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St. Patrick’s Primary School

Ballymaghery, Hilltown

School Development Plan

2015 - 2018

Appendices

School Development Plan Overview 2015 – 2018 St Patrick’s Primary School, Ballymaghery Appendix 1

Priorities 2015/2016 2016/2017 2017/2018

Child centred provision

Child Protection Training for new principal, new Designated and Deputy Designated teacher. Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy and Practices up-dated

Introduce C.P. noticeboard in foyer and have small C.P. display in each classroom

Up-date Anti-Bullying, Intimate Care, Pastoral Care and E-Safety Policies

Devise Relationship and Sexual Education Policy (RSE)

Develop School Council Introduce Prefects Improve playground provision – new

equipment and more supervisors Improve lunch/dinner arrangements Extend Rural Respecting Difference

Programme to P.1 and P.2 and consolidate P3 link with St Patrick’s Primary School Mayobridge.

Focus on Antibullying through classroom lessons and PDMU activities.

First Aid and Medical Awareness training for 8 staff members

Training and mentoring for new SENCo

Eco Project to enhance school grounds

Child Protection training updated for all staff.

Up-date First Aid Policy and provide full school training in First Aid.

Up-date PDMU and Drugs Education Policies

Continue to implement Anti-bullying procedures

Improve provision for outdoor learning

Promote Healthy Eating Implementation of Rights

Respecting School Project Development of school

grounds for active learning

Child protection Training for Designated and Deputy-Designated teachers

Up-date remaining Pastoral Care Policies so that they are on a 3-year cycle

Implementation of Rights Respecting School project

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Improve re-cycling and energy saving throughout the school

High Quality Teaching and Learning

Literacy Review teaching of Spelling and

Phonics in P.4 - P.7. Evaluate Schofield and Sims spelling programme

Ensure consistency in assessing the cross curricular skills in Communication

Review teaching approaches and learning experiences and amend Literacy Planning as appropriate

Develop opportunities for pupils to write in a range of contexts across the curriculum

Continue to disseminate good practice in differentiation.

Implement strategies from CPD programme on Spld.

Raise awareness of authors through the class teaching of novels

Use of Accelerated Reading programme consistently in P.5 – P.7 to support and encourage development of reading skills

Numeracy

Literacy Major focus on Literacy

Planning: review and up-date long-term planning to ensure progression and continuity

Continue to ensure consistency in assessing the cross curricular skills.

Develop the use of drama to enhance children’s learning.

Continue to disseminate good practice with emphasis on teaching spelling.

Develop a whole school approach to the teaching of phonics and spelling.

Numeracy

Literacy Continue to disseminate

good practice in identified specific areas of Literacy.

Embedding of TS and PC and AFL strategies

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Develop weekly planning in Maths using New Heinemann Maths scheme resources throughout school.

Audit and up-dating of Maths equipment

Focus on teaching and learning through Investigating and Problem-solving

Continue to ensure consistency in assessment of Cross curricular skills.

Continue to disseminate good practice in differentiation.

Use of IXL programme in school and at home to consolidate skills

ICT Improved ICT hard-ware provision Teachers and pupils use apps

effectively to promote Learning through use of iPads.

Access training from C2K to help teachers become familiar with ‘My School’.

Promote the school through the website.

Circulate up-dated policies through website

Use ICT Skills Booklet to ensure continuity and progression of ICT skills

Teachers will introduce assessment procedures for P1-P7 pupils

Continue to ensure consistency in assessment of Cross curricular skills.

Revise medium term planning to ensure it complements weekly planning

Evaluate medium and short-term planning.

Continue to disseminate good practice in specific Maths areas.

Embedding of TS and PC and AFL strategies

ICT Website further developed Teachers become familiar with

ICT assessment tasks for levelling

Teachers use website to display pupil work and activities

Teachers become more proficient in assessing pupil ICT skills

World Around Us Revise World Around Us

planning at whole-school level ensuring all aspects of N.I. curriculum WAU topics are covered

Evaluate Numeracy planners to ensure consistency throughout school

Continue to disseminate good practice in specific areas

Focus on provision for mathematically able pupils

ICT Teachers begin to ensure

consistency in cross curricular skills in ICT.

