Peter Hemingway Award - Additional Guidance

The prize will be awarded for the achievement of positive educational outcomes, derived in whole or part, through the use of broadband, supplied by E2BN, within the classroom. The £5000 prize will be awarded for work that has already been undertaken.

Who can enter?
Any teacher(s) or classroom assistant(s) working within any school that receives its broadband via E2BN can be considered for this award. Entries may be from individuals or from groups of staff working together. We are also keen to see entries that exemplify collaboration between schools e.g. a transition project between year 6 and year 7 or work between neighbouring schools. Where the winning entry is a group effort between teachers from more than one school the award will be shared equally between the contributing schools.

What are the judges looking for?
The judges are looking for entries that:

·                     Use at, least partly, broadband technology

·                     Demonstrate significant learning benefits to a group of students

·                     Could be replicated by other schools

 Does the work have to have included the whole class?
There are no group size limits but this award is not suitable for projects that focus on an individual student. Your project might focus on a specific group of students – half a dozen G&T maths students from three different schools, a Year 7 nurture group or a small group of disaffected boys. It might encompass a small group, a class, a year group or a key stage.

How are educational outcomes to be measured?
This will depend on the nature of the work undertaken. Some entrants might be able to show impact via examination results or by comparison of teacher assessments carried out at different points in the year. Other projects may have focussed on changes in attitude, motivation or engagement and so you might include teacher, parent or student testimonials. For some projects the work produced by students may have been enabled by the technology and so your evidence will be based around the students’ work.

 How will the winner be chosen from the list of finalists?
After the short-listing we hope to have 8 finalists. All finalists will be invited to attend the Peter Hemingway Award ceremony on 26^th November. Each shortlisted school will be asked to give a short presentation of between 5 and 7 minutes telling the judges about the work, why it has been so successful, what the benefits have been and how you intend to use the prize money should you win. The presentation may be given by any or all of the teachers/ classroom assistants involved in the project and/ or by the pupils involved. The judges will then decide where to award the prize.