Strategic Vision
The image below illustrates our Strategic Vision
Vision Led Priorities
- V1 - To refresh the KS3 curriculum to make it more exciting and tailored to the locality, using the Geography refresh in 2024 as a model.
- V2 - To increase participation in the Settle College Diploma program, ensuring that no pupils are excluded and all have access to the opportunities it provides.
- V3 - To enhance staff well-being at Settle College by addressing concerns highlighted in the Pulse survey findings and ongoing tracking, leading to a healthier and more supportive work environment.
- V4 - To define "skills for life-long learning" within the context of Settle College, assess how well these skills are currently being provided for in the curriculum, and develop a strategy for enhancing their delivery.
- V5 - To strengthen Settle College’s community engagement by establishing new links with local organisations and ensuring active involvement of school governors through regular visits and participation in collaborative initiatives.
Monitoring Led Priorities
- M1 - To refresh the planning and monitoring of Pupil Premium (PP) spend and ensure its effectiveness is increasingly demonstrated through the data.
- M2 - Clearly define the objectives of the new TA model and establish success criteria for effective use of TAs.
- M3 - Enhancing Adaptive Teaching Effectiveness. Ensuring Pupil Progress across all groups, specifically SEND/HAs. With high quality assessment and feedback leading to good progress.
- M4 - Re-energising the Literacy Strategy and Monitoring Its Effectiveness.
- M5 - Improving and Accelerating the Process for Curriculum Adaptation and Monitoring Effectiveness.
Continuous improvement objectives
- Attendance – To continue to promote high levels of attendance and drive this area through school in all areas.
- Behaviour and welfare – To continue embedding positive attitudes to learning, through practice implemented in 2023/24. Rigour of monitoring and making those marginal gains. Rewarding students for being the ‘Best they can be’.
- Safeguarding remains a drip-fed approach with continuous updates to ensure effectiveness across all at local and national level.
- Quality assurance policy refreshed ahead of the first cycle to reflect the process, monitoring, evaluation and impact.
- (Links to M4/M3/M2) To raise whole-school standards in student literacy by driving the unified literacy strategy that supports pupils’ development and success at every key stage, enhances exam performance, and equips them with essential skills for future life.
