Holbrook 3-year Strategic Plan 2025-28

Aiming High, Succeeding Together

Introduction

At Holbrook, our ambition is to ensure that we offer every child the opportunity to fulfil their potential and to be happy and successful.  We aspire for Holbrook children to have the confidence to aim high and work successfully with others.  This plan outlines our strategic approach to achieve this.  The purpose of this strategic plan is to provide an overarching framework that guides the direction of school improvement and future investment, as well as underpinning the school’s operational plans.

School Vision

We are committed to developing children to become:

• successful learners who enjoy learning, make progress and achieve
• confident individuals who are able to live safe, healthy and fulfilling lives
• responsible citizens who make a positive contribution to society

Our school

1. Strong foundations

• Continuing to serve our local community by delivering the best provision possible
• A modern and wellresourced learning environment including attractive grounds for outdoor learning
• Maintaining financial stability to support the best educational provision
• Effective leadership and governance to maintain a strong safeguarding culture, senior leaders and staff and developing leadership in pupils
• Future proofing recruitment/retention of staff, governors, leadership and succession planning

2. The Holbrook way

• Educating the whole child with core skills and an inclusive broad/balanced curriculum, extracurricular and enrichment opportunities
• Strong relationships with children underpinned by high expectations of behaviour and working in partnership with parents
• Meeting individual needs by understanding and recognising the strengths of every child, and enabling them to meet their full potential
• Wellbeing and resilience for pupils, families and staff including physical and emotional wellbeing
• Engaging and communicating with the local community in events and projects

3. Strategic objectives (to enhance our vision)

• Community Holbrook school is the focal point of the community supporting families to work in partnership to ensure the best start in life for all children
• Digital Vision Holbrook school provides the digital skills to equip children to be successful and thrive in the 21st century by taking advantage of emerging technologies, which enable equality of education and create an inclusive learning environment
• High standards Every child regardless of their starting point makes maximum progress and achieves outcomes that enable them to thrive and prepare them for the next stage in life
• Marketing and Innovation Holbrook is the firstchoice school in the local community

There is an action plan to achieve these objectives that sits under this document.

Agreed by the Governing Board July 2025