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Primary Award Winners for 2023/24
This table is primarily to check if your school has already been awarded the maximum of £1,000 for this academic year
Click on the school name for further details of the awards won
(Focus Key: MF = Multi-focus E = English F = Foundation STEM = Science, technology, engineering, mathematics PE = Physical Education) L2L = Learning to Learn O/L = Outdoor Learning)
| SCHOOL | Award | SCHOOL | Award | SCHOOL | Award | SCHOOL |
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| Hobletts Manor (MF) | 988 | Hillshott (E) | 1000 | Hollybush (STEM) | 1000 | Kingshill (E) | 988 | |||
| All Saints C/E (STEM) | 392 |
Primary Award Winners: Autumn Term 2023
Here is a round-up of the primary awards granted so far in the autumn term of 2023. 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 | Location | Subject Focus | Amount | Award Details |
| Hobletts Manor | Hemel Hempstead | Multi- Focus | £807 | Indoor and outdoor equipment for a new sensory/wellbeing room with access to a garden which will provide a calming environment for de-escalation and allow overwhelmed children to reset and rejoin the class or continue learning in a more beneficial environment for a while. |
| Hillshott | Letchworth | English | £1000 | Little Wandle phonics flash cards and books (phase 3) to greatly expand the paper book offerings and ensure a joined-up approach to reading learning from nursery to Year 2. |
| Stevenage and N. Herts Writing Project | Letchworth | English | £1800 | Another year of our ongoing sponsorship of this fantastic project where (this year) 18 Hertfordshire schools cooperate to explore a common text through a wide range of creative ways inc. drama, art and cross-curricular activities to enhance writing skills. The project culminates in a celebration awards evening. An estimated 5,000 children across 160 classes benefit from the extended activities. |
| Hollybush | Hertford | STEM | 1000 | 4x iPads to support pupils with high additional learning needs in phonics, English and maths using a wide range of specialised apps. Learning and programs will be tailored to each child in order to help close the learning gap. |
| Kingshill | Ware | English | 988 | Read Write Inc. Phonics Books and speed sound cards. The bid includes a pack of 600 black and white copies of the colour books which can be taken home to reinforce learning and which include special parents guidance on teaching their children phonics. |
| All Saints C/E | Bishops Stortford | STEM | 392 | A wide range of maths-focussed books aimed at reception and Year 1 to help embed their new maths scheme. The books will aid understanding of, and interest in a wide range of maths concepts , especially for SEND children and hopefully encourage them to explore the topics further. |
Primary Awards Granted: Summer 2023 (Details)
Here is a round-up of the primary awards granted so far in the summer term of 2023. 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 | Location | Subject Focus | Amount | Award Details |
| Icknield Walk | Royston | English | £170 | A "top-up" award for a wide range of books to support the "No Outsiders" scheme. The books have stories that promote diversity and inclusion and will be rotated amongst all classes each half-term as a class reader and prompt for discussion. |
| St. John's C/E | Welwyn Garden City | Multi- focus | £976 | A range of Bee-bot robots and equipment to support rewritten Computing schemes of work with exciting and motivating equipment which will greatly improve computational thinking and skills such as logical thinking, algorithms, pattern recognition and perseverance. |
| St Mary's C/E | Baldock | Outdoor Learning | 997 | 5 days of Forest School teacher training for their pastoral lead to gain a Level 3 qualification. This will particularly help their SEN and PP pupils enhance their self-esteem, confidence, communication skills and emotional develop and have a knock-on effect for their classroom learning. |
| Cockernhoe | Nr. Luton | Foundation | 694 | A double-sided art easel and a floor pack of building blocks to promote creative play and construction of EY pupils and help them develop their fine motor skills and thinking revision and promoting high quality art and writing. |
| Holy Family Catholic | Welwyn Garden City | English | 1000 | 5x Little Wandle phonics book sets for phase 2 and for phase 3 to ensure full access to texts matched to their successful phonics program which will give high quality first teaching in the classroom and enable targeted intervention in Reception and Year 1. |
| Leavesden JMI | Watford | Outdoor Learning | 927 | A range of gardening equipment to reinforce learning of science topics such as plant life cycles, nutrition requirements and structures with hands-on activities. The garden will also foster a sense of responsibility and curiosity and develop communication and language skills. |
