Green Oaks Strategy for Excellence

Our strategic aim is to build a learning community that achieves excellence for all.

We aim to achieve this through creating a collaborative culture with parents that is driven by high aspirations for all of our children.

The Green Oaks strategy for excellence will always be based on research and the self evaluation of the schools.  The impact of our strategy will be continually reviewed by school leaders, Governors and the Local Authority.  We will build on our successes but not be afraid to challenge outcomes, address weakness and expect excellence for all.

Strategic Priorities

2026-2027

This year we have three main school improvement priorities:

• Children are fully secure in age-appropriate foundational skills before moving on to their next year -

  • Handwriting shows consistency across all subjects; every child uses ready to write routines; guided practice leads to automaticity.
  • Sentence structure: whole school approach to sentence stems and frames, oral rehearsal, improved explicit modelling
• Consistent whole school pedagogical approach to improving consistency and accuracy in writing

• Embed our work on oracy ensuring it supports readiness to write across all subject areas

• Improve pupils’ fluency, comprehension and love of reading y2-6, using this to positively influence writing outcomes

  • Implement new Guided Reading structure KS2
  • Improve impact of teacher’s formative and summative assessment in reading y2-6

• Opportunities for enquiry learning are extended, leading to improved curiosity, independence and deeper learning

• Curriculum review of DT, Computing, PSHE, and Geography, seeking to improve depth and security of children’s knowledge and skills.
• Refine end of unit assessments in foundation subjects, widening the ways in which children can use oracy to explain and demonstrate new knowledge and understanding
• Extend our teaching of mental health and well-being yR-6, empowering all children to build their own self-care strategies. 

• All subjects contribute strategically to the teaching of global themes

  • Children have wider opportunities to learn through nature
  • Curriculum subjects support the teaching of Identity and Diversity

• Improve the explicit teaching & modelling of reasoning
• Improve the impact of home learning, ensuring vulnerable pupils fully engage
• Maths Leaders support, develop and hold teachers to account through effective monitoring and feedback
• Raise attainment in LKS2 thorough effective reviews, planning and intervention
• Develop staff’s subject knowledge in planning for greater depth, specifically reasoning.