Aquinas Education took a special guest along to the Dunkirk Primary School presentation Awards ceremony for attendance. The Aquinas Foundation had provided the school with two brand new Land Rover mountain bikes which were pulled out of a hat and awarded to two children who had received 100% attendance throughout the project.

The Aquinas Foundation have been working with Dunkirk Primary on their attendance projects for a while now and have witnessed the success that they have achieved by having incentives for the children. They have been using incentives each year in order to hit attendance targets and keep the children interested throughout each term in coming to school and being on time.

Jamaal Lascelles who currently plays as a defender for Newcastle United but who began his footballing career with Nottingham Forest, progressing through the club’s youth system went along with Aquinas’s primary consultant Sam Leggitt to present the winners with the new bikes.

The Children were buzzing with excitement and the whole day was a success. This was definitely a day to remember for the children and something to work towards for the next attendance project.

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