Red Kite Academy staff awarded

Red Kite Special Academy in Corby are celebrating the accomplishments of two of their members of staff.

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00:00 So we're celebrating two amazing achievements by two members of our staff. So our music

00:20 teacher Jason was nominated for the Classic FM Music Then Teacher of the Year award by

00:27 one of our pupils and he has been picked as the overall winner. So we're extremely excited

00:35 about that. And then also one of our learning support assistants Barbara has been nominated

00:40 for the Make a Difference awards which is BBC Radio Northampton. So a lot of our staff

00:47 also work with our families out in the community as well and Barbara was nominated for her

00:54 dedication and commitment to support one of our families and received a runner up award

01:00 as well. So we're really really proud of both our members of staff. I think our staff work

01:06 very very hard and tirelessly to support our families and it's great for staff to get that

01:13 recognition outside of school as well. Our families really appreciate everything they

01:19 do and I just think it's amazing that they've both been put forward and have both achieved

01:25 an award so we're so so proud. It's incredible to be fair, absolutely incredible. I never

01:31 thought I'd win in all honesty. Obviously there's thousands of people that were put

01:35 forward across the UK and then to become the winner out of it all is amazing. And for the

01:42 first student that nominated me, obviously I owe that student a lot, then the word got

01:47 out and then other families and parents got involved, put my name forward and yeah, won

01:53 it. So yeah, amazing. Shocked if I'm honest because every day we have a good laugh, we

01:58 have fun, we learn loads and we all get on really really well and to have a student,

02:03 a young student that's listening to Classic FM on a daily basis to then put my name forward

02:08 was just absolutely incredible. Yeah, absolutely amazing. I think the answer to send schools

02:16 is enjoying it and that is the best way to engage with the students. Allow them to have

02:20 fun, a bit of laughter, a bit of giggle but structured at the same time. And that's what

02:25 we do, day in day out we have a good laugh and we get the results at the end of it. But

02:29 it doesn't just stop in the classroom. We do choirs at lunch times, we go to Young Voices

02:33 in January, we do care home tours at Christmas, we do day to creates which includes paint

02:39 drumming so we all put overalls on and paint on the drums and we just go absolutely crazy

02:44 and the paint goes everywhere. We have family sing along days as well so all the families

02:48 come along and engage and sing. I think that's also the other key to it as well, it's not

02:53 just classroom based, it's everything else around that as well and we like to give that

02:57 little bit extra just to get them totally engaged with music and obviously the fun and

03:02 the joy that it can bring from it. Well, I was like shocked that I got this email to

03:10 say that I'd been nominated for a carer's award. So yeah, it was just like, and it was

03:15 like excitement and like who nominated me and it was like, then I was going around asking

03:20 who nominated me and then I found out who it was so yeah, it was worth the while who

03:26 nominated me. So Leland Atwood, who's the brother of the little guy I looked after and

03:35 then because he didn't hear enough of anything and he was getting a little bit disappointed

03:39 then mum nominated me, Claire Little, she nominated me as well. I just felt amazing

03:45 that they thought highly of me, should I say, that they thought that I was a caring, kind

03:53 person so yeah, it was amazing really. Yeah, it is a good school and to see the students

04:01 flourish and to see the students go home happy and come in happy, it's nice. I do enjoy it,

04:10 it's hard work but I enjoy it. I do enjoy it, yeah.