Staff Awards

Our trust and school leaders want to celebrate you, our amazing staff! 

There are 9 staff award categories, the details of which are below.

• Category 1: Teacher
  • Description: Those who demonstrate what it means to be an excellent class leader
  • Who can be nominated? Teachers, Unqualified Teachers (leading a class), and Curriculum Tutors
  • Number of awards: Max. 3 per school (1 per 50 pupils): Manor (3), The Avenue (2), Wembley Manor (1)
• Category 2: Teaching Assistant and Verbal Behaviour Assistant
  • Description: Those who demonstrate what it means to be an excellent and proactive class practitioner
  • Who can be nominated? Teaching Assistants and Verbal Behaviour Tutors
  • Number of awards: Max. 3 per school (1 per 50 pupils): Manor (3), The Avenue (2), Wembley Manor (1)
• Category 3: Learning Support Assistant and Verbal Behaviour Assistant
  • Description: Those who demonstrate what it means to be an excellent and proactive class practitioner
  • Who can be nominated? Learning Support Assistants and Verbal Behaviour Assistants
  • Number of awards: Max. 3 per school (1 per 50 pupils): Manor (3), The Avenue (2), Wembley Manor (1)
• Category 4: Multi Agency Support Team member
  • Description: Those who demonstrate excellence in supporting our pupils and their families both in and out of class
  • Who can be nominated? Members of the Therapy, Inclusion, and Interventions Teams, Sangita, Joanne, and Magdalena
  • Number of awards: 1 (Trust-wide)
• Category 5: Outstanding Operations member
  • Description: Those who generally work in the background dealing with operational and other issues to ensure that teaching and learning colleagues can focus on their crucial work
  • Who can be nominated?  Members of the School Admin, Site (inc. SMSAs and Cleaners), and Catering Teams
  • Number of awards: Max. 1 per school
• Category 6: Business Support Services member
  • Description: Those who generally work in the background dealing with operational and other issues to ensure that teaching and learning colleagues can focus on their crucial work
  • Who can be nominated? Members of the Communications, Finance, HR, and IT Teams
  • Number of awards: 1 (Trust-wide)
• Category 7: Unsung Hero
  • Description: Those who frequently go above and beyond their role
  • Who can be nominated? Any member of staff (non-S/ELT)
  • Number of awards: Max. 4 (1 per school, 1 for MAST & Business Support Services combined)
• Category 8: Love, Learn, Laugh
  • Description: Those who exemplify and promote our core values of love, learn, and laugh in everything they do
  • Who can be nominated? Any member of staff (non-S/ELT)
  • Number of awards: Max. 4 (1 per school, 1 for MAST & Business Support Services combined)

• New Category: Love, Learn, Laugh, Leadership
  • Description: Those who demonstrate exceptional leadership and inspire others through their commitment to our values and ethos.
  • Who can be nominated? All Trust Executive Leaders, School Senior Leaders, and School Curriculum Leaders
  • Number of awards: 1 (Trust-wide)

Executive and Senior leaders can only be nominated for the 'Love, Learn, Laugh Leadership' award. They are: Jayne, Louise, Dean, Emily, Shastha, Steve, Angela, Al, Suzanne, Tim, Mala, Penny, Esen, Amy, Jess G, Andrew, Paul B, Dorota, and Aaron.

Schedule

• Nominations (Thu 11th to Wed 24th June): only contracted staff can nominate and be nominated. Agency/supply staff cannot nominate or be nominated. See: 'Nominations - more information' below. If a category receives no nominations or less than the maximum number of awards, leaders will be asked to nominate.
• Shortlisting (Thu 25th to Tue 30th June): nominations will be anonymised and then shortlisted via AI using the award category descriptors above.
• Voting (Wed 1st to Fri 10th July): information about all shortlisted candidates and the link to the voting form will be circulated. All contracted staff are eligible to vote for colleagues.

Shortlisting groups - leaders from the trust and other trust schools will shortlist anonymised nominations, and school leaders will not shortlist members of their staff team. This is to ensure confidence and fairness in the process.

• Manor School staff will be shortlisted by Jess (The Avenue), Andrew (Wembley Manor), and Louise (RPT)
• The Avenue School staff will be shortlisted by Steve (Manor), Suzanne (Manor), and Shastha (RPT)
• Wembley Manor School staff will be shortlisted by Tim (Manor), Penny (The Avenue), and Emily (RPT)
• Central Team and MAST staff will be shortlisted by Angela (Manor), Amy (The Avenue), and Jayne (RPT)

• To nominate a colleague for an award, you and they must be contracted (not agency) members of staff.
• You can nominate in any/all categories as long as only eligible colleagues are nominated for eligible awards (e.g. a Teacher cannot be nominated for the 'Teaching Assistant and Verbal Behaviour Assistant category').
• You cannot nominate yourself for an award.
• The nomination form includes fields for your name and work e-mail address. This enables us to ensure that only eligible staff take part. Please provide accurate information - not doing so may result in your nomination being rejected.
• Please provide strong reasons and examples to support your nomination as this is the only information that will be used to shortlist nominees, and we will not be able to ask for further information, etc. There is an XXX word/character limit.
• You can nominate as many people for as many awards as you like by simply completing and submitting a new nomination form for each person you'd like to nominate.
• The nomination form link and QR code are below, remember nominations close on Wed 24th June

Nomination form link and QR code

https://tinyurl.com/rptsanom2026

Voting - more information

This will be made available and e-mailed to you once the nominations have closed and the shortlisting has been completed!