Serena Parker-Sharp
Winner: 2022 Early Career Prize for Excellence in Primary Education
Spring Grove Junior, Infant and Nursery School
For championing inclusion and diversity within the primary science curriculum to allow children of all backgrounds to see themselves as scientists.
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Serena teaches in a maintained school, which has the responsibility of delivering the content of the National Curriculum set out by the Department for Education.
Within this framework, schools have the freedom to personalise the curriculum for their community. Serena felt it was vital to ensure that the school community saw itself within that curriculum, meaning that children would study science through those that had contributed to it from across the world.
Serena worked to create a subject overview for all children in her school, from Nursery children through to Year 6, supporting her colleagues through training. She introduced role models from a diversity of backgrounds into children's learning, showing the amazing contributions made by these scientists to our lives. Through the difficult times of the Covid-19 pandemic, Serena maintained her enthusiasm for science and created exciting activities that children could carry out at home with their families.
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The children have made me see that with good opportunities it is possible for any child to succeed in science.
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