Details:

Date: Wednesday 9 October 2024 (9.00am - 12.30pm)

Venue:  St Michael Catholic Primary School & Nursery, Feltham Hill Road, Ashford, Middlesex, TW15 2DG

Cost: £75 +VAT (members); £100 + VAT (non-members)

  
This immersive school visit will include:

• The journey to gaining Challenge Award accreditation and reaccreditation.
• Improving the quality of teaching and outcomes for learners.
• How the NACE Challenge Framework criteria can be used to create a whole-school ethos of success.
• Pedagogical practices to support and challenge pupils.
• Supporting pupils’ emotional well-being and development effective learning behaviours so that they are ready to face challenges.
• Q&A opportunity to ask questions about the school and aspects covered earlier in the day, as well as questions about the NACE Challenge Framework and/or Challenge Award accreditation and reaccreditation.

Questions can be submitted in advance and will be used to tailor the focus of the day. 

 
About the school

Saint Michael RC Primary School and Nursery is an outstanding two form entry primary school with its own nursery, teaching children from 2 – 11 years. It is located in Ashford, Surrey, but boarders closely the borough of Hounslow, very much feeling the impact of the urban spread of London. 11% of the pupils are eligible for free school meals, with 13% having identified SEND needs, with 11 children holding an EHCP. 54% of the pupils are from minority ethnic backgrounds, with 24% of pupils speaking English as an additional language.
 
The school first achieved the NACE Challenge Award in 2021 and have been assessed and re accredited in 2024. The school’s mission statement is Excellence, Enrichment and Enjoyment and upholds strong virtues, which, at the heart are ambitious for all learners. The school’s vision is to develop an inclusive school which promotes and achieves excellence for all pupils. Challenge is at the heart of the school’s best practice for all learners, so that they are not only ready to face the emerging opportunities for the 21st century, but be the leaders to shape the future.
 
Saint Michael’s school is committed to developing the culture of striving for excellence in all we do, rising to new challenges, using a growth mindset and creating emotionally resilient learners. The school has a very broad and creative curriculum, taught through specialist teachers who are able to adapt teaching strategies and drawn on a wealth of resources and experience, which ensures that all pupils meet their full potential, that they are celebrated and they achieve a sense of success.

 
Who should attend?

This opportunity is aimed at school leaders, more able coordinators and others leading on provision for more able learners and high attainment in a school or group of schools. It is open to leaders and practitioners from all phases, sectors and stages of development in provision for more able learners – including schools with no previous experience of the NACE Challenge Framework, as well as those already using the Framework and/or holding the NACE Challenge Award.

If you have any questions about this event, please contact challenge@nace.co.uk.

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