St Peter’s School Strategic Plan
Our Vision
To be an even better school than we are today and remain strong for decades to come
Our Aim
We aim to provide the best education in Yorkshire.
Our personalised educational journey from Nursery to Upper Sixth encourages every Peterite to leave with outstanding academic results and the skills that form the bedrock of successful lives. They are confident and engaging, possess deep values and a wide range of interests. Peterites leave school ready to lead with purpose in an ever-changing world.
We call this the Keys for Life.
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We provide a personalised educational journey, tailored to support each individual at every stage of their school life academically, pastorally, and through a rich co-curricular programme.
We create an experience which is charactered by spark and engagement and where we constantly strive to remain at the forefront of educational theory.
Our classrooms nurture curiosity, critical thinking, and a love of learning through high-quality teaching, personalised support, and a culture of ambition, integrity,, resilience and continuous improvement.
We ensure that each Peterite is known and understood through our deep pastoral structures with outstanding staff who are able to focus on the individual.
We are committed to a rich blend of academic, pastoral and cocurricular because we believe that this is the best way to develop the qualifications, skills, interests and values which underpin successful and fulfilled lives.
Within our extensive and well-resourced campus, we are able offer a breadth of opportunity that encourages participation and high achievement. A full six-day week in the Senior School and a busy five day week in the Junior School ensures that there is the space to deliver our full educational model.
Through thoughtful and rigorous monitoring of pupil progress, we use meaningful data to inform teaching, learning, pastoral care and co curricular opportunities. This enables us to nurture aspiration, recognise individual strengths and ensure every pupil is encouraged to flourish within a vibrant school community.
Our School Charter identifies Kindness, Community, Challenge and Equity as the bedrock of our culture where everyone is welcome. We seek to live the charter in everything that we do and are not afraid to hold ourselves to account.
St Peter’s School Charter
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Strategic Objective
Academic Excellence
Optimise pupil academic performance
Goals
To inspire curious learners who are independent in thought, reflective in practice and resilient in character, developing a lifelong commitment to learning and excellence. Achieve excellent results through developing an enquiring mind.
How will we do this?
Establish a Learner Profile dashboard for each pupil.
Ambitious curricula to motivate and challenge pupils, responding to individual need and potential.
Champion metacognitive learning so pupils become reflective, self directed and resilient learners.
Gather, monitor and track attainment data to enable progress to be monitored at all ages and stages and to inform teaching and learning.
Clear entrance and progression criteria.
Rigorous quality assurance processes, staff training and a culture of sharing ideas.
Strategic Objective
Best in Class Quality of Teaching and Learning
Goals
Implement consistently outstanding pedagogy throughout the Junior and Senior School.
Recruit and maintain outstanding staff who actively engage in professional development.
How will we do this?
Establish a Centre of Educational Excellence.
Attract and retain high quality staff and pupils. me of high quality staff professional development.
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Pastoral Excellence
Strategic Objective
Exceptional Pastoral Care
Goals
Sector leading evidence-based approaches to pastoral care.
The highest possible standards of safeguarding.
Full and thriving boarding Houses with outstanding care and sector-leading approaches.
Create a diverse and inclusive culture & community.
Anticipate pupils’ mental health needs and equip pupils to be resilient.
Flexing and adapting to meet emerging and changing needs.
How will we do this?
Implement range of options for boarding. Investment in Houses . Establish steady pipeline of boarders.
Staff training and development
Embed the School Charter so that it is ‘lived’ and ‘visible’
Grow the Parental Engagement Programme
Strategic Objective
Co-Curricular Excellence
Exceptional Co-Curriculum
Goals
Ensure pupils are engaged in a wide variety of co-curricular activities, balancing breadth of opportunity with depth of experience.
Provide opportunity for competition at all levels in a range of activities.
Strive for significant levels of success in regional and national competitions across a range of activities
How will we do this?
Monitoring from Nursery to Sixth Form to ensure age-appropriate participation and opportunity. Co-curricular programme quality assured and evaluated, offering a full range of inclusive cocurricular activities for all pupils.
Be a centre of excellence for key sports a
Campus Masterplan
Strategic Objective
Campus Masterplan until 2030 - to significantly enhance facilities and our use of the school site
Goals
Ensure that the campus and facilities at St Peter’s are optimised to allow us to remain a competitive school to attend, and a best in class experience as a pupil.
Junior and Senior School open in September 2026
Sixth Form Centre completed by September 2027
All projects delivered on time and in budget. How will we do this?
Implement a planned, costed plan with clear timeframes
Prioritise our most impactful facilities.
Continue to develop and improve our campus for the best experience of the pupils.
Maintain our Strong Financial Position
Strategic Objective
Generate revenue away from fees
Goals
Develop commercial operation for the school to provide opportunities such as holiday childcare, tutoring and revision provision, external lettings, international schools and nursery expansion.
How will we do this?
Expand childcare provision through partner organisations across all holidays, continuation and expansion of St Peter’s own cricket and rowing camps.
Promote tutoring and revision programmes for internal and external pupils
Expand lettings business to generate revenue outside school hours
Saturday courses
On-site and off-site Nursery expansion.
Strategic Objective
Clear financial planning to ensure the long-term stability of the school
Goals
Maintain the optimum pupil numbers for an effective operating model.
Maintain tight financial controls with contingency planning for contraction or expansion of pupil numbers / impact of political change.
An engaged and effective structure of Governance and Leadership.
How will we do this?
Adapt the boarding Houses for the best pupil experience as well as efficient use of facilities.
Recruit and retain pupils who make the most of their opportunities at St Peter’s and have a positive impact
Strengthen partnerships
Strategic
Objective
Foster a wide range of partnership links with institutions in the local and regional community
Goals
Maintain and strengthen role in the York Independent State School Partnership. Consolidate our partnerships with the local community.
How will we do this?
Establish a clear set of measurable partnership and community objectives. Create a defined link between partnership and bursary recruitment. Set a targeted range of community projects and partnerships.
