Junior King's Speech Day 2020

SPEECH DAY 2020

Wednesday 1st July 10.30 AM

The Head’s Address and Welcome Mrs Emma Károlyi

Guest’s Address

The Right Reverend Dr Rose Hudson-Wilkin, Bishop of Dover

Presentation of Prizes

Mr Rob Stonier, Deputy Head Academic

Vote of thanks by the Heads of School Zahra Piggins and William Holland

The Dean of Canterbury’s Address TheVery Reverend Dr RobertWillis

Welcome from the Head Welcome to our virtual Speech Day 2020. It is unfortunate that, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we are unable to gather together in the normal way, to celebrate our annual Speech Day. This year I am delighted that both The Dean of Canterbury Cathedral, and the Bishop of Dover, as our special Guest of Honour, have both prepared speeches for the occasion, for the children. You will find my speech and those of the two Heads of School too.

This year has been very eventful, beginning with our happy 1920s-themed celebrations of our 90th anniversary on our beautiful site here in Sturry. As we all whizzed round happy and carefree on the carousel outside the Manor House back in October, planted our commemorative trees, and celebrated at our Christmas Market, organised so well by the Friends of Junior King’s, not one of us could have predicted the events that lay ahead in 2020. The Lent Term began with our extremely successful ISI Compliance and Regulatory Inspection, and, of course, ended with the governmental-enforced school closures due to the pandemic.

The staff immediately turned around the education from the classroom into our virtual Junior King’s Online Education and we were able to teach our children, all over the world while in lockdown, throughout the Summer Term. Our aim was always to provide the best online education as possible, maintaining our breadth of learning and our routines, while trying to balance screen time with creative opportunities, and prioritising the pastoral care of the pupils. Most importantly, we have found it essential to keep our community spirit alive, and I hope that this has been especially evident in The Week communications.

We are very proud of how the pupils have grown in independence, resilience and in their personal organisation so quickly over this period of remote learning and disruption to normal life. Everyone has risen to the occasion and pulled together to ensure continuity of education, and we are so impressed by the work that has been produced. I would like to thank our parents for all their support during this time.

We have looked after the children of our NHS key workers from March onwards and were able, when permitted by the UK Government, to gradually re-open the School in June to certain year groups, within the strictest health and safety guidelines. We now look forward to provisionally welcoming back all children in September.

For our prize giving today, I would like to congratulate every child on their personal achievements, progress and successes this year. There have been many different achievements throughout this year, in academic subjects, sport, music, drama, art and design technology, which we have celebrated on a weekly basis, in assemblies and section assemblies. However, given this rather abnormal final term, we are marking prize giving as a special day for Year 8 in particular.

Our Year 8 leavers this year have been an outstanding group. Unfortunately, their time at Prep School has been brutally cut short, meaning that they have not been able to enjoy the final events, plays, concerts and trips planned, as part of their rite of passage to leaving, and moving on to their respective senior schools. We look forward to being able to invite them all back to Junior King’s next year, when it is safe to do so, to celebrate their time properly and to be able to say goodbye to all their teachers and their school.

I am grateful to all the staff for their extraordinary hard work in these most difficult times, and to the Friends of Junior King’s, for helping to support our wonderful community.

I hope you enjoy our virtual Speech Day event, and I wish you all a safe and happy summer holiday.

Prize Giving List 2020 King’s Scholarship Prizes King’s Research Essay Prize

Thomas Hutchings Samuel (Sam) Ridge Purnesh Subramanian

Dance Scholarship

Celia Child-Villiers Eliza Michie

Design & Technology Scholarship

Enoch Addley

Design & Technology Exhibition

Alexander (Alex) Robinson Lily Ross-Brown

Music Scholarship

William Holland Thomas Hutchings Joe Netley Nathan Sumner

Sports Scholarship

Thomas Hutchings Nathan Sumner

Sports Exhibition

Bryan Onwuka

Junior King’s Scholarship (11+)

Treasure Amadi

Junior King’s Exhibition (11+)

Sophia Robinson Hanshuo Zhang

External Scholarship Prizes Augustus (Gus) Curry Drama and Art Scholarship - St Edmund’s School, Canterbury Elena Kuhn All-Rounder Scholarship (Academic/Sport/Drama) - Brighton College, East Sussex

Subject Prizes English Mathematics Sciences: Biology Chemistry Physics French Spanish Latin Greek History Geography Religious Studies English as an Additional Language

William Skoll Purnesh Subramanian Purnesh Subramanian Eliza Michie Mencheng (Anthony) Liu Lily Ross-Brown Jessie Weir Maximillian (Max) Ani Dayyan Tariq Cameron Manney Sonny Gray Lucy Pollock Mencheng (Anthony) Liu

The Sturgess Cup (for personal progress in Year 3)

Isabelle Showler

The Junior House Fish (for personal progress in Year 4)

David Bekirov

The Turner Award (best C.E Geography Project)

Cameron Manney

The Martin Prize (for Advanced Linguistics)

Dayyan Tariq

The Milner Memorial Essay Prize (for History)

William Skoll

The Richard Menzies Award (for Classics)

