Prize Giving 2025
A Celebration of the Lower School Year 2024-2025
e Afternoon
Welcome from the Chair of Governors
SteveBanks
Head Teacher Report of the School Year 2024/25Including Value Awards
PaulSpedding
Report by Students
Alex Pizzoli
Report by Students
Charlotte Simmonds and George Turton
Music Interlude
Jazz
Distribution of Prizes
KatharineLinton,LisaGrittiandAngharadSimpson
Head Girl and Head Boy
EmilyDavidandSasmeetSatyam
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
The Simon Djanogly Science Prize
The Paul Rixon Memorial Prize
David Leicester Memorial Award (participation in outdoor activities)
Dr Turpin's Prize for a classical essay (Junior Y7-9)
The Junior English Prize (Y7-9)
Benjamin Barsby Prize
The John Ross Sergeant Memorial Prize
The George Green Prize for Mathematics (Y7-9)
Inaya Ali
Rumaysah Ige
Eleanor Rogers
Charlene Galayini
Grace Berry
Anchal Kaur Thiara
Charlotte Simmonds
Harriet Spedding
Dimithi Bartholomeuz
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.
Edoardo Senin
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 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.
