Academic Awards Galore!

5 February 2024

Whole School Assemblies returned today following a two-week break owing to Year 11 and Year 13 mock exams and in it, we recognised the many pupils who have achieved in their academic endeavours. With pupils across the entire College being recognised, there were awards for Enrichment, Pupils of the Term, and Engagement with Learning.

Enrichment Awards

The enrichment passport lies within the Shiplake Seven framework, which is a teaching and learning framework designed to foster and develop key interpersonal qualities in our young people. The framework is integrated across the academic and co-curriculum, allowing the seven qualities to be nurtured inside and outside the classroom.

Pupils are encouraged to use these skills in their lessons and activities, with staff awarding 'excellence points’ in recognition of notable achievements or good behaviour. The top three for each year group are then rewarded each half term with the top pupils for last half-term being:

Year 7

Matilda Lawrence
Erin Chester
Douglas Stewart

Year 8

Saiveer Vedhara
Joe Filippetto
T Siveter

Year 9

Zachary Sanders
Jack Thexton
Zachary Miles

Year 10

Zachary Fisher
Matthew Perry
William Griffith

Year 11

Joshua Hyde
Ethan Chalfont
Jack Chamberlain

Year 13

Florence Lenthall
Lucy Price
Edward Davie

Pupils of the Term

At the end of last term, each Head of Department nominated two Pupils of the Term in their subjects – one as the most improved and one as the highest performing. Those pupils were:

Subject	Highest Performing	Most Improved
Art	Sam Thornber	R Wang
Business	Noah Sennhauser	Theo Stalder
Criminology	Abi Botterill	Max Dag
DET	Monty Walker	Sam Pickett
Drama	Darcey Knight	Harrison Terrington
Economics	Johannes Meiswinkel	Oliver Smee
Geography		Josh Greig-Bartram
History	Oscar Spearing	Ben Hubbard
Media	William Harper	Sophia McDavid
MFL (French)	William Huckle	Jacob Andrews
MFL (Spanish)	Lili Baietta	R Wang
Music	William Griffith	Joe Morgan
PE	Dexter Elliot	Zac McConkey
Photography	Zac Wilson	S Woodeson
Politics		T Sanders
Psychology	A Parker	Jai Grewal
Sociology	Izzy Young	Alice Spooner
Theology and Philosophy	Emily Banks	Ollie Clarke

Engagement with Learning

Just before Christmas all our pupils received a Progress Review report. At this stage of the year, the most important aspect of the report is the Engagement with Learning scores which is a score for a pupil’s academic effort.

This category has nothing to do with grades or academic potential and every single pupil is capable of putting in the effort to score highly in this category. At the start of the Spring Term, we were delighted to recognise the following pupils who had the highest scores: