St Aidan’s Catholic Academy recognises the need for schools to increase the number of pupils attaining level 5 or above in both English and Maths with the new 1-9 specifications introduced in 2015. Subsequently, they have undertaken the necessary steps to establish an overall strategy that aims to improve and maintain pupils’ performance in English and mathematics. This strategy has proved to be extremely effective, showing an increase in the pupils’ results, while also adhering to the Quality Mark framework.