SCHOOL staff in 100 East Lancashire schools are to be awarded cash bonuses for helping pupils achieve high or improved test results.

The school achievement awards scheme reward everyone working within the schools from the headteacher to the caretaker.

David Milliband, schools standards minister, said: "Success in schools depends on each and every member of staff working together to raise standards.

"It is right to reward the staff whose work helps pupils to learn and these awards celebrate their achievements.

"Every person working in a school has their part to play in raising standards, whether they are a classroom assistant or a teacher, a bursar or a dinner lady.

"The school achievement awards celebrate the work of the entire school community in helping pupils to achieve high or improved test results and rewards them for their efforts with a cash boost to their pay packets."

This year's awards, worth around £5,700 for primary schools and around £25,700 for secondary schools, were awarded to:

Schools where pupil performance was substantially better than in 1999

Schools where pupil performance was better than most schools in similar circumstances

Schools that have come out of special measures in the 2001/02 school year

Amounts given to individuals are determined by governing bodies advised by headteachers and the Department for Education and Skills.

Mr Milliband added: "Our goal is to improve the quality of teaching and learning throughout the school system."

Rhyddings High School, in Haworth Street, Oswaldtwistle, has been awarded £31,520.

Deputy headteacher Paul Trickett said: "This is the first time we have got this award and it was because we were deemed to be significantly better than schools equivalent to us.

"We are obviously very proud to get it as it is a nice award which is as much about the achievement of the school as the financial reward."

Bonus payouts

DUKE Street Nursery School, Chorley; Highfield Nursery School, Chorley; Barden Lane Nursery School, Burnley; Bradley Nursery School, Nelson; Walton Lane Nursery School, Nelson; Fairfield Nursery School, Accrington; Newtown Nursery School, Colne; McMillan Nursery School, Nelson; Whitegate Nursery School, Burnley; Staghills Nursery School, Rossendale.

Basnett Street Nursery School, Burnley; Taywood Nursery, Burnley; Rawtenstall Tutorial Centre; Pendle Primary School, Clitheroe; Sabden Primary School; Barrowford School; Blacko Primary School; Briercliffe Primary School, Burnley; West Street Community Primary School, Colne; Bradley Primary School, Nelson.

Walverden Primary School, Nelson; Whitefield Infant School and Nursery Unit, Nelson; Huncoat Primary School; Britannia Community Primary School, Bacup; Casterton Primary School, Burnley; Kelbrook Primary School; Rosegrove Infant School, Burnley; Barden Junior School, Burnley.

Lever House Primary School, Leyland; Withnell Fold Primary School, Chorley; Primrose Hill Primary School, Chorley; Adlington Primary School; Springfield Community Primary School, Burnley; Hapton CE Methodist Primary School; St Bartholomew's Voluntary Aided Primary School, Great Harwood.

Padiham St Leonard's Voluntary Aided CE Primary School; Simonstone St Peter's CE Primary School; Whalley CE School; Christ Church Voluntary Aided CE Primary School, Colne.

Nelson St Philip's CE Primary School; Benjamin Hargreaves Voluntary Aided CE Primary School, Accrington; St Nicholas CE Primary School, Church; All Saints CE Primary School, Clayton-le-Moors; Haslingden St James CE Primary School; St James CE School, Brindle.

Brennands Endowed Primary School, Slaidburn; St Peter's CE School, Burnley; St James Lanehead CE Primary School, Burnley; Wellfield Methodist and Anglican Church School, Burnley; St Michael and St John's RC School, Clitheroe; St Charles RC School, Blackburn; St John Southworth RC Primary School, Stacksteads.

St Mary's RC Primary School, Bacup; St Peter's RC Primary School, Newchurch; St James-the-Less RC Primary School, Rawtenstall; St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Chorley; St Bede's Catholic Primary School, Chorley; Grindleton CE Voluntary Aided Primary School, Clitheroe.

Wheatley Lane Methodist Voluntary Aided Primary School; Norden High School, Rishton; Rhyddings High School, Oswaldtwistle; West Craven High Technology College, Barnoldswick.

Southlands High School, Chorley; Fearns Community High School, Bacup; Edge End High School, Nelson; St Hilda's RC Girls High School, Burnley.

St Michael's CE High School, Chorley; Salesbury CE Primary School; Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School; Cribden House Community Special School, Rawtenstall; Mayfield School, Chorley; Longshaw Nursery School, Blackburn; Kelsall Avenue Nursery School, Blackburn.

John Smethurst Nursery School, Blackburn; Ashworth Nursery School, Blackburn; Brunel Nursery School, Blackburn; St Thomas's Centre, Blackburn; Hawthorns Junior School, Blackburn; Lower Darwen Primary School; Lammack Primary School, Blackburn; Roe Lee Park Primary School, Blackburn; Shadsworth Junior School, Blackburn.

Avondale Primary School, Darwen, St Barnabas CE Voluntary Aided Primary School, Darwen; Tockholes CE Primary School; St Bartholomew's CE Primary School, Blackburn; St James' CE Primary School, Darwen.

St Stephen's CE Infant School, Blackburn; St Peter's RC Primary School, Blackburn; St Edward's RC Primary School, Darwen; St Joseph's RC Primary School, Darwen; Witton Park High School, Blackburn; St Bede's RC High School, Blackburn; Ashleigh Primary School, Darwen.