King’s Academy Gomer self-evaluates as a ‘good’ school with elements of ‘outstanding’, striving for continuous improvement. Our Academy Improvement Plan guides this effort, while each Subject Leader has a Development Plan focused on subject development and standards. The School Leadership Team collectively monitors progress, ensuring a broad and learner-focused approach.

KEY PRIORITIES FOR ACADEMY IMPROVEMENT

Driving Priority 1  – Quality of Education (linked KGA Priority: Educate) Focus: Writing and Maths: Sustaining Momentum and Improving Standards To implement a consistent, high-quality writing curriculum and embed adaptive, mastery-led maths teaching to sustain and exceed current standards from a weaker starting point. Driving Priority 2 – Behaviour and Attitudes (linked KGA Priority – Educate) Focus: Equitable Access and Consistent Learning Experiences To ensure consistently inclusive and adaptive teaching supports high engagement, reduces learning time lost, and enables all learners to make progress. Driving Priority 3 – Personal Development (linked KGA Priority – Evolve) Focus: Identity, Respect, Broader Life Skills To further develop pupils’ understanding of individuality, identity and respect, equipping them with the cultural capital and safety knowledge to thrive on a global stage. Driving Priority 4 – Leadership and Management (linked KGA Priority – Influence) Focus: Curriculum Excellence and Sustained Improvement To drive ambitious school improvement through distributed leadership, subject expertise and alignment to KGA Core, ensuring curriculum and pedagogy meet the needs of all pupils.

King’s Group Academy Wide Priorities for 2025/26

To continue a relentless focus on the KGA priorities of educate, evolve and influence to achieve the mission, vision and values of KGA Further develop and implement ambitious, broad, well-sequenced and knowledge rich curricula in all academies with a particular focus on:  * Working collaboratively across the Trust to embed and further develop the KGA Curriculum of Excellence in Maths, Science, English and MFL across years 7 to 9 and develop a KGA CoE in the Humanities * Further developing and embedding the Principles of Reading to ensure every teacher is an effective teacher of reading * Working collaboratively across the Trust to develop KGA Principles of Writing which will ensure the Primary Writing Strategy is fully embedded and is transitioned into and throughout KS3 and beyond * Further develop a broad Personal Development Curriculum considering the lens of EDI, and the cultural capital needed for our students to be successful on a global stage Further develop our teachers’ pedagogical knowledge and practice through: * Working collaboratively across the Trust to launch and develop the KGA Adaptive Planning and Responsive Teaching Strategy * Embedding the ‘KGA Core’ as part of the Adaptive Planning and Responsive Teaching strategy. Attendance and Persistent Absence to be better than national average for the cohort, SEND and PP as per the KGA Attendance Strategy Achieve good outcomes for all students including SEND and PP – minimum of national average rising to FFT 20 and beyond Implement the key priorities of the KGA SEND Strategy Sustainability