Partnerships with Bonner

Phoenix School partnership

Bonner is working in partnership with the Phoenix School, a well renowned special school. The Phoenix School are conducting a pilot project to help mainstream schools better support and include their autistic pupils. With support and training from Phoenix, and additional funding from the local authority, 22 schools have created specialist classrooms based on the Phoenix model. Bonner is one of these 22 schools.

As a result, Bonner has access to Phoenix curriculum resources and strategies which have allowed our children to access appropriate learning whilst building meaningful relationships within the mainstream settings, reducing anxiety and fostering greater engagement; students are also making progress and are more regulated within these environments. The students in these classrooms are students who have been working academically below their peers and would be suitable for a specialist setting. 

Members of the Bonner team attend half-termly resource evenings to build a community of SEND teachers, share good practice and overcome barriers. Staff have said they find these supportive and have valued the opportunity to meet with one another. Phoenix have helped build a culture of empathy and understanding by supporting mainstream staff with specialised training and mentorship, and by promoting collaboration with senior staff and teachers at Phoenix

Towards an Anti-Racist Classroom

Bonner works closely with Global Learning London on their Towards an Anti-Racist Classroom Project in line with our Equality Policy. Our classrooms have no space for discrimination and we are helping our children speak out against racism they encounter. We have designated Project Leads at our school that attend regular training to make sure we adapt to the needs of our community and that every child is able to access the same, quality-first education that Bonner is so proud to provide to its pupils. 

As part of this work, we have devised our Anti-Racist Pledge.

In 2023-24 we were excited to be part of GLL's one-year pilot project, Football Forward, supported by The Football Association to encourage and create opportunities for young girls, from minoritized communities, to get involved in football and sports. Through active listening, interactive and creative workshops, we aim to place the voice and needs of girls at the heart of the project, to better understand how girls want to engage with football and sports in school. 

Look at children from Bonner describe the experience:

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The Power of Play Project

                                                                  

Did you know that 78% of children believe that adults don't think play is important?

We are delighted to be a Hub School, working with the LEGO Group and The Institute of Imagination, on the Power of Play initiative alongside Save the Children, EasyPeasy, and Young V&A. This exciting initiative aims to improve access to Learning through Play to help develop children’s wellbeing and holistic skills focusing particularly on developing collaborative, creative thinking. As part of this project we will be holding a whole-school Day of Play in October!

You can read more about this exciting project here.

"We know that play is a critical part of childhood. When children play, they build essential skills such as learning how to solve problems, develop confidence, creativity and resilience, all whilst having fun." (Diana Ringe Krogh, Head of Social Responsibility at the LEGO Group).

London Higher Education Future Me Project

We are lucky to be one of three school in Tower Hamlets to be apart of the AccessHE Future Me project.

Primary Futures is an opportunity for Year 6 pupils to dive into a world of possibilities and explore a range of careers and study pathways.

The pupils spend six weeks exploring what they could be when they grow up – from scientists to artists, engineers to entrepreneurs – as well as how they get there. This
programme is all about helping them expand their horizons.

The program offers students a wide range of sessions and workshops covering the following topics:

- Exploring careers

- Understanding Higher Education

- Inspiring journeys

- Building resilience

Our Year 6 classes will be working on this project throughout Spring Term.

You can read more about this exciting project here.

THE Partnership (THEP)

At Bonner Primary we work closely with THE Partnership, Tower Hamlets Education Partnership (THEP).

THEP is a schools' company established by school leaders to deliver high quality school improvement to all Tower Hamlets schools. It is rooted in the highly successful collaboration that has characterised and underpinned education in the borough over the last two decades. The schools within THEP operate as a family to support, challenge and encourage each other in their determination to do the very best for every child.

THEP is independent of the Local Authority, but works closely with it and is supported by it.

Through Bonner's partnership  with THEP we benefit from; CPD and training opportunities, school improvement team support, leadership consultant support and the peer review, school improvement mechanism.

To find out more about THEP and the work they do Click Here

Connecting Communities 

We are very proud of our partnership with the East End Community Foundation's Connecting Communities project which seeks to reduce the digital divide within London boroughs. 

To tackle digital inequality in the East End, they created an innovative partnership with the Letta Trust, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council, and Poplar HARCA .  

Through this project, in 2024, we identified 60 students and families most in need of support and were able to provide them with a laptop, 12-months’ free broadband and deliver a comprehensive digital training programme.  This video has further details of this exciting project:

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Young City Makers

Each year, our Year 5 students take part in the Young City Makers project which is organised by Open City.

The children are paired with a local architecture firm, they are given a brief and then carry out site visits, make designs and then use materials to create models. The children work alongside real architects to get a better understanding of the careers and opportunities that are available in their futures.

At the end of the project representatives from Year 5 also take part in an awards ceremony!

Ashurst

All Year 6 children at Bonner Bethnal Green take part in a junior enterprise scheme called First Steps, which involves Ashurst Law firm, Future First charity and Bonner Primary School. Ashurst fund the project, provide staff to work with groups of children and give us their venue and lunch. Future First plan and run the sessions, Bonner Primary School provide the children and support in the sessions.

This is a series of visits where the children cover the following areas:

• What do people at Ashurst do? 
•  Making a business – team challenge! 
• My money – saving & spending! 
• What are my options for the future? 
• To secondary school & beyond! My next steps. 

Throughout the visits, the children keep track of what they are learning in a booklet.

The aim of the project is to encourage the children to think about themselves as employees of the future and realise that if they have a goal there are many small steps which will lead them to achieving that goal.

Students in Year 6 at Mile End also take part in a Insights Day where they broaden their understandings of what a law firm does and the many jobs involved in this sector.

Tower Hamlets Education Wellbeing Service (THEWS)

THEWS is a service in Tower Hamlets which helps to improve wellbeing for children and young people.

THEWS has three key aims:

• To help children and young people aged 5-19 years old to get earlier access to wellbeing and mental health support
• To help schools to promote wellbeing in school
• To work alongside and link in with other services providing wellbeing and mental health support

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RaspberryPi      

Bonner Code Club is taking part in a very exciting and groundbreaking new project: Encouraging girls to study computing.
The project which is called Gender Balance in Computing, is a programme of work in the National Centre of Computing
Education and is funded by the Department of Education. Bonner is one of 140 schools nationwide participating in this
research. The project will last for 12 weeks and it is accessed through Code Club.