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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. |
| Offley Endowed | Hitchin | English | 760 | A selection of KS2 multi-copy book packs to use as Guided Reading texts to replace old and tatty current texts with fresh, long-lasting titles. |
| Graveley | Stevenage | English | 968 | 4x sets of 7+ Little Wandle phonics books to develop reading in KS1 after the SSP. This will really help their significant number of SEN and EAL pupils into KS2 by allowing them to continue with a structured reading program with age-appropriate books. |
| Little Reddings | Bushey | STEM | 1000 | A half-class set of Bee-bots and 6x data loggers to enable every child to take part in coding lessons with real-world outcomes and access the relevant units and skills in KS2 science. |
| St. Michael's C/E | Bishops Stortford | STEM | 830 | 2X Marty the Robot to give hands-on, real-world outcomes to their programming as opposed to their existing, purely web-based scheme. Every year group will have access to the robots to benefit from the fun, motivation and instant, tangible feedback to coding exercises they provide. Digital leaders in learning will become experts in their use and train other teachers and pupils. |
| Therfield First | Royston | MF | 596 | An outdoor reading shed, cushions and artificial grass for seating and book props to facilitate exciting outdoor reading sessions across the school during lessons and breaks. A local pre-school would also have access to this calming space. |
| St. Bernadette Catholic | London Colney | English | 952 | Multiple sets of Little Wandle Fluency books (Levels 1-5 and 6-10) which provide structured plans for their use in Guided Reading sessions to ensure the books are completed in 2 weeks and develop children's fluency and prosody, This project addresses issues raised in a pupil voice survey and ensures each child in a group has their own copy. |
| Tonwell St. Mary's | Ware | Foundation | 375 | 3x whole-staff training sessions (History, Art/Design and Computing) to increase staff's content knowledge and help them identify key teaching areas and plan/monitor progression. |
| Thundridge | Ware | Multi Focus | 644 | Little Wandle book pack to enable much better access to quality phonics books for Reception and Y1 and a large shade sail to allow outdoor whole-class story time and other learning such as English, PE and science when it is hot outside. |
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 |
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