| Little Reddings | Bushey | STEM | 899 | An Apple iPad and 6x Beebot robots for EYFS and KS1 to access the computing curriculum in a practical way which will help their understanding of abstract concepts. The iPad will be solely used by the children to access speaking, listening and creativity apps which the Computing Lead has been trained on so she can use them to their full potential. |
| Little Reddings | Bushey | MF | 98 | Gardening equipment to teach children how plants grow and how food is produced and gets to their plate in an exciting, hands-on way which will bring parts of the Science and D/T curriculum to life. |
| Graveley | Stevenage | Multi- focus | 925 | 6x Beebot Blue robots and associated equipment and a Crumble Controller pack to enable exciting, hands-on delivery of the programming elements of Computing across KS1 and 2 and develop critical thinking, reasoning, problem solving and communication skills. |
| Brookmans Park | Hatfield | STEM | 900 | 2 day's of Computer Xplorers' workshops for all R - Y6 to teach and reinforce concepts such as coding, designing, building and controlling as they build their own animal robots. Group work and debugging tasks will build communication and problem solving skills and staff will build their own skills whilst attending the workshops. |
| Maple Grove | Hemel Hempstead | STEM | 1000 | >50% contribution towards 5x Apple iPads to enable pupils to access revision aids, complete tests and enhance their learning across all areas of the curriculum. Used for individuals, in small groups and completing a 1:2 class set, the iPads will facilitate learning using a plethora or apps and recording and sharing work using e.g. Tapestry program. |
| Benington | Stevenage | Multi Focus | 1000 | 2x class set of atlases and a wide variety of humanities and science books to resource their newly revamped curriculum. There is an emphasis on books about courageous advocacy, minority groups and ecology to inspire pupils and help remove barriers to learning. |
| Cherry Tree | Watford | Outdoor Learning | 1000 | A contribution to reduce the cost of 10x PP children attending a residential course which uses forest school teaching to build resilience, independence and confidence and also ties in closely with their geography curriculum. The experience will also strengthen bonds between classmates and teacher for their final year in primary school. |
| St. Cross R/C | Hoddesdon | STEM | 450 | A class set of Crumble Controllers for KS2 to enable pupils to see and test the outcome of their coding in the real world during programming days and D+T across the key stage and in coding club. |
| St. Mary's 698 C/E | Rickmansworth | English | 987 |
A two-focus bid. 1. A class set of Crumble Controllers for Y5 in particular to resource the development of their computing curriculum to incorporate more critical thinking, debugging and physical computing and help them build up to the use of micro-bits in Y6. 2. A wide range of books for KS2 with engaging plots and characters which also reflect the problems of the real world to enthuse children to read for pleasure, challenge their knowledge and build their vocabulary whilst learning about the world in which they will live and work. |
| Holtsmere End | Hemel Hempstead | STEM | 1000 |
A Chromebook charger trolley to facilitate computing in classrooms as their computer suite has had to be repurposed to accommodate SEN children in September. The school have invested in 30 Chromebooks to enable computing to continue to be taught throughout the school and the trolley should help minimise lost teaching time. |
| Greenfields | Watford | English | 994 |
OUP phonics sets and individual books for Y1, particularly to help lower ability children to close the gap and continue their impressive improvement in the phonics check at the end of Y1. The purchase will allow enough books for one per child to facilitate home reading and capitalise on staff phonics training. |
Primary Awards Granted: 2022/23 (Reference)
Primary Award Winners for 2022/23
This table is primarily to check if your school has already been awarded the maximum of £1,000 for this academic year
Click on the school name for further details of the awards won
(Focus Key: MF = Multi-focus E = English F = Foundation E/O L = Effective/Outdoor Learning, (up to Dec 31 2022) STEM = Science, technology, engineering, mathematics
PE = Physical Education) L2L = Learning to Learn (from Jan 1st 2023) O/L = Outdoor Learning (from Jan 1st 2023)
Primary Awards Granted - Spring 2023 (Details)
Here is a round-up of the primary awards granted so far in the spring term of 2023. 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".
