Siddal Moor Class of 2018 honoured at Annual Awards Evening

Date published: 14 December 2018

Siddal Moor welcomed back former year 11 students to celebrate their achievements at an awards ceremony on Thursday 22 November.

The evening was attended by the class of 2018 and their guests, staff, members of the school governing body, and special guests to present the awards. The event was held to formally recognise the successes of the year group and also gave them the opportunity to catch up with former classmates and staff to share good news stories from their new lives.

Current year 8 student, Courtney McLean performed ‘How you remind me’ by Avril Lavigne and Caitlin Fitton, 2018 leaver, performed ‘She used to be mine’ by Sarah Bareillis. Both musical performances were enchanting to listen to.

Headteacher Simon White spoke of the aspirations of the former year group and congratulated the prefect team who had worked above and beyond during their year in office as mentors to the younger students and ambassadors of the school. He then proceeded to present awards accompanied by special guest Mrs Christine Blakebrough, who after 28 years service at Siddal Moor retires from school life at the end of this term.

38 awards were presented for attainment and endeavour in nineteen subject areas and the class of 2018 also received their formal GCSE certificates issued by the exam boards.

Numerous memorial and special awards were then presented for varying aspects of school life including achievement, outstanding service as a prefect, work experience, outstanding progress, the Chair of Governor’s award, the Headteacher’s award and attendance.

Head and Deputy Head boys and girls were also presented with a memento of their year in office.

Award winners included Jon Trickett, Jonathan Morris, Katie Noon, Kenzie Froggatt-Hall, Georgia King, Kieran Butterworth, Mitchell Peacock, Momina Ali, Aileen Guo, Usman Muhammad, Joshua Taaffe, Abbie Evans, Gareth Payne, Andrew Fairhurst, Caitlin Fitton and Ellie-Rae Millward.

The Evening closed with Former Head Boy and Girl, Gareth Payne and Abbie Evans handing over the responsibilities to the current Head Boy, Robert Loeb and Deputy Head Girls, Georgia Palmer and Madison Crux.

Guests commented what a great evening it had been and how lovely it was to see so many former students returning and celebrating together.

Awards:

• 2017-18 Head Boy Gareth Payne - The Malcolm Stephenson award for Information Technology
• 2017-18 Head Girl Abbie Evans - Attainment Business Studies, Attainment History and Paul Lowther Award achievement in drama
• Aileen Guo - Attainment French, Attainment Graphics and Alte Volo Award outsanding progress at KS4 - 100% Attendance
• Andrew Fairhurst - Endeavour in Maths and Joanne Bramall Award for Work Experience
• Caitlin Fitton - Attainment dance and Outstanding service in music
• Ellie-Rae Millward - 100% Attendance
• Jon Trickett - Attainment Maths, Attainment Science, Attainment Computing, Attainment Electronics, Attainment Geography and Chair of Governors Award
• Jonathan Morris - 100% attendance
• Katie Noon - Attainment Food and Attainment Technology
• Kenzie Froggatt-Hall - Attainment English Literature, Endeavour Food Tech and Endeavour Religious Studies
• Georgia King - Endeavour PE
• Kieran Butterworth - 100% Attendance
• Mitchell Peacock - The James Roberts Award for outstanding service as a prefect
• Momina Ali - Attainment in Religious Studies and The Mavis Taylor Award for success in Humanities
• Usman Muhammad - Endeavor Graphics and Endeavour History