Basic Skills Quality Mark
Basic Skills Quality Mark

The Basic Skills Agency’s Quality Marks are awarded to organisations working to improve the basic skills of children, young people and adults. The Awards complement the National Literacy and Numeracy Strategies and are based on a partnership between the Agency and the LEA, who assess and monitor the schools. Although the Quality mark is concerned with basic skills, it can play a part in improving the effectiveness of the school in general and in overall school improvement. The process makes a significant contribution to school self evaluation.

Schools will be awarded the Quality Mark if they can demonstrate that they have the following requirements

• a whole school strategy, including an action plan, to improve performance in basic skills
• an assessment of pupil performance in basic skills in the school
• targets for the improvement of the school’s performance in basic skills
• basic skills improvement plans for pupils underattaining in the school
• regular review of the progress made by each pupil underattaining in basic skills
• a commitment to improving the skills of staff in the school to teach and extend basic skills
• the use of a range of teaching styles to improve basic skills
• the use of appropriate teaching and learning material to improve basic skills
• the involvement of parents in developing their children’s’ basic skills
• an effective procedure for monitoring the action plan and assessing improvement in performance in basic skills

For more information contact

Secondary - Sue Frater in the Inspectorate
Education Department, Taberner House
020 8686 4433
email: sue.frater@croydon.gov.uk

Primary - Richard Harris in the Inspectorate
Education Department, Taberner House
020 8686 4433

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The following Croydon schools have been awarded the Quality Mark

Primary Schools

All Saints Infant School
Beulah Infant School
Beulah Junior School
Chipstead Valley Primary School
Christ Church Primary School
Courtwood Primary School

Crosfield Nursery School
Downsview Primary School

Elmwood Junior School

Good Shepherd Primary School
Greenvale Primary School

Margaret Roper Primary School
Parish Church Infant School
Parish Church Junior School

Purley Nursery School
Roke Primary School

Smitham Primary School

Spring Park Primary School

St Chad's Primary School
St James the Great Primary School
St John’s Primary School

St Joseph's Infant School
The Hayes Primary School

Tunstall Nursery
Wattenden Primary School

Whitehorse Manor Junior School
Wolsey Infant School
Woodcote Infant School

 

Secondary Schools

Archbishop Lanfranc School
Norbury Manor Business & Enterprise College