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This area contains information, resources and guidance that is mainly intended for use by staff in Medway schools as part of the process of continuous improvement. Please select one of the links from the list above or below for more information. The Children's Services - service directory also gives details about where to locate information.
- Continuing professional development:
Information about opportunities for professional development for school staff, conferences and lectures. - Events calendar:
Information about meetings and conferences. - Schools' finance:
Financial information for the use of bursars, business managers and finance staff in schools can be found on the school forum (www.medway.gov.uk/schoolforums). Access to the forum is restricted to school staff. - School forum
Where school staff can discuss topics of mutual interest and follow through lines of debate and discussion. - Leadership and management:
Management information, service level agreements, staff well-being, healthy schools and school governors. - Learning and teaching:
Curriculum, assessment, gifted and talented pupils and the Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education (SACRE). - Teacher recruitment:
Information about employment-based entry routes to teaching, and incentives for newly qualified and experienced teachers. - Latest news:
News and publications, including the Department for Children, Schools and Families' online publications (http://publications.teachernet.gov.uk/default.aspx?pagemode=publications&ResetBrowse=yes) - Policy, guidance and consultations:
Information on school planning and re-organisation.
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Medway Council's aim for education
Medway Council's aim for education is that everyone should realise their full potential and make the best possible contribution to society. To meet this aim, the objectives are to:
- raise standards for all;
- celebrate inclusion and diversity;
- promote the highest standards of teaching and learning;
- encourage lifelong learning and active citizenship;
- provide high quality and cost-effective services.
The council sees the promotion of and support for high educational standards for all as a responsibility for all staff in the Children's Sevices Directorate, as well as for those working in schools. It believes that both council and school staff should share a commitment to seek continuous improvement.
The council recognises that the responsibility for school improvement must, ultimately, rest with the schools themselves and that they are encouraged to evaluate their own performance. The council's role is to provide both support and challenge for all schools, operating on the general principle of giving most support to the schools most in need of it.
The Curriculum Statement for Medway identifies the need to educate pupils for life in the 21st and 22nd centuries. They will need:
- key skills, such as reading, writing, the ability to use numbers;
- the ability to learn new skills throughout life;
- creativity, so that they can be adaptable.
They will need to be:
- confident in the use of new technology;
- self confident;
- able to organise their own lives;
- able to build good relationships;
- respectful to others.
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