Y4 UKS2.
Behaviour and safety: explore the idea of a Head teacher’s award as vehicle for promotion of autonomy and independence as learners and confident positive citizenship
Leadership and Management: Develop and design outline plans for Upper Juniors and detailed plans for Y4 provision.
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Achievement: To continue to narrow the gap in attainment between different pupil groups. Leadership and Management To ensure full inclusion of children with SEND who are part of the SRP
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Curriculum Design: To develop our revised and expanding rich, challenging and experiential curriculum which develops their learning skills as well as providing balanced subject coverage through a cross curricular approach.
To improve PPA provision so that children’s learning experiences during weekly PPA times are of a high quality and enrich the curriculum.
Quality of Teaching To continue to improve the quality of teaching and learning by focusing on innovative pedagogical practice.
Achievement: To continue to narrow the gap between different pupil groups.
To design and refine an assessment system that promotes high achievement without levels.
Behaviour and safety: To ensure pupils’ social and learning behaviour inside and outside class is outstanding.
To teach children to keep themselves safe
Leadership and Management To ensure that Alexandra continues to provide outstanding education as it expands. |
Curriculum design: To improve the Religious Education curriculum -redesign and integration.
To utilise the PE Primary Funding effectively to improve the quality, provision and sustainability of PE in our growing school
Quality of Teaching To promote a lifelong love of reading.
To ensure an outstanding LKS2 teaching team is in place ready for Y3 September 2016
Behaviour and safety: To explore and identify a value-based behavioural management system appropriate for KS2.
Leadership and Management To ensure communication with parent body gives clear information about children’s learning, school’s vision for the future, and plans for expansion as they develop and are implemented.
To improve subject leadership to support curriculum design and implementation.
To continue to improve year group management systems.
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Evaluate |
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Achievement: To continue to narrow the gap in attainment between different pupil groups.
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Curriculum Design: To develop our revised and expanding rich, challenging and experiential curriculum which develops their learning skills as well as providing balanced subject coverage through a cross curricular approach.
To improve PPA provision so that children’s learning experiences during weekly PPA times are of a high quality and enrich the curriculum. (2/3)
Quality of Teaching To continue to improve the quality of teaching and learning by focusing on innovative pedagogical practice.
Achievement: To continue to narrow the gap between different pupil groups.
To design and refine an assessment system that promotes high achievement without levels.
Behaviour and safety: To ensure pupils’ social and learning behaviour inside and outside class is outstanding.
To teach children to keep themselves safe.
Leadership and Management To ensure that Alexandra continues to provide outstanding education as it expands.
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