Please Note: The Effective/Outdoor Learning criteria has been split into Outdoor Learning and Learning to Learn from January 2023 so some of the past E/OL awards may not pass under the new category.
| School | Location | Focus Area | Award Summary | Amount |
| Applecroft Primary | Welwyn Garden City | STEM | A range of food technology equipment to greatly improve the available resources and allow pupils to have practical experience in e.g. cooking techniques and using different equipment as part of a new, enhanced Design and Technology curriculum. | 1000 |
| St. Meryl Primary | Watford | Multi-focus | 30x Micro:bit starter kits and 10x weather station kits to facilitate motivating, practical activities for computing and science units and in cross-curricular topics and for use in extra-curricular clubs and Golden Time reward activities. | 1000 |
| Hertingfordbury Cowper Primary | Hertford | English | 4x class-set of fiction books to boost the availability of high-quality fiction texts for UKS2 which can be linked to their English focus topics and promote pupils' love or reading and engagement in learning. | 1000 |
| Springmead Primary | Welwyn Garden City | PE | 16x Mindful Mats with different activities printed on them to improve balance, coordination, gross motor skills, flexibility, leadership and teamwork across all year groups and, in particular, with certain SEND pupils (e.g. with those with dyspraxia). | 633 |
| Waterside Academy | Welwyn Garden City | English | Waterside's second bid this academic year was for a range of EY books to promote diversity, inclusion and equality and enable their youngest children to see the richness of their community and the world around them. This is part of a trust-wide (9 schools) initiative to promote these values. | 112 |
| Watton at Stone | Hertford | STEM | A range of science equipment to set up a newly available classroom as a science laboratory and support the whole-school development priority to raise the quality of science provision and achieve the Primary Science Quality Mark. The resources will plug holes in their current equipment inventory and enable more effective teaching of the science curriculum. | 987 |
| Nash Mills | Hemel Hempstead | STEM | A follow-up bid for 18x Micro:bit starter packs and 2x Rugged Robots to build on an earlier successful application for a Crumble Coding class pack. This project will deepen the computing skills for older pupils as well as help extend learning down to EY. The equipment can also be used in D+T and clubs and links with coding used in local secondary schools. | 471 |
| Cunningham Hill | St. Albans | STEM | 6x Makey Makey input kits and various physical programming kits/robots for children from Reception to Y6 to develop their ability and interest in programming and control. The equipment can also be used cross-curricularly eg in D&T to make usable products, geography for route planning and math for sequencing and shape knowledge. | 1000 |
| Flamstead End | Cheshunt | Multi-Focus | 2x WiFi weather stations, 2x mini-greenhouses, a wormery and other outdoor learning equipment to facilitate excitement and learning in many subjects including geography (climate zones), DT (construction, food sources), science (rocks and soils) and environmental topics. | 958 |
| Pixmore Junior | Letchworth | Multi-Focus | A cross-curricular orienteering package including mapping services, set up, S.O.W., lesson plans, equipment and staff training to make the best use of their extensive grounds and provide exciting, outdoor learning in many subjects. It will also be available to their feeder infant school and local primaries and scouts. | 1000 |
| St. Cross R/C | Hoddesdon | STEM | A class pack of 15 Micro:Bit Go v2 starter kits to widen their pupils' experience and improve their attainment in physical computing by allowing them to see their programming in action both in lessons and in the Coding Club. | 245 |
