The Birmingham Mail and The Pallasades Schools Awards 2009

Sep 18 2009 By Midlands Marketing

The award categories are as follows:

Anti-bullying Campaign Award - This award is supported by the Birmingham Mail

Open to all schools that have an active policy against bullying. This award is for a school that is raising awareness of bullying and encouraging children, parents, staff and other community members to talk about the issue

Best School Newspaper or School Website Award - This award is supported by birminghammail.net

Open to all schools that have produced a newspaper/website in 2008/9.  To qualify, schools must produce a publication/website that contains relevant news for their audience.  

Go Green School Award - This award is supported by Legal and General

For this category, the judges will be looking for how schools have managed to raise awareness of sustainability and instigate changes within the school, for example, using poster campaigns, research, setting up eco-committees, class environmental champions, etc.  Areas to be considered are, water and energy conservation, walking buses/transport, recycling, etc.

Healthy Living Award - This award is supported by Thinktank

For a class or whole school who makes it a priority to have healthy lifestyles.  This could be by exercising more, drinking more water, eating healthy foods or growing vegetables to use in the kitchen. 

BARCLAYS MONEY SKILLS AWARD

This award is supported by Barclays

This is a new award for 2009 and one which we feel has huge relevance to school children and their families across our region, particularly during the tough financial times that the country is now facing.  The Birmingham Mail and Barclays are searching for schools that are developing programmes/activities specifically designed to help children understand the importance of budgeting and managing finances.  This may be built in to the curriculum through mathematics or personal, health and social education or it may be a club/extra curricular group run by students that is financially managed by its members.