Prince's Teaching Institute Mark AWARDED TO Bexley Grammar School’s GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY, MODERN LANGUAGES and MUSIC Departments.

Bexley Grammar School is pleased to receive The Prince’s Teaching Institute Mark for 2024.

The Prince’s Teaching Institute (PTI) launched the Schools Programme in 2007 to recognise and reward school departments that develop inspirational ideas and activities which enhance the teaching of Art, English, Geography, History, Latin, Mathematics, Modern Foreign Languages, Music and Science, regardless of their pupils’ backgrounds or abilities. It is run as a membership group for school departments that choose to commit to increasing the challenge of their subject provision.

The GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY, MODERN LANGUAGES and MUSIC departments received the Subject Leadership Mark in recognition of work that was inspired by membership of the Schools Programme which they carried out in 2023/24.

The PTI’s Schools Programme is open to all state secondary schools in England. To become members, school departments must demonstrate their commitment to increasing teachers’ subject knowledge, and to furthering their students’ understanding of and enthusiasm for the subject, regardless of their background or ability. To achieve the PTI Mark, departments then have to demonstrate that they have increased the challenge within their subject curriculum; developed their staff’s own specialist subject knowledge; developed subject-based links outside school; and enthused their pupils through subject-based activities beyond the curriculum. After three years of Schools Programme membership, departments may choose to become Associate Departments by devising an advanced multi-year programme in one of these areas. As Associate Departments they will share their growing expertise with others in the Schools Programme to the benefit of all.

Mr Gilmore, Headteacher, said "We are very proud of our long association with the PTI, and its commitment to improving teaching and learning with inspiring professional development.  It is extremely pleasing to see the work of our departments recognised and we will be delighted to have the PTI Mark on our website as a sign of our ongoing collaboration."

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Enquiries about The Prince’s Teaching Institute should be directed to Kirsty Wright, Programmes Manager via kirsty.wright@ptieducation.org