Are You Really Reading?
An innovative toolkit designed to help pupils to read for meaning. After a successful 3-year grant delivering high-quality training to over 250 Key Stage 2 and 3 teachers across 40+ North West schools, the Three Saints Trust aims to expand to 100 more schools across the North. The project seeks to improve attainment and ensure a consistent approach to reading instruction during the transition to secondary school.
Building Emotional Resilience in Early Years
This innovative project promotes emotional resilience and self-regulation in early years children by integrating emotional regulation principles into both school and home life through staff development. Building on a successful 2-year grant at Whitefield Primary School, the project now encompasses 18 Liverpool schools. It includes teacher training, resources, and ongoing support. Schools also host workshops for children and parents to boost concentration, enhance emotional literacy, and improve classroom learning and attainment.
Building Pre-Foundations in Mathematics
This project, led by the Three Saints Trust in Merseyside, involves working in collaboration with nurseries, PVIs, and parents to empower adults to support children’s mathematical development. They are shown how best to help children develop early maths skills, with a focus on numbers, patterns, and sequencing.
Cradle to Career North Birkenhead
SHINE, the Steve Morgan Foundation and Right to Succeed are working in partnership to better understand the drivers of poor outcomes in this particularly challenged part of the Wirral, which is one of the lowest achieving areas nationally. We are working closely with schools, the local authority and community leaders to devise a programme which encompasses every stage of a child’s life, from Cradle to Career.
Early Years Home-School Partnership
Poulton-Le-Sands C of E Primary School in Morecambe will strengthen partnerships with parents and early years providers through early interventions to boost communication and language skills. Stay and Play sessions and nursery visits will help build parental confidence and enhance the home learning environment.
Numeracy Bridger
Sam Slingsby, from the pupil referral unit Educational Diversity, in Blackpool, is working on a project aimed at improving the numeracy skills of the town’s most vulnerable children who are currently below the average for their age.
Ready, Let’s Read
This project, created by Rachel Ward, a passionate teacher from a Manchester primary school, is designed to rapidly improve young children’s reading and writing skills through bespoke daily sessions.
Story Time Maths
Led by Dane Bank Primary School, in Tameside, this project aims to close the achievement gap for disadvantaged children through a storybook-based maths curriculum. It focuses on developing nursery-level maths skills, strengthening communication for school readiness, training practitioners, and empowering parents to support maths through storytelling.
Supporting Transition and Developing Emotional Intelligence
This project, led by Whitefield Primary School, in Liverpool. promotes self-regulation from early years to Y6 using the Zones of Regulation and emotional literacy, addressing the challenge many children face when transitioning to secondary school by developing a common language between primary and secondary staff to enhance emotional literacy and improve learning access.