Sudbury school and teacher from Bucklesham shortlisted in the Tes Schools Awards 2021
The Thomas Gainsborough School, in Sudbury, and a teacher from Bucklesham Primary School are two of the nominees who have been shortlisted in the Tes Schools Awards 2021.
Pioneers, passionate educators and persistent campaigners are among the extraordinary education talent honoured each year at the awards, one of the biggest nights in the UK education calendar.
Today (Wednesday, May 19) those schools that have made it onto the 2021 shortlist have been revealed.
To be on this year’s shortlist is a huge achievement, showcasing the very best of what the UK education sector has to offer.
This year there are 16 categories as well as two special awards, honouring a Lifetime Achievement and Overall School of the Year.
The Thomas Gainsborough is in the Creative School of the Year category and is up against Chorlton High School, Greater Manchester; Formby High School, Merseyside; Global Academy, Greater London; Lansbury Lawrence Primary School, Greater London; Queen Katharine Academy, Cambridgeshire; Sneinton CofE Primary School, Nottinghamshire; and Woolenwick Infant and Nursery School, Hertfordshire.
While Anna Euston has been shortlisted in the New teacher of the Year category and is to vie for the title along with Amara Copsey, Caterham High School, Essex; Zoe Hennchen, Engineering UTC Northern Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire; Sam Craggs, Malton School, North Yorkshire; Alexandra Hurst, Selly Park Girls’ School, West Midlands; Nick Clark, The George Eliot School, Warwickshire; and James Clarke and Georgina Hodgson, both from Whitefield School, Greater London.
The shortlist for the other sections are:
Best use of technology
- Barmulloch Primary, Glasgow
- Broadfields Primary School, Greater London
- Cheam Common Junior Academy, Surrey
- Lincoln Christ’s Hospital School, Lincolnshire
- St Joseph’s Catholic High School, Cumbria
- Stone Soup Academy, Nottinghamshire
- The Winston Churchill School, Surrey
- West Leigh Junior School, Essex
Classroom support assistant of the year
- Kieran Wallbank – Emerson Valley School, Buckinghamshire
- Julia Davidson – Manchester Secondary Pupil Referral Unit, Greater Manchester
- Lisa Ackley – Ormiston Horizon Academy, Staffordshire
- Emma Smythe – Parkwood Academy, South Yorkshire
- Becky Marie Williams – Solihull Academy, West Midlands
- Nikki Casey – Springwell Leeds South, West Yorkshire
- Ragini Patel – Tudor Primary School, Greater London
- Tracey Dudgeon – West Lothian Inclusion and Wellbeing Service, West Lothian
Community and collaboration award
- Archbishop Tenison’s CofE High School, Surrey
- Ark Walworth Academy, Greater London
- Cadoxton Primary School, Vale of Glamorgan
- Frances Olive Anderson Primary School, Lincolnshire
- Hartshill School, Warwickshire
- Manchester Secondary Pupil Referral Unit, Greater Manchester
- Sark School, Guernsey
- Waterhead Academy, Greater Manchester
English teacher or team of the year
- Bertha Park High School, Perthshire
- Eldon Primary School, Lancashire
- Queen Katharine Academy, Cambridgeshire
- Sedgefield Community College, County Durham
- Karen Sims – Solihull Academy, West Midlands
- Joe Harrison – St Mary’s Catholic Primary School, Greater London
- Jonny Stone, St Ninian’s High School, Dunbartonshire
- The John of Gaunt School, Wiltshire
Environment champion of the year
- Andrew Harding – Cardinal Allen High School, Lancashire
- Edd Moore – Damers First School, Dorset
- Hannah Tombling – Diamond Wood Community Academy, West Yorkshire
- Kate MacRae – Michael Drayton Junior School, Warwickshire
Headteacher of the year
- Jonathan Ronan – Bonus Pastor Catholic College, Greater London
- Andrew Fulbrook – Boston High School, Lincolnshire
- Philip Barlow – Chantlers Primary School, Lancashire
- Rachel Hutchinson – Ivybridge Community College, Devon
- Melanie Haselden – Salford City Academy, Greater Manchester
- Sarah Rostron – St Bede CofE Primary Academy, Greater Manchester
- Jacky Anne Kennedy – St Joseph’s Catholic High School, Cumbria
- Kerrie Henton – Stone Soup Academy, Nottinghamshire
Maths teacher or team of the year
- Malton School, North Yorkshire
- Parklands Primary School, West Yorkshire
- Sedgefield Community College, County Durham
- Laura Taylor, St Bede CofE Primary Academy, Greater Manchester
- Wymondham College, Norfolk
Chief judge of the Tes Schools Awards and Editor of Tes magazine Jon Severs said: “It is more important this year than ever before to celebrate the fantastic work schools do, because in the past 12 months they have gone above and beyond to ensure pupils were able to be educated and be kept safe in extraordinary circumstances. We were inundated with entries that demonstrated just how hard the pandemic made the work of schools, and just how amazing the response from staff has been. We are looking forward to showcasing, as we do every year, just how vital our education professionals are to every facet of this country.”
After a very successful online awards ceremony last year this year’s awards ceremony will be held virtually.
Winners will be announced on Friday, June 25.
To find out more about more about the awards and to enter please visit www.tesawards.co.uk