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henleaze&westburyvoice
October, 2015
Education School’s success in Commonwealth Essay Competition
School’s success in Commonwealth Essay Competition bronze awards. In the Under14s class, Year 8 student Ruth was one of only 34 British pupils to win gold. Classmates Zoe and Nadine won silver, and Ruby and Mildred won bronze. English
teacher Mrs Rebecca Robertson said: It’s great to see young people seizing the opportunity to express their thoughts and ideas in such a positive and creative way.”
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The Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition was established 132 years ago and is run by the Royal Commonwealth Society.
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NINE students at Badminton School in Westbury-on-Trym have made a royal start to the academic year by winning awards in the Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition. The girls’ success in the top international creative writing contest came in the week that the Queen becomes Britain’s longestreigning monarch. Their essays, on the theme of “A Young Commonwealth”, were chosen from contributions from 13,000 young people in 49 countries. Entrants were invited to share their hopes and concerns for the future, and wrote about issues such as poverty, sustainable development, gender inequality, child labour and universal education. In the UK, only nine gold awards were made in the 14-18 years senior class, with three going to Badminton Year 10 students Laura, Catherine and Nicole. Classmate Alexandra also won one of 19 UK senior
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