The Northampton School Five-Year Strategic Plan (link below) sets out the key priorities for our school over the next 5 years from September 2024 to August 2029 and aims to address the high-level areas for the school to focus on, in order to achieve our vision, culture and ethos and values.

We aim to provide a comprehensive curriculum that promotes academic excellence and the holistic development of students, enabling them to become well-rounded individuals who are prepared for the future challenges of post-16 education and the world of work.

We aim to foster an inclusive community that nurtures every student and celebrates individual successes, whilst promoting diversity and championing respect.

Exceptional teaching and learning are at the heart of our plan, but this will be complemented by our outstanding pastoral care, Personal Development programme and extensive co-curricular programme which will build our students into the active citizens of the future.

We fully understand that we all, students, staff and parents, have a commitment to building connections with the wider local community, having been imposed on them through the building of the school, and will be actively working to build and strengthen these links over time.

This plan should be viewed in the context of Northampton School being a brand-new free school which is only in its second full year of operation and only in its first year operating in its brand-new buildings.

It is important to recognise that this plan is set against a wider national backdrop with uncertainties over educational funding and teacher recruitment, increasing pressures on social services and the public sector following the covid-19 pandemic and an ever-increasing number of students with extremely complex needs.

Northampton School Strategic Plan

Mr M J Edwards, Headteacher, September 2024