The Quality Mark is an internationally-recognised accreditation supporting and acknowledging high-quality education, and in particular, improving standards in the provision, practice and performance of English and Mathematics.

Only a handful of early years settings in Kent have been awarded this accreditation and we believe we are the first independent nursery and preparatory school to be recognised in this way.

The assessors made a number of overwhelmingly positive comments about what they observed.

These include the following:

• “Early Years staff plan flexible, differentiated and creative activities which reflect pupils’ interests and the events that occur during the school year”
• “Practitioners know each child extremely well”
• “Staff have appropriately high expectations of what children can achieve in the Early Years classes”
• “Staff adapt their teaching styles to best suit their pupils”
• “Technology is effectively used to support and extend learning in literacy and mathematics”
• “The EYFS environment is bright and colourful, and displays the children’s creativity”