2006 winners

2006 was the very first year in which LEAPP awards were granted and 10 winners were selected.

Details of these 10 winners are given below.  You can also see photographs taken at last year's awards ceremony at Buckingham Palace.

Belmont House School, Londonderry

This special school will use its LEAPP funding to provide additional support for parents.  This will include on-campus facilities for parents; training in relevant subjects; and familiarisation with what happens in class through lesson observations.

Frobisher School Parent Teacher Association, Essex

Frobisher PTA will use its LEAPP Award to offer a range of sessions for parents.  These will be timed to occur alongside nursery sessions and will provide opportunities for structured play, discussion of key parenting issues and awareness of the stepping stones to learning.

Hope Valley College, Derbyshire

Hope Valley College has identified that many of its students who underachieve academically have a record of little or no constructive parental engagement.  LEAPP funding will be used to provide dedicated parental support from the point their children join the school.

Friends of Hope Valley Primary School, Liverpool

LEAPP funding will be used to target families most in need.  The school will offer a ‘Discovery Club’: a year long science-based project which encourages children and their families to explore and find things out together during their free time.

King Charles Primary School, Walsall

King Charles School will use its LEAPP funding to help parents support their children with homework and projects.  The long term aim is for the project to become self-sustaining with parents providing advice and help to one another.

Maytree Nursery and Infants School, Southampton

Based on expertise in developing learning packs for parents and children, Maytree will use its LEAPP Award to partner with ten other schools.  This will facilitate a significant increase in the range and quality of resources.

St Margaret Mary’s Junior School HSA, Liverpool

Located in a deprived area, St Margaret Mary’s aims to improve the life chances of pupils by showing parents alternative and low cost activities to do with their children and therefore encourage them to spend quality time together.

Thrumpton Primary School, Nottinghamshire

Responding to demands from parents for ‘hands-on’ events in subjects other than English, Thrumpton Primary will run an after school science club for children, parents and teachers.

Friends of Tolworth Junior School, Surrey

LEAPP funding will be used to deliver workshops for parents with English as an Additional Language.  These have the explicit aim of improving understanding of and participation in school life.

Willow Grove Primary SEBD School, Wigan

This special needs school will use its LEAPP Award to make its new sensory room available to improve child/parent relationships.  Portable packs will also be developed for those parents unable to come into school.