Birch Copse aims to provide a safe, respectful and supportive learning environment that enables learners to feel valued and reach their potential within a happy, healthy and caring community. All children are encouraged to enjoy learning and experience a creative and stimulating curriculum to help them become confident and independent learners.
We aim to create an environment where all achievements and talents are recognised, including high social standards and personal and academic achievements.
Our School Values were created through consultation with children, parents, governors and staff. The values are shared with the children and used for our reward system throughout the school.
Priorities have been identified through school self-evaluation, including analysis of pupil outcomes and wider performance information, staff and pupil voice, lesson visits and work scrutiny, review of provision, and governor and external feedback.
Inclusion:ensuring high expectations for every child.
1. Interventions – To establish a consistent evidence-informed approach to the planning, delivery, monitoring and evaluation of targeted interventions ensuring that interventions are implemented with fidelity and their impact on pupils’ outcomes is systematically tracked and evaluated.
2. Tiered Provision – To develop and embed a clear graduated approach to provision across the school ensuring that all pupils have access to high-quality ordinarily available/universal provision with timely and appropriate escalation to targeted and more specialist support where required.
3. Use of data – To develop and embed a robust, whole-school data tracking system that enables the early identification of vulnerable pupils and provides a comprehensive overview of their academic progress, attendance, engagement and participation ensuring that appropriate support is identified implemented and reviewed in a timely manner.
Teaching and Learning: Embedding consistently excellent and inclusive practice.
1. To increase children’s engagement and active participation in lessons
2. To improve the quality and consistency of lesson planning so that all teachers design and deliver structurally effective lessons that have clear learning intentions, coherent sequencing and purposeful opportunities for children to practice independently.
3. To develop teachers’ understanding and consistent application ofAssessment for Learning (AfL), ensuring that questioning, responsive teachingand feedback are used effectively to identify pupils’ understanding, adaptteaching and improve progress for all pupils.
Curriculum: preparing for future curriculum reform.
1. Curriculum review - To review the current Birch Copse curriculum and have a clear understanding of the elements we want to keep.
2. Analyse the new National Curriculum – when it is launched, look at the new changes and understand the implications for adapting these into our existing curriculum
3. Prepare to launch new curriculum – doing this whilst maintain the existing curriculum’s outstanding standards.