| St. Nicholas | Stevenage | STEM | KS2 trip to the STEM Discovery Centre to give pupils hands-on learning in exciting workshops which will reinforce and extend learning in current topics with lots of opportunities for follow-up learning in class. | 1000 |
| Sheredes | Hoddesdon | Multi-Focus | 3x iPads for EY and Reception classes to help them understand and apply internet safety rules, develop fine motor skills (eg Paint), reinforce and develop learning in many areas such as using phonics and counting apps, photo editing and record/review their own learning in Tapestry. | 1000 |
| Windemere | St Albans | Multi-Focus | A range of robots, robot books and a digital camera for EYFS to give them staged, early experience of programming and develop the language skills needed to create simple algorithms. The camera is robust and will allow independent experimentation. | 635 |
| Moss Bury | Stevenage | STEM | A second bid this academic year for 7x Micro:bit input/output cards to increase the provision of hands-on coding showing real-world outcomes of programming both in class and for greater-depth projects in coding club. | 158 |
| Ashfield | Bushey | Multi-Focus | 30x Micro:bit starter sets and 30x Headphones to help resource and link their exciting new D+T and Computing curriculum with such projects as producing electronic badges and cards and sensing movement and creating online games. | 663 |
| Park Street | St. Albans | English | Interactive handwriting program covering Foundation to Y6 to develop and improve everything from letter formation and joining to speed, fluency and developing a personal style in a fun and motivating way. | 1000 |
| Icknield Walk First | Royston | English | Bug Club phonics book starter packs for phases 1-5 to develop and reinforce successful phonics learning with bespoke and targeted decodable texts and motivate children with new books that they can read in school and with parents using the techniques they have learned. | 830 |
| The Leys | Stevenage | Foundation | A two-day music workshop focussing on percussion giving every class a fun, interactive session where they play instruments and develop such skills a pulse, coordination, tempo and cultural awareness. The workshops will kickstart a comprehensive integration of music into many subjects throughout the school. | 900 |
| Flamstead JMI | St. Albans | Multi-focus | A Crumble computing class pack (30 pupils) to enable pupils to create algorithms and programs and see their effect in the physical world. Also, 4x book packs ranging from Y3-Y6 to expand their stock of banded books and enable pupils to match their book choices to their ability. | 1000 |
| St. Pauls C/E | Watford | STEM | 15X Micro:bit v2.2 starter kits, 6x Blue Bot floor robots and 30x headphones to facilitate a wide range of physical computing activities and cross-curricular links such as step-counters (PE), scoreboard (maths) and anti-poaching collars (D+T), develop directional language and enable individual compositions in music. | 996 |
| Letchmore Infants/ Nursery | Stevenage | English | 3x sets of 96 Twinkl Phonics Rhino Readers books to help develop early reading skills by increasing their low stock of decodable books for their chosen phonics scheme. | 862 |
| Mandeville | St. Albans | Multi | Materials to reinstate and expand their pond and dipping platform - their site manager and volunteers will carry out the work. Science lessons/topics from every year group will utilise the pond area as well as it facilitating forest-school style activities and summer school sessions. | 782 |
Primary Award Winners for Autumn Term 2022 (Details)
Here is a round-up of the primary awards granted so far in the autumn 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".
