1. Our Vision Bishops Lydeard Primary School

2. Improve the quality of teaching to good or better through:
Teaching Assistants
What we have done so far
Skills audit
Tailor made training through Inset
Listened and acted upon suggestions of how to be more effective with time
Drop ins
Lesson Observations

3. Improve the quality of teaching to good or better through:
Teaching Assistants
Impact
Effective use of Teaching Assistants
We know this because:
Drop ins – Mrs Thorne, Mrs Brooker and HMI
Lesson Observations – Literacy Subject Leaders.

4. Improve the quality of teaching to good or better through:
Levelling Work
Teachers working in pairs to ensure the levels are accurate in reading, writing and numeracy.
Pupil Progress Meeting with every class teacher.
Drop ins and lesson observations to identify the challenge within lessons.

5. Improve the quality of teaching to good or better through:
Levelling Work
Impact
Levels are accurate for identifying progress with our data collection.
Differentiation is in the planning.
Work scrutiny is showing that lessons are pitched differently for particular groups of pupils.
Ongoing CPD for staff

6. Improve the quality of teaching to good or better through:
Next steps:
Children’s levels on planning
Drop in focussing on work matched to the pupils’ differing abilities.

7. Improve the quality of teaching to good or better through:
Marking
Reviewed the marking policy
Agreed marking codes in every classroom
Book scrutiny
Non-negotiable list for Literacy and Numeracy books.
Further opportunities to scrutinise books

8. Improve the quality of teaching to good or better through:
Marking
Impact
All staff are clear about expectations
All books are showing a significant improvement (85% + of books have all the criteria)
Pupils are clear about the expectations of presentation, self-assessing and responding to questions.
This is being monitored through:
Weekly drop ins
Individualised next steps identified for every class.
Lesson observations
Subject leader monitoring
Management team monitoring.

9. Improve the quality of teaching to good or better through:
Questions in books
Pupils from Yr 2 onwards have questions in their books on a regular basis ( not every lesson).
Purpose of the questions are to deepen and broaden your child’s understanding.
Expectation is for your child to answer these questions.
Monitoring the same way as the previous slide.

10. Improve the quality of Leadership and Management through:
Literacy and Numeracy Subject leaders checking the pupils’ progress
Active involvement in completing Pupil Progress Meetings
Challenge class teachers through questioning within the meeting.
Review and support any barriers to the learning with groups of pupils.
Creating a report for the Education Committee so the staff are being held to account by Governors.

11. Improve the quality of Leadership and Management through:
Impact with Subject Leaders
As a result of conducting Pupil Progress Meetings with the SLT, the leaders have a deeper understanding of progress across the school.
The effectiveness of the Subject Leaders to improve the standards of learning have now increased as they are able to act upon areas discussed in the meetings.

12. Improve the quality of Leadership and Management through:
Ensuring that the Governors use the information they receive from the school to check that teaching and pupils’ achievement are improving
Report for Education Committee
Increased challenge to the Head/Deputy through questioning
Designated action plan meetings therefore the number of meetings have increased.
Governor Monitoring in school has increased further.
Meetings with HMI
Professional Development including monitoring and evaluating courses
Governor Monitoring document

13. Improve the quality of Leadership and Management through:
Impact of Governors
What has been implemented so far has been facilitated/supported and challenged by the Governors.

14. We need you to
Ensure feedback about homework is given to the class teacher.
Read with your child on a regular basis including ‘free readers’
Your child is not tired/sick when attending school.
Use the Curriculum Newsletters to support your child at home.
Please take holidays out of term time.