Waterside Primary School

OFSTED areas for improvement (May 2019):

Improve leadership and management by:

• embedding the work of middle leaders, so that the rapid improvements made to systems during this academic year are applied consistently across the whole school
• further developing the reading curriculum, so that pupils gain a love of reading and enjoy reading regularly, both at school and at home.

Improve the quality of teaching and learning by:

• ensuring that teachers are focused on increasing the proportion of pupils reaching the higher standards of attainment and appropriately challenging the most able pupils
• building on recent improvements in the progress of disadvantaged pupils, so that the gap between their attainment and that of other pupils continues to narrow.

Waterside School Improvements 2019/20 Key Objectives: 

Outcomes for Pupils

• To further accelerate progress in all year groups in order to rapidly increase the combined percentages so that we are, year on year, consistently in line with national outcomes at the end of key stages
• To further improve the quality of teaching, thus raising attainment and accelerating the progress of ALL pupils, including those who are disadvantaged or those who have a special educational need
• To ensure teachers are confident and skilled at providing opportunities for pupils to ‘work at greater depth’, thus increasing the percentage of pupils at the end of each key stage achieving the greater depth standard

Well-being, Mental Health and Behaviour

• To refresh and review our behaviour and anti-bullying policies and practices in light of recent school improvements, monitoring and on-going research
• To continue to develop positive learning behaviours and especially pupils’ resilience to support learning and positive mental health
• To define the intent of our well-being and safeguarding curriculum and develop plans to support implementation, ensuring desired impact for both staff and pupils
• To further raise the aspirations of our pupils
• To continue to develop greater opportunities for ‘Pupil Voice’ across all aspects of school life

Reading

• Increase children’s fluency and stamina
• Develop a desire to ‘read for personal pleasure’ in all our children

Wider Curriculum

• Use current research analysis to develop a deeper understanding of how children think and learn and so reframe our pedagogical practice.
• Ensure environmental awareness and understanding, linked to social responsibility is within year group curriculum learning opportunities and aligned with whole school wider curriculum opportunities.
• Continue to develop ‘Intent, Implementation & Impact’ with a focus on two subjects.
• Further develop ‘Pupil Voice’ and opportunities for children to have ownership, responsibility and active involvement in all aspects of school life.

Each target is connected to the new OFSTED (2019) framework:

The quality of Education/Behaviour and Attitudes/ Personal Development/Leadership and Management/Early Years