Please Note: The Effective/Outdoor Learning criteria will split into Outdoor Learning and Learning to Learn from January 2023 so some of the E/OL awards below may not have been passed under the new category.
| School | Location | Focus Area | Award Summary | Amount |
| Grange Academy | Letchworth | English | A wide selection of fiction and non-fiction for 4 year groups to replace deteriorating books and expose children to cross-curricular ideas, wider world contexts and foster ideas of diversity. | 995 |
| Roebuck Academy | Stevenage | English | 5x complete sets of Monster Phonics scheme books to enhance access to targeted materials especially for intervention and catch-up groups. Many of the books are also multi-sensory to engage a wide range of SEND pupils. | 1000 |
| Stevenage/N. Herts Writing Project | Stevenage | English (Sponsorship) | EdufundUK's first sponsorship begins in 2022/23 after a number of years of informally supporting this project. We have funded the books and some of the award ceremony costs for this excellent project in which KS2 classes in 16 Hertfordshire schools (this year) focus on the same book for writing work for a number of weeks and submit their best writers into the competition. A wonderful opportunity for school collaboration and innovative English teaching and learning. | 1600 |
| Widford Primary | Widford | English | A range of Floppy Phonics and Oxford Reading Tree books to reinforce phonics at home and in intervention groups in KS1 and facilitate catch-up sessions for KS2 children in need. | 975 |
| Thundridge Primary | Ware | English | A wide range of Little Wandle phonics books and cards to extend the variety of text types available and enable teaching in smaller groups for KS1 and give more appropriate content to Y3 pupils requiring intervention. | 967 |
| Parkgate Junior | Watford | STEM | 4X Micro:bit Club (10 Pack) sets and a 3D printer to improve skills coverage such as CAD and programming with hands-on equipment both in class and in extra-curricular clubs. |
991 |
| St. Margaret Clitherow | Stevenage | English | A diverse range of Collins Big Cat group reading books for Y1-3 to enhance small group teaching, challenge the most able children, inspire a love of reading and develop pupils' cultural capital. | 1000 |
| Larkspur | Ware | Effective and Outdoor Learning | A wide range of sensory, learning and wellbeing equipment to help pupils with SEN, lower attaining pupils, pupils with pastoral needs and pupils who struggle with memory/retention to engage in effective learning through emotional regulation and utilising varied learning styles. | 991 |
| Oxhey Wood | Watford | Effective/ Outdoor L. | A range of Forest School and gardening equipment and a greenhouse to develop an outdoor learning environment for regular class sessions and afterschool clubs. | 1000 |
| Therfield First | Royston | Effective/ Outdoor L. | A class set of waterproof overalls and gardening tools for older and younger children to facilitate all-weather weekly Forest School classes and new gardening clubs where children will tend their own class allotments. | 907 |
| Therfield First | Royston | STEM | A bulk set of aprons to facilitate whole-class cooking lessons, clubs and workshops. |
87 |
| Warren Dell | Watford | Multi Focus | A wide range of books for the library and classrooms with a special focus on science and foundation subjects to support the children's curriculum reading and broaden their reading at home. |
1000 |
| Hartsbourne | Bushey | English | A book vending machine to support their Reading Journey Initiative and raise the profile of reading in the school. |
1000 |
| Great Gaddesden | Hemel Hempstead | English | Pearl, Sapphire, Diamond and Emerald Big Cat phonic book sets to ensure a diverse range of appropriate texts for KS2 reading and smaller intervention groups. |
1000 |
| Tonwell St. Mary's | Hertford | STEM | A range of science workshops and equipment to create an immersive and exciting suite of activities for National Science Week and normal curriculum lessons. |
995 |
| Hillshott Infant | Letchworth | English | Half class sets of Phase 2 Big Cat phonics books to extend their Little Wandle scheme into Reception in order to better prepare them for KS1. |
1000 |
| St. Mary's CofE | Berkhampsted | Multi-Focus | D+T Leadership training to develop knowledge and skills and facilitate subsequent in-house training and Get Set 4 PE scheme of work to enable more independent planning and delivery without specialist support. |
800 |
| Wilbury Junior | Letchworth | English | Multiple copies of 40 different fiction books to enhance the launch of a reading passport scheme for all children and promote the love of reading diverse and inclusive texts. |
