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.

EYFS Playground Redevelopment

As we increase the number of pupils that we have in our Early Years provision we are working hard to re- develop the outdoor spaces to best meet the needs of our youngest pupils. We know that with changes to the Early Years curriculum this year we want to make the outdoors an even more purposeful learning environment. To do this we need to add shelter and storage so children can play and learn in all weathers. We want to grow independence through self -selecting activities and guide pupils with adult led tasks too. This will require adding facilities to our different outdoor learning zones which we have already begun with our new literacy sheds and mud kitchen. We will need about £30,000 to complete this project through a mixture of grants and in house fundraising.

Updating our computing offer

The world of computing has come on leaps and bounds as a result of the pandemic. We were able to provide devices for all pupils who needed on during the lockdowns and have also added to our in school resources year on year. We have a number of 3D printers that we would like to update to the latest models so that we can use our coding schools to develop even more complex projects. We were previously supported by our fantastic PTA in fundraising for these. We would like to raise £1000 to purchase newer technology this year.

Love of Reading Project

63% of children at Bevington speak English as an additional language. In 2021, 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. We know our children achieve so highly because parents and families support us by reading daily with their children and make sure reading has the highest priority it can. 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 class reading books for guided reading and class libraries. There are so many amazing children’s books that we would like to purchase and we aspire to add new titles to our school resources every month. We would like to raise £20,000 to support us it this project.

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!

Trustees’ Annual Report 2018-19

2019 Finance Policy

2019 Grant Policy

2019 Safeguarding Statement

2019 Volunteer Policy

2019 Complaints Procedure