LOtC Quality Badge

The ‘Learning Outside the Classroom’ Quality Badge is for all organisations and venues that provide students a way of learning outside of classroom experiences for people between the ages of 0-19. The LOtC badge is awarded to organisations that are offering a good quality of teaching and learning experiences and safe environment. The badge is intended to assist schools in identifying external LOtC providers who can give a good quality of learning experiences.

Benefits;

For users, the Quality Badge provides an assurance that a provider:

Offers ‘what it says on the tin’;

Takes account of the needs of users;

Has an emphasis on ‘learning/skills outcomes’; and

Operates in a healthy and safe environment

Local authorities, other employers, the education workforce and parents will be able to recognise and have confidence in the Quality Badge scheme.

For providers, the Quality Badge will:

Accredit the quality of educational provision;

Provide a marketing opportunity;

Better enable ‘fast tracking’ for client approval;

Improve consistency in educational provision; and

Provide a useful development tool.

The Junction has been awarded this Quality Badge due to the ongoing work relationship between The Junction and school/colleges. The offer a lot of LOtC experiences, examples of this are; letting our class film music video at The Junction and giving us a better understand of lighting that we wouldn’t have been able to do with their influence. Also working with our class to make promotional video’s for their ‘Fiver’ event. They gave us mostly all access to the building and have helped us in setting up green-screens and stages for our projects. Simon Bates the head of ‘Learning and Access’ at The Junction also offers us feedback on work that we produce at The Junction.