Lower School Prize Giving Programme 2025

Prize Giving 2025 A Celebration of the Lower School Year 2024-2025

Programme for the Afternoon Welcome from the Chair of Governors Steve Banks

Head Teacher Report of the School Year 2024/25 Including Value Awards Paul Spedding Report by Students Alex Pizzoli Report by Students Charlotte Simmonds and George Turton Music Interlude Jazz

Distribution of Prizes Katharine Linton, Lisa Gritti and Angharad Simpson

Head Girl and Head Boy Emily David and Sasmeet Satyam

Prizes The Kali Puri Prize for Duke of Edinburgh

Phoebe James

The Charlie Long Memorial Prize

Ben Bryan-Bennett Ives Lau

Prizes for creative work

Inaya Ali

The Simon Djanogly Science Prize

Rumaysah Ige

The Paul Rixon Memorial Prize

Eleanor Rogers

David Leicester Memorial Award (participation in outdoor activities)

Charlene Galayini

Dr Turpin's Prize for a classical essay (Junior Y7-9)

Grace Berry

The Junior English Prize (Y7-9)

Anchal Kaur Thiara

Benjamin Barsby Prize

Charlotte Simmonds Harriet Spedding

The John Ross Sergeant Memorial Prize

Dimithi Bartholomeuz

The George Green Prize for Mathematics (Y7-9)

Senith Gunarathne

Lower School Prizes Lower School Prizes are awarded for achievements during the year and may include performance in exams and other outstanding performances, as well as the tally of distinctions.

The High School Award The High School Award is awarded to students in Year 7 and Year 8 who have demonstrated participation and commitment in a variety of cocurricular activities and developed a range of skills and experiences through the co-curriculum.

Year 7 Lower School Prizes for Achievement and High School Awards Abdullah Bilal Alice Blundell Nicole Cammack Sebastian Caulton Emilie Douglas Sophia Gibson Maximilian Gillett Layla Ibraheem Avani Kumar

Safa Malik Eliott Maloney Iyla Mills Freddie Morrison Alessandro Pizzoli Sophie Poeth Erin Samuel Finn Shillaker Emily Zheng

Year 7 Lower School Prizes for Achievement Ava Akroyd Serin Beckford Charlie Blyth Shreya Kumar Amanjeetpal Landa Yuhan Li Jin Chen Liu

Samuel Mason Suren Turner Samyuktha Vijayendra Yi Yi You Ziyi Zeng

Year 7 High School Awards Esther Adeleke Abdulrahman Alli Ibraheem Arshad Meron Berhe Kiyaan Bhattbhatt Ewan Bird Rose Cafferty Freya Chesterfield Matilda Cordy Silvana Dewshi Tomisin Elegbede Lilly Elliott Emily Garrod Agatha Gaunt Albert Hipkiss Maxim Hodges Wasfiyah Hossain Daniel Jaber Vishal Jayanmanohar Charlotte Tolley Lewis Weber

Araius Johal Maya Johnson Aarav Karwal Iyla Kaur Simran Lidder Henry Livingston Ibrahim Lone Sukhveer Mehat Felix Morrison Michael Nicholls Isabella Oguagwu Anandpal Purewal Anjileen Purewal Austin Ryan Molly Rye Areeb Sidiki Ismael Smith-Jones Ethan Sokolowski Waimi Tchouakeu Fongue Phoebe Williams Emma Zhou

Year 8 Lower School Prizes for Achievement and High School Award Ellen Buller Oluwatomisin Fadipe Issika Gajree Hannah Gill

Chloe Grayton Rhys Hutchinson Diyakshita MalarMannann

Year 8 Lower School Prizes for Achievement Manuella Ayi Neha Bodiwala Charlotte Chen Ishani Deepak Harald Feldmann Maya Ghani Alexander Jamnadas-Khoda Tanvi Khanna Harry Langlois Daisy Mean Kavian Moghadam Joseph Moran

Nadine Nassr Victoria Oh Ooreoluwa Olumodeji Kunarathan Parameswaran Chen Qin Amber Rathour Clementine Rennoldson Emma Rosewell Bachan Sethi Anchal Kaur Thiara Yingye (Katharine) Zhu

Year 8 High School Award Bilal Ansar Oliver Armstrong William Attenborough Hyram Baker Neha Bala Freya Blaken Bluebelle Charles-Richards Mark Debreczeni Arthur Fossey Taylor David Gaechter Deven Gorecha Tom Grady Taha Haider Taher Hassanali William Hewson

Lavanya Jain Aman Lathia Oscar Ng Adrian Okoro William Pettersen Ava Pryce Mani Sanghera Johann Sanju Mamoudou Sanoh Mohammed (Abdul) Sheikh Mohammed (Salik) Sheikh Dylan Spence Yiqing Su Joey Thompson Leo Wickramasinha

Year 9 Lower School Prizes for Achievement Kayode Adewoye Jannatul Adon Mamud Farhan Ahmadi Samia Al Sadi George Avison Dimithi Bartholomeuz Sophie Blundell Tin Yan Cheuk Samuel Dyke Daniel Golding Leo Goodall Sahil Goyal Senith Gunarathne Alice Humberstone Samuel Hunt Sadaqat Islam

Muhammad Mahd Jalal Phoebe James Hattie Jamieson Varsha Jeyakanthan Ives Lau William Livingston Diya Patel Lana Pongpaibul Adam Poon Senudi Ranasingha Arachchige Lily Rodden Isaac Rosewell Charlotte Simmonds Harriet Spedding

