Regina Coeli Catholic Primary School
Using assessment information to provide challenge for all pupils
What problems were in your school and how did you identify them?
- School in Special Measures
- Inexperienced leadership team
- Low expectations of pupils to succeed
- Teachers’ subject knowledge needed improving
- Inaccurate assessment of pupils’ starting points
- Lack of challenge for learners
What actions did you take?
- Experienced Headteacher brought into school
- Joining a successful Federation with capacity to support
- Strategic planning
- Identification of priority development areas - leadership and learning
- School to school support from SLEs, NLE and Teaching School within Federation
- Development of senior leadership team and middle leadership
- CPD to develop teachers’ subject knowledge
- Embedding a creative curriculum to engage, support and challenge learners
- Accurate assessment of pupils’ strengths and weaknesses
- Developing resilience and positive learning behaviours
- Target setting based on prior attainment
- Challenge to accelerate learning
- Pupil progress meetings to hold teachers’ to account and to ensure all pupils across the school were making expected or accelerated progress
- Improving learning environments and opportunities
- Developing strong pastoral support for pupils, staff and families
What were the outcomes?
Accelerated learning and progress in the top 10% of schools -
+7.9 Reading, +7.6 Writing, +8.7 Maths.
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