Celebration of Excellence 2026
It was a true pleasure to come together as a school community to celebrate the outstanding achievements of our students at this year’s Celebration of Excellence evening. Held in recognition of both academic success and personal growth, the event honoured students across Years 7 to 11 with a wide range of awards. Subject-specific accolades were presented alongside special cups and trophies recognising qualities such as leadership, enrichment, perseverance, and character.
We were delighted to welcome ex-student Charlie Pericleous MBE as our keynote speaker and to give out our awards. Charlie is a researcher and practitioner in the field of preventing violent extremism and hate crime. He also took on the role of presenting the books and trophies and to award scrolls to this year’s winners.
This year, to encourage and develop the love of reading for our pupils we gave the subject award recipients a book. Each of the books is sponsored by an Isle of Wight company with a link to that subject.
Thank you so much to our sponsors for being so generous and building links with our school:
Shane Couch Marine Art,
Isle of Wight Studio Glass,
Joanna Derry Nutrition and Fitness,
Wheeler & Lai Chartered Surveyors,
Ventnor Community Early Years,
Milford Del Support Services,
Diamond Adventures,
Rouse Ltd,
Jayne Alabaster,
Ventnor Arts Club,
Curtain Call Creative,
TL Electrical,
Yaverland Sailing and Boat Club,
Sandown Conservative Club,
Aspire,
IOW Defibrillators,
Lantern Clinic,
Gurit,
GKN Aerospace,
ICR Systems,
Inserve Risk Engineering Ltd.
Among the highlights were the presentation of our signature awards - Believe, Inspire, Excel, Student Leadership, and Enrichment, as well as a number of meaningful memorial trophies. These included:
The Sam Alabaster Cup for Endeavour awarded to Ruby C
The Rachael Stratton Cup for Performing Arts awarded to Eloise B
The Paul Thatcher Cup for History awarded to Freddie L
The Stuart Dove Cup for cricket awarded to Ebonnie B
Congratulations to all our award winners, you continue to embody the school values of Respect, Kindness, Trust and Courage.
Please see below the full list of recipients.
