St Bede's Inter-Church School

Princess Diana Memorial Award

The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Award was launched nationwide in April 2000 to recognise and celebrate the outstanding contributions made by many secondary school students to their schools and communities. The Award is given to those students nominated by their schools for:

Improving the life of others; or
Enhancing the school or community in which the young people live; or
Showing exemplary progress in personal development, especially in adverse circumstances.

Each secondary school in the United Kingdom can annually nominate one student or group of students for an Award. Since the scheme began as a pilot in September 1999, nearly 7,000 students from 1,700 secondary schools across the UK have received awards.

For three years running one of our students was chosen to receive the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Award for their unstinting service to the school and local community. It is always a delight to see their hard work recognised.

St Bede's students who have received the award are:

2004 - Jennie Johnson

2005 - Sarah Thompson

2006 - Linda Gray

This year a group of Year 11 students were recognised for the award following a Raising And Giving (RAG) week of fundraising events in the school that they organised. Events included an informal Café Africa evening and a lunch-time Rock Gig. The group raised £1,650 for the work of ACET (Aids Care, Education and Training) International in Uganda. The students were Joel Harman, Eliot Dixon, James Gallucci, Richard Jackson, Gael Bateman, Jonny Hudson, Joe Harmer, Ellie Petit, Johanna Randall, Katherine Dixon, Guy Turner, Joe Hooper, Miriam Tun, Taran Sasioglu, Laura Nuttall and Elspeth Jones.