THIS is the award that celebrates a school that can show it has improved significantly in the past 12 months.

Not all schools have the same advantages, and while some schools in our district have been top of their field for years, others struggle for a variety of reasons.

This award is for schools that might not always have the best results, but whose staff and pupils still strive to be the best they can be


It is at these schools where the hardest work often takes place, and more often than not this hard work goes unnoticed.

The nominations can be for a school that has turned around following a poor inspection, one where new initiatives have led to an improvement in behaviour or results or a school with high absence rates that has worked to improve attendance.

We often are told that these schools don’t get the recognition they deserve: this category offers you the chance to change that.

The change could be down to an entire school effort, or an initiative by a single teacher or staff member.

In 2016 Horton Grange Primary School won the award in recognition of the ‘outstanding’ Ofsted rating it achieved that academic year.

In 2007, the school was branded inadequate and placed in special measures but the school completed a full turnaround.

Bradford Telegraph and Argus:
LAST YEAR'S WINNER: Headteacher Carol Stephenson collected the award for Horton Grange Primary School

SPONSOR THIS AWARD

RECOGNISING a school that has improved by leaps and bounds is just as important as celebrating one that has always achieved good results.

We’re asking for someone to come forward to sponsor our School Improvement Award, which has over the past three years of the awards proved to be one of the most inspiring categories at the ceremony.

By becoming a sponsor, you or your organisation will have the chance to help present the award at the Schools Awards event in March, as well as having advertisements for your business or organisation featured in the Schools Awards supplements and coverage, and tickets to the glitzy ceremony.

In the past three years the awards have offered sponsors the opportunity to rub shoulders with the best and brightest of the district’s schools, as well as doing their part to help us celebrate their achievements.

To sponsor this category, email caroline.collins@nqyne.co.uk or call 01274 705286.

Bradford Telegraph and Argus: Schools Awards Nominations

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