“Our intention at Springwell Park is that all pupils, irrespective of their background or the challenges they face, make good progress and reach their full potential.”

Our intention at Springwell Park is that all pupils, irrespective of their background or the challenges they face, make good progress and reach their full potential. We will ensure that effective teaching, learning and assessment meets the needs of all pupils through the analysis of data and professional dialogue about pupils. Quality first teaching for all is at the heart of our approach. This is proven to have the greatest impact on closing the disadvantage attainment gap and at the same time will benefit the non-disadvantaged pupils in our school.

We believe that quality first teaching, enhanced with specific interventions will give our children the best opportunity to catch up. Class teachers and senior leaders will analyse data to ensure support is targeted where it is most needed. Alongside academic support, we will ensure that those pupils who have social, emotional and mental health needs will access high quality provision and that all children have the opportunity to experience a range of opportunities that they missed during lock down. Whilst we are aware that our children need to ‘catch up’ across the curriculum, our initial focus will be on reading as we believe this is the driver to success in all subjects. We intend to Identify barriers to learning and ensure actions are put in place to ensure this does not prevent a child achieving.

We intend to:

• Identify barriers to learning and ensure actions are put in place to ensure this does not prevent a child achieving.
• Narrow the attainment gaps between disadvantaged pupils and their nondisadvantaged counterparts both within school and nationally
• Ensure ALL pupils are able to read fluently and with good understanding to enable them to access the breadth of the curriculum
• Develop confidence in their ability to communicate effectively in a wide range of contexts  Enable pupils to look after their social and emotional wellbeing and to develop resilience.
• Provide a wide range of opportunities to develop their knowledge and understanding of the world We will do this by ensuring our disadvantaged pupils are challenged in the work that they’re set and provide opportunities for higher attaining pupils.

We will intervene at the earliest point to ensure need is identified and addressed early. We have a whole school approach to raising the attainment of all pupils and all staff take responsibility for improving the outcomes for disadvantaged pupils. In order to achieve our objectives and overcome identified barriers to learning we will:

• Provide all teachers with high quality CPD to ensure that pupils access effective quality first teaching
• Provide targeted intervention and support to quickly address identified gaps in learning including the use of small group work, 1:1 tuition
• Target attendance to ensure pupils regularly attend
• Provide opportunities for all pupils to participate in enrichment activities including sport and music