Up-dating of ICT equipment

Effective Leadership

Regular planned monitoring and review of SDP

Up-date School Development Plan

Consultation with all stake-holders in preparation of

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Monitor/evaluate/review

Staff Training

Curriculum Leadership

Financial Management/Resources

Improve PRSD process to identify professional development needs and further enhance teaching and learning

Development of monitoring, evaluation and review procedures in relation to Maths, English and ICT

Review and up-date Board of Governors Annual Report and School Prospectus

Train and develop new principal and new V.P. so they are effective in their leadership roles

Train and develop new SLT and new middle management post holders so they have clear roles, responsibilities and functions

C.P. and First Aid Training for staff

Develop effective team-working in Curriculum and Pastoral teams

SLT start to use SIMS for record-keeping

Provide parents with progress reports in English and Maths in November and February

Liaise with LMS Officer to establish budget priorities which reflect the SDP

Produce Action Plans relating to priorities identified in SDP

Alignment and improvement of PRSD to reflect our SDP priorities and the N.I. curriculum

Reassess Curriculum and Pastoral Teams.

Develop the role of Classroom Assistants

Review a range of school policies

Implementation of Rights Respecting Programme

Liaise with LMS Officer to establish budget priorities

new 3-year School Development Plan

Develop self-evaluation strategies throughout the school

Review a range of school policies

Prioritise staff development which reflects the SDP and our PRSD work

Review a range of policies Implementation of Rights

Respecting Programme

Liaise with LMS Officer to establish budget priorities which reflect

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Fundraise through the Parent Association

Meeting with staff and Governors in relation to school requisition which reflects the School Development Plan

which reflect the SDP Fundraise through the Parent

Association Meeting with staff and

Governors in relation to school requisition which reflects the School Development Plan

the SDP Fundraise through the

Parent Association Meeting with staff and

Governors in relation to school requisition which reflects the School Development Plan

School connected to the Local CommunityCommunication/relationships/projects

Consultation with parents regarding School Development Plan

Parents Information Evenings Parent Association Sacramental meetings Community concerts/Events Supporting local charities –

Hospice, Trocaire, Samaritans Purse (Shoe Box)

Annual Community Carol Service Links with GAA Club/Ulster Sports

Council Connor McConville Football

tournament Parish/School events Extended Schools Project Feis/competitions ‘Amazing Journey’ project Rural Respecting Difference

Programme link with neighbouring schools.

PSNI CASE Programme Stranger Danger/Fire Service/Cancer Focus

N.I. Dogs Trust Links with Clonduff Playgroup

(feeder nursery)

Parents Information Evenings Sacramental Meetings

PSNI CASE Programme Stranger Danger

Supporting local charities: Trocaire. Hospice, Action Cancer, British Heart Foundation

Links with GAA Club/Ulster Sports Council

Extended Schools funding – soccer, camogie, tennis, languages, girl and boys gaelic football, multi-sports, ICT, choir, instrumental groups

Consultation with parents regarding School Development Plan

Parents Information Evenings

Sacramental Meetings

Supporting local charities.

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Links with educational agencies

CCMS/CASS officer support Library service E.A. support services Educational Welfare officer Peripatetic support HSC services

CCMS/CASS officer support Library service E.A. support services Educational Welfare officer Peripatetic support HSC services

CCMS/CASS officer support

Library service E.A. support services Educational Welfare

officer Peripatetic support HSC services

ACTION PLAN FOR NUMERACY 2015 – 2016 St Patrick’s P.S. Ballymaghery, Hilltown 5033025 Appendix 2 Area for Improvement: Teaching and Learning in Numeracy

Baseline: New Numeracy co-ordinator appointed on 16th October 2015. Audit of Teacher skills undertaken on 28/10/15 which identified Investigations and Problem Solving 25

as an area for development. PIM results in June 2015 show no areas of concern. Monitoring and evaluation of Planning in 2014 – 2015 identified that planning needs to be up-dated to ensure continuity and progression. We have five new teachers this year who are unfamiliar with resources available and where they are stored. The New Heinneman Maths Scheme has been purchased as a resource for the whole school and will be integrated into planning this year. Teachers meet each half term to level samples of pupils work in different areas of the Maths curriculum.

Targets Success Criteria Actions to bringabout improvement

Timescale Staff/leadresponsibility

External support

Resources

Target 1:

Revise scheme of work

Maths Scheme has been revised and up-dated to include new resources.

Teachers are familiar with NHM scheme resources.

Planning shows uniformity, continuity and progression.

Maths Team have monitored Planning and provided feed-back to teachers.

