MAS receives prestigious Prince’s Teaching Institute Mark for 2016/17

 

Mulberry Academy Shoreditch is pleased to announce that it has received The Prince’s Teaching Institute Mark for 2016/17.  The academy’s History and Latin departments received the mark on this occasion in recognition of a range of inspirational activities carried out in 2016/17.  Our History department, for example, set up a number of new initiatives such as a History Matters Club, a 6.00pm independent learning group for Y11 and have re-planned and modelled to other departments in the academy best practice marking and KS3 curricula. These initiatives have enriched and enhanced students’ learning, interest and fascination in the past and have inspired all involved.

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 students’ 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 PTI’s Schools Programme is open to all state funded 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 students 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. MAS’s History department will be ready to take this step next year and hope to continue representing the school with such a prestigious award.