Inspection/Accreditation
The British School of Washington is accredited by the International Baccalaureate Organization to offer the IB Diploma Programme. BSW was the first of the British Schools of America to gain IB Accreditation.
The year-long accreditation process includes presentation of detailed plans and evidence of preparation and equipment to offer the IB Diploma Programme successfully followed by an authorisation visit, intended to ensure that the candidate school is genuinely committed to the pursuit of excellence in international education. The IBO visiting team also ascertains the school’s preparedness to offer the programme and verifies that the school’s planning has been both systematic and comprehensive.
For more information on the IB at BSW, see Our Curriculum.
Fieldwork
Education Services Learning-Focused Accreditation
As part of the four-year rolling review carried out by Fieldwork at BSA schools, BSW applied for and was granted Learning-Focused Accreditation in March 2006. The quality and quantity of learning taking place in our schools represent the core business of everything we do. They are of concern to children and students, their parents, the leadership and management of schools, school boards and governing bodies and teachers themselves. This means that evidence about the quality and quantity of learning is the most important evidence a school can produce. Uniquely, learning-focused education from Fieldwork Education Services is purely about learning. It is not an accreditation of all the other features of the school except in the extent to which they promote or hinder learning.
Accreditation by Fieldwork Education Services as learning-focused means that BSW:
- Is focused on learning
- Has consistent and successful approaches to the promotion of learning
- Evaluates its own performance
- Sets itself challenging but realistic targets for the improvement of learning
- Is subject to external review
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Copies of the review are available to parents. Please contact Mrs. Arwas.
Fieldwork Education Services and British Schools of America are part of WCLS.