•Teachers download Long-Term Planning from Clounagh website and personalise this to suit their own needs.•Agree on method of revising planners•Meetings in year-groups, key-stages and as whole school.

•Teachers become familiar with NHM resources.

•CASS support is utilised.

September 2015

October 2015

Each week, each half-term

October 2015 - June 2016

Oct/Nov 2015

Coordinator/Numeracy team.

All teachers.

CASS Daniel Copley (22/10/15)

CASS Jenny Mc Mullan (23/10/15)

Clounagh Planners

NHM files and current Maths Scheme of Work

Time for meeting and planning

Staff Development Day

Target 2:Audit of Maths equipment

Up-to-date list of Maths equipment will be available.Teachers will be able to access and use equipment easily.Most Maths equipment will be centrally stored.New equipment purchased if

•Using previous audit as a base-line teachers will list equipment currently in their room.

•Lists will be collated and a total inventory will be created and circulated to all teachers.

November 2015 Numeracy Team

All teachers

Classroom Assistants

Audit sheets

Equipment

Storage space

Budget Allocation

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need is identified.•Equipment will be stored centrally.

Target 3:Teachers will be more familiar with CCEA Levels of Progression and produce samples of work from Level 1 – Level 5, suitable for moderation.

Teachers produce samples of work for levelling.

Levels will be agreed and samples will be centrally stored.

Displays of work will be produced.

•Agree Maths topic/area and set dates.•Teach lessons to improve Teaching and Learning of topic.•Produce tasks for levelling.•Produce work for whole-school noticeboard displays.

19th–22nd OctoberNumber and Measure

25th-29th JanuaryData Handling with investigations

7th-11th MarchShape and Space with investigations

All teachers, led by Coordinator/ Numeracy Team.

Cover sheet to attach to sample which explains levels.

Planning time.

Year-group meetings.

Target 4:Teachers will develop their teaching in the area of Investigations and Problem Solving

Teachers will choose one task each month to give pupils opportunities to look at word problems and use various strategies to investigate and devise solutions.All PRSD lessons in term 2 will focus on investigations and problem-solving.

•Teach lessons aiming to improve Teaching and Learning of topic.•Produce tasks suitable for each year group and incorporate into weekly planning.•Produce work for whole-school notice-board displays.

November - May All teachersled by maths Coordinator/Numeracy Team

TasksActivities agreed between year groupsProblem Solving Tool KitOn-line Resources

Monitoring:Target 1: Numeracy Team collect planners each half-term. Team meet to evaluate planning and provide feed-back to teachers (at a meeting or individually).

Target 2: Numeracy Co-ordinator sends out Audit and collects completed forms. Audit responses are collated and equipment is catalogued. Storage arrangements are agreed and cupboards and shelves clearly labelled. C.A.’s move equipment as necessary. Staff are informed of the

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results.

Target 3: Teachers meet to discuss samples in identified area. Agreement reached re levels. Numeracy Team collect samples of work – label them and store.

Target 4: Examples of Investigative work and Problem-Solving will be high-lighted by teachers in planning. Numeracy Team will evaluate this and provide feed-back. Work for display will be shared at a meeting and then put on notice-boards.

Evaluation:

ACTION PLAN FOR ENGLISH AND LITERACY 2015 -2016 St Patrick’s P.S. Hilltown 5033025 Appendix 3

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Baseline Position:An analysis of PIE (Progress in English) process categories would indicate that reading comprehension (narrative) needs further attention even though most year groups are above the national average. In all the process categories results show in most cases that our school in each of the year groups are above the national average. The target area last year was to develop the fiction aspect of reading comprehension. Although the results in this area have improved it was felt that we need to continue to develop this area and focus on the individual skills required to enhance the children’s comprehension ability. The staff is now relatively confident in the teaching of four writing genres, recount, narrative, instructional and report writing. They will continue to ensure these areas are taught and the various genres will be evident in the children’s independent writing books. The number of children now underachieving in English is 13. The NNRIT test produced some unexpected results and we feel some children highlighted are not actually underachieving. The mean score ranges from 101 to 115 for each year group. Staff continue to familiarize themselves with the level descriptors but did not report levels to parents in 2014 - 2015 due to Industrial Action short of strike. A number of teachers feel we are under-resourced in the area of class novels. Through monitoring we are aware of the need to update our Literacy planning.

