Inclusion Quality Mark (IQM)

                           St Mary's has been awarded Centre of Excellence AGAIN on the 23rd june 2025

St Mary's has successfully been awarded the IQM Award a second time.  The IQM Award provides UK schools with a nationally recognised validation of their inclusive practice and ongoing commitment to developing educational inclusion.

Please click on this link to download the IQM Award June 2025 report.

Please click on this link to download the IQM Award June 2023 report.

Here are just some comments from the June 2025 report:

St Marys CE is an amazing school, we respect each other, a great environment with great people.

St Mary’s sees things in you, and they give you the opportunity to improve.

The senior leaders recognised that I needed Epipen and autism training and organised it for me. I now feel I know exactly what I’m doing. It’s empowering to know that I have these skills to help the children.

We share our cultures, advertise for roles within the school in various languages, help people and overcome language barriers.

Parents are listened to here, St Marys has helped me to become a better parent

Here are just some comments from the June 2023 report:

It is an incredibly diverse school community; however, it quickly becomes evident that St. Mary’s is a school that is ‘never complacent’ but sees ‘learning as a never-ending aspirational journey for all stakeholders.’

One parent shared; ‘St. Mary’s is like paradise; you sense you belong as there is a unity of cultures blending together in a huge effective partnership.’

They foster a ‘strong capacity to listen, act and adapt,’ therefore they achieved this award at ‘Gold’ level.

St. Mary’s is not just a school but is a whole community, a place where ‘one stop aims to fix all.’

Parents are extremely positive of the school and many comment how the school is a ‘safe haven, my home from home,’ a place where they can come to meet other families and access advice and support at any time in the bungalow.