Awards

Thrive School of Excellence

The School of Excellence award is the highest level of achievement in the Thrive Ambassador Schools programme.  It is awarded to schools and settings that have achieved Ambassador School status in all five areas listed above and is a benchmark of all-round excellence for schools that have embedded the Thrive Approach.

Pearson National Teaching Award

Awarded to schools that can demonstrate their power and effectiveness in transforming the life chances of local children and in enriching the local community. These schools have likely had challenges and tackled them creatively and constructively.

Primary Geography Quality Mark

The Primary Geography Quality Mark is a prestigious award which recognises and promotes quality and progress in geography leadership, curriculum development and teaching and learning in schools, and recognises the high standard of geographical teaching and learning across our school.

Primary Science Quality Mark

The Primary Science Quality Mark is a year long CPD programme that helps schools to achieve a quality mark. It focuses on developing effective, confident science leadership for whole school impact on science teaching and learning. The Primary Science Quality Mark enables science subject leaders to develop and articulate a clear intent and aspirational vision for science.

School Games Mark - Gold

The School Games Mark is a Government led award that focuses on recognising schools who show commitment to physical competitions across the school and the wider community. At Masefield, children from a range of year groups have the opportunity to attend competitions, both those within school and with other schools across our cluster, covering a wide range of sports. 

The NAACE Mark for Excellence in Education Technology

The NAACE Mark for Excellence in Education Technology is the award for schools which are committed to excellence in using technology to support teaching and learning, and to improve overall effectiveness and efficiency across the school. This award provides external validation of our school’s technology strategy across the curriculum.

Artsmark - Silver

Masefield holds the Silver status for Artsmark. Artsmark is Arts Council England’s flagship programme to enable schools and other organisations to evaluate, strengthen and celebrate their arts and cultural provision.

Bolton News Primary School of the Year Award

Masefield was Highly Commended for the Bolton News Primary School of the Year Award in 2022.

National Online Safety Certified School

The ‘National Online Safety’ Certified School accreditation supports schools to implement an effective, whole school community approach to online safety, encompassing high-quality CPD for all staff, parents and governors to meet the statutory online safety duties in the ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ guidance and align to ‘Education for a Connected World’.

Healthy Schools Plus

Healthy Schools Plus is a national health promotion programme which aims to embed good practice around health issues in schools and to give children and young people the best possible opportunity to develop positive healthy behaviours. At Masefield, we have achieved the Healthy Schools Plus Award for our additional work with parents on healthy relationships.

White Rose Maths Accredited CPD Host School

Masefield is a White Rose Maths Accredited CPD Host School. It can deliver White Rose training and CPD.

Learning by Questions Ambassador School

Masefield is a Learning by Questions Ambassador School. It was the first ambassador school ever created. We deliver CPD to staff across the country and runs nationwide webinars.

Matilda the Musical Champion School

Masefield Primary School was successful following a lengthy application process for schools in the Liverpool and Manchester areas, to become a ‘Matilda Champion School’ – an exciting programme inspired by Matilda the Musical, in partnership with the Royal Shakespeare Company, The Manchester Palace and Opera House and The Liverpool Empire Theatre.

NCETM Ambassador

Masefield is working with the NCETM. The maths lead is a Maths Hub Professional Development lead. The school has engaged in a number of programmes with the Turing Maths Hub over a long period of time.

Woodland Trust Green Tree School – Bronze

Our school has demonstrated that we carefully plan our gardening projects throughout the year and our growing calendar matches our life skills cookery timetable where the children cook with the fruit, vegetables and herbs they grow themselves. Our children can use garden tools effectively and safely caring for their allotment. We have shown that we work within the wider community passing skills onto others.

Music Mark

Masefield is a member of Music Mark, which places the strongest possible focus on the impacts and outcomes of music education for children and young people, musically, personally, socially and educationally. Masefield dedicates a full lesson every week to music skills, with a range of specialist teachers, opportunities to learn music instruments and a wide range of extra-curricular music provision.

Leading Parent Partnership Award

The Leading Parent Partnership Award focuses on the impact of parents on children’s learning. It recognises schools that have a commitment to parents as partners in education, and rewards work in induction, transition, communication, lifelong learning and enrichment activities.

NACE Challenge Development

The NACE Challenge Development Programme is designed to support school leaders who are uncompromising in their ambition to ensure more able learners achieve their potential, in the context of challenge for all.

Thrive Ambassador School

Thrive Ambassador School with Excellence in Reparative

Thrive Ambassador School

Thrive Ambassador School with Excellence in Relationship

Thrive Ambassador School

Thrive Ambassador School with Excellence in Right-time

Thrive Ambassador School

Thrive Ambassador School with Excellence in Environment

Thrive Ambassador School

Thrive Ambassador School with Excellence in Leadership

MetMark Award

The MetMark is a prestigious award jointly presented by the Royal Meteorological Society and the Met Office. It recognizes UK schools that demonstrate exceptional commitment to weather and climate education, surpassing the standard requirements of the National Curriculum or exam specifications.

Bikeability

Bikeability is the UK’s national cycle training programme, designed to give children and adults the skills and confidence to cycle safely and competently on today’s roads.

WAS Promoting Mental Health and Wellbeing

This award focuses on changing the long-term culture of the whole school. Using an evidence-based framework to drive change, it helped us to deliver staff and pupil wellbeing, review our staff training, and revise our policies. This award ensured that mental health and wellbeing sit at the heart of Masefield Primary School.

Computing Quality Framework Award

The Computing Quality Framework Award is awarded to schools who are able to show good practice in the Computing Quality Framework from the National Centre for Computing Education, along the British Computing Society. This award acknowledges and celebrates the high quality of our Computing provision across the whole school.

History Quality Mark – Gold

  The History Quality Mark is awarded to schools that demonstrate a relentless passion to ensure effective learning and achievement through inspiring teaching that engages all pupils consistently across the school.

Pets as Therapy School

We have a Pets as Therapy dog who reads with selected children each week.

Bolton Wanderers in the Community Partner

Masefield is a partner with Bolton Wanderers in the Community. They deliver weekly provision along with specialist targeted programmes and interventions.

Eco Schools – Distinction

Masefield is an Eco School with Distinction. This award is the highest level of award given to schools that go above and beyond the requirements for a Green Flag.

Ambition Institute Strategic Partner

Masefield is a strategic partner with Ambition Institute through the LearnWithFA1 North West Training Hub. The school supports Initial Teacher Training, Early Career Teachers and National Professional Qualifications. The school also leads on delivering the National Professional Qualification in Leading Teaching.