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THE academic stars of St Christopher’s School joined in with their families and teachers at the school auditorium in Saar to celebrate the excellent academic achievements of the past year.
The award-winners were scholars who passed their GCSE, A’ Level and International Baccalaureate (IB) examinations in 2011 summer with flying colours. The school honoured 59 GCSE students who had at least achieved five A*/A grades, 20 A’ Level students who had accomplished at least three A grades and 10 IB students who passed with a minimum of 36 points in their final examinations.
Sonia Carr, regional academic director, Edexcel International presented the GCSE Medals and GCSE Certificates, A’ Level Medals and A’ Level and IB Certificates. Encouraging all the successful youngsters present, Mrs Carr said: “As someone said, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step and this is the first step you have taken in this life-long journey. I am delighted to present awards to a group of excellent students who include future doctors, pilots, economists, judges and possibly even a prime minister or two!”
Many of the students had returned home from their new university and college destinations to enjoy the winter holidays with their families. They included recipients of the prestigious Crown Prince International Scholarship Award – Feras Alajmi and Yousif Rouben.
Feras is studying economics, mathematics and engineering at Yale College in US and Yousif is studying electrical engineering, computer science and economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US.
The honours list included former GulfWeekly ‘youth talk’ columnist Sangeetha Alagappan who is now studying electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California in Berkeley, US, and former GulfWeekly shopping list columnist Sreedevi Kesavan, who is an IB student and United World College scholar in Pune, India.
The opening addresses were followed by two musical interludes. Arnold Brass, conducted by Andrew Holman, performed three dances by Claude Gervaise – Galliarde, Pavane D’Angleterre and Basse Danse la Volunté. The Madrigal Group, conducted by William Goldring, performed The Bare Necessities, with words and music by Terry Gilkyson and Nicholas Hare.
The Alumni speech was made by Robert Jamieson who is currently studying physics and mathematics at the University of Durham.
