Mike Ayres Design sponsors The Education Business Awards 2013

Congratulations to Walthamstow Academy for winning the SEN Inclusion Award and Springfield Academy for winning the SEN Provision Award. SEN Inclusion Award sponsored by Mike Ayres Design Winner: Walthamstow Academy, London Walthamstow Academy’s inclusion programmes are highly successful, and the gap between SEN students and their peers is reducing significantly. In 2012, 80% of SEN students achieved five or more A* to C grades at GCSE - a 26% improvement from 2010. The Academy has now been given a seal of approval after the recently awarded Inclusion Quality Mark designates the academy a Centre of Excellence - one of only seven in the country. As a Centre of Excellence, the academy will share its good practice with local schools. It has already identified a number of ways in which it will enhance its practice yet further including the provision of appropriate careers advice for students with SEN, and continuing to improve their voice at the academy. Commended: Newhall Green School, Manchester Howard of Effingham School, Surrey SEN Provision Award sponsored by Mike Ayres Design Winner: Springfields Academy, Wiltshire Springfields Academy in Wiltshire is a specialist sports college for children living with autism and challenging emotional and social difficulties. It houses almost 100 boarding pupils with 500 day pupils ranging from ages 7-17. In February this year it was judged Outstanding by Ofsted and in April was awarded £2.8 million by the Education Funding Agency to build 16 new classrooms. An all-weather pitch surface is used by numerous clubs within the community. Springfield’s ‘Extreme Classrooms’ are designed to embed a sense of well being in young people by enabling them to find their strengths, and promote learning outside the classroom, whether collecting mini bugs on site, Forest Schools or trekking to Everest Base Camp. Commended: Brookfields Specialist SEN School, Reading Bradstow School, Kent