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.

Layla’s story

Layla was extremely shy at school. Unlike most other three-year-olds, she was not yet speaking at all, so communicating with others was very difficult.

Education awards attendees raise more than £500

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

Poppy’s story

When Poppy started school, she had a vocabulary of no more than 10 words and could not speak in sentences

Lizzie and Lydia’s story

When I first met Jess I was really shy and didn’t speak much but now I talk a lot, like, a lot!

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’

Eva’s Story

It’s amazing the sudden progress she has made. The way she will now speak to adults confidently and share her ideas. It’s just incredible.

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. 

123 Read With Me

County Durham trust’s reading revolution putting research into practice