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Annual Plan
Improvement Plan – Domain: Learning (Writing)
Strategic Goals: To increase the number of students achieving National Standards.
Annual Goal: To increase the number of students Annual Target: To shift 62.5% (5 of the 8) of Year 4 students who are below in National
shifting from below National Standards to Standards to meeting National Standards in writing.
meeting National Standards in writing.
Baseline Data: In 2016 there were 54.5% of Year 3 students not reaching National Standards in writing.
Key Improvement Strategies:
When: What: Who: Indicators of Progress
Throughout Continue to build teachers -Lead Teacher of Writing will develop a -Students will be able to explain their WALT and
2017 understanding around clarity of writing programme for 2017 to ensure success criteria.
learning, formative assessment that the clarity of learning, formative -Students will know their writing goal and what they
and student goal setting. assessment and student goal setting is need to do to achieve it.
getting embedded. -Formative assessment will be obvious in students
work.
Throughout Focus on improving spelling in -Teachers’ inquiries are to focus on -Teachers’ inquires will identify spelling programmes
2017 the context of writing spelling programmes that work for their that have been proven to work.
(identified in easttle data 2016) students.
-Teachers will ensure that spelling is -Students’ easttle results will show an improvement
regularly taking place in their time table. in the Spelling rubric.
Throughout Identify target groups of -Individual teachers identify target -Teachers will identify target students who are
2017 students who are below students and report back to their teams below and will provide strategies on how they will
National Standards and report about successful strategies. try and shift these students to meeting National
back of successful strategies standards.
(shared practice). -Year 4 Teachers will be given extra TA -Teachers will report back to their teams about
time to help meet the needs of target successful strategies (shared practice).
-Teachers will write a report each term for the BOT
students. on how target students are progressing.
Monitoring: Senior management and Lead Teacher of Writing to carry out walkthroughs or observations once a term and link to appraisals,
Teachers will report back to their teams twice a term on how their target students are going.
Resourcing: Release time for the Lead Teacher of Writing, release time for teachers to meet to discuss walkthroughs or observations. Extra TA
time for Year 4 classes to focus on writing
Improvement Plan – Domain: Learning (Writing)
Strategic Goals: To increase the number of students achieving National Standards.
Annual Goal: To increase the number of students Annual Target: To shift 62.5% (5 of the 8) of Year 4 students who are below in National
shifting from below National Standards to Standards to meeting National Standards in writing.
meeting National Standards in writing.
Baseline Data: In 2016 there were 54.5% of Year 3 students not reaching National Standards in writing.
Key Improvement Strategies:
When: What: Who: Indicators of Progress
Throughout Continue to build teachers -Lead Teacher of Writing will develop a -Students will be able to explain their WALT and
2017 understanding around clarity of writing programme for 2017 to ensure success criteria.
learning, formative assessment that the clarity of learning, formative -Students will know their writing goal and what they
and student goal setting. assessment and student goal setting is need to do to achieve it.
getting embedded. -Formative assessment will be obvious in students
work.
Throughout Focus on improving spelling in -Teachers’ inquiries are to focus on -Teachers’ inquires will identify spelling programmes
2017 the context of writing spelling programmes that work for their that have been proven to work.
(identified in easttle data 2016) students.
-Teachers will ensure that spelling is -Students’ easttle results will show an improvement
regularly taking place in their time table. in the Spelling rubric.
Throughout Identify target groups of -Individual teachers identify target -Teachers will identify target students who are
2017 students who are below students and report back to their teams below and will provide strategies on how they will
National Standards and report about successful strategies. try and shift these students to meeting National
back of successful strategies standards.
(shared practice). -Year 4 Teachers will be given extra TA -Teachers will report back to their teams about
time to help meet the needs of target successful strategies (shared practice).
-Teachers will write a report each term for the BOT
students. on how target students are progressing.
Monitoring: Senior management and Lead Teacher of Writing to carry out walkthroughs or observations once a term and link to appraisals,
Teachers will report back to their teams twice a term on how their target students are going.
Resourcing: Release time for the Lead Teacher of Writing, release time for teachers to meet to discuss walkthroughs or observations. Extra TA
time for Year 4 classes to focus on writing
