We are delighted to announce that we were awarded a Modeshift Stars Outstanding Travel Plan award in Spring 2024, the highest award a school can achieve.

We have worked our way up from Bronze in 2016, Silver in 2017, Gold in 2018 and Silver in 2021 and 2022.

Modeshift Stars is the national schools awards scheme recognising schools that have demonstrated excellence in supporting cycling, walking and other forms of sustainable travel. Our travel group is made up of parents, local residents, our headteacher, a member of staff and a governor. The group works alongside our Eco Councillors, who are pupils from Year 1 upwards voted for by their peers. The Travel Group and our Eco Councillors work to encourage sustainable, active travel to school in order to improve the health and well-being of our pupils and act in an environmentally and community-friendly way. 

We are delighted that we have been awarded a Platinum School Games Mark award again in 2024. This is the highest level that a school can achieve. This is a Government led award scheme launched in 2012 to reward schools for their commitment to the development of competition across their school and into the community. Registered schools can apply annually and their application is then graded as either bronze, silver or gold. Schools which consistently achieve the gold award will also be offered the opportunity to upgrade to platinum. 

Schools are assessed on the following criteria:

• Participation - how many young people at your school are being engaged in sporting activity?
• Competition - how many different sports are being played and how  many competitions are being entered?
• Workforce - how many pupils are involved in leadership activities alongside taking part in competitions?
• Clubs - how many local links does your school have with clubs or establishments from the area?

We are pleased to have retained our Music Mark for 2022-23. This Mark recognises our commitment to provide a high-quality music education for all our pupils. 

Well being Quality Mark

We were awarded the ‘Wellbeing Quality Mark’ in December 2019. This is an award given by Herts for Learning and has replaced the Healthy Schools Award. A team of staff and a governor completed an audit of health and wellbeing across the school environment, which also includes the curriculum and the wider school community. We chose emotional and mental health and wellbeing as our focus. The assessor was extremely complimentary about the school and the children and staff who she met when she visited and she confirmed that the school is showing a real commitment to supporting emotional and mental health.

Eco-Schools

We have been awarded our first Eco Schools Award - the bronze award!

This is our first step towards the Green Flag Award. Thank you to the pupils of the Eco Team, who have helped achieve this by carrying out an environmental review and using it to create an action plan based on three topic areas; healthy living, litter and waste. They have also been responsible for following up these actions points and helping to spread the eco-word in their classes. Our next task is the silver award which is about making links with other areas of the curriculum and informing and involving the school and wider community. 

Well done!

Woodland Trust Award

Outdoor learning is an important part of our ethos at Bridgewater Primary School, so we are delighted to have received our Platinum Award from the Woodland Trust.

The Woodland Trust's Green Tree Schools Awards are designed to help schools celebrate woods and trees by completing environmental projects and encouraging outdoor learning. Our wooden plaque, presented upon achieving our Platinum Award, is proudly on display in the lobby of the school.