872 |
| Chaulden Junior | Hemel Hempstead | English | A book vending machine (150 book capacity) to promote reading and act as an incentive for excellent behaviour for learning. |
1000 |
| Saffron Green | Borehamwood | STEM | A range of STEM indoor and outdoor equipment to facilitate more 3D, hands-on learning and science assessment moderation CPD materials to gain a deeper insight into the target levels of understanding. |
969 |
| Moss Bury | Stevenage | STEM | A range of maths manipulatives to support children in deep understanding and catching up with place value and times-tables both in class and intervention groups. |
797 |
| Shepherd | Rickmansworth | STEM | 20x BBC Micro:bit Inventor Kits to enhance KS2 knowledge and skills in computer control and coding through hands-on ICT activities and collaboration. |
620 |
| Mount Pleasant Lane | St. Albans | PE | 10x deluxe gym mats and storage trolley to replace an old, deteriorated set, incorrectly stored and facilitate more challenging gymnastic club sessions and core PE lessons. |
960 |
| Waterside Academy | Welwyn Garden City | English | A wide selection of fiction and non-fiction library books and a mobile bookcase to build on an OFSTED report of teachers prioritising and children having a love of reading. |
816 |
| Gade Valley | Hemel Hempstead | Multi-Focus | A wide range of outdoor cooking equipment to address D+T cooking and nutrition and science healthy eating/food groups topics in a fun and healthy outdoor environment. |
863 |
| Harvey Road | Rickmansworth | E/O L | A range of equipment for their outside learning space to develop skills and knowledge in many areas including teamwork, communication, caring for the environment, developing habitats and growing plants. |
996 |
| Alban City | St. Albans | Multi-Focus | Makey Makey input kits and screen-free robots to demonstrate how coding and sensors work in concrete, hands-on experiences with the "WOW factor" and for use in science, technology and music. |
1000 |
| Ayecliffe Drive | Hemel Hempstead | Multi-Focus | Lego Education Spike Prime kits and storage to enable pupils to program real-world devices and for use in small group and Lego therapy sessions to develop thinking and communications skills and promote well-being. |
960 |
| Bayford C/E | Hertford | E/O L | 5x Vango family tents for sleepovers at school to develop outdoor learning skills (e.g. cooking), teamwork, communication skills and resilience and prepare Y3-6 for residential trips. |
1000 |
| Wattling View | St. Albans | Multi-Focus | A heavy-duty tricycle and go-cart for pupils and holiday respite children with severe learning difficulties to promote health and wellbeing as well as improve their gross motor skills. |
1000 |
| Shenley (#1) | Watford | Foundation | 5x digital cameras for children to take high quality photos of their work for their books and class web pages which will capitalise on the pupils' existing sense of pride in their work. |
341 |
| Bushey Manor Junior | Watford | Foundation | A very wide range of non-fiction books from a local independent book shop to capitalise on the children's curiosity to delve deeper into specific topic areas in the foundation and science curriculum and replace old, out-of-date books. |
960 |
| Thorn Grove | Bishops Stortford | Multi-Focus | A "No Outsiders" book pack to stimulate appreciation and discussion of diversity and equality and BBC micro:bit V2 cards (10 Pack) to help children apply their programming skills and link with science in joint projects. |
530 |
| Wymondley JMI | Hitchin | English | 8x different sets of Collins Big Cat reading books to ensure every child has access to a range of phonetically decodable books at the correct stage to develop a love or reading. They will be used through the whole school and in small groups, shared reading sessions and themed days. |
1000 |
| Shenley (#2) | Watford | English | A one-year subscription to the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education to provide children with a broader and richer range of texts, give access to both their reading and writing planning and training for teachers. The funds will be budgeted for in future years if this trial is successful. |
385 |
| Nash Mills C/E | Hemel Hempstead | STEM | A Crumble Coding class pack of accessories which allows physical input and output interactions with code (e.g. light sensors, switches, buzzers and motors). This will help students develop skills and confidence in coding in class and clubs and also link with other subjects such as DT. |
529 |