A WORCESTER school has won a prestigious award recognising its leading practices.

Nunnery Wood High School has been awarded a leading aspect award for developing a whole school approach to assessment for learning which has impact.

Headteacher Alun Williams said: "We are delighted to have been given this award. Assessment for learning has been a major focus of our work in improving teaching and learning here at Nunnery Wood over the past three years, and we believe that it has had a major impact on what happens day to day in lessons and also on the academic results that students have achieved. "The whole initiative is really about good teaching and learning and getting teachers, students and parents to have a common understanding about what effective teaching and learning looks like. The award recognises the high degree of consistency that we have managed to achieve and also the hugely impressive contribution of our staff and particularly our students."

The leading aspect award is a framework that has been developed to recognise and celebrate leading practice.

It has been designed with, and by, educational practitioners as a means to recognise leading practice that exists in schools, families of schools, higher and further education institutions, or anywhere where leading practice exists and which may or may not have been recognised.

Since the start of this award about 600 providers of education from all over the country have achieved a leading aspect award.