{"id":65578,"date":"2015-12-16T17:55:17","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T17:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=46af9ef1666fc0a8499d6a7a33036142"},"modified":"2015-12-16T17:55:17","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T17:55:17","slug":"news-story-winner-of-the-2015-lord-glenamara-memorial-prize-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=65578","title":{"rendered":"News story: Winner of the 2015 Lord Glenamara Memorial Prize announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>An inspirational student who has worked hard to raise awareness of mental health issues and taken the initiative to run his own Mandarin Chinese classes has won the prestigious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/lord-glenamara-memorial-prize-nominate-outstanding-pupils\">Lord Glenamara Memorial Prize<\/a> for 2015 to 2016. <\/p>\n<p>George Hunter, of Ponteland High School in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Northumberland, was today (16 December 2016) announced as the fourth winner of the annual award by Education Secretary Nicky Morgan. <\/p>\n<p>George was commended for his impressive academic and extra-curricular achievements, which include: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>academic excellence in gaining straight A and A* grades in his <abbr title=\"General Certificates of Secondary Education\">GCSEs<\/abbr>\n<\/li>\n<li>volunteering for St John\u2019s Ambulance and at a local hospice<\/li>\n<li>working hard to raise awareness of mental health issues by setting up the \u2018<a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mytiediary.co.uk\/\">My Tie Diary<\/a>\u2019 blog which encourages people to talk about mental health<\/li>\n<li>running Mandarin Chinese classes for year 9 students after previously winning a national Mandarin speaking competition<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Education Secretary Nicky Morgan said: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>George is clearly a well-rounded young man whose outstanding academic achievements and wider contribution to his school and local community make him a deserving winner of the Lord Glenamara Memorial Prize and a shining example for others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I would also like to congratulate the other nominees, who were hugely impressive and made the final decision very difficult for our panel of judges.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Reacting to his award, George said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I am honoured and thrilled to win this wonderful award. I would like to acknowledge the support given to me by my teachers, friends and family and would like to thank everyone.<\/p>\n<p>I am passionate for young people to be supported and educated at school on mental health and wellbeing, and I want to use this prize to promote this. When young people are properly supported, they cope better, learn better, and become more resilient.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I will continue to encourage others to learn increasingly important languages, such as Mandarin.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The prize is open to school pupils in years 11 and 12 across the North East of England who have shown:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>strong academic performance across a range of subjects<\/li>\n<li>a civic contribution, particularly volunteering personal time for activities such as mentoring younger pupils, helping with extracurricular events, or working with a youth group or a charity outside school hours<\/li>\n<li>an interest in government, education, history or public service<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Education Secretary will present George with his trophy and meet the runners-up at a reception at King\u2019s College London on Tuesday 2 February 2016. George will also have the opportunity to undertake a 2-day work experience programme at the Department for Education\u2019s offices in London. <\/p>\n<p>The runners-up are: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lucy Bell, Hebburn Comprehensive School<\/li>\n<li>Maryam Garkuwa, St Robert of Newminster Catholic School and Sixth-Form College <\/li>\n<li>Lauren Howells, The English Martyrs School and Sixth-Form College<\/li>\n<li>Leoni Loughlin, Harton Technology College<\/li>\n<li>Reiss Luke, Wellfield Community School<\/li>\n<li>Connor Peebles, Churchill Community College<\/li>\n<li>Eleanor Peggie, Harton Technology College <\/li>\n<li>Zoe Rankin, Carmel College<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newcastle student George Hunter recognised for his academic success, voluntary work, and raising awareness of mental health issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}