Targets Success Criteria Actions to bring about improvement Timescale Staff/ lead responsibility/

External Support

Resources

Target 1:To ensure consistency in assessment judgments of the cross curricular skill of Communication

There are internal standardization procedures to quality assure statutory assessment judgments.

All staff have a shared understanding of standards which ensures consistency in judgments.Assessment judgments stand up to scrutiny from external moderation.

•Whole school agreement trials for reading and writing.

•Use of exemplification library (CCEA)Assessment activities, including CCEA tasks, will be planned and embedded in planning and teaching. (Years 1,2,3 4, 5, 6 and 7)

•Samples from literacy activities will be used to level and build pupil profiles.•Staff meetings in Key Stage groups will take place to discuss and agree on levels given to pieces of work.•Teachers will compile a portfolio of children’s work to represent each level.

November 2015 - June 2016

Key Stage meetings will take place on the following dates

9th November 20156th January 201629th February 201613th June 2016

9th November 20156th January 201629th February 201613th June 2016

Principal

Lit/Co

Assessment co-ordinator

Directed Time Sessions

Targets Success Criteria Actions to bring about improvement Timescale Staff/ lead responsibility/

External Support

Resources

Target 2:Develop

Continuity and consistent progression

•Revisit quality indicators in specific genres to ensure progression.

Sept/October – Recount writing

Literacy Co-ordinator

Time to meet

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Baseline Position:An analysis of PIE (Progress in English) process categories would indicate that reading comprehension (narrative) needs further attention even though most year groups are above the national average. In all the process categories results show in most cases that our school in each of the year groups are above the national average. The target area last year was to develop the fiction aspect of reading comprehension. Although the results in this area have improved it was felt that we need to continue to develop this area and focus on the individual skills required to enhance the children’s comprehension ability. The staff is now relatively confident in the teaching of four writing genres, recount, narrative, instructional and report writing. They will continue to ensure these areas are taught and the various genres will be evident in the children’s independent writing books. The number of children now underachieving in English is 13. The NNRIT test produced some unexpected results and we feel some children highlighted are not actually underachieving. The mean score ranges from 101 to 115 for each year group. Staff continue to familiarize themselves with the level descriptors but did not report levels to parents in 2014 - 2015 due to Industrial Action short of strike. A number of teachers feel we are under-resourced in the area of class novels. Through monitoring we are aware of the need to update our Literacy planning.

opportunities for pupils to write in a range of contexts across the curriculum.

evident in children’s learning experiences.

Children have opportunities to write in a variety of genre across a range of contexts in all curriculum areas.

Teachers become increasingly confident in teaching the various genres of writing.

(instructional writing, recount, narrative, non-chronological reports and persuasive writing)

•Examples of differentiation will be shared among teachers so that differentiation will be evident in the various genres of writing.

•Children use checklists to help in self-evaluation process. (P.4-P.7)

•Review planning for the range of writing contexts. Teachers will write over current planning to ensure these particular genres and the teaching and learning activities are evident in their planning.

•Put in place monitoring strategies and rigorous evaluation of planning.

•Termly overview of the various genres of writing to illustrate when they are being taught throughout the term

Nov/Dec – Instructional writing

Jan/Feb 2016 – Narrative writing

March/April – Report writing

May/June – Persuasive writing(P4-P7)

Literacy Team Planning time

Targets Success Criteria Actions to bring about improvement Timescale Staff/ lead responsibility/

External Support

Resources

Target 3:To develop further

Improvement in PIE scores – children

•Planning will reflect a focus on comprehension of narrative. Teachers

On-going throughout the year.

Lit/CoPlanning Time

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the teaching and learning of the skills of comprehension

more confident in retrieval, inference (Simple and Complex Inference) and Authorial Techniques

Teachers teach each skill through shared and guided reading sessions.Children demonstrate an awareness of the skills in their comprehension tasks.

Children complete comprehensions with greater understanding

model reading of narrative. Focus during shared and guided sessions on the various skills that need to be developed to enhance the children’s comprehension skills.

•Each year group will focus on a particular skill of comprehension each month to help bring about an improvement. •Give teachers handouts based on the skills of comprehension•Teachers plan lessons to incude the vital skills of comprehension to help children succeed.

•An oral comprehension week will be planned for with effective questioning to help develop talking and listening skills.

11th – 15th April 2016

All teachers

Literacy Team

Targets Success Criteria Actions to bring about improvement Timescale Staff/ lead responsibility/

External Support

Timescale

Target 4:To raise an awareness of various authors through the class teaching of novels

An up to date list of novels covered in each year/class is available.

