Clitheroe 422324 (Editorial), 422323 (Advertising), Burnley 422331 (Classified) 22 Clitheroe Advertiser &Times, Thursday, April 12lh, 2007 www.clltheroetoday.co.uk s outst by Faiza Afzaal and Mary Foley


HIGH-FLYING pupils from Clitheroe Royal Grammar School gathered to celebrate the annu­ al presentation of awards. The ceremony was held at King George’s Hall,


Blackburn, and in her address, headteacher Miss Judith Evans praised the school for simply being out­ standing. She said: “Last year was outstandingly successful


for the students and staff of this school. Our exam results were superb. At Key Stage 3 level pupils passed their SATs at the highest levels and examination


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results at GCSE level were amongst the country’s best and the school was ranked 36th in the top state schools in the United Kingdom.” She added: “All these results demonstrate great


strengths at all key stages across all subject areas and say a great deal about the calibre and commitment of our pupils, teachers and support staff. These achieve­ ments are a real team effort.” She went on to speak about the school’s success in


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receiving an outstanding Ofsted report. Inspectors commented positively not only on the excellent exam­ ination successes, but also the well-established ethos of care and creativity. Among other achievements. Miss Evans said she was delighted that the school had gained specialist language status and paid tribute to staff, parents, governors. Old Boys’, Old Girls’ and business sponsors for all their hard work and fund-raising efforts. She said she was pleased that the first student e.xchange to Shanghai, in China, took place in Easter. During the event, she referred to some of


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Prizes For Academic Progress; Fabian Brooks-Shi- effelhein; Amy Crabtree; Olivia Critchley; Malavika Ghosh: Ryan Hargreaves; Jack McKenna; Rachael Pietrzak; Chloe Smith.


GCS.Prizcs Sir Ralph Assheton Prize


and Trophy for outstanding GCSE results and a major


contrilmtion to the life of the school; Richard Yates. School Prize for excellent GCSE results and a major contribu­ tion to the school; Emma Coffey. Veevers Cup for out­ standing progress: Sebastian Gardner Gerald Hood Prize lor


GCSE Classics: Hannah Palmer. Evelyn Garnett Prize for excellent GCSE results: Jason Garforth, Michael Holmes, Jessica Ibrahim, Rose Kyte, Andrew McCrae, Luke Montague, James Mur­ doch, Aliya Raza and Sophie Wenborn John Macalpine Prize for


e.xcellent GCSE results: Richard Ankers, Robert Berry, Matthew Hanson, Jes­ sica Kenyon, Sarah Moore, Francesca Robinson and Stephen Tozer Hughes Cup for Sports­


man of the Year: Simon Cowgill. Kenyon Cup for Athletic Prowess; Christina Carr. Donald Spencer Prize for P.E.: Andrew Hartley. Derek Edmondson Sports Cup and the John Macalpine Prize for e.xcellenl GCSE results; Joseph Bunyan.


Year 12 Prizes Ektaa Abrol, Lucy Allen,


Gemma Anderson, Markus Arnold, Lucy Baldwin, Kerry Bamher, Richard Bargh, P e te r . Bickerton, Mary Bolton, Darren Conboy, Matthew Crane, Kenneth Damien, Michelle Dinsdale, Joanne Doran, Amy Duck­ worth, George Duckworth,


the highlights of 2006/2007, which includ­ ed sports successes and thriving extra-cur­ ricular activities including visits to univer­ sities, art galleries, museums and theatres. Looking forward she said: “Many people


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HEAU'rEACHER MLss Evans is pictured with students and Fr.Iohn Chaloner, parish priest of St Hubert’s RC Church, Dunsop Bridge, who presented the prizes, (s)


have asked, ‘What does a school rated out­ standing by Ofsted do next?’ The answer is simple - continue to improve. This is not the first time that Clitheroe Royal Gram­ mar School has achieved the highest rat­ ing from Ofsted.


“I sincerely hope it won’t be the last.” She added: “Our students will always be


able to go out into the world and be judged fairly and rightly on their own talents, their own merits and their own achieve­ ments.”


prizewinners


Rebecca Dyer, Brj’ony Frost, Amanda Gill, Meghan Hard­ man, Sophie Hart, Amanda Haydock, Christopher Kin­ dle, Matthew Hogarth, Thomas Holmes, Benjamin Hu, Hira Ishaq, Ian Langley Elliot Marsden, Matthew Mitchell, Manaka Paran- athala, Joanne Parkin, Nicholas Pickup, Adam Pim- perton, Simon Read, Edward Rice, Rachael Round, Scott Rushton, Tom Rutherford, Adam Seed, Savana Shakir, Scott Smith, Katy Smitton, Sophie Swingewood, Ivan Sychev, Hannah Tindall, Jung Yin Tsang, Sarah Wan, Jonathon Wharam, Elizabeth White, Megan Whittaker, Rebecca Williams, Haiman Yong


GCE Advanced Level Prize


Old Clitheronians’ Hono-


ratus Prize Foundation Schol­ arship: Helen Bache. Old Clitheronians’ Honoratus Prize Southworth Scholar­ ship: Anna Sycheva. Old Clitheronians’ Honoratus Prize Laurence Hardy Memorial Scholarship and The J. B. Parker Prize for Head Boy; James Bruce. Old Clitheronians’ Honoratus Prize Laurence Hardy Memorial Scholarship and The Annis Watson Prize for Head Girl; Isobel Langley. Old Clitheronians’ Honoratus Prize Laurence Hardy Memorial Scholarship: Kinga Egressy, Emily Thornber, Tausif Ahmed, Victoria


