Here is a round-up of the awarded so far in the spring term of 2022. Each successful application has to satisfy our award criteria which you can find here. We wish all the schools every success with their wonderful projects and are very pleased to have helped them "make a big difference with a little money".
School | Focus Area | Project | Amount (£) |
Brookmans Park Primary | Multi-focus | All-day assemblies/workshops by global adventurer, James Ketchel to inspire and develop risk-taking, resilience and resourcefulness. | 500 |
Cassiobury Junior | Effective/Outdoor L. | A greenhouse to enable learning about biodiversity, healthy eating etc. | 1000 |
The Grange Academy | English | Various magazine subscriptions for each year group inc. National Geographic, How it Works and The Week Junior. | 1000 |
St. Meryl | English | 4 iPads for the library to help with research, book search and large print/audio access | 1000 |
St. John's RC (Baldock) | Multi-focus | Healthy Bodies/Minds Day: PE, wellbeing drama and cookery specialist workshops | 1000 |
Maple Grove | STEM | 5 iPads for small groups and Tapestry learning journal | 1000 |
Cockernhoe | English | Little Wandle phonics membership, readers and resources | 959 |
Moss Bury | Multi-Focus | Books and resources to start 4 after-school clubs | 439 |
Watling View | PE | Equipment for their soft-play room to develop communication and gross motor skills | 1000 |
Harvey Road | STEM | 15 Freenove Ultimate Starter Kits for BBC micro:bit computers to develop understanding of components and coding | 960 |
Hillshott Infants | English | Membership of Little Wandle Phonics Scheme to embed a consistent phonics curriculum across the school. | 995 |
Hertingfordbury Cowper C/E | English | Three sets of Little Wandle Phonics decodable readers to enable home reading and catch-up. | 1000 |
Holy Family | Multi-Focus | Initial equiping of outdoor play area to aid communication, social and physical skills. | 1000 |
Wareside | Effective/Outdoor L. | Equipment to set up a Forest School to enhance wellbeing and build social skills, independence and problem solving. | 999 |
Shenley | English | 3 sets of Read/Write Inc. phonics books to reduce sharing, facilitate books being taken home and catch-up sessions. | 946 |
St. Michael's Woolmer Grn. | STEM | 8 Asus laptops for children to use in the classroom for presenting work, research and IT skills. | 1000 |
St. Pauls Catholic | English | Outdoor library, bean bags and book sets to promote and support leisure-time reading and study/homework. | 1000 |
Thundridge | English | A wide range of diverse and subject specific books to expose pupils to a wider range of genres, people, backgrounds and alternative professions. | 1000 |
Offley | English | A school-branded book vending machine for lending prize books to encourage reading at home and facilitate author focus periods. | 1000 |
Hoblett's Manor | English | A school-branded book vending machine to encourage reading at all levels and create a talking point about current "on-trend" books. | 1000 |