Leighton Park School recognised for outreach work
'Last Easter, the school founded a hub partnership producing free PPE for frontline key workers from almost 500 organisations across Berkshire.'
The Quaker school Leighton Park has been awarded the 2020 Award for Outstanding Local Community Involvement.
The prize from the Independent Schools’ Association is in recognition of the school’s outreach work, particularly during the pandemic.
Last Easter, the school founded a hub partnership producing free PPE for frontline key workers from almost 500 organisations across Berkshire. The ‘Safer Vision’ initiative brought together eighteen partner schools, three commercial organisations and one university to create and dispatch over 39,000 face shields. £28,000 was raised through the GoFundMe crowd-funding site.
Head Matthew Judd said: ‘The area has been led by Natasha Coccia, assistant head, Outreach and Co-curricular, and I offer my heartfelt congratulations to her and all colleagues involved in this area. We are hugely proud of what has been achieved.’
The award also recognises other outreach work the school does with local education settings. These include a partnership with Foundry College Pupil Referral Unit in Wokingham, in which school members have delivered weekly drumming and parkour sessions to KS2 students excluded from mainstream education and provided work experience placements for KS4 students interested in grounds and maintenance pathways. ‘During lockdown, LP staff visited Foundry with weekly donations of Lego, books, garden equipment, refreshments and paint for vulnerable students attending school during the pandemic.’
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