
Paula Harmer, Headteacher at Thorpe Hesley Junior School in Rotherham has been awarded the Teaching Award for Enterprise for the North of England. Paula's staff and pupils have created a "whirlind of industry" at the school after linking up with the innovative Rotherham Ready Initiative. The school has established a vegetable plot in order to produce cash crops, entered a song contest, set up a logo competition, founded a radio station, organised litter picking, learnt first aid, produced and sold CDs of school productions, run a bookshop and book fairs, fundraised for charity, and disseminated their ideas on a website. Paula believes passionately that enterprise is central to modern education and that the school “will be a place of innovation, offering an excellent, all-round education. Young people will be encouraged and supported to become valued members of tomorrow's society." And she is now developing a creative new school-wide curriculum based around themes of developing children’s independence and creativity.
Teaching Awards websiteRotherham Ready website
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