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Medway School Improvement Strategy

Medway Council’s overall aim for education is that everyone should realise their full potential and make the best possible contribution to society. To meet that aim, its objectives are to:

  • raise aspirations;
  • 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 as responsibilities for all staff providing services to children, as well as for all those working in schools. It believes that both local authority (LA) and school staff should share a commitment to seeking continuous improvement.

The council recognises that the responsibility for school improvement must, ultimately, rest with schools themselves. The LA’s role is to provide both support and challenge for schools, operating on the general principle of “intervention in inverse proportion to success”.

This strategy (pdf 214KB) seeks to explain Medway Council’s approach to promoting and supporting school improvement and is intended to complement the Education Development Plan and Curriculum Statement and align with the Code on LA - School Relations. To use this file you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you do not have this on your computer please use our advice page.

For further information contact:
email icon Email : childrens.services@medway.gov.uk
Telephone icon Telephone :

01634 334013

Mail icon Write to : Medway Council
Gun Wharf
Dock Road
Chatham
Kent ME4 4TR
Minicom icon Minicom :

01634 333111


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