Gold Plato for top teachers
UK 2008 ceremony: BBC2 18:00, Sunday 19 October
UK 2007 Winner Matthew Evans with pupils from Forest School with Deborah Meaden
Schools across the country are getting ready for the biggest celebration of excellence in education, the 2008 Teaching Awards UK ceremony, the tenth since being founded by Lord Puttnam
The glittering ceremony, before a 2,000-strong audience, will pay tribute to outstanding teachers, teaching assistants, teachers, governors and sustainable schools.
The ceremony will be hosted by celebrity presenters Myleene Klass and Jeremy Vine and will be joined by celebrities including; actors Jeremy Irons and Bill Paterson, TV personality Sophie Raworth and historian Dan Snow.
Myleene said: ‘I feel so honoured to present the Teaching Awards this year and can't wait to meet the winners. Teachers have the power to release every child's potential, whether they want to be an astronaut, doctor, musician or accountant.
'Having been a music teacher myself, I understand the responsibility and enjoyment being a teacher brings. They deserve to be recognised and its fantastic that the Teaching Awards celebrates not just individual winners, but the profession as a whole’.
The prestigious ceremony is part of a Teaching Awards 2008 fellows’ weekend - an all-expenses-paid prize for the 142 finalists from around who won silver platos earlier this year. The weekend includes a seminar led by eminent scientist Lord Robert Winston and a gala dinner hosted by Lord Puttnam, founding chairman of the Awards.
Lord Puttman said: ‘This is our tenth anniversary ceremony and a thrilling moment, when I think how far we have come. It is a unique opportunity to feel proud of our schools and to say thank you to a profession that is at the heart of progress and the future of our society. Teachers deserve recognition.’
The Teaching Awards recognise and celebrate excellence in education and have received more than 38,000 nominations in a decade. The awards are supported by patrons including John Snow, Henry Winkler aka ‘The Fonz’ and Dame Kelly Holmes.
To view the names of the 142 local winners and their schools going forward to the UK ceremony, click here http://www.teachingawards.com/winners/list?o=3&year=8&type=reg
