Previous Grants
SHINE on Saturdays @ Millfields, Earlham, Holloway, Rotherfield, Brecknock and Hungerford
The SHINE on Saturday programmes at each of these six schools provided 60-80 children every year with an exciting and engaging Saturday curriculum to complement their weekday learning. Pupils were selected to attend because they were underachieving and the programme supported them to improve their academic performance. Millfields and Holloway schools continue to provide Saturday schemes based on the SHINE model.
Click here to find out more about our SHINE on Saturday projects.
Serious Fun on Saturdays @ St Paul's & Latymer Upper Schools and @ The Manchester Grammar School
These independent schools ran Serious Fun on Saturdays enrichment programmes for over 100 children each year from local state maintained primary schools. Activities were designed to make use of the schools' first class facilities and to stretch young minds. St Paul's and Latymer Upper schools continue to run an expanded Serious Fun on Saturdays scheme.
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NRICH - Enriching Mathematics: Helping All Students to SHINE
The Millennium Mathematics Project (MMP) at the University of Cambridge provides stimulating and alternative maths outreach activities – including: online challenges, virtual lectures, road shows and e-mentoring from Cambridge students.
SHINE provided funding to MMP over six years, for the design, delivery and evaluation of a year long programme of maths workshops. The programme ran in three London boroughs and worked with hundreds of gifted secondary students – aiming to develop their problem solving and thinking strategies, help raise attainment and challenge aspirations and awareness of studying mathematics. A comprehensive, independent evaluation of this project demonstrated that it had a significantly positive impact on students’ enjoyment, understanding and achievement in maths at GCSE.
SHINE is grateful to the Lehman Brothers’ Foundation Europe for co-funding this project, which continues to run in Tower Hamlets.
Shaftesbury Homes and Arethusa
Shaftesbury Young People cares for looked after children and SHINE committed funding over seven years to their Education Service. Through this project a team of teachers provided dedicated educational support – advocacy in school, one to one support and tutoring, revision classes and homework help – for students in Shaftesbury Homes.
The project aimed to re-integrate these vulnerable young people into school and markedly improve their levels of achievement. Many of the students arrived with no school place, special educational needs, little English and histories of exclusion or chronic truancy. They consistently achieved better GCSE results than the national figures for children in care and over the last three years more than half the students improved their attendance, 75% of those with a history of exclusion remained in school and 100% secured college places.
Shaftesbury has developed a transferable model of educational support for looked after children that can be used by residential care providers or in schools.
Education Programme for Gifted Youth
The Education Programme for Gifted Youth (EPGY) at Stanford University offers individualised, multimedia, computer-based, distance-learning courses for gifted students. SHINE funded pilot and demonstration projects offering gifted mathematicians in London and Manchester the opportunity to access EPGY's online maths curriculum.
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SAPERE
The Society for Advancing Philosophical Enquiry and Reflection received a grant from SHINE to run The Thinking for Better Learning project with primary school children in Wandsworth, London. This year long programme of weekly enquiry sessions used the Philosophy for Children approach to teach reasoning, higher order and independent thinking.
Pre and post intervention testing and teacher assessment indicated reading improvement beyond teacher predictions for 88% of pupils and improvements in speaking, active listening, question posing, reasoning,thinking and social & emotional interaction.
Axis Weekend School
Axis Educational Trust provides mentoring, tutoring and supplementary support for children of all ages in Haringey. It has a committed team of volunteer teachers and administrators and strong links with the local community. SHINE’s grant enabled Axis to offer desperately needed basic literacy support to primary-aged children.
Bloomfield Learning Centre for Children
For 10 years, the Bloomfield Learning Centre has provided assessment and teaching to children with special educational needs. It is based at Guy’s Hospital and is staffed by qualified dyslexia specialists who have the support of psychologists. SHINE’s grant part-funded the work of the centre, enabling it to teach at full capacity, reduce its waiting list and develop its long term plans for expansion.
YCTV
YCTV (youth culture television) gives disadvantaged teenagers the chance to make their own TV programmes in a professional studio, guided by television experts. All output is originated and created by the young people involved, many of whom have experienced years of educational underachievement and neglect within the care system. SHINE’s grants helped pay for the organisation’s core running costs and the development and delivery of a comprehensive drama strand.
CONTINYOU
ContinYou is a national charity and a leading provider of out of school hours teaching and learning/study support. SHINE funded three different projects run by ContinYou:
- new learning opportunities and additional support for 80 primary-aged refugee children and around 30 families
- an extra learning project supporting up to 120 students aged from 11 to 14 who were identified as being at risk of disaffection or exclusion from school
- six arts partnership schemes offering a range of creative opportunities for up to 150 primary/secondary pupils who were either disengaged or at risk of exclusion from school
Community Links
SHINE funded a unique programme run by Community Links: a one year intensive education programme for 10 and 11 year olds at serious risk of exclusion from school. The programme's aim was to facilitate a permanent change in each participant that would bring lasting success and development.
CSV
SHINE and Community Service Volunteers (CSV) created an exciting project which allowed universities and schools to work together to help support young people. Students from four London universities were placed in local primary schools, where each year they provided at least 20 weeks’ intensive tutoring for up to 160 disadvantaged and underachieving children.
Wheatsheaf Trust
The Wheatsheaf Trust works with local schools and employers to help primary school children dramatically improve their reading. SHINE funded an ambitious expansion of its ‘Better Reading Partnership’ to help 225 underachieving children in Southampton's inner-city schools improve their reading standards and confidence.
All Nations Centre
The All Nations Centre runs a variety of community based projects in Vauxhall to help local schools raise their educational standards. SHINE funded an online homework club to enable up to 50 primary school children extend their learning after school. The club provided interactive teaching with desktop computers and laptops, using technology in a fun and focused way to help children make significant learning gains and bridge the IT divide while also enjoying themselves.
OPT 4IT
This innovative programme aims to tackle poor performance in school by linking peer tutoring to earning refurbished computers. Up to 300 pupils over two years were targeted to benefit from either tutoring or being tutored. Tutors earned 'Time Credits' for their work, which could eventually be exchanged for refurbished computers with internet access. Led by ContinYou, the pilot ran in three secondary schools in Tower Hamlets.
NAGT
The Newham Association for Gifted and Talented (NAGT) provides support for primary and secondary aged children in Newham. SHINE helped NAGT to create a specialist programme for 30 young gifted scientists: a year-long series of intensive science sessions on Saturdays.
Lighthouse
The Lighthouse Children's Foundation provides after school care in Southwark, Lambeth and Croydon. SHINE's grant helped them to build focused educational support into their clubs by introducing the Schoolfriend programme for up to 70 children.
Real Action
Real Action helps children and young people advance their reading and writing skills using structured, phonics-based lessons. It runs the Butterfly School, a popular Saturday morning school for children aged between 5 and 12. SHINE’s grant enabled Real Action to pay and train staff, take on additional teachers and classroom assistants, and increase the number of places available for children from 45 to 75.
Tower Hamlets EBP
Tower Hamlets EBP (Education Business Partnership) uses volunteers from local companies to help local pupils with poor literacy and numeracy skills improve their reading, maths, IT, chess and modern foreign language skills. SHINE funded the extension of this programme into five new schools, giving 50 children the opportunity to each receive two terms’ support.
Chance
Chance is a mentoring programme for 5-11 year olds in North London. SHINE funded the expansion of the programme into Haringey, followed by joint monitoring and evaluation work focusing on the educational impact of mentoring this age group.
