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Greenmeadow's big push on quality
Work on delivering high levels of literacy and numeracy has been Little
high on the agenda at Greenmeadow Primary School for the last year Bunneez
in a bid to achieve the Basic Skills Agency Primary Quality Mark. • square
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Headteacher Diane Pritchard dence of its teaching strategies and childminding ,
said staff, governors, parents and targets, show how pupils' needs •numbers
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