WHOLE COLLEGE IMPROVEMENT

College Improvement Plan 2026–27: Summary

Bottisham Village College’s College Improvement Plan (CIP) for 2026–27 is sharply focused on improving teaching and learning, strengthening attitudes to learning, and ensuring sustained progress for all students, particularly our most vulnerable. The plan builds on the progress made in 2025–26 and is rooted in accurate self‑evaluation, informed by robust pupil performance, behaviour and attendance data.

Priority 1: Improving Attitudes to Learning

The college is moving from managing disruption to developing proactive learning behaviours, embedding consistent, teacher‑led routines and PRIDE expectations across every classroom. Students receive clear next steps after every lesson, with a structured response‑to‑feedback approach and ‘Fix It’ tasks launching fully in Autumn 2026. Attendance is now a strategic priority in its own right: leaders and teachers share clear responsibilities for closing gaps in learning quickly, underpinned by a whole-college strategy to build every student’s sense of belonging.

Priority 2: Raising Attainment, Particularly for Our Most Vulnerable

Teaching is being strengthened so that vulnerable students make sustained progress in line with peers of similar starting points. Teachers actively check learning throughout every lesson — especially in the middle and closing phases — using strategies from Inclusive Classrooms and Explicit Instruction, with the Frayer Model and reading strategies embedded by all staff to build vocabulary and fluency. Vulnerable students are now the starting point for how schemes of learning and resources are designed, not an adaptation made afterwards, while a Foundational Knowledge Grid ensures early identification of core skills gaps as students join Key Stage 3.

Priority 3: Strengthening Leadership and Management

Leadership at all levels continues to develop greater precision and impact. Middle leaders are taking a stronger hold of quality assurance, leading more lesson visits, feeding back through line management, and using Step‑Lab to develop staff practice. Curriculum resources are quality assured against clear content and vocabulary standards, and every student above ordinarily available provision has a named person overseeing a graduated response — ensuring the right support reaches the right students, consistently.

Impact and Sustainability

The CIP is implemented through a phased plan across the academic year, ensuring improvements are embedded and sustained rather than introduced and dropped. Leaders evaluate impact regularly and adapt actions where needed. Together, these priorities support the college’s ethos of being Inspiring, Caring and Enriching, ensuring students are well prepared academically, socially and personally for their next steps.