Tribal's Quality Mark awards, for Early Years through to Secondary, support and recognise improving standards in the provision, practice and performance of English and mathematics.
For Groups of schools, such as Multi Academy Trusts, independent school groups and settings engaging in collaborative partnerships, Quality Mark promotes partnership working through the use of a common framework with a focused lens on English and mathematics, that brings consistency and transparency to quality improvement across your schools.
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Provide the framework and guidance to support continuous improvement and ensure English and maths priorities are being addressed.
Achieve continuous improvement by promoting increased partnership working and a shared accountability for outcomes.
Evidence your schools' quality improvement, ready for inspection and ensure rigorous self-evaluation identifies strengths, prioritises key areas for development and identifies the impact of good practice.
Receive valuable public recognition of the impact of the work of leaders, managers and practitioners in improving the quality of provision, and celebrate their commitment.
Achieve and embed a consistent approach to quality improvement within each school and across groups of schools, with this all-phase framework for UK and global education markets.
Get an external evaluation of the quality of practice and provision in your schools; validate priorities; and challenge approaches to continuous improvement.
Benefit from a framework founded on educational research and internationally shared views of effective teaching and learning.
Quality Mark activity can stand alone or complement and integrate with other local and/or national initiatives to improve pupils' achievements. You control the timescale for the external assessment of the award; the length of time taken to achieve accreditation will vary according to each setting’s starting point and your ability to demonstrate progress and sustained good practice.
All practitioners and others involved with the setting should be involved in the journey. Involvement in the process contributes to the development of leadership and management skills such as communication, action planning, monitoring and evaluating, in a practical context and with a tangible outcome.
Leaders, Trust Board members and governing bodies will find that work undertaken towards accreditation offers a meaningful context in which to monitor and evaluate the quality of provision, practice and outcomes. It will also demonstrate how they are actively carrying out their role to drive continuous improvement.
Each school will achieve the award when they demonstrate that the criteria for all 10 elements are met and can provide evidence that participation in the award has had a positive impact on your provision and practice. If your school is in an inspection category of improvement, you will follow the Improvement Pathway, led by your Quality Mark school improvement specialist, prior to gaining the award.
"We believe it provides an evaluative monitoring role which is important in maintaining a strong focus for school improvement and (the assessor) is a very experienced professional whose judgement we greatly value."
Judith Ratcliffe, Headteacher, Bilton Grange Primary School
"It’s very much current. The Quality Mark agenda reflects national policy and absolutely dovetails with pedagogy but also has the flexibility other accreditations or processes are unable to offer."
Liz Bramley, National Leader of Education and Headteacher, Oakdene Primary and Infant School
"I feel that the benefits are many, the greatest being another pair of eyes, not working in the school, who can challenge, question and offer advice as to how we can improve further."
Helen Stokoe, Headteacher, Stannington First School
"I would highly recommend Quality Mark assessment as an ‘enhanced’ MOT/health check to drive forward improvement in literacy and numeracy standards. The periodic reviews are timely and the quality of feedback has been consistently outstanding over many years."
Steve Price, Headteacher, Westoe Crown Primary School
