SHINE on Saturday @ Hillyfield
The grant recipient
Hillyfield Primary School is situated in the Higham Hill ward of the London Borough of Waltham Forest. This is one of the poorest areas of the country: 80% of children at the school are from different ethnic backgrounds, many children are involved with social services and most families feeding the school suffer from financial hardship. The school has successful track records in delivering additional out-of-school-hours projects and raising attainment.
The programme
SHINE @ Hillyfield is for 60 students from years 4 and 5 (8-10 year olds) and targets gifted and talented children at the school who are underachieving.
Latest results
- The high quality of the programme and the involvement of the Senior leadership team has a positive impact on attendance. Weekly attendance averaged 95%.
- Although almost half the students were working well below the standards expected for these year groups when they joined the programme, four-fifths made measurable academic progress.
The funding
SHINE has made a grant for set up and running costs and the school is making a contribution towards administrative costs.
Funding: £213,290 to Hillyfield Primary School, over four years (2006-10)
Contact Hillyfield School: 020 8527 8319
"SHINE has been a huge success, so we completely threw our old curriculum out of the window and the whole school now uses a creative curriculum, inspired by SHINE."
Project Manager
"One of our children turned around and said, ?I can't come to SHINE on a Saturday, can we move it to a Sunday?"
SHINE Tutor
Quotes
"SHINE has been a huge success, so we completely threw our old curriculum out of the window and the whole school now uses a creative curriculum, inspired by SHINE."
Project Manager
"One of our children turned around and said, ?I can't come to SHINE on a Saturday, can we move it to a Sunday?"
SHINE Tutor