THE ROYAL HIGH SCHOOL

Wider Achievement Awards Ceremony

Thursday 11th June 2015

Programme of Events

Rector to Open Service

S. Raeburn CL Health & Wellbeing Welcome

Guest Introduced-Lynne Beattie

Dance Group Performance- ‘One Night Only’

Sports Representatives Speeches and Awards

Musical Performance-Thomas Kettle

Rector announces traditional PE prizes with Art, Drama and Music awards.

Lynne Beattie speech and presentation of DofE awards

Art and Design Junior Work of the Year Results

Sports Personality of the Year Winner is announced

Closing of Ceremony

Word from the Rector

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Welcome to the Wider Achievement Awards Ceremony, which is in addition to our traditional Prize Giving and Commemoration Ceremony. This year ceremony will celebrate areas including Sport, Music, Art, Drama and Duke of Edinburgh. This allows us to recognise the exceptional success, dedication, and efforts of our pupils outside of the classroom setting. We are extremely proud of the fact that so many of our young people are competing and achieving at such a high level across so many sports and activities. The dedication and commitment required for this is phenomenal. This evening has been organised so that we can recognise this. We are delighted that Lynne Beattie has agreed to address the gathering this evening and that so many of our Former Pupils, who have achieved success in the Sporting and creative arts world, have been able to attend. I would also like to express my enormous gratitude to the team of staff and pupils who have put in so much hard work, energy and enthusiasm to make this event happen. To organise such an occasion requires a great deal of time, effort and skill. We hope you enjoy the evening. Thank you for your continued support. Viva Schola Regia! Pauline Walker

Biography of Distinguished Guest

Lynne Beattie-Guest Speaker

“When you think of what it takes to be an Olympian, you think of determination, pain, sacrifice, hard work, focus, commitment, and all of us have had to access each and every one

of these qualities to get as far as we have today”

Lynne Beattie is a Volleyball player and competed for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.

Lynne started playing volleyball at Mearns Castle High School at the age of 12 and instantly fell in love with the sport. She had strong ambitions to improve as a player and aimed to be selected for Scotland one day. At the age of 16, Lynne joined Glasgow Su Ragazzi Volleyball Club where her passion for volleyball grew, gaining her first senior international cap for Scotland at the age of 17 against England. Little did she know that her English counterparts on that day were soon to become her team mates as part of the Great Britain Women’s volleyball team just 2 years later.

Following the announcement in 2005 that London had won the bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games, Lynne relocated to Sheffield to train full time, in a bid to make the final 12 selected to represent Team GB at London 2012. During this time she played professional volleyball in 5 different European Leagues; Slovenia, Italy, Germany, Spain and Switzerland, an invaluable experience that seen her grow as a player and an individual. In the summer of 2012, Lynne achieved her lifelong ambition of becoming an Olympian, Captaining the Great Britain team in their first ever indoor appearance at an Olympic Games.

Although a trained pharmacist and Strathclyde University graduate, Lynne has more recently been appointed as the East of Scotland Regional Development Officer for volleyball with aspirations of representing Team GB in Rio 2016.

Sports Awards

S. Raeburn to introduce Sports Awards 2014/15 at RHS.

Outstanding achievement awards in chosen sport

Athletics/Cross Country

Speaker –Ellie McGinty

Junior – Jessica MacLeod

Edinburgh Schools triplicate medallists- Rhona Fraser & Cal MacLennan

Senior –Ellie McGinty

Badminton

Speaker – Gemma Wright & Lily Farnood

Junior – Lily Farnood

Senior – Julie MacPherson

Football

Speaker – Calum Brown, Cameron Paton & Mario Falsone

S1 – Ewan Russell

S2 First Team – Callum Yeats

S2 Second Team – Daniel Harrison

S2 Winning Team will collect their League & Cup Trophy

S3 – Ben Martin

Senior – Steven Havelin

Hockey

Speaker – Rhona Fraser

best and most improved player - Alanis Campbell and Fraser McAdam

Netball

Speaker – Lorraine Doig

Junior - Lauren Pollock

S2 & S3 Netball National Finalists

Senior – Lois Shiel

RUGBY

Speaker – James Riches

Girls - Zoe Turner

Andrew Dunlop U18 - (1st XV)

