Welcome to the EMTAS Heritage Honours AwardThis award, launched in the academic year 2021-22, aims to celebrate the achievements of children from BME, EAL and GRT backgrounds. Children and young people can be nominated for an award by the school they are currently attending. Relevant areas of success could include:
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More than 67 successful nominations were received this academic year. Reasons for nomination variously include success in heritage language examinations, practical and creative use of first language within the school environment, sharing cultural background with peers, acting as an empathetic peer buddy, producing media for EMTAS E Learning, success in community sporting events and excellent progress in learning EAL.
Congratulation to everyone involved - here is a list of some of the children/young people and their nominating schools:
| Andra-Daniela | Ashley Junior School | |
| Tiana, Mitchell & Dolly May | Bramley Church of England Primary | |
| Cristian | Cranbourne Secondary School | |
| Ayaz | Crookham Church of England (A) Infant | |
| Oluwasanmi, Mariana & Alisiya | Fernhill Secondary School | |
| Sienna | Greatham Primary | |
| Melania | Henry Cort Community College | |
| Daria | King's Furlong Junior School | |
| Abubakr, Adam, Arzoo, Fabio, Glen, Luigi, Miguel Santos, Philip, Ryhma, Sohan, Tadisa & Zosia | Merton Infant School | |
| Artemis | St Alban's C of E Primary | |
| Devesh, Lidia, Muskan & Gelsang | St Michael’s C of E Junior | |
| Catalin, Rares & Leanne | Talavera Infant School | |
| Yazen |
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Children and young people can be nominated for an award by anyone associated with the school eg school staff, parents/carers, peers, EMTAS staff or other local authority professionals. It is perfectly acceptable for schools to nominate more than one child/young person in any academic year if they want to.
Children and young people should be consulted before their name is put forward for nomination, however the submission itself should be made by a member of the school staff who should then follow the steps below:
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Step 1 |
discuss the nomination with the named individual and their parents/carers |
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Step 2 |
fill in the nomination submission form on Moodle |
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Step 3 |
email the form to: emtas@hants.gov.uk |
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an EMTAS Specialist Teacher Advisor will contact you to discuss the nomination |
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after the discussion with an EMTAS Specialist Teacher Advisor, notify the family and child of their successful nomination |
Use the nomination form below.
The document below gives some examples of the types of Heritage Honours successes schools could accredit their children and young people for.
Successful nominees will receive a signed certificate - sample shown below:
This academic year, all successful nominees will also receive a small prize: A set of branded pens (KS3/4) or a set of crayons (KS1/2).