Planning will reflect the novels being read in each class with some activities listed linked also to the

•A whole school audit will be carried out whereby teachers will name books, authors and when novels are read in each term.

•Teachers will plan activities linked to the class novel and write onto current planners.•Put in place monitoring stategies to ensure novels are planned for.

Audit of class novels.

Storage space

Novels

Literacy team

All teachers

Oct 2015

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various genre of writing.Each class displays work covered by authors relevant to their year group.

•Time will be set aside weekly for class novels with follow up activities.•School notice boards of a range of class novels will be evident throughout the school.

Feb/March 2016Lit/Co

Evaluation:

ACTION PLAN FOR LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT 2015 – 2016 St Patrick’s P.S. Ballymaghery, Hilltown 5033025 October 2015 Appendix 4

Baseline Position:New Principal and Vice-principal took up post on 1st September 2015. Notice of Intent re change in Management Structure issued to teaching staff on 17 th

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Monitoring:

Target 1: Samples of pupil work collected and discussed. Levels agreed. Work collected, labelled and stored.

Target 2: Co-ordinator collects planners. Literacy Team evaluate planning and provide feed-back to teachers (at a meeting or individually). Pupils work will be monitored through Book –Looks with feedback given.

Target 3: Planning collected, analysed by Literacy Team and feed-back given. Teachers will meet to share samples of work for dissemination of Good Practice.

Target 4: Co-ordinator analyses Audit and reports results to teachers. New novels sourced. Co-ordinator checks planning for evidence of ‘Novel work’. Noticeboard displays created. Teachers meet to disseminate good practice in use of novels to promote love of reading.

September. Five posts of Responsibility advertised and appointments made on 16 th October 2015. Mr P. Mc Conville appointed as Numeracy/Assessment co-ordinator (2points); Ms C.Murphy appointed as SENCo (1 point); Mr Shay Flanagan appointed as ICT Co-ordinator (1 point); Mrs Kate Austin appointed as WAU co-ordinator (1 point). This makes a SLT of three teachers which includes the Literacy and Numeracy Co-ordinators and a Middle Management structure of four other teachers (ICT/WAU/SENCo/Pastoral Care).

Targets Success Criteria Actions to bringabout improvement

Timescale Staff/leadresponsibility

External support

Resources

Target 1:Develop the Principal and Vice-Principal so they are effective in their leadership roles

•Principal and VP have clear understanding of their roles and responsibilities.•Roles and responsibilities carried out consistently.•Principal and VP provide effective leadership for all aspects of the life of the school.

•SDP targets monitored and evaluated.

•Identified targets for improvement in Curricular and Pastoral areas achieved.•PRSD process effectively implemented.

•Principal and VP meet to discuss and agree roles and responsibilities.•P and VP timetable regular meetings together.•Principal and V.P. attend RTU training for newly appointed leaders.•Principal attends EASR training for newly appointed principals, as follows: School Council training; Budget; Child Protection training;Teacher Tutor Training;Managing Critical Incidents;HR Management; Legal IssuesSchool Governance;School Improvement;Use of SIMS.•Principal receives advice and support from EASR and CCMS officers.

On-going throughout year: - September – June1/10/15

30/10/15

23/11/15

12/11/15

19/11/15

3/12/15

Principal

Vice-Principal

E.A.S.R. Leadership and Management Support

Staff (Jenny Mc McMullan)

RTU

CCMS (Peter Mc Allister)

Time

Sub cover

Staff Development Days

Principal Training days

Target 2Train and develop the Senior Leadership Team

•Leaders have clear roles, responsibilities and functions.

•Key strategic objectives from SDP are met.

•CCMS provide training for SLT (Peter Mc Allister).

•Numeracy co-ordinator accesses support from E.A.S.R. (Daniel Copley).

On-going throughout year

22nd October 2015

Peter Mc Allister (CCMS)

Daniel Copley (EASR)Ann-Marie Flynn

(EASR)

Time to meet

Sub cover

Staff Development Day

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•Needs of pupils are met.

•Team members work together effectively.

•Literacy co-ordinator accesses support from E.A.S.R. (Ann-Marie Flynn).

4th November 2015

Target 3:Develop Middle Management to provide effective leadership

•Teachers access appropriate training and support which enables them to carry out new duties.

•Opportunities provided for staff to improve leadership and management skills and capabilities.

