SHINE on Saturday @ Tom Hood
The grant recipient
Tom Hood is an Extended Service secondary school in the London borough of Waltham Forest. It has built up a wide range of out-of-school-hours activities and serves a diverse community with high levels of deprivation and low educational aspirations.
The programme
SHINE @ Tom Hood is for 60 students from year 7 (11-12 year olds) at the school. The core target group is students not achieving the nationally expected level for their age on entry to the school.
Latest results
- 22 students recorded over 90% attendance
- a strength of this project is the engagement of students in learning, particularly in practical lessons
The funding
SHINE has made a grant to part-fund set-up and running costs. Additional funding for project management is provided in-kind by the school.
Funding: £194,425 to Tom Hood Secondary School, over four years (2006-10)
Contact Tom Hood School: 020 8534 3425
"This project will make a real difference to the lives of many children who come from families fleeing persecution, living in over-crowded accommodation, with poor health or in homes where no one is in employment or training."
Children's Centre Manager, Waltham Forest
"Our core objective is to help our pupils improve in English and maths and we couldn't do this without SHINE. The quality is fantastic. SHINE is very, very good for us."
Project manager
"SHINE has given me the opportunity to try out new teaching techniques and fun science practicals. The format of SHINE means pupils participate enthusiastically and really interact while they learn."
SHINE Tutor
"I like SHINE because it lets me do things I never get to usually do."
Shine Student
"If only every school day was like SHINE!!"
shine Student
Quotes
"This project will make a real difference to the lives of many children who come from families fleeing persecution, living in over-crowded accommodation, with poor health or in homes where no one is in employment or training."
Children's Centre Manager, Waltham Forest
"Our core objective is to help our pupils improve in English and maths and we couldn't do this without SHINE. The quality is fantastic. SHINE is very, very good for us."
Project manager
"SHINE has given me the opportunity to try out new teaching techniques and fun science practicals. The format of SHINE means pupils participate enthusiastically and really interact while they learn."
SHINE Tutor
"I like SHINE because it lets me do things I never get to usually do."
Shine Student
"If only every school day was like SHINE!!"
shine Student