We’re delighted to hear that the team from The Legacy Project at Divine Days have received the Silver Award for Impact Through Partnership at this year’s Pearson National Teaching Awards, for their outstanding commitment to changing the lives of the young people they work with every day.
Divine Days is a Skelmersdale-based Community Interest Company that provide a creative program of disability-friendly activities as well as a wide range of projects that promote inclusion and acceptance. The Legacy Project is their supported internship programme for young adults with additional needs, learning disabilities and/or physical disabilities, who are living and learning in Skelmersdale and surrounding areas.
The Legacy Project is founded on the core principles of empowering and enabling, to promote cohesion and a workforce of young people who are supported to make a valued contribution to their society. The nomination for the Pearson National Teaching Awards came from Delphside Primary School, one of the proud collaborators who provide several workplace internship placements for The Legacy Project’s young people.
Katie Whitehead, Managing Director of Divine Days Community CIC said;
“We are so humbled by the Award of the Silver Pearson Teaching award. Our work with Delphside Primary School has given us a great platform to showcase our interns with additional needs in a workplace and see them thrive. Our team of job coaches work tirelessly to ensure both the student and placement location is a place where everyone can thrive.
The nurturing nature of Delphside school has ensured that the best of each intern is displayed and shows those children with SEN can aspire to achieve also. 2 of the 2021/22 interns gained paid employment at the school following the program, both of whom are thriving in this environment.”
The Pearson National Teaching Awards is an annual celebration of excellence in education run by the Teaching Awards Trust, an independent charity now in its 25th year, that recognises the life-changing work that takes place in education, highlighting the vital role educators play and the work that’s delivered in schools, colleges and other education providers every day.
The Legacy Project has now been shortlisted to win one of just 16 Gold Awards, which will be announced and celebrated at a gala ceremony in London on 25 November and televised on the BBC, with winners showcased on The One Show. The honours have been announced on National Thank a Teacher Day, an annual event celebrating the role of educators across the UK for the valued role they play in communities and shaping young people. This year, students were joined by celebrities including Sir Michael Morpurgo, Edith Bowman, Bobby Seagull, Ore Oduba and Nadiya Hussain to mark their teachers’ achievements.
Congratulations to The Legacy Project for winning the Silver award and we wish you the very best in winning the Gold award in November.