•Training is evaluated and successes and areas for improvement identified.

•Pastoral Co-ordinator attends School Council training and any other relevant training.

•SENCo attends training and Cluster groups.

•ICT co-ordinator accesses training for staff in identified areas of need and provides training in small groups for staff.

•WAU co-ordinator accesses training and provides leadership for teachers in using Clounagh WAU resources.

•All training disseminated to staff and implemented as appropriate

October - June

23/11/15: Jenny Mc Mullan (E.A.)

SLT

Catherine Murphy;

Shay Flanagan;

Kate Austin;

Maeve Mc Neill

Time

Equipment

Training

Staff Development Days

Amma Centre support

Target 4:Develop Curriculum and Pastoral Leadership Teams

•Teams work effectively to promote Teaching and Learning in the school.•All staff members have appropriate opportunities to

Half-termly meetings

Action Plans developed, monitored and evaluated

August 15 – June 16

All teachers Time to meet

Training

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undertake continuing professional development within context of SDP.•All staff members have opportunity to share in the leadership of the school.•Teams work together, identify targets, monitor and evaluate these, resulting in improvements for pupils.

Targets monitored and evaluated

Training as necessary

Monitoring:Target 1: Principal and VP reflect on their role, their strengths and their areas for development. Organisation, systems, practice and procedures within the school improved.

Target 2: Regular Team meetings held with good working relationships established. Honesty and openness developed.

Target 3: Training disseminated to staff. Regular meetings with evaluation of progress undertaken. Reporting back to principal.

Target 4: Evidence of teams working through improvements to pupil learning and experiences.

EVALUATION

ACTION PLAN FOR ICT 2015 – 2016 St Patrick’s P.S. Ballymaghery, Hilltown 5033025 Appendix 5Area for Improvement: Teaching and Learning in ICT October 2015 ICT Co-ordinator: Mr Shay Flanagan

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Baseline Position:New ICT co-ordinator appointed on 16th October 2015. New web-site went live in May 2015. Each class currently has two iPads, 2 stand-alone computers and a teacher laptop connected to an IWB. Approximately 10 laptops/notepads are available for whole-class use on a rota basis. Four new printers and a new scanner have just been ordered. There is some money available through the ‘Extended Schools’ budget which will be used to purchase iPads or laptops. Teacher and Support Staff skills vary greatly. There is a willingness among staff to move things forward and to improve general skills. Training will be needed to enhance staff confidence. A lot of money has been spent on licences for IXL and Lexia and the use of these ICT programmes is strongly encouraged in the school and at home. The ‘Accelerated Reading’ Programme is used throughout P.5 - P.7.

Targets Success Criteria Actions to bringabout improvement

Timescale Staff/leadresponsibility

External support

Resources

Target 1:Promotion of the school through the school website

All teachers will have uploaded information to the school website at least once per half-term.

Teacher skills will be improved.

The website will be browsed regularly by parents and pupils alike.

Greater variety of items will be put on website to view so that it is more educationally valuable and interesting.

•ICT Co-ordinator will give training for teachers on up-loading content to website.

•Individual teachers will receive support and assistance from ICT co-ordinator in uploading photographs and information to website.

•Teachers involved in school clubs will be allocated time to update the clubs section of the website regularly.

•Newsletters and texts will be used to encourage parents and pupils to view the website in order to get information and keep abreast of what is going on in the school.

28/10/2015

On-going all year.

08/01/16 – staff day.

Shay Flanagan

All teachers

Support staff

Secretary

Staff Development Day

Staff meetings to demonstrate how to upload to the website.

Target 2:

Development of staff competencies in the use of laptops and iPads to support

Success Criteria

Audit completed and analysed.

Use of ICT to support

Actions to bring about improvement

•Teachers will complete a skills audit which will assess where they feel they may need additional support.•The ICT team will provide guidance as to how

Time scale

On-going all year

18/01/16: Declan

Staff/Lead Responsibility

ICT co-ordinator.

Resources

Audit sheets.

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teaching and learning Teaching and Learning is written into planners in all subjects.

Teachers will incorporate ICT in Literacy, Numeracy and WAU lessons.

to incorporate ICT into lessons.•AMMA will provide additional training in the use of iPads in particular.•Teachers will work in year groups and Key-stages to support each other in becoming familiar with the ‘5 E’s’.

Evans (E.A.) delivers training on Assistive Technology and use of iPads for pupils with Spld.

