Welcome to the Education Choices Magazine Awards 2024!

 Rosemead’s Enrichment department provides tailored support to students across the attainment spectrum, including those with SEND and EAL needs, focusing on social and emotional well-being as well as tailored academic support. This is reflected in the experience of three Ukrainian students, who have thrived in the inclusive school community despite facing language and cultural barriers.

  Honeywell’s clear equality, diversity and inclusion policy ensures all children feel safe and like they belong in the school community, as well as teaching these core values from an early stage. Honeywell aims to embed the values of equality, respect and positive attitudes and relationships throughout the school to ensure all pupils feel welcome and supported in the school community. 

Tiffin School's dedicated SENCo team work with students with a range of needs and abilities, offering support for IEPs, therapeutic support, regular staff training and a tailored curriculum. Through this, they are able to provide the necessary support for a range of needs to enable all children to thrive.

 Queen's Park Primary is part of the Queen's Park Federation, including 2 maintained nursery schools, a family hub and a children's centre. This allows the school to work with families from 0-19 years old, giving a wider supportive multi-agency, wrap-around community feel.

 Each form has a specially assigned ‘Enterprise Man’ to coordinate charity events. So far this year, WUS has raised £54,000 to support a range of charities.The most recent fundraising efforts have been to support the Cardinal Hume Centre, which houses unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. This has resulted in donations of over £14,000. 

 Hampden Gurney works with several charities each year, including the Marylebone Project, which provides shelter and essentials to women in their local community. The school also has a national charity (St Mary’s Children’s Fund), and a global charity (Goodwill Children’s Homes).

 Students across Years 7-13 engage in a range of activities that help to integrate them fully into the community and to support charities and organisations. These include: food collections at the West Cheltenham Community Pantry (WCCP), care home projects, community gardening, community concerts, litter picking, and volunteering at local organisations including Family Space. 

 Elected pupils from each class have responsibilities to promote what is happening in the school. This year, pupils have also voted for and decided on several after-school clubs and helped staff develop the break timetable to ensure everyone can get the most out of their playtime. 

 The Thomas Jones School Council consists of two children from each year group.  Councillors meet twice a term to focus on key issues such as fundraising, scrutiny of books, and school lunches, as well as to learn the skills of being a good spokesperson for their class. 

 This year, St Paul’s conducted their first Inclusion Survey, giving students an opportunity to voice their opinions and allowing faculty to clearly understand the most prevalent concerns. This led to the launch of their Inclusion Alliance, where staff and students can come together to share thoughts and ideas about EDI within the school community and help facilitate the work. 

  The school has introduced a designated student voice website portal to encourage pupils to share views anonymously and conveniently online. This feeds The Student Voice, a democratic system run by the students within the school as a means to voice student opinion and act as a formal body for communication between the students and staff. 

 Children at Eagle House receive many opportunities to explore their creativity and develop their artistic skills throughout the school.The regular school productions provide great inspiration for generating art: the Year 7 and 8 children are currently creating props and large pieces for the stage design as well as providing input on for costumes and make-up.  

 Arts and music follow a creative curriculum, encouraging development of key technical skills as well as independent creativity. The school works with Bow Arts on an annual project, as well as having many opportunities to attend and perform in musical concerts at venues including St Paul's Cathederal.

 Regardless of whether students choose to pursue creative arts subjects at GCSE level or beyond, KCS have meticulously integrated the arts into their offering, including over 20 music clubs to cater to various interests, wherein 40% of pupils are learning an instrument. Each academic year, the school stages around 100 music events and 6 art exhibitions across all age groups.

 Wilson’s School offers up to 9 priority places each year to boys showing an aptitude for sport (football programme) or music (music programme), they recently unveiled a bespoke music department in January 2023 fully equipped to offer state-of-the-art music education.

Sunningdale’s Sustainability Club meets weekly to take action towards achieving Green Flag accreditation with Eco-Schools. This year, the boys have chosen to focus on Global Citizenship and the importance of giving back to the community.

 The school’s Eco Committee includes representatives from each class, key focus areas include: the school’s allotment, encouraging greener travel, sustainable school meals and sustainability week ‘Bousfield Goes Green!’

 The Senior School Environment Committee regularly campaigns for cleaner air in the local area and have made many notable alterations such as Meat-Free Mondays in the canteen and a ban on plastic water bottles. 

 St Olave's Grammar School is part of Operation Wallacea, a network of academics from European and North American universities, who design and implement biodiversity and conservation management research expeditions.