Students return for night of awards

Siddal Moor Students receive a range of spacial awards for outstanding achievement and personal committment

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Siddal Moor Sports College's recently graduated year 11 students returned to school this week for the Annual Awards Evening.  The night is staged each year to celebrate the numerous achievements of students whether academic, sporting, extracurricular, personal attainment or outstanding endeavour.

Headteacher, Steve Britton opened the evening by welcoming students, governors, families and guests, and introducing the school choir who entertained with numbers by Jessie J and Natasha Bedingfield.

Mr Britton said of his students: "You gained outstanding, really good, really impressive results.  Some 80 of you came from a school that closed.  All of you managed that really well and you were quite extraordinary." 

Head of Year 11, Andrew Kearns said: "I was and will always remain immensely proud of you as a year group.  If I have helped to shape you in any way then the pleasure has been all mine."

Students then proceeded to go up onto the stage to receive individual attainment and endeavour awards before GCSE certificates were awarded to year groups. 

Special recognition was made to a number of students from the now closed, Heywood Community High School, who had achieved regardless of the move.  A range of special and memorial awards were also given out for curricular successes and personal commitment.

The evening was drawn to a close as outgoing Head Boy and Girl, Tom Higson and Kate Nuttall handed over to their successors.