The Bevington Trust

The Bevington Trust is a registered charitable entity (#1179713) set up to support Bevington Primary School provide a rich and varied curriculum in the face of major cuts to its yearly budget.

Bevington Primary School faces a tough financial future.  Over the next few years, we face to lose almost £100,000 from our yearly budget.  This staggering figure equates to £347 per pupil.  Despite cuts to our budget, at Bevington we are determined that the quality of education that we provide will not be compromised.  This year our end of Key Stage Two results placed us in the top 1% of schools nationally, and the Sunday Times ranked us as the 11th best school in the country based on results.  These results are achieved despite almost half of our school population being recognised as disadvantaged.

Currently we dedicate a large portion of our budget to providing a broad and balanced curriculum which gives pupils the all-round enrichment they need to become true citizens of the world.  However, this budget is being squeezed by the day.

The school Parent Teacher Association (PTA) also sits within the Trust and aims to raise money on behalf of the school and its pupils.

Sports Surface and Playground Redevelopment

The KS2 playground is currently unloved, featureless and in need of repair.  When the building work is finish in early 2020, there will be the perfect opportunity to redevelop this space into an amazing learning and play facility for the children to enjoy.  We would like to install a multi-use sports surface with fencing in the corner of the playground.  This will be open to outside organisations, allowing us to meet one of the Trust’s aims of helping our wider community.  We are also looking to fundraise for a new climbing frame.  The total cost of this project will be £60,000.  We would like to raise a much money for this project as possible through the Trust, so that crucial funds do not need to diverted from the children’s education.

STEM Centre of Excellence

We are in the process of building a centre of excellence in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) in the heart of North Kensington.  Aimed at primary school aged pupils, our new project will combine specialist facilities with curriculum expertise and community outreach.  We have already secured funding and pre-planning approval for a new building within our school grounds which will house a science lab, food technology area, community space and training facilities for professional development.  We now need to secure funding to fully furnish and resource our building with equipment to allow us to fulfil our vision.

We aim to raise a total of £100,000 towards our ambitious project.  So far, we are well on our way to achieving this.

For more information, please see our project brochure here: STEM Project Brochure

Love of Reading Project

63% of children at Bevington speak English as an additional language. In 2018, half of children joining our reception class entered with speaking and communication skills below age related expectations.  Despite this, we are proud of our outstanding results in supporting children during their time with the school – in 2018, 93% of pupils left Bevington at or above age related expectations in reading and writing.  To maintain our high standards of teaching and learning in English, we require a well stocked library with a broad variety of books, new phonics books to enable early readers to decode effectively, and computing resources to support reading across the curriculum.

If you would like to support our school, please click on the button below to take you to our CAF fundraising page. We welcome any donation, big or small, and remember, if you are a registered UK taxpayer you can giftaid your donation at no extra charge to you, but at 25% extra for the Trust!