Education: Schools Awards' excellent entries
The Birmingham Mail, in association with The Pallasades Shopping Centre, has been delighted to receive so many excellent entries and nominations for our second Schools Awards campaign.
The awards cover both community and curriculum-based projects, as well as individual excellence, and honour whole schools, classes and individuals.
We would like to thank all schools and individuals for the fabulous entries and nominations that you made – it has been an excellent response.
The prestigious luncheon and awards ceremony will be held at Thinktank on Wednesday, December 16.
There are ten award categories in total including a School of the Year Award.
The entries have been carefully judged and schools or individuals have now been short-listed for each award category.
All of these schools will be invited to attend the Schools Awards luncheon ceremony.
The award categories and the short-listed schools in each are as follows:
Head Teacher of the Year AWARD
* Jayne Lates – Hall Green Infants School
* Andy Hale – Maidensbridge Primary School
Inspirational Primary TEACHER
* Damon O’Neill – Stirchley Community School
* Martin Ryan – Hollywood Primary School
Inspirational Secondary TEACHER
* Mr. Tallent – Turves Green Boys School
Go Green Award
* St. Huberts School
* Hillcrest School
Best SCHOOL NEWSpaper/website AWARD
* Clifton Primary School
* CTC Kingshurst Academy
Anti-Bullying Award
* The College High School
* Kings Norton Primary School
Healthy Living Award
* Kings Norton Primary School
* Greenholm School
Barclays Money Skills Award
* Greenholm School
Support Staff of the Year
* Brenda Page – Heathlands Primary School
* Claire Channa – St. Huberts School
* Sarah Fayaz – St. Ambrose Barlow School
The winners and a runner-ups in each category will be announced on the day. The prizes are as follows:
PROJECT AWARDS
* £300 bursary for the school plus a special trophy and framed certificate will be awarded to the winner of each category.
* £150 bursary for the school and a framed certificate will be awarded to the runner-up in each category.
INDIVIDUAL AWARDS
* £200 bursary for the school plus a special trophy and a framed certificate will be awarded to the winner of each category
* £100 bursary for the school and a framed certificate will be awarded to the runner-up in each category.
BARCLAYS MONEY SKILLS
£1,000 bursary will be given by Barclays to the only short-listed school in this category.
Please note, there are still grants to be awarded in this category so we are still accepting entries from schools for this. Details of the Barclays Money Skills award are as follows:
This is a new award for 2009 and one which we feel has huge relevance to schoolchildren 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 into 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.
Barclays are still offering two cash prizes of £500 each, for the schools that can demonstrate new and innovative ways in which they are helping or plan to help children and-or parents to develop money skills. The winning schools will receive a grant to use to extend or introduce their financial learning in the school under the theme of Barclays Money Skills. Please email your entries to becky_wilson@mrn.co.uk
