School Development Plan 2025–27
This is a summary of the key areas we are focusing on in 2025-27.
This includes the Ofsted improvement area.
School Improvement Plan Focus One:
Enhancing the Curriculum Offer and Resources
| Objective 1: | Review the curriculum internally with a focus on Year 9 and 12 and implement changes with a clear time-lined approach evaluating impact. |
| Objective 2: | Managing the move to the new building and further expansion/site management, including ICT strategy. |
| Objective 3: | Managing the budget strategically to ensure the school always has a balanced budget both in the year and at the end of the financial year with no significant ongoing deficit. |
School Improvement Plan Focus Two:
Enhancing SEND Provision at Wanstead High School
| Objective 1: | Develop and implement adaptive teaching strategies tailored for SEND pupils to improve academic outcomes. |
| Objective 2: | Strengthen social and emotional support systems for groups of pupils to enhance their wellbeing and inclusion. |
| Objective 3: | Enhance SEND assessment and monitoring processes to identify and address learning gaps promptly. |
School Improvement Plan Focus Three:
Promoting Equality, Character Values, and Community
| Objective 1: | Embed and promote character values of respect, service, teamwork, integrity, and curiosity across all year groups. |
| Objective 2: | Further embed the house system that fosters community, competition, and character development. |
| Objective 3: | Use the Hemisphere programme to build racial literacy in school. |
| Objective 4: | Achieve the Bronze Rights Respecting School Award (RRSA) by July 2027 through embedding equality, reducing bias, and promoting pupil rights. |
| Objective 5: | Ensure greater equality in key performance indicators across the school. |
School Improvement Plan Focus Four:
Courageous and Ethical Leadership at Wanstead High School
| Objective 1: | Implement the 9 Habits of Trust model to foster courageous and ethical leadership across all senior leadership and embed as appropriate with Middle Leaders and review governance. |
| Objective 2: | Ensure key leaders are familiar with the key changes to Ofsted and the curriculum and able to strategically plan for their implementation. |
| Objective 3: | Develop and implement an impactful appraisal system (backed up by quality, consistent line management) that ensures staff grow and develop in line with school development priorities and software reduces the workload of the process and supports other HR functions. |
| Objective 4: | Ensure continued focus on workload and well-being with impactful initiatives. |
| Objective 5: | Enhance communication channels and strategies across the school ensuring communication is focused, transparent, and supports staff well-being and parent satisfaction. |
School Improvement Plan Focus Five:
Strengthening Knowledge Checks and Addressing Gaps
| Objective 1: | Implement consistent and effective formative assessment strategies across all subjects to identify and address pupils’ knowledge gaps by the end of the academic year – Ofsted area for improvement. |
| Objective 2: | Enhance the use of summative assessment data to track knowledge retention and inform curriculum adjustments by the end of the academic year. |
School Improvement Plan Focus Six:
Improved Outcomes and Challenge with a Focus on Maths and Science
| Objective 1: | Improve pupil outcomes in Mathematics to meet or exceed historical trends across all key threshold measures (7+, 5+, and 4+). |
| Objective 2: | Strengthen provision to consistently challenge and stretch the most able pupils in Mathematics and other subjects, closing the progress gap between the most able and their peers, with a particular focus on increasing attainment in the 7+ and 9+ measures at GCSE and A-A* at A Level. |
| Objective 3: | Improve girls’ progress and attainment in Science so that outcomes for girls are at least in line with boys and reflective of their potential across all key stages and A Levels show increased outcomes. |
| Objective 4: | Ensure home learning and learning resources, including software, impact outcomes at all levels. |
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