Gold Award
This morning we celebrated the achievements of four students who completed their Gold award last year and who returned to school to collect their Gold badges. They all worked very hard and undertook challenging expeditions in Skye, Glencoe and Peru. They were involved in Young enterprise, helped with Rainbows, Cubs or Brownies and played hockey or rugby.
They will now go to either St James Palace or Holyrood Palace to receive their certificates from a member of the Royal Family.
On the same week as receiving their A-Level results from King Edward VII & Queen Mary School in Lytham, Beth and Edward Grey competed in the Mirror European Championship which was held in Sligo, Ireland. They both achieved excellent examination results and are both off to their first choice Universities. Edward is going to study Building Surveying at Northumbria and Beth is off to Loughborough to study Sport and Exercise Science with Management. That week they managed to finish 3rd out of a 74 strong fleet and were the first British boat.
Celebrations at King Edward VII and Queen Mary School
At King Edward VII and Queen Mary School, there was 100% pass rate at A level, excluding General Studies, and over 60% of the results were at A*, A and B grades. Seven students achieved four or more A grades and the vast majority gained places at their first choice university. Destinations include Oxford University, the London School of Economics, Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield and Newcastle Universities.
Day 18 - Tuesday 3rd August
After the relaxing day yesterday it was off on the next leg of the tour, to Saint Kentigern's in Auckland. The group, now expert at packing, were all ready on time for the coach, and our driver Peter, who had driven us from Queenstown to Christchurch and to Kaikoura, started the task of getting all the cases into the coach!! Definitely not an easy feat and certainly it helped to be good at puzzles!
Two groups successfully completed their Duke of Edinburgh Gold expeditions in July. Although this was a strenuous undertaking of walking for 4 days covering about 18 kilometers each day and camping in the middle of nowhere at night, the students were rewarded wih some excellent scenery and views and clearly enjoyed themselves! We hope the 3rd group will be just as successful in Snowdonia at the end of August.
