Moderation

Every year the QuAG is asked to moderate a 10% random sample of schools who have self-validated. Moderation consists of a visit to the school by members of the QuAG. 

The purpose of the moderation visit is to:

• identify, celebrate and disseminate effective practice
• verify your school's self-validation with regard to the minimum evidence and the outcomes achieved
• ensure that the support we offer to schools in Cornwall is consistent and meets schools' needs, and
• reassure national and local stakeholders of rigorous quality assurance.

Your school will already have self-validated and be recorded on the database as achieving National Healthy Schools Status before it can be selected as part of the 10% sample for moderation.

You will be given plenty of notice about the moderation visit and we will emphasise again and again the postive, celebratory nature of the visit. If it becomes anything less we will have let you down, hence our best practice advice on the self-validation and quality assurance pages.

We will ask you to identify one outcome and we will choose another one. We will then track back from the outcome to the appropriate criteria and minimum evidence and check that all is well.

We'd like  to the increase the number of schools we moderate

Because it is our belief that moderation should be a joyful, celebratory and positive experience, we would like to increase the number of schools we moderate each year beyond the 10% currently recommended by Healthy Schools.

In fact we'd like to get rid of the word moderation (although we recognise its place in the Healthy Schools process) and replace it with Celebration.

We are talking to a wide range of people about this including CAPH and CASH and the Cornwall Gatekeeping Unit as well the QuAG but we'd also like to hear your views.

There is a strand on the forum where you can add your thoughts and ideas.