Year 10 Lower School Prizes for Achievement Inaya Ali Chinmayi Anand Zaviaar Arshad Grace Berry Tom Chen Jasper Duff Tegan Duff Charlene Galayini Emma Gorton Vismay Gowda Khushi Goyal Daisy Hillery Rumaysah Ige Marcus Jamnadas-Khoda Gautham Lakshmipathy

Evan Lam Amith Mayakonda Mahi Mehta Eva Mills Araoluwa Olumodeji Tanish Paul Nevaan Prasad Zoe Qin Arvind Rajendraan Eleanor Rogers Zoe Rye Sharini Sabarinathan Dev Vachhani Maisie Whitt Tessa Wood

* The Tamplin Cup is awarded for the Highest Number of Distinctions in 2024 - 2025 and this year is presented to Neha Bodiwala in Year 8.

Value Awards Curiosity Award We value intellectual curiosity and creativity.We want every child to develop a love of learning.We embrace taking risks to enhance pupil development both academically and as people.

Dimithi Bartholomeuz Dimithi entered and won the Cambridge View Film Competition.

She is always looking into all subjects in more depth, asking searching and curious questions, she loves learning.

Tanish Paul Tanish is endlessly keen and interested in Physics and will stop and talk about videos he has watched and books he has read. He has borrowed two books on advanced concepts in Physics and asks numerous awkward questions about them!

Edoardo Senin Edoardo shows huge levels of curiosity in every lesson. He is extremely interested in areas of Maths beyond the curriculum, and particularly the Maths that helps him to investigate concepts in Science that he has been thinking about. When something interests him, he goes away and researches it independently but is happy to discuss his ideas in lessons, and likes to see if he can use his knowledge in class. He is particularly interested in using his skills to prove concepts covered in the lesson. His skill at using Desmos and other mathematical software to demonstrate ideas and to write up his research is exceptional.

Empathy Award All of our provision is underpinned by empathy and tolerance. We seek to build resilience and empower children to make a difference in the world.

Daniel Jaber Daniel completed a sponsored run for Cancer Research, training with his Dad to achieve this goal, as well as fundraising.

Neha Bodiwala, Daisy Mean and Victoria Oh This year, Neha, Daisy and Victoria have supported Mrs Daly and Mr Crossland in running 'Connected Club' for Year 3-4 and Year 5-6. They have attended each meeting, coming up with comprehensive ideas on activities for the club's weekly meetings, as well as presenting ideas to IJS House meetings to develop a connected display at the IJS. They have been excellent ambassadors for the Senior School and have demonstrated excellent leadership qualities.

Erica Hobbs-Iskander Erica has spent Form times willingly playing board games with some Year 7s who were struggling to settle into school. She's been the epitome of patience, grace and has been a great friend to them.

Excellence Award We have high aspirations and pursue excellence across all areas of our provision. We nurture individual pupils to achieve their highest potential and make a positive impact in the world.

Rumaysah Ige Excellence for academic work and sport across the year.Nothing but 100% is always on show from Rumaysah.

Eddie Baron Eddie has managed a considerable swimming commitment at a very high level, alongside maintaining a fine approach and outcomes with academic studies.

Sebastian Caulton Sebastian won the group section of the Mansfield Music Festival as part of a chamber ensemble and his individual performance category on the violin. He won the years 7 to 10 strings competition at Loughborough Schools in February. He performed in the spring concert for Nottingham Youth Orchestra. He has been invited to play at the 'Violins with Stories' event as part of Sherwood Art Week at St. John’s Church at 6pm on Friday 4th July.

Individuality Award We value each child and member of staff as an individual and embrace diversity in all its forms.We create the conditions in which our staff and children can be happy and flourish.

Edoardo Senin Edoardo consistently looks to extend his thinking and go beyond the curriculum. This year, it has included designing a mathematical formula to represent his views on overpopulation and writing a score for 4 different instruments using the inspiration of Moroccan artists he had researched.

Diya Patel Diya is an absolutely voracious reader; she is impassioned and shares recommendations with her friends, often driving them to read more and more. Diya set herself the challenge of reading 50 books in 2024 and achieved 42. She then created a 'Reading Wrapped' for 2024, ranking her favourite books and highlighting her favourite features of them. She shows individuality in her goals and her responses to the novels.

Lana Pongpaibul Lana wrote an exceptional computer program as part of her Year 9 project. It was a text adventure game, 5000 lines of code that she'd spent hours and hours on at home. It gave the user the option to play the entire game in English OR German, and also a 'simplified' version with summaries. It showcased her individuality and unique ideas, going above and beyond the requirements of the project.

Respect Award We are proud to be an inclusive and diverse community. We value kindness, integrity and modesty. We champion a culture of respect and understanding between all in the school community.

Chloe Cheuk and Betty Cai Chloe alongside her friend Betty wanted to volunteer to help in Art after school for their DofE. They have both gone above and beyond to help. If a challenge has been set to achieve a certain amount within an hour, they have risen to the challenge and made the activity as fun as possible. Their punctuality, polite manner, curiosity to learn a new skill, dedication and conversational skills have been extremely impressive.

Evan Au-Yong Evan always has a pleasant, respectful, considerate and helpful demeanour. Seemingly true to himself, regardless of time and place.

Edoardo Senin Edoardo always greets others in such a polite manner, showing a huge amount of respect in how he addresses his peers and other staff members.