About our school...

 

Drapers Mills Primary School serves the area bordering the Millmead estate in the Kent coastal town of Margate.  It is a school that is proud of its achievements and the importance it places on the welfare and progress of its pupils. The school declares that it is a place where every child really matters and that belief is central to its work.   Above all, Drapers Mills is a happy school where its pupils achieve well.

 

Download our 2008 OFSTED Report 

Click here to view our 2005  OFSTED report.

 

Click here to see our performance compared with other schools (BBC) 

 

Little Millers Nursery offers a Maintained Nursery, offering five free two-and-a-half hour sessions each week plus a Registered Day Care facility offering extended day care from 8.00 to 5.00 at reasonable rates.

 

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We have twice been accredited as Investors in People for the quality of our personnel systems

 

We have twice been awarded the Basic Skills Quality Mark for the quality of our curriculum.

 

We hold the Quality in Study Support (QISS) Mark for the quality of our extra curricular provision

 

Mrs Parsons, one of our HLTAs was a national finalist, awarded a distinction in the 2007 Teaching Awards

 

We are the lead school in a TDA Partnership Development project with Christ Church University, providing quality placements for trainee teachers.

 

 

 

We are proud to be a member of the Thanet Excellence Cluster,  a partnership of schools working together to raise achievement, realise potential and promote wellbeing. Excellence Clusters are part of the government's Excellence in Cities programme for raising standards.

 

 

 

The school also houses the offices of  KCC Education Clusters Thanet 1 and 2 , The Margate office of the Primary Intervention Programme (PIP+), the Thanet office of Kent Safe Schools and the Thanet Excellence Cluster.