S1 - Ben Grainger

U16 - Angus Farqhuar

S3 - Lewis Crosbie

S2 Hector Gray

Swimming

Speaker - Yesim Walton

Junior = Rory Young

Senior = James Louder

Dance

Speaker – Sophie Ross and Susie Smith

Dance leadership units 1,2,3

Zeenat Ashraf

Jantip Choonangrong

Maalavisha Sankar

Award for Most Improved:

Morven French (S3) and Ellen Baird (S3)

Award For Commercial Dance: Juliet Wales (S3)

Award for Contemporary Dance:

Shawna Philipsen (S3) and Analisa Love (S4)

Award for Performance Skills:

Charlie Ashcroft (S2) Rachel Doherty (S2) Emma Kennedy (S2)

Award for Technical Progress:

Aimee Harrison (S2), Amy Stewart (S3), Susanna Smith (S4) and Eva Hunter (S4)

Award for Technical Merit:

Holly Smith (S3), Eva Silverston (S4), Savanna McNaughton (S5) Sophie Green (S5)

Award For Higher Dance Choreography:

Sophie Ross (S4) and Erin McGrail (S4)

Award For Outstanding Achievement: Caitlin Donnelly (S6) and Kira McDiarmid (S6)

Award for Dance Leadership (Leading Primary):

Sophie Ross (S4) and Susie Smith (S4)

Active Schools Award for Volunteering in Sport

Speaker – Ellie McGinty

Award – Lorraine Doig

Other Sporting Achievement

Speaker – Ellie McGinty

Squash – Pietro Gagliardini (S6), James Riches (S3) and David Riches (S2)

Gymnastics – Erin Gallacher (S1)

Tae Kwon Do – Josh Haggart (S2)

Curling – Lily Davidson (S4)

American Football - James Harvie (S5)

Basketball – Charlie Forsyth (S3)

The Royal High School Traditional Awards 2014/15

THE ROYAL HIGH SCHOOL

LIST OF SPORTS AWARDS 2015

SWIMMING

James Gordon Brown Cup (Junior Boys)

Rory Young

RHS Trophy for Junior Girls Megan Pathal

ATHLETICS

Cup for Track events (Open Boys)

Cal McLennan

James Aikman Smith Memorial Trophy (Champion Open Boys)

Cal McLennan

Balfour Cup for Field Events (Open Boys) Cal McLennan

McGeorge Trophy (Champion U-14) Cameron Wood

RHS Track Cup (Open Girls)

Ellie McGinty

Rae Cup (Open Champion Girls) Ellie McGinty

RHS Field Events Cup (Open Girls) Ellie McGinty

RHS Trophy (Champion U-14 Girls) Abbie Acheson

RHS Trophy (Champion U-16 Girls) Rhona Fraser

Senior Boys cross country DanielMitchell (Rhona Fraser to collect)

RUGBY

Gilmour Trophy

Charlie Shiel (Lewis Crosbie to collect)

FOOTBALL

RHS Player of the year Steven Havelin (Cameron Paton to collect)

OUTDOOR PURSUITS/MOUNTAINEERING The Richard Joy Trophy

Morgan Barr, Ewen Cullen, Mark Lowther,

Grant McDonell and Rowan Whitton

WILLIAM RUTHERFORD BEQUEST AWARDS FOR SPORT For Excellence achieved at International level:

Julie McPherson

Major Simpson Bell Memorial Trophy for Sporting Achievement –International Athletics Representation

Ellie McGinty

ART PRIZES

*Certificate prizes- To be handed by R. Watson to S. Raeburn

James Grey Prize for Art Appreciation

Catrin Gray 5P1

RS Watson Prize for architectural drawing Charlie Shiel 6S1 (Lois Sheil to collect)

RHS Prize for 3D Design Henry Clark 5B2

MUSIC/DRAMA PRIZES

*Envelope prize

Crawford Taylor Memorial Prize – Music

Thomas Kettle 5P2

The John Turner Prize for Drama Scott Edwards

Nick Randal award for contribution to Scottish traditional music- Violin

Erin McGrail 5P1

MUSIC AWARDS

Certificate prizes

Award of Grade 8 piano Thomas Kettle 5P2

Award of Grade 7 Piano Lillie Teden 5P2

Award of Grade 7 Clarinet Ross Witney-Hunter 4A2

Duke of Edinburgh Awards

Well done to all pupils who achieved Duke of Edinburgh Awards this

year. A huge thanks goes out to ‘The Edinburgh Open Group’ and ‘The

Scout Movement’. Importantly we thank their leaders for their time and

efforts that have given our pupils such a valuable and rewarding

experience.

