School Objectives

OBJECTIVES 2020-21
OVERARCHING AIM	To ensure that every student leaves The Bay equipped with a personal and academic skill set that will bring them happiness, success and fulfillment in the future. To continue to raise student progress and attainment to ensure consistently high performance across all subject areas and all groups of learners. To further develop the personal and character development of all students. To firmly establish The Bay CE School as the high performing, local school of choice.
Objective 1	To rapidly raise the achievement of all students with a key focus on underperforming student groups (disadvantaged, SEND) and specific subject areas.
Objective 2	Further develop and embed whole school strategies and accountability to raise student attendance from 94.26% (2019-20) to at least in line with national average (94.5%) and to reduce persistent absence from 15.86% (2019-20) to at least in line with national average (13.9%).
Objective 3	To develop a consistent level of high quality teaching and learning across the school with a specific focus on the four strands of our Teaching and Learning strategy. Underpinning each strand is effective planning and a strong curriculum model. Challenge and personalisation (explicitly faceted into medium terms plans, high expectations for all). Questioning (use to extend students’ thought processes, Use of the Big Question. Create a safe culture of error). Prior knowledge (knowledge tests, low stake testing, subject specific vocabulary.) High level communication (verbal and written). To prioritise reading across the school with a focus on ‘reading to learn’ by developing a rigorous and sequential approach to the reading curriculum in order to pupils’ fluency, confidence and enjoyment in reading.
Objective 4	To further develop highly effective systems and strategies that support the needs of all students with a key focus on our most vulnerable students through the continued development of The Bay inclusion and SEND provision in order for all students to access to a variety of platforms that facilitates learning beyond the classroom.
Objective 5	To continue to develop extensive personal and character development of students so that they have access to a wide, rich set of experiences. To systematically plan character education for all students. This includes: The development of LORIC (Leadership, Organisation, Resilience, Initiative and Communication) The development of Christian Values The development of a whole school reading strategy The development of numeracy for life The further development of links with our local community
Objective 6	To continue to develop and build leadership capacity/effectiveness at all levels with a particular focus on Middle Leadership and Governance.

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