Assessment Information:
Applications for Assessment, Autumn Term, 2010 are now invited:
Applications for Challenge Award Assessments for Audit in the Spring Term will be accepted up until November 12th 2010
Autumn term Audits will be carried out between September 13th until December 10th 2010
Challenge Award Updates:
Read NACE's new guidance.
Are you ready to apply to gain the Challenge Award?
At present all schools are being assessed against the Challenge Award Framework (First Revision).
The NACE Challenge is commended in the National Strategy Handbook for Leading Teachers. See course file and handbook for Leading Teachers, pages 87- 89.
The Welsh Assembly Government have adopted the 10 Elements of the Framework as their National Quality Standards.
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The NACE Challenge Award Framework has been updated. The second revision will be available to schools electronically and includes four Key Supporting Documents, free site license and website access to all our current subscription documents.
During the autumn term existing Challenge Award users will be given access to a free copy of the revised Framework and free access to the Challenge Award area of the NACE website. Arrangements for Assessment remain unchanged. All schools will be assessed against the Challenge Award (First Revision).
What’s different?
We’ve updated the Framework with additional exemplification of evidence, process and impact so that schools can:
- Focus precisely on meeting the needs of high performing A,G&T pupils through a ‘challenge for all’ approach.
- Narrow the Gap through maximising potential for A,G&T in vulnerable groups
- Develop expertise and capacity at every level within schools and transfer of best practice
- Strengthen leadership and ensures that school leaders are Leaders of Learning
- Meeting the requirements of the New Ofsted Framework particularly the need to have sharper, impact focused self evaluation
What is the NACE Challenge Award?
It is a whole-school self-evaluation and improvement resource. It provides schools with a Framework for improvement through an in-depth analysis of provision. Exemplification of evidence, process and impact is provided so that you know how to recognise existing best practice and can plan for improvement effectively.
The Framework consists of ten Elements which together describe quality provision. Each Element contains objective criteria and suggested evidence of what constitutes effective practice. It not only gives benchmarks but, with the Key Supporting documents, shows you how to improve.
For details, please click on the links below:
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Schools presented at the famous Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford
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Pupils from twenty nine primary and secondary schools from across the UK gathered at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford on May 20th 2009 to celebrate achieving the prestigious NACE Challenge Award. The schools, the first in their Local Authorities to be awarded, during 2007-8, were presented with their certificates by Professor John Stannard, CBE, the National Champion for G&T in England and Professor Joan Freeman, a leading national and international figure in G&T Education and patron of NACE.
Click here to read some of the pupils’ speeches |
