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. |