Our School Awards
As a school we have worked hard to achieve a number of awards that we are very proud of.
The Inclusion Quality Mark
Please follow the link below to read the report we received.
The report states ‘Pupils are friendly and polite. I met with a delightful group of children who told me all about their School and what it is like to be a pupil at St Michael and All Angels. When asked what the best thing about the school is, the unanimous response was about how friendly and caring everyone is.’
‘St Michael and All Angels Catholic Primary School pupils are delightful. They demonstrate genuine acceptance and tolerance of others. They welcome children who join from other schools or countries with open hearts and minds. They are caring towards each other, and their behaviour is excellent during lessons and unstructured times.’
‘Every single child’s happiness and progress is valued by the staff at St Michael and All Angels. There is a shared understanding amongst staff that learning can only take place once children feel safe, secure, loved, nurtured and valued. Pupils enjoy attending school and their behaviour is excellent. They respond positively to the consistent inclusive approaches of the staff.’
‘Centre of Excellence’ - We gave achieved the Inclusive School Award with Centre of Excellence status. Becoming a Centre of Excellence is an opportunity for schools to build on the success of being one of the very special schools which holds the Inclusion Quality Mark award. A Centre of Excellence brings schools together to share and build on their existing good practice in inclusion best practice. Around 240 schools in the UK have met the standard required to become an IQM Centre of Excellence for outstanding levels of inclusion best practice.”
We are very proud to be a School of Sanctuary and welcome everyone to our school as equal members of the community.
‘A School of Sanctuary is a school that is committed to being a safe and welcoming place for those seeking sanctuary. This could be people whose lives were in danger in their own country, who have troubles at home or are just looking for a space of safety. A School of Sanctuary is a school that helps its students, staff and wider community understand what it means to be seeking sanctuary and to extend a welcome to everyone as equal, valued members of the school community. It is a school that is proud to be a place of safety and inclusion for all.’
Eco-School’s Green Flag Award
We are delighted to be recognised as an ‘Eco Green Flag’ school. Our Eco Warriors care deeply about environmental issues and have a strong desire to actively protect our planet - ‘Our Common Home’. The Eco-Schools programme provides a simple, seven-step framework that answers this question whilst empowering young people to make a difference in their school, local community and beyond. After working through the seven Eco-Schools steps during the academic year, schools, colleges and nurseries can apply for an Eco-Schools Green Flag accreditation.
The Eco School’s Team who judged our application provided us with some wonderful and very detailed feedback which ended ‘Congratulations to everyone for the great work you have managed to do, earning your Green Flag with style. You should all be very proud of your work and the application you have submitted!’
primary science quality mark
Close to 200 Primary Science Quality Marks have been awarded to infant, junior, primary, middle and special schools this year to celebrate their commitment to excellence in science teaching and learning. Primary Science Quality Mark is a school improvement programme for primary science, which provides professional development for new and experienced subject leaders each year. PSQM enables confident, knowledgeable, reflective leadership which results in an improvement in the way in which science is planned and taught across the whole school.
GOLD school games mark
The school has been successful in achieving the Gold School Games Mark for 5
consecutive years. To do this we had to demonstrate we are/have:
maintained and grown the school’s engagement in the School Games and the delivery of 60 active minutes for every child
created positive experiences by ensuring physical activity and competition provision is designed to reflect the motivation, competence and confidence of your young people and has a clear intent
a clear focus on transition points and how secondary schools engage in the School Games
created positive experiences to support character development of targeted young people
advocated to key stakeholders how the School Games makes a meaningful difference to the lives of children and young people, including engaging and educating parents.
platinum school games mark
We have been awarded the PLATINUM School Games Award. This is an
incredible achievement that has been 7 years of hard work. A school cannot achieve the Platinum Award until they have achieved the GOLD School Games Award for 5 years and this took us a little longer due to covid. The Platinum Award celebrates schools who have shown consistently high levels of enthusiasm and commitment to school sport. To achieve the gold award a school must meet a certain set of criteria, which includes engaging a high percentage of young people in both curricular and extracurricular activities, participating in a minimum number of competitions across different sports, and reaching out to target groups including those previously identified as the school’s least-active pupils.
National Wellbeing Gold Award - In July 2024, we were awarded the ‘National Gold Wellbeing Award’ in acknowledgment of our participation in the Raising Attainment with Wellbeing Programme: Putting wellbeing at the heart of learning, teaching and leadership. The report acknowledged the undoubted strengths in wellbeing that existed prior to embarking on this award but also captured the ambition and intent of the school community to improve still further.
Hedgehog Friendly Award - Our Eco Warriors were delighted to be awarded the GOLD level ‘Hedgehog Friendly Award’ in July 2024. They have worked incredibly hard to make our school grounds hedgehog friendly!
We are proud to announce that we are a myHappymind Bronze Accredited school! This means that as a school we consider the mental health and wellbeing of our children as one of our top priorities. We have created a whole school culture that helps build our children's resilience, confidence and self esteem as well as teaching them how to self regulate in those stressful times.
This Accreditation badge has been awarded thanks to all the effort our staff, children, governors and parents have put in to bring the lessons of myHappymind to life all around our school!
