Inspiring Barrow Blog

New Kickstart and Mentoring Programmes

The New Year marks the start of a new cohort of Year 8 Students for the Kickstart Programme and the start of a Year 6 Mentoring Programme for year 6 students. Year 6 children...

Year 8 Celebration Evening

Inspiring Barrow worked with Year 8 students from 6 Secondary schools last term , Walney School, Furness Academy, St Bernard’s Catholic High School , Chetwynde, Dowdales and Ulverston Victoria High School . The students...

Inspring Barrow Celebration Evening

76 children from 16 local primary schools in Barrow and Dalton recently took part in the Inspiring Barrow year 6 programme. (Sept -Dec 2022). The children worked extremely hard to develop the soft skills...

Year 6 Kickstart Programme September – December 2022

Our next Kickstart Programme commences in Autumn Term (Sept-Dec) where we will be supporting approx. 80 Year 6 pupils across 16 Primary Schools in the Furness area. Please see the schedule attached. For further...

Year 7 Kickstart Programme May – July 2022

In April this year, our Inspiring Barrow team delivered a number of successful and well attended Year 7 Kickstart ‘taster’ sessions across five secondary schools in the Furness area. The students were identified and...

Inspiring Barrow Kickstart Programme Review

Inspiring Barrow Kickstart programme finished the academic year on a high by engaging with children across year 6 and 7 in Barrow and Furness. The programme which supported schools during lockdown with educational material,...