In Summer 2010 our parents and children chose a new colour for our uniform - royal blue. We said then that we would be re-designing the school badge. We've done it!

We wanted a school badge that symbolised the aspirational, ambitious, 'can-do' attitude of everyone involved in Grangetown. Our children agreed that 'Reach for the Stars' summed up our approach, so we decided that the new logo should visually portray the 'reach for the stars' kind of attitude.

We also wanted the new badge to feature our new mission statement strapline: Enjoy - Respect - Achieve (the 'ERA' stands for 'New Era'!).

We invited our children to submit designs for the new badge. They did a super job - their designs demonstrated the very high aspirations we have for the school. Then, one of our parents helped us - her background in fashion design gave us some great ideas. Finally, we got a Sunderland-based graphic design company involved in the project. All of those ideas - from the children, from our parent helper, and from the company, were put together - then magic dust was sprinkled over them (we got it from our Early Years teachers, of course), and, hey presto, our new badge was born, fresh, sparkling and brand-new!

We are all very pleased and proud with the final version. We hope you love it too!