Celebrating Excellence in Learning

At the start of term we celebrated the achievements of those pupils who had gone above and beyond in their academic studies during the Autumn Term.

Each term, pupils are assessed to check their progress and whether they are on track to achieve their targets. The assessments will show which pupils have excelled across a range of subjects and those who have gone above and beyond in their learning. Teachers will also identify those pupils who have really engaged in their lessons and have shown the most amount of effort during the term.

Mr Paul Jones, Deputy Head Academic, said: "It is always great to start the term with some academic awards and acknowledging success and hard work."

The following awards were presented to pupils who have shown the greatest improvement in engagement with learning:

Year 7

• Ethan Fulton
• Bryn Lockwood
• Toby Vivian
• Zac Wood

Year 8

• Cody Andersson
• Ethan Iu
• George Paish
• Ben Savage
• Sam Gallagher

Year 9

• James Bizor
• Joshua Marthinusen
• Jacob Morley
• Henry Steel

Year 10

• George Baker
• Ben Brooks
• Ben Hutt
• Benjamin Zacharias
• Jackie Zhang

Year 11

• Charlie Keena
• Reuben Logan
• Louis Poundall
• Louis Swinburne-Johnson
• Declan Teevan

Year 12

• Archie Arnold
• Wallace Fisher
• Hashim Iqbal
• Johnny Pearson
• Elliot Newington
• Bertie Wallace

Year 13

• Lottie Fahey
• Ben Ferguson
• Max Giggins
• Casper Good
• Rhys Jones
• Eloise McCobb
• Laura Pasmore
• James Radford

Accelerated Reader Star Readers

Continuing with the theme of awards, Mr Jones presented pupils with the first accelerated reader awards of the academic year. 

Thirteen pupils have been awarded with Star Reader badges and certificates for their reading achievements over the Autumn Term, including one Multi-Millionaire Club reader - M Monahan!

Shiplake uses the Accelerated Reader Scheme to monitor pupils' reading progress and recommend new books to read. 

Pupils sit online assessments each term which calculates their reading age and then recommends appropriately challenging books to read. 

When the students finish a book, they take an online quiz. If they pass, these words are ‘banked’. At the end of every half-term, pupils who reach reading milestones receive achievement certificates and lapel badges.

The awards are Bronze (more than 250,000 words read), Silver (more than 500,000 words read), Gold (more than one million words read) and the Multi-Millionaire Award. See our winners in the table below.