IQM Welcome New Assessors To The Team

Today we are delighted to welcome 15 new Assessors to the Inclusion Quality Mark team. Following a period of intensive training Alison Williams, Clare Freeman, Craig Vickers, Craig Wright, Debbie Shirley, Fiona Durnian, Heather Whitfield, Jo Dormer, John Paul McInerney, Julie Lynch, Nicole Godetz, Sally Hamson, Sharon Roberts, Siona Robson and Zoe Huggett have all […]

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Parkside Community Primary Achieves Centre of Excellence

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Parkside Community Primary School in Kent has achieved the Inclusive School Award with Centre of Excellence status. Context This small school is situated in Canterbury, Kent, which is an area that is within the top 30% most deprived neighbourhoods in the country. The school has a PAN of 30 and currently has 6 classes, some […]

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Red Oak Primary Achieves Centre of Excellence

Red Oak Primary School in Lowestoft, Suffolk, part of The Active Learning Trust, have achieved the Inclusive School Award with Centre of Excellence status. Introducing Red Oak Primary School Red Oak Primary School is a larger than average primary school with 456 children on roll. Attendance has risen to well above national averages and children […]

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Exning Primary Achieves Centre of Excellence status

Exning Primary School has achieved the Inclusive School Award with Centre of Excellence status for the first time. Everyone is Welcomed The welcome page on the website for Exning Primary School opens with the quote – “We are an outstanding school where everyone is welcomed, efforts are valued, ambition is nurtured and where the potential […]

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St Damian’s Achieves Inclusive School Award Again

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St Damian’s RC Science College is an outstanding, inclusive, heavily oversubscribed Catholic School in Tameside, Greater Manchester. The Headteacher, Governors and Senior Staff provide inspirational leadership across all aspects of the College. This is clearly evident as the school has continued to move forward since gaining its Ofsted rating of Outstanding in 2017, challenging its dedicated staff and students to reach for their full potential in every aspect of their school lives.  […]

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Rivermead School Achieves Flagship Status Again

Rivermead School in Kent has achieved the Inclusive School Award with Flagship status for the second time. The Different Provisions There are 3 different provisions/sites that make up Rivermead School, the environment at each provision is vastly different from the next but at each one, the core values run solidly through the environment and staff […]

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Teacher training bursaries boosted by up to £10,000 a year

Graduates applying to train as teachers in high priority subjects will receive increases to tax-free cash bursaries and scholarships from next year under government plans to recruit and retain top talent. For aspiring teachers starting their training in September 2023, bursaries worth £27,000 and scholarships worth £29,000 will draw talented trainees into the highest-priority STEM […]

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St Margaret’s Achieves Centre of Excellence

St Margaret’s CEVA Primary School, Ipswich in Suffolk, has achieved the Inclusive School Award, with Centre of Excellence status. Inclusive and Welcoming St Margaret’s CEVA Primary School attracts a diverse community. The School motto is ‘transforming lives,’ which supports the school vision and ethos of supporting the rounded development of the child. The school has […]

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Wavertree Achieves The Inclusive School Award Again

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Wavertree Church of England School, Wavertree in Liverpool have achieved the Inclusive School Award for the second time. Introducing Wavertree The examples of life experiences that Wavertree CE Primary School provided on their IQM (Inclusion Quality Mark) documentation for the assessment visit, was indicative of the detail in which they take advantage of their locale. […]

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Bumper £24 million to boost children’s literacy

Thousands of primary school pupils will benefit from high quality phonics and expert literacy teaching as part of funding announced this week by the Department for Education. Over £24 million is set to be invested in building children’s literacy skills as the government continues to support pupils’ recovery from the pandemic and work towards the […]

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Take time to think about your mental health

Today marks World Mental Health Day. This year’s theme is Make Mental Health and Well-Being For All a Global Priority. We know mental health is an issue which challenges all members of our school communities, so it’s important to remind people to pause for a moment and use today as an opportunity to think about […]

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Meadowhead Infants Achieves Centre of Excellence status

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Meadowhead Community Infant School and Nursery in Blackburn has achieved the Inclusive School Award with Centre of Excellence status. A Very Special Place Meadowhead Community Infant School and Nursery is a very special place and truly upholds its school Ethos of ‘One School – One Family.’  They demonstrate their ethos, aims and values of ‘learning, caring […]

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The only national award for inclusion in the UK, IQM has been committed to recognising exemplary inclusive schools for over 20 years and in over 20 countries around the world. The three awards allow schools and organisations to dcelebrate their inclusive practice against nationally recognised framework.

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