Let Teachers SHINE winner 2024: Benjamin Barker – Progress Checker

An innovative app which aims to transform communication between teachers and parents.

Let Teachers SHINE winner 2024: Matt Harte – Better on the Big Screen

The project blends communal cinema trips and online clips of famous films with AI-generated prose to spark the imagination of students

Let Teachers SHINE winner 2024: Jordan Scott – ProVision

Let Teachers SHINE winner 2024: Jon Blackbourn – Revise Chemistry with Mr B

Let Teachers SHINE winner 2024: Sam Tallintire – Mathematical CPD Library

Sam will create online training video resources for maths teachers.

SHINE-funded programme to help students navigate emotional challenges of school transition

£100,000 grant to boost nursery maths education in the North West

‘Transformational’ early years project expanded after success of pilot

After the success of the pilot of Building Emotional Resilience in Early Years, SHINE has awarded Whitefield Primary School in Liverpool a £41,000 grant to scale up the programme.

Education awards attendees raise more than £500

Generous attendees at this year’s Education Resources Awards (ERA) raised over £500 for SHINE.

Bradford schoolchildren will benefit from £600,000 story project to boost wellbeing and literacy

SHINE launches £10 million fund for secondary schools in Sunderland

SHINE has launched a £10 million fund for Sunderland secondary schools and wants to hear from local headteachers and school leaders.

Children at 50 northern schools to benefit from what one teacher calls ‘the most exciting thing in education for 20 years’

Network of community libraries to be set up across the North following £249,000 SHINE grant

Vocabulous research trial yields very encouraging results

University of Oxford study indicates an “upward trend in pupils’ ability to recognise and use new vocabulary” at schools using Vocabulous. 

County Durham trust’s reading revolution putting research into practice

Project in Teesside schools improves nursery pupils’ speech, language and communication skills

Reception-age children making “leaps in progress” thanks to reading project

Parental confidence project sees children’s communication and language skills improve

Almost all participating children reach expected standard by end of project.

Children using Boromi experience significant improvement in communication and other key skills

Evaluation finds an average 25 percentage-point change in participants' communication skills during the last school year.

Children taking part in SHINE project make record-breaking progress in reading

Teachers using “Are You Really Reading?” in their classrooms report that children are making outstanding progress.