Edtech50 award recognition for Whitefield Primary School

Whitefield Primary School in Liverpool has received the Edtech50 award for its use of technology to support teaching and learning.

Edtech UK is an independent organisation that works with schools to support education technology adoption and use. It selected Whitefield Primary School from entries across England.

Now in its fifth year, the Edtech50 awards act as a national benchmark of schools’ imaginative and positive use of technology.

This year’s highlights of the Edtech50 awards:  

• Recognition that technology used with purpose can reap real rewards for standards across all subjects. 
• Geography and science technologies were highlighted as ‘imagination springboards’ for learning with online map-making and visualising complex experiments.
• Growth in assistive technology being used to benefit all pupils. For example, with voice technology being used by pupils to better understand reading texts.
• Widespread use of real-time assessment understand where pupils are up to in their learning and the ability to pinpoint misunderstandings immediately during the actual lesson.
• More schools using AI for outline lesson planning and using collaborative technology to share resources across staff teams with real improvements in teacher workload.
• The use of technology to focus on pupil wellbeing with pupil polls and immediate feedback to teachers.
• Recognition that the best technology for learning can enhance certain tasks and approaches are best designed by the teacher.
• The ability to enhance pupils’ ‘anytime anywhere’ learning and independent research skills.
• Improvements in Home / School communications and parental understanding of subjects.

Commenting on the Edtech50 awards

Ty Goddard, director at Edtech UK, said: “Education technology is a force for good across our schools – it supports teachers and pupils to learn. The variety of digital tools now available, can really support pupils to learn and teachers to collaborate.

“Using education technology enhances digital skills for young people across the curriculum and with positive online safety, schools are opening up experiences, imagination and deep learning.

“Our digital promise as a country will need a new national strategy to really power technology in schools. This is all about supporting teachers to teach with the best tools available. All the award winners deserve big congratulations.”

Whitefield Primary School added: “We are so proud to have received this national recognition. It is a real achievement and recognises purposeful and imaginative use of technology across our school.

“Education Technology, used well and understood by pupils supports teachers and learning. This national award, comes at the end of term and really celebrates our work across the school year as we develop our use of technology to support teaching and learning.”