We are very pleased to announce that we have been awarded the highly regarded Quality
Mark Award for the fourth time. This is quite an achievement and only 3 other
schools in the whole of West Berkshire have achieved this 4 times so far. The award is
very important to us as a school as it recognises that we have very high
aspirations of everyone in our school community to achieve the very best
outcomes for all our young people. The rigorous assessment looked at many areas
in the school related to the development of basic skills in English and Maths for pupils including
how the school focuses its whole school strategy on pupil progress in basic
skills, how we analyse the data and set targets, the use of an innovative range
of teaching approaches and a robust monitoring programme. The assessors – who
check very carefully and spend a whole day in school interviewing staff,
pupils, parents and governors and looking at the impact of our work on basic
skills – said that we “richly deserved” the award and in addition to the
achieving all the elements of the award criteria they wished to record the
“…warm, supportive and respectful relationships evident across the school” and
also the wished to acknowledge “the quality of the Outreach support provided to
mainstream schools”. Thank you to our community in enabling us to gain this award. We now wish to build on this and develop English and Maths even further.
