Celebration Assembly

In the penultimate week of the school year, we were proud to present our annual awards alongside the termly ones. These awards recognise all aspects of school life - academic, sporting and personal. Congratulations to all of this term's recipients and to our annual award winners:

Termly Awards

Subject Awards

Given termly to a Key Stage 3 and a Key Stage 4 student who have excelled in achievement, progress and attitude:

Project Based Learning (Y7&8) - Taylor E and Emily R

Geography - Dima and Brooke

History - Jack P and Sophia A

Maths - Ruaridh and Brayden

Further Maths (KS4) - Emma C

Art - Katie-Mae, Jose and Daniel R

Design Technology - Poppy R, Liam W, Harrison B and Chloe H-F

Food & Nutrition - George B-S, Caelina and Millie 

Philosophy, Religion & Ethics - Dylan C and Ava W

Chemistry - Rosary and Brooke

Biology - Brenda and Nerwen 

Physics - George H and Isabel M

PE - Ashleigh, Sophia H, Noah H and Jacob L

Computer Science - Jacob S-S, Rose J and Jasmine 

Music - Lila and Gabe 

English - Ashleigh and Willow

English Literature (KS4) - Chloe H-F

Foreign Languages - Nala and Abby

Performing Arts - Abigail A and Harrison B

Creative Media Production - Ellen and Annabelle

[A few of our subject award winners]

Pillar Awards

Given termly to a Key Stage 3 and a Key Stage 4 student who have stood out in the 'pillars' of our Crew system:

Character - Lorelai and Willow

Productivity - Imogen and Isabel M

Ambition - Beatrice and Ava W

Community - Rory and Sophia A

The Swanage School Way Award

We gave 'The Swanage School Way' Award to a group of students who gave up many a lunchtime to help edit our 'Kindness Magazine' - congratulations to Beatrice, Lily-Rose, Nancy N and Sienna F

Other Awards

Junior Kangaroo Maths Award - Isla A

Junior Mathematical Olympiad Award - Ruaridh

Hub Award - Ben

Race to the Line - Harley, Callum, Amelia J and Harry S

Forest School Awards - Henryk, Delicia, Reef, Abigail G, Jenson, Romeo, Ebony, Ben, Felix and Tilly C

Annual Awards

A special congratulations to the winners of our annual awards:

Global Citizenship Award - for the pupil who has contributed most to improving the lives of others - Remi

Ken Saunders Award - for the sportswoman or sportsman of the year, named for Ken Saunders, a well-respected and long-serving PE teacher of the Swanage Modern School - Emily T

Poet Laureat - Annabelle

The Turnaround Prize - for the student who has made the biggest positive change
Jake

The Tristram Hobson Award - for the student who has faced and conquered academic, personal or spiritual challenges, named after the school's first headteacher - Brooke

Academic Excellence Award - Grace A-D

Old Harry Cup - the unsung hero award, named after the late Harry Tatchell, a local Purbeck man who recognised the value of quiet determination and support for the community - Emma

Headteacher's Award - for the student who has shown consistently positive attitude across all areas of school life - Ruby

The Dux Award - for outstanding contributions across all areas of school life, 'Dux' meaning 'leader' in Latin. This award is the equivalent to the Valedictorian awarded in many American schools - Anitta

[A few of our award winners]

It's become a tradition to include an open-mic element to award ceremonies and several students stepped up to the mic again this term!