Bronze Award Zeenat Ashraf

Jantip Choonangrong

Maalavisha Sankar

Simrin Singh Mario Falsone

Emma Fergusson

Gregor Jack

Laura Monteath

Amy Penman

Arainna Vettriano

Laura Woodhead

Kirstin Aikman

Hannah Black

Megan Boner

Dylan Carter

Claudia Charlwood

Callum Darling

Lily Davidson

Alexander Douglas

Evie Galley

Sarah Gardner

Akhila SIbi-George

Andrew Gorrie

Emma Gray

Emma Hamilton

Anna Harris

Tesia Honeywell

Privjyot Jheeta

Hannah Kistruck

Daisy Lewis

Matthew MacMicheal

Abigail McAdam

Lucy McCourt

Lauren McGovern

Euan Park

Katie Parnell

James Paterson

Caitlin Ramage

Lachlan Riddell

Lewis Rowney

Meaghan Shanks

Hannah Smith

Emma Sunter

Lorna Watson

Laura Wood

Silver Award Jamie Burton

Ciara Crummey

Juliette Goddard

Sean Harrison

Ronan Harrison

Sophie Stein

James Watson

Calum Brown

Lachlan Cranna

Daniel Cringean

Matthew Erskine

Lewis Kennedy

Jamie Laughland

Robert Ody

Gold Award Morgan Barr

Patrick Collings

Ewen Cullen

Mark Lowther

Iain Lowther

Grant McDonell

Daniel Mitchell

Chris Pringle

Rowan Whitton

Nominations for Art and Design Junior Work of the Year 2014

S1

Anya Matthews

Dugald Williams

Carrick Black

Ben Johnston

Princess Florendo

Noor Hussein

Jessica Hill

Charlie Paterson

Ramsay Newell

Lara McMahon

Calvin Catala

S2

Lewis McCann

Kirsty Dickson

Roshi Pradhan

Kirsty Thonson

Cameron Wood

Holly Davis

Hannah Moir

Ellie Hunter

Cole Lamberton

Erin Brown

Ella Brady

Joe Tait

Emma Logan

Ewan Adamson

Iona Reddie

Sally Fair

Astrid McIntyre

Jamie Smith

Jessica Mcleod

S3

Natalie Pearse

Hannah Rowney

Holly Smith

S4

Olivia Bastin

Privjyot Jheeta

Lilly Davidson

THE ROYAL HIGH SCHOOLS SPORTS PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR.

The school are extremely proud to have had over 80 quality nominations verified for this year’s sports personality of the year.

Students and staff have all had an input in the process this year, that will culminate in one of the pupils below being crowned Sports Personality of the year 2015.

Congratulations to all athletes who were nominated.

Below are the finalists for the RHS Sports Personality of the Year 2015.

Jake Somerville 1B2 Table Tennis

Rory Young 1P1 Swimming

Daniel Parker 1P2 Swimming

Erin Gallacher 1P2 Gymnastics

David Riches 2B2 Squash

Michael Farnood 2P2 Badminton

Josh Haggart 2S1 Taekwondo

Lily Farnood 3P1 Badminton

James Riches 3P2 Squash

Catherine Bough 3S1 Netball

Lois Shiel 4S1 Netball

Alice Walker-Stewart 4S2 Swimming

Claudia Henry 5A2 Volleyball

Gemma Wright 5B2 Badminton

Calum Batho 5P2 Athletics

Ellie McGinty 6B1 Athletics

Julie MacPherson 6B2 Badminton

Ross McCann 6P2 Rugby

Charlie Shiel 6S1 Rugby

Pietro Gagliardini 6S2 Squash

James Lowder 6S2 Swimming

Some Words of Thanks

A big thank you goes to all staff, parents, helpers and students who made tonight possible.

Special thanks go to the musicians and singers for their wonderful performances tonight. The talent on show is exceptional.

Another special thank you goes to the dancers for their performance in tonight’s ceremony. They represent some of the many dance groups that we are proud of in this school. Thanks to Samm Baigrie for encouraging so many pupils to participate in dance.

Thank you to all who have contributed towards this year’s successful extra-curricular programme. We very much appreciate all the hard work and commitment that goes on behind the scenes and the sacrifices you all make. We look forward to next year and even more participation, achievement and success.

Yours in Success and Achievement,

The RHS Wider Achievement working group.