SCHOLARSHIPS, BURSARIES & CHAMPIONS
THE JUDGING PANEL
VICTORIA LAMBERT
Edi to r, School House Victoria Lambert is Editor of School House. She is firmly in favour of a rounded education which brings out the best in every child.
CHLOE BILLINGTON Director and Founder of Child in Time Child in Time is a provider of counselling services to schools and colleges. She has extensive experience herself as a primary and secondary school counsellor in London.
ANNABEL HESELTINE Writer, Broadcaster and Podcaster Environmentalist Annabel Heseltine writes on conservation for The Telegraph, The Ecologist and
Resurgence .
LUCY CLELAND
Editor in Chief, Country & Town House
Lucy Cleland has worked in the magazine industry for more than 20 years and is driving Country & Town House’s sustainability agenda.
Naturally, choosing the winner in each category was di cult and caused much debate. So how did the judges reach their decisions? THE WINNERS
: G E T T Y
PH OTO S
Social Mobility Champion (Sponsored by Christ’s Hospital School) WINNER: JAMES ALLEN GIRLS’ SCHOOL, DULWICH JAGS One of the most v ita l functions of modern independent schools is how well they improve the l ife chances of their least priv i leged students, something Christ ’s Hospital (CH) is widely admired for. The shortlist for this award consisted of James Allen Girls’ School, Dulwich ( JAGS); Reed ’s School, Surrey and Wellington College, Berkshire. CH’s Director of Development Hugo Middlemas was impressed with a l l three schools but picked out James Allen Girls’ School, Dulwich ( JAGS) as the winner. He stated that the school ‘should be recognized for the steps it has made in growing its bursar y programme. In its commitment, it is a good role model for other schools to fol low.’ Middlemas suggests that a l l schools could improve their approach by look ing at improving social mobilit y measurement.
Alumni Relationships Champion WINNER: ST CATHERINE’S SCHOOL, BRAMLEY, SURREY The three fina l ists of this new categor y were Trinit y School, Croyden; St Catherine’s School, Bramley and Queen Anne’s School, Caversham – with St Catherine’s tak ing the prize this time. The school maintains a close relationship with more than 5,000 a lumnae, offering a wide range of social activ ities from Rock Choir and cultural trips to Europe, to bringing former pupils together for book clubs, cooker y classes and more. Judge Annabel Heseltine says: ‘ It ’s great to see that t wo of the fina l ists are girls’ schools, not least because it reflects the ways in which women are crashing through glass ceilings in their careers and inspiring younger women. It ’s a lso often true that the girls’ schools tend to have smaller funds because they are either younger schools or because – by definition – their elder a lumni didn’t a lways go on to have careers, and therefore less independent wealth.’
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