Sponsors
Sponsor of the following category
- Best use of technology award
Since their launch in 2008, Password tests have been used by independent schools for accurate and reliable “gold standard” English language and maths assessment. The tests, designed by experts and aligned to international standards, are used overseas to facilitate student recruitment and admission, and in the UK for screening on arrival.
Secure test delivery, results and certificates are all simply managed online eliminating the need for sending papers and scripts backwards and forwards, marking, and subsequent data input. Password’s accurate results can be relied upon for admission to secondary education, GCSE, A level and IB programmes.
Password tests are delivered by our partner schools’ own staff and trusted representatives, or by the British Council, wherever and whenever required.
Sponsor of the following category
- Independent-state school partnership award
Thrive was set up in the 1990s as a way of helping children to become more emotionally resilient so that they can better manage their behaviour and communicate their needs. Initially conceived as a way of tackling the issue of school exclusions, the Thrive Approach has broadened into a way of helping to prepare children for life’s ups and downs. The Approach provides training and an online profiling and action-planning tool to equip adults with the knowledge, insights and resources needed to develop the relationships that help children to flourish and learn.
Thrive’s founders have backgrounds in teaching, education, social work and psychotherapy and the Thrive Approach is underpinned by a robust framework of neuroscience, attachment theory and child development research.
Based in Devon, Thrive is a business that works with schools and other settings across Great Britain, as well as in Australia. To date, more than 34,000 staff have received Thrive training, ensuring that around 400,000 children have access to the Thrive Approach.