The performance by Year Six children from Ormsgill Primary School was the culmination of the HeadStart pilot, and was delivered to an audience of family members and local businesses with whom the class has worked.
The presentation also saw Year Five children show a film made in collaboration with Signal Film & Media, in Barrow, as part of their work on bonding as a class.
Ormsgill is one of a cluster of Barrow schools taking part in the Big Lottery-funded HeadStart, a scheme for 10-14-year-olds conducted in 12 areas nationally.
It focuses on giving young people coping mechanisms in different areas of their life.
For Ormsgill, the project has taken shape both inside the classroom and out, as class work was combined with visits to companies such as Siemens and Tudor Car Services to inspire the youngsters to aim high.
The scheme has also seen the school working with online children’s counselling service , drug and alcohol user support service Cadas, and HorseHeard – an organisation that develops emotional and social intelligence through interaction with horses.
Ormsgill’s SENCo coordinator Dawn Hubbold said she would love to see the pilot scheme rolled out on a larger scale.
As well as forging valuable connections with services and businesses, the project has also gone down a treat with pupils. She said: “The children have loved it. We’ve really seen results”.
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