Learning / Education
Hengrove primary school shortlisted for national award
Perry Court E-ACT Academy in Hengrove has been shortlisted for the TES Primary School of the Year award 2019, amongst eight others.
The nomination comes after an 12-month overhaul of the school’s community values and curriculum after joining E-ACT. The school had previously been within the bottom one per cent of results for Key Stage Two pupils but after a year of hard work, they are now above the national average.
E-ACTS’s head of communications, Humayon Pramanick submitted the nomination for the school and said: “It’s been a phenomenal year, it is such a deserved and uplifting result.”
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Perry Court is one of six E-ACT academies in the South West, and its success in the past year and recent award shortlisting means the school is being viewed as a model for future E-ACT academies. The organisation already has 29 academies throughout the UK, all of which support their schools with subject expertise while making connections with local communities.
A Year Five class during a maths lesson
Richard Healey, Perry Court Academy’s headteacher since February 2018, said: “The nomination is as much for the children, community, and parents as it is for the school itself.”
Richard highlighted that the school’s reputation wasn’t as positive when he started his role as the headteacher but has improved after the nomination. As well as the nomination, the school’s more “child centred, core subject focused” curriculum in which “the pupils have control of the wider curriculum,” have also improved opinion of the school. Richard adds: “We’re not working harder, we are working smarter.”
Headteacher Mr Richard Healey with Year Five pupils Danika and Archie
It’s not only the teachers who are passionate about the recent success of the Perry Court E-Act Academy. Archie and Danika, both Year Five pupils, said: “It would mean the world to us if we won the award, we have worked so hard. It would be amazing.”
For the children and staff at Perry Court E-ACT Academy, the nomination is a huge reward for their hard work. “Our main goal is to become the school of choice in the area, for parents, students and for teachers, winning the award would be a huge bonus,” says Richard.
The winners will be revealed at the TES School Awards gala at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London on Friday, June 21.
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