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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.

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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.

For further information contact:
email icon Email : childrens.services@medway.gov.uk
Telephone icon Telephone : 01634 332014
Mail icon Write to :

Medway Council
Gun Wharf
Dock Road
Chatham
ME4 4TR

Minicom icon Minicom :

01634 333111


Related A-Z index
Children and Adults - Caring and Learning | Director of Children and Adults - Caring and Learning | Children's services complaints | School Organisation Plan | 14 to 19 learning | Staff well-being | New campus | Traveller Education Service | Extra curricular activities - chaperones | Education in the country parks | School visits to Riverside Country Park | Curriculum and collective worship complaints | Education of looked after children | School curriculum and collective worship complaints procedure | Key Stage 1 | Designated teachers for looked after children | Foster carers and the education of looked after children | Key Stage 3 | Residential care staff and the education of looked after children | Social workers and the education of looked after children | all related items »

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