Bache, Alexander Brooks- Moizer, John Byrom, Thomas Claydon, Emma Collins, Thomas Davenport, Thomas Draper, Nora Egressy, Daniel Heap, Aimee Hill and William Latham. Old Clitheronians’ Hono­


ratus Prize Colonel L C King- Wilkinson Memorial Scholar­ ship: Kirsty McKillop, Christopher Menelaou, Dileep Narayana, Joanne Nowell, Luke O’Duffy, Michelle Parr, Natasha Par­ rott, Peter Ritchie, Jonathon Simmonite-Marshall, Anna Tunnard, Emma Wareham, Alice Waterhouse, Michael Westbrook, Aaron Wilson and Caroline Wyatt. Evelyn Garnett Prize for


art: Sarah Graveston; Joseph Fainveather Prize for biology: James Blackburn; William Kilner Prize for bnsiness stud­ ies: Hannah Searle; Frank Dawson Prize for chemistry: Rebecca Coates; Jean Daw­ son Prize for classical civilisa­ tion: Samantha Brown; Emma Walton Prize for com­ puting: Ashely Hesketh-Ley- bourne; Alan Mattick Prize for design and technology: Victor Kay: Richard Mar­ shall Prize for economics: Christopher Sedgwick; Lewis Coles Prize for English Lan­ guage: Sanaa Afzal; John Macalpine Prize for English Literature; Katie Blacklidge; John Hudson Prize for Eng­ lish Language and Literature: Sarah Shuttleworth; Richard Fort Prize for French: Beth Gardner; Barbara Bingham


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Prize for general studies: Eliz­ abeth Coop; Frank Mitchell Prize for geography: David Turner; Miss Boothman Prize for German: Anna Woods; Peter Ditchfield Prize for history; Benjamin 3Vheat- ley; Edward Boden Prize for mathematics and further mathematics: Christopher Bell; Charles Myers Prize for music; Hannah Cottier; School Prize for physical edu­ cation: Liam McCarthy: Peter Liver Prize for physics: Richard Stones: Hector Gil- leard Prize for psychology; Shelly Barnett; Ronald Kay Prize for pure mathematics with mechanics: Razwana Ahmed; Elsie Clarke Prize for pure mathematics with statis­ tics: Scott Starkie; Winnifred Lumb Prize tor Religious Studies; Katy Osborn; Bob Ainsworth Prize for sociology: Alexandra Davies: School Prize for Spanish; Thomas Berry; School Prize for the­ atre studies: Jane Woods: Emma Bottomley Prize for a student entering medicine or a related course: Sarah Storey; James Thomber 'Tro­ phy for greatest all-round contribution to the school and the Michael Garnett Prize and trophy for politics: Timothy Wainwright: James Thornber 'Trophy for greatest all-round contribution to the school: Jennifer Laycock; Award


for Contribution to sporting life: Danial Cockle; Award for Sporting Excellence: Louise Highton.


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PICTURED is (he class of 19,57 at Edisford Primary Scliniil. This photograph was brought in by Mrs Anna Wildman, of Sccdall Avenue, Clitheroe. Her daughter, Denise Turner, is pictured second' from the right on (he bottom row. Denise was aged seven at the time.


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THIS photograph shows St Michael and St John’s Senior School in 1950. It has been submitted by Mrs Christine Wareing (nee Anderson), of Chipping, who would have been 12 years old when the picture


was taken. From the third row, left to right, (he photograph shows ?,?, David Stinger, Bob Moon, John Taylor, David Tomlinson, Ralph Nichols, ?,?, Kevin O’Neill; second row, Margaret Birkett, Eileen


Houghton, Patricia Gudgeon, Angela Cross, Sally Gorton, Christine Conchie, Alice Bamber, Miss Jack- son; first row, ?, Christine Anderson, Catherine Holden, Patsy Bithell, Kathleen Sparling, Margaret


Duxbury, Veronica Winder, Iris Stevenson, Anne Bolton, Beryl Eatough; seated at (he front, Bernard Mercer and Jim Dewhurst.


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THE sisters also attended Chatburn CE School in 1940 and Doreen can be seen on the third row from the front directly in front of (he teacher, Mr Aldersley.


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sisters brought in these photographs of Chatburn CE School in 1920. The sisters are Mrs Doreen (nee Astin) and Mrs Sheila Atkinson, and it shows (heir twin brother and sister Rowland (front row third from right) and Alice (second row, fourth from right).


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u NO longer with us. Low Moor School was demolished and on (he site is St Anne’s Court. Mrs Joan


Jackson (nee Ingham) attended (he school in 1937. She was six-years-old and can be seen on the sec­ ond row from the top, second from the left. Also on the picture are her (wo brothers Alan and Norman. Mrs Jackson now lives on Railway View Road. Other pupils are from the (op left to right: Miss Nancy


Harris (teacher), Gordon Wilkinson, Gordon Hill, Alan Ingham, George Kellet, Ronnie Knight, Derek Kay, Roy Robinson, Jack Lester, Miss Jessie Briggs. Second row from top: Josephine Kelly, Joan Ing­ ham, Brenda Pickup, Ruby Alston, Kathleen Eaton, Joyce Sweetman, Veronica Boyer, Rosalind Boyer, Margaret Norris, Norma Sutcliffe. Third row from top: Brian Robinson, Jack Saul, Phyllis Wilkinson,


THE other picture is of Sheila seen on (he next to the back row, third from right. The teachers are Mr Alderslev and Miss Burgess. The sisters were at Chatburn School when (he bomb was dropped on the village. Both sisters still live in Clitheroe.


Irene Birch, Jean Kay, Mary Spencer, Margaret Boyer. Front row: Benny Saul, Keith Robinson, Harry Walker, Gordon Creighton, George Jackson, Norman Ingham, Ralph Parkinson, Denis Gorrill, Richard Wallbank.


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