Warwickshire School Wins 3 Awards at TES Schools Awards

• published: 22 Jun 2015
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Warwickshire School Wins 3 awards at TES Schools Awards • Shrubland Street Community Primary School in Warwickshire wins the Healthy School of the Year at the respected TES School Awards. • Despite limited outdoor space, Shrubland Street Primary has embedded healthy lifestyles and healthy eating into the school culture. • Pupils excel at sport, with more than half having competed at county level in at least one discipline. • Attendance and school number are at a record high and academic performance is consistently in the top 10th percentile. • The school’s commitment to healthy lifestyles extends beyond the school, with parents attending workshops alongside their children to learn about nutrition. They also received the award for the Arts and Humanities Award • Pupils have gone on residential trips to Herefordshire and France and have developed links with a partner school in Sierra Leone. • The increased focus on Geography has given language learning a boost, as Skype sessions with a partner school in Madrid are used to bolster geographical knowledge. • The school has also made the most out of its vegetable garden which is tended by key stage 2 children who learn about land use and sustainable food growth as part of the project. • Their progress in the subject over the past year has been recognised by a Silver Award from the Geographical Association. They then went on to receive the Science, Technology & Engineering Team of the Year at the respected TES School Awards. • The school’s Phiz Lab is a dedicated learning space for primary science that enables children to access specialist teaching from an early age. The lab has had a positive impact on the achievement and enthusiasm of pupils with a quarter attending STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) clubs on a weekly basis. • Phiz Lab is also used as a CPD hub which is led by specialist science teacher Amanda Poole who has helped the school gain a Gold Primary Science Quality Mark. • The school’s willingness to share its expertise and resources has had a substantial impact on primary CPD within the local area and beyond. • Through its CPD sessions for other schools, Amanda Poole has supported more than 160 teachers since September 2014 and has also led enrichment outreach events for more than 4,200 children in the past year. The accolade comes from the highly respected TES Schools Awards, now in their seventh year. The awards recognise outstanding contributions made by education teams and individuals to help students around the country to succeed, both inside and outside the classroom. Winners attended a black-tie event in London, hosted by BAFTA-nominated writer and comedian Greg Davies, where over 1,000 attendees celebrated all that is outstanding in education, from the efforts of individual teachers to the work of entire schools. The awards have 17 categories, including primary school, head teacher and creative school of the year. New accolades have been introduced in 2015 for teacher-bloggers and early years’ settings, in addition to an award for the most creative school. The winners were chosen by a panel of judges including the writer Anthony Horowitz, Dr. Lee Elliot Major, Chief Executive of the Sutton Trust, and Colin Bell, Chief Executive of the Council of British International Schools.