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Gretton Primary School

Gretton achieve second place at Trust Believe Big competition

Gretton joined primary schools across the Trust for a competition, which required pupils to design a creative product that was innovative or life-changing.

Gretton joined primary schools across the Trust for a competition, which required pupils to design a creative product that was innovative or life-changing.

It was the first time that the Believe Big competition, run by 7 Billion Ideas, has taken place, involving Year 4 pupils from across our Trust primaries. They worked in teams to dream up ideas and develop promotional materials including posters, slogans, models and stories. 

Each school held primary heats before winning teams from each took part in the grand final which was held at Rockingham Speedway and judged by a panel of judges including senior Trust leaders, John Henrys, Anne Hill and Leyton Smith plus Pete Kirkbride, Principal of Brooke Weston Academy and Tony Segalini, Kettering Science Academy’s Associate Principal.

Congratulation to our pupils Millie, Izzie and Immie from team MII who achieved second place for building an innovative automated wardrobe that selects clothes and accessories at the touch of a button. Well done also to Miley, Josh and Sophie who invented an automatic pencil case to save time when searching for stationery and Scarlett, Daisy and Charlie who developed a table screen so that teachers can communicate with students from the whiteboard.

Everyone who took part received a finalist medal and certificate and all the teams sported Believe Big T-shirts featuring the names of all the schools in the Trust.

David Harkin of 7 Billion Ideas said: ‘We challenged all the students to Think Big and Believe Big and there are 14 teams here today. The winning idea from today is going to be turned into a children’s book so the idea will have a legacy. We are going to be working with the team to create a storyline about their idea and the book will go to our illustration artist and it will go live into Amazon later this year so anyone around the world will be able to purchase the book online. We have now worked with 60,000 students from across the world and are growing each year. This year we have worked with 350 schools in the UK and expanded into Europe and the Middle East.’

Mr John Henrys, Brooke Weston Trust’s Head of Analytics, System Performance and Innovation said: ‘I genuinely didn’t think it was possible to have so much creativity in one room and all of the judges will agree that what we have seen is nothing short of awesome. Every single idea was superb, they have been so innovative and creative.’

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