All teachers.

AMMALaptops

AMMA

Target 3:Use of ICT Skills Booklet to ensure continuity and progression of ICT skills

Teachers and pupils will jointly fill in the skills booklet to show development of skills.

Pupils will have been taught all the skills required in their year groups pages in the skills booklet.

•The Skills Booklets will be distributed to every teacher and will follow each child from P.1 – P.7, with appropriate skill development identified and recorded.

•Teachers will be given guidance as to which type of tasks may be suitable in order to ensure all the skills are taught in each year group.

On-going all year All teachers, led by Mr Flanagan.

Classroom Assistant support

Clerical support

ICT booklet

iPads

Laptops

Monitoring:Target 1: Co-ordinator will view website regularly to see what is new. Individual teachers will be supported in up-loading information, as necessary.Target 2: Team-teaching will be undertaken. Skill development sessions timetabled and evaluated.Target 3: Co-ordinator will collect booklets each term to monitor progress and tasks carried out. Booklets will be used to identify areas of pupil and teacher skill deficits.

EVALUATION:

ACTION PLAN FOR SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS 2015 – 2016 St Patrick’s P.S. Ballymaghery, Hilltown 5033025 Appendix 6Area for Improvement: Provision for pupils with Special Needs October 2015

SENCO: Miss Catherine Murphy

Baseline Position:New SENCo appointed on 16th October 2015. We start 2015 – 2016 with 42 pupils on SEN Register for learning needs as compared to 40 in October last year.

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The break-down of these is as follows: 6 pupils at Stage 5 (1 for Autism, 1 for SEBD, 1 for Cerebral Palsy and Autism, 1 for Down Syndrome, 1 for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus, 1 for Speech and Language). We have two pupils at stage 4; 8 at stage 3; 26 at stage 2. This represents 13.3% of our school population. Class teachers are taking full responsibility for the provision of support for SEN pupils, with the help of the SENCo, the SEN teacher (Mrs Austin), the Classroom Assistants and various external agencies.On-going targets for 2015 – 2016 are: continued provision of ‘Maths Catch-Up’ programme; Literacy and /or Numeracy support for small groups of pupils through withdrawal. Targets 1, 2 and 3 (below), will be our main SEN focus for 2015 – 2016.

Targets Success Criteria Actions to bringabout improvement

Timescale Staff/leadresponsibility

External support

Resources

Target 1: Audit of

provision for SEN in our school

SENCo aware of schools strengths and weaknesses

SENCo is able to identify training required for staff

SENCo download Audit from Clounagh

Staff complete audit Meetings in staff, year

groups/key-stages and as whole school

Teachers become familiar with Clounagh/board resources

CASS/INSET training and support is utilised.

On-going throughout year.

SENCo

All teachers.

Clounagh WebsiteAudit sheets.

DENI Website

Cluster Meetings

Training

Time for meeting and planning.

Target 2: Develop role

of new SENCo

New SENCo will attend training/

cluster meetings

SENCo will know all pupils who are on register.

SENCo will attend training and disseminate good practice at staff meetings

SENCo observe pupils and keep in close communication with teachers

Teachers inform SENCo of any concerns

SENCo will advise teachers and will add any children of concern to register

SENCo will refer pupils for assessment when necessary

On-going throughout year

SENCo.

All teachers/PrincipalClassroom Assistants.

SEN RegisterCode of PracticeIEPSDENI Website

Clounagh Website

Cluster Meetings

Training Days

(EANI)

Target 3: Ensure

Teachers write suitable SMART

SENCo meet with teachers SENCo support and liaise

Termly All teachers, led by SENCo

IEPSDENI support file

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continuity and progression in Individual Education Plans throughout school

targets

Children on register experience achievement

Continuity and progression shown across school

with teachers in setting suitable SMART targets

SENCo tracks pupil progress across year groups

SENCo ensures continuity across school through support and liaison

Clounagh support documentsCluster Meetings

Monitoring:Target 1: SENCo carries out audit. Analyses results. Feed-back to staff. Meetings monitored.Target 2: Previous SENCo will mentor new SENCo in role throughout the first year. Training will be accessed and skills developed. SENCo will begin to establish links with C.A.s through meetings. SENCo will begin to make links with professional support services.Target 3: SENCO will have meetings with each teacher regarding E.P’s. SENCo will meet with teachers in term 2 to get overall picture of SEN register.

