The School Vision
We plan to provide our students with an education to understand the world so that they may change it for the better.
Our Values & Ethos:
Look at three things to understand our Tallis values and ethos:
- Our commitment to ethical leadership
- The Tallis Habits which are embedded in all our work
- Tallis Character, which explains how we try to live together
Our School Plan:
A powerful curriculum
- Maintain a broad and balanced curriculum which is stable, creative and incorporates our threshold concepts
- Refine departmental curricula to respond to exam analysis from 2024
- Embed reading, research and digital literacy across the curriculum
- Ensure the needs of all students are met through a robust and challenging inclusion curriculum
- Develop a unified academic and co-curriculum which prepares young people to advocate global justice
The best teaching & learning
- Develop highly knowledgeable teachers who are empowered to deliver great teaching
- Active engagement: ensure all students are activating hard thinking in the classroom
- Improve oracy and student talk in lessons
Great achievement & progress
- Improve the progress of all students at KS4, especially girls and PP students, so it is at least in line with national averages
- Ensure our KS3 curriculum meets its aims by delivering good progress for all students
- Support all students to reach chronological reading age or better by the end of KS3
- Homework: maximise the potential of learning beyond the classroom
- Retrieval practice: embed opportunities for authentic and reliable assessment and feedback so powerful knowledge is securely retained.
A highly successful Post 16 provision
- Achieve excellent results for all students, including those eligible for the 16-19 bursary
- Deliver a co-curricular offer which enhances the taught curriculum and prepares students for university and the world of the work
- Develop a unique approach to teaching and learning at KS5, incorporating homework and independent learning, ensuring lessons are focused on higher order thinking
- Maintain recruitment and retention to ensure a cohort of 350 Year 12 students in 2025-26
Behaviour for a strong community
- Include every child in our comprehensive school so they are seen, known and loved
- Actively promote equality and community safety
- Improve attendance to 96% and reduce lateness to 2.5%. Maintain open accountability and communication within Tallis using the FELE
- Improve behaviour further by reducing suspensions by 10% and creating a happy and safe community
- Engage all parents and carers in children’s learning
A Model for a Better World
- Fulfil the public sector equality duty
- Educate for the climate emergency
- Maintain open accountability and communication within Tallis using the FELE
- Create a sustainable balanced budget
- Develop and fulfil an achievable ICT strategy
- Work with the LA to ensure a fair SEND intake
- Consider the implications of government policy
Above all, we mean what we say.
Pupils enjoy attending this friendly, welcoming and caring school. They are given many opportunities to express their individuality within school. Leaders make sure that pupils are supported well through exceptional pastoral care. This helps pupils to keep happy and safe. The school’s vision to help pupils to understand the world and change it for the better is promoted consistently by staff.