Middle School Update

It’s well known that Kristin School offers not just a world-class academic programme but also a myriad of cultural, sporting, service and leadership activities to round out a spectacular educational offering.

In the Middle School, we wanted to encourage students to get involved in the opportunities on offer and to work towards being recognised for their contribution. The Middle School Kristin Dove Award has therefore been devised to ensure that all students gain the benefits of a holistic education and are enabled to grow into people of character.

With Sport, Music, Art, Dance, Drama and Outdoor Education as well as the many clubs, activities, events and societies integrated into and beyond the school day, there is always a myriad of activities happening in Kristin Middle School. This new award takes into account all the great things that are already happening and rewards students who are making the most of their schooling experience. The aim of the Kristin Dove Award is to equip all our students with the resilience and confidence they need to stride out into the next stage of their lives in order to become active, compassionate lifelong learners.

We are aware that some students are passionate about sport, while others prefer reading a book; some thrive in being the centre of attention on the stage, while others prefer lighting and sound crew positions out of the public eye. Some are very aware of the issues in the wider world, while others prefer to look at how they can help out in and around our beautiful campus.

With the core strands of ‘Progress with Vision, Integrity, and Love’, we make sure that all our students are exposed to new opportunities and experiences. Through the Kristin Dove Award, we want our students to look at the broad range of opportunities on offer and select those that not only interest them but also those that stretch them out of their comfort zones. will fully support their passions, we also want to encourage them to try new things. Each year in the Middle School, students will start a new and slightly different leg of their journey, and we want them to try a variety of activities from each area on offer. Their decisions might change frequently and that’s fine. Finding out that something really isn’t ‘you’ is just as important as finding a new passion.

The Kristin Dove Award aligns and supports the importance and attributes of the IB learner profile that we encourage in our students. Using this learner profile as a foundation, we teach our students to be inquirers, knowledgeable, thinkers, communicators, principled, open-minded, caring, risk-takers, balanced and reflective.

The Kristin Dove Award works on a points system. With the guidance of their tutor teachers and coaches, students accumulate points that earn them a Bronze then Silver and eventually the prized Gold award badge.

The Kristin Dove Award is something for our students to aspire to, but it is not the most valued prize; what is of greatest worth is the young people the Award produces by the time they graduate from the Middle School. Educating the whole child is not just a line on our website: it shapes everything we do.