The Investors in Pupils programme offers schools a framework for involving children in decision making for school, developing responsibility and leadership. They have specific areas to focus upon: learning, behaviour, attendance, school and class management and induction. It is powerful in developing a positive culture where children learn how their school is run and how they can contribute to that process.

The Liverpool Reading Quailty Mark is an award created in partnership with the National Literacy Trust, aimed at promoting reading for enjoment. The award is given to schools who are able to demostrate highly effective practice with the teaching of reading skills and comprehension, the inclusion of a wealth of reading materials in school, allocated time to read for pleasure, the importance of how children are able to make decsions about our school library and its impact on all children in school, as well as how reading buddies model and coach reading with the younger children.

In the early years at Clarendon we are very proud of our outdoor learning environment and the impact it has on all our children. The team have been celebrated for working together to provide stimulating and exciting opportunities promoting independence and collaborative learning for all our children. The award has involved the whole team reflecting on provision and practise.

The Computing Quality Mark is awarded to schools who are able to demonstrate good practice from the framework from the National Centre for Computing Education, alongside the British Computing Society. This award aknowledges and celebrates the high quality of our Computing provison across the whole school.

The Liverpool Counts Maths Mark tackles the negative attitudes, in many areas of society, towards numeracy and mathematics. The school has demonstrated through the accreditation that we challenge these widely held views and promote a culture where people readily understand the impact of good numeracy skills and mathematics qualifications can have on the social, financial and employment aspects to their lives. Our children have been encouraged to make real life connections in their mathematics lessons to real life contexts and within other areas of their school life. 

The Liverpool Writing Quality Mark has allowed us to externally evaluate and celebrate our dedication to promoting writing for a purpose and pleasure amongst every child in school.

The writing curriculum has been evaluated against six themes: leadership and management, the promotion of writing, writing events and involved of groups, workforce development and CPD, school wide opportunities for writing for pleasure as well as family and community involvement and the use of the local library service.

School has demonstrated that we have Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural (SMSC) development at the heart of our curriculum. School has shown strong evidence that promotes SMSC that raises academic standards and improves children’s life chances.

All stakeholders have been able to talk about how SMSC in our school has raised aspirations for all our children and how they are able to make appropriate choices that will prepare them for life in modern Britain. Through the achievement of the quality mark, school has demonstrated the strong connections with the wider community; allowing the children opportunities to deepen their spirituality, build connections with other communities as well as deepening their knowledge of our School and British Values.

The STEM Quality Mark is recognition of the exceptional provision the school offers to young people by enriching the school curriculum. The SCQM provided school with a framework for success to identify and recognise the high calibre of extra-curricular provision provided by school. 

the STEM club has demonstrated the enthusiasm for STEM subjects. increasing attainment and greater awareness of real world contexts. The club was recognised as being able to encourage and develop the children’s aspirations and career capital for their future.