Operational Objectives

Objectives that focus on improving student achievement:

Curriculum Delivery
To give children the best possible opportunities, programmes and conditions to meet their individual needs, abilities and learning styles, and to foster their enjoyment, progress and eagerness to learn.
Curriculum Content
To provide well planned and balanced programmes which are in line with the national curriculum, recognise special features of the school's locality, ensure a good grounding in numeracy, literacy and the essential skills, and help equip children for the next stage in their schooling.
Progress And Achievement
To monitor, assess, record and report on children's progress and achievements in ways that have positive and motivating effects, contribute to their self-esteem and personal awareness, help clarify and communicate specific areas where individual help or extension is needed, and encourage children to strive for their personal best.

Objectives for curriculum, support programmes, community partnership and teacher development:

Progress And Achievement
To monitor, assess, record and report on children's progress and achievements in ways that have positive and motivating effects, contribute to their self-esteem and personal awareness, help clarify and communicate specific areas where individual help or extension is needed, and encourage children to strive for their personal best.
Communications & Involvement
To have good communications between the school and its community, to encourage involvement in the life of the school, and to be receptive and responsive to helpful views, ideas or concerns.

Objectives for personnel, processes and systems:

Personnel
To be a good employer, to attract quality staff, to value their work, and to promote high levels of staff performance by providing the conditions for satisfying work and support for ongoing training and development.
Finance (Refer Annual Budget and Reports)
To use and manage the school's finances to the best possible advantage of children's learning and the functioning of the school
Property (Refer 5 & 10YPP)
To ensure a well-maintained, safe, hygienic, functional and attractive school environment, and to plan for the ongoing development of facilities to meet current and future needs and purposes.
School Self-Review
To maintain an ongoing programme of school self-review to help ensure the purpose, aims and objectives in this charter are being achieved, and to help decide priorities for planned ongoing development and improvement.