EVALUATION:

ACTION PLAN FOR THE WORLD AROUND US 2015 – 2016 St Patrick’s P.S. Ballymaghery, Hilltown 503 3025 Appendix 7

Baseline Position: New WAU co-ordinator appointed on 16th October 2015. WAU is not a Key Area for Improvement on our 2015 -2016 SDP. However, current monitoring has identified many aspects of our WAU provision which need improvement. Co-ordinator will provide leadership on the two targets below, supported by SLT. This will be evaluated in June 2016.

Targets Success Criteria Actions to bring Timescale Staff/lead Resources

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about improvement responsibilityExternal support

Target 1Improve planning throughout the school

Topic Planning Grid ensures all aspects

of WAU are covered.

Whole-school World Around Us planners have been devised

and evaluated.

- Topic grid created for whole school to ensure range of topics taught.

- Teachers to ensure lines of development are recorded on their topic overview planners

- Planners to be submitted to coordinator who will check which lines of development are covered for future planning

September 2015

End of each term

K Austin

Class teachers

K Austin

Planning template,Lines of development document,Planners from Clounagh and teachers planners.Time to meet and plan.

Target 2

Link with EcoSchools team to improve focus on Recycling and Energy Saving

Improved recycling and energy saving

throughout the school

- Link planners to Ecoschools targetseg recycling

- Renewable Energy and Recycling weeks to be held during the year

On going K. Austin & L. Smith Staff meeting

Noticeboard displays

Recycle bins

Monitoring:Target 1: WAU co-ordinator collects termly planning. WAU team evaluate planning and provide feed-back to teachers at a staff meeting focussing on the‘two stars and a wish’ method.Target 2: Monitor work samples sent to WAU co-ordinator for display. Dissemination of Good Practice re activities undertaken. Presentation of achievements to staff at a meeting.

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3 YEAR BUDGET PLAN: 2015-2018 503 3025 Appendix 8

St Patrick’s Primary School, Ballymaghery Cost Centre: 0620

Enrolments

Nu – FT Nur-PT Reception P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 LSC’s TOTAL PTR

Act Oct-14 0 0 0 51 56 43 31 56 37 31 0 305 21.79

Est October 2015

0 0 0 44 51 56 43 32 56 37 0 319 22.79

Est October 2016

0 0 0 44 44 51 56 43 32 56 0 326 23.29

2015/16 2016/17 2017/18

Projected

Teaching staff April (ex unit) 14.00 14.00 14.00

Teaching staff September (ex unit) 14.00 14.00 14.00

% Balance 31 March each year 10.24% 3.10% -1.26%

Estimated Carry-over from previous year 96,159 28,738 -11,240

Formula Allocation 831,446 831,446 831,446

Adjustments in Funding for Enrolment 31,556 47,334

TOTAL AVAILABLE 927,605 891,740 867,540

SPEND Fin Code

Teaching Staff 676,375 678,060 684,964

Substitution 14,000 14,000 14,000

Non-teaching – Auxiliary 62,542 63,167 63,799

Non-teaching – Ancillary 60,271 60,873 61,482

Running Costs 85,680 86,880 88,096

Capital

Income (-)

TOTAL EST SPEND 898,867 902,980 912,341

Est Balance at 31 March 28,738 -11,240 -44,801

Est Balance as a % of Total Available 3.10% -1.26% -5.16%

St Patrick’s P.S, Ballymaghery, Hilltown 503 3025 School Development Days 2015 – 2016 Appendix 9

DATES (Baker Days) School Development Priority/focus for staff development on this day

1. Tuesday 25th August 2015 Staff meeting: Planning and Practice/ Team Meetings

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2. Wednesday 26th August 2015 Behaviour Support Team Training

3. Thursday 27th August 2015 Whole-Staff Input to School Development Plan for 2015-2018

4. Friday 28th August 2015 Team Meetings/ Classroom Preparation

5. Thursday 30th June 2016 Analysis of P.3 – P.7 results and SEN results

DATES (SDDs)School Development Days1. Wednesday 28th October 2015

Monitoring and self-evaluation/Roles and Responsibilities/ Purpose of teams

2. Wednesday 6th January 2016 Evaluation of Action Plans/School Developments Plan

3. Wednesday 17th February 2016

Preparation of Progress Reports for Parents

4. Friday 18th March 2016 Maths Planning/ ICT Training

5. Friday 6th May 2016 Team Meetings/ Maths Planning

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