Details:

Date: Friday 23 January 2026 (9.00am - 12.30pm)

Venue: Fairfield Prep School, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 2AE   

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

  
This immersive school visit will include:

• Overview of 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 wellbeing and developing effective learning behaviours so 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

Fairfield Prep School

This opportunity is aimed at school leaders, challenge/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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