Outstanding Teaching in Music

Music Awarded The PTI Subject Mark for outstanding teaching

Sawston Village College has been awarded The PTI Department Development Programme Subject Mark for outstanding teaching in Music.

The PTI launched the Department Development Programme in 2007 to recognise and reward school departments that develop inspirational ideas and activities which enhance the teaching of Art, D&T, English, Geography, History, Mathematics, Modern Foreign Languages, Music, PE and Science, regardless of their pupils’ backgrounds or abilities.

Our Music department received the Mark in recognition of outstanding work carried out in 2023/24.

Jonathan Russell, Principal at Sawston Village College, said: “We are delighted to have been awarded The PTI Mark for our Music department’s innovative work, and will be proud to carry the Mark on our stationery and website as evidence of our commitment to inspirational teaching.”

The PTI’s Department Development 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 Subject Mark, departments have to demonstrate that they have increased the challenge within their subject curriculum, developed their staff’s specialist subject knowledge, developed subject-based links outside school and enthused their pupils through subject-based activities beyond the curriculum.

To find out more about the Department Development Programme, visit www.ptieducation.org.