Purnesh Subramanian

The Arts Music The Junior Music Prize The Middle School Music Prize The Armitage Award for Music The Amy Bickersteth Award (most improved musician)

Oliver Moh Isabelle Stewart-Stanton Nathan Sumner William Holland

Art The Junior Art Prize The Middle School Art Prize The Senior Art Prize The King’s School Advanced Art Award

Martha Leigh-Pemberton Edward Lapthorn Lefei (Philip) Chen San Nga (Lisa)Yeh

Drama The Harrison Junior Drama Cup The Middle School Drama Prize The Performance Prize The Lasker Cup (for contribution to the Arts: Drama & Music) The Speech & Drama Award The King’s School Advanced Drama Award

James Marais David Idowu Juliette German Augustus (Gus) Curry Dayyan Tariq Sofiya Kozlova

Design & Technology The Junior Design & Technology Prize The Middle School Design & Technology Prize The Marsden Prize (Senior Design & Technology) The King’s School Advanced Design & Technology Award

Philippa (Pippa) Jones Omkar Ranadive Antonio Kuhn Oliver Dallas

Sports Prizes Junior Sportsperson (Girl)

Leah Gould

Junior Sportsperson (Boy)

Ewan McCoubrie

Middle School Sportsperson (Girl)

Elena Kuhn

Middle School Sportsperson (Boy)

Julius (Sisan) Rone

The Scott-Kilvert Sportsperson of the Year (Upper School Girl)

Imogen (Immy) Allen

The Allan Ealham Sportsperson of the Year (Upper School Boy)

Nathan Sumner

Head’s Awards to Year 8

For the contributions pupils have made to different areas of school life, including: Music, Sport, Design and Technology, Art, Drama and Boarding

David Adegbuyi-Jackson Ching Leung (Jacky) Chan Arushi Benefield Chopra Chi Chun (Isaac) Ho Emmie Li Nikita Selin Gabrielle Taylor Naetochukwu (Naeto) Uzomba Zihan (Hansen) Xu

Special Awards The Lara Cross Award (for enthusiastic

JessieWeir & Bryan Onwuka

and whole-hearted participation)

The Morley Cup (for kindness and

Emily Knight & Olisemeka (Olise) Oditah

assistance to others)

The Roberts Cup (for resilience)

Zahra Piggins & Seongmin Hong

The Richards Cup (for consistently

Sofiya Kozlova & Nathan Sumner

giving of one’s best in all aspects of school life)

The Wells Cup (for someone who

Lily Ross-Brown & William Holland

The Nash Endeavour Award

San Nga (Lisa) Yeh & Dayyan Tariq

demonstrates the very spirit of Junior King’s)

(for consistent effort)

The Albin Award (to a sporting, musical and academic all-rounder)

Dana Kuhn & Thomas Hutchings

Boarding Houses Juckes House - San Nga (Lisa) Yeh Kipling House - Oritsewinor (Winor) Rone

Heads of School Zahra Piggins William Holland

The Parrot Society Pupils who joined the school in Nursery/Reception and have been at Junior King’s continuously to Year 8 Noah Boehmer Oliver Crowther William Holland Thomas Hutchings Daniel Kaufman Emily Knight Lily Ross-Brown Nathan Sumner Dayyan Tariq Tikhon Yurov

Year 8 Leavers

Cockas House

Housemaster: Mr Chris Lapthorn Mengcheng (Anthony) Liu Samuel (Sam) Ridge Lily Ross-Brown Naetochukwa (Naeto) Uzomba Maximillian (Max) Ani Celia Child-Villiers Oliver Crowther Uliana Eroshina Cameron Manney Lucy Pollock Daniel Pun Purnesh Subramanian Yuqian (Joanna) Wang Tun Yee (Achilles) Wong

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Kakas House

Housemistress: Mrs Natalie Chandler Sofiya Kozlova Alexander (Alex) Robinson Dayyan Tariq San Nga (Lisa) Yeh David Adegbuyi-Jackson Arushi Benefield Chopra Lefei (Philip) Chen Cameron Fuller Sonny Gray Matthew Gurr Chi Chun (Isaac) Ho Seongmin Hong Alexandra (Alexa) Liebmann Weiwei (Ruby) Lin Alexandra Francesca Oburu Nchama Olisemeka (Olise) Oditah William Skoll Tikhon Yurov

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Year 8 Leavers

Keas House

Housemaster: Mr Paddy McKeating Imogen (Immy) Allen Emmie Li Bryan Onwuka William Holland Nathan Sumner Noah Boehmer Oliver Dallas Daniel Kaufman Attharitthi (Rapi) Krisdathanont Antonio Kuhn Dana Kuhn Eliza Michie Alba Rodriguez Collado Nikita Selin Dai Ze (Alex) Song Gabrielle Taylor Zixuan (Leo) Wu

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Macaws House Housemaster: Mr Kyle Smith

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Awards made at the School’s Final Assembly The Selby Cup (for a combination of achievement in work and games, for boys)

Autumn: William Holland & Bryan Onwuka Lent: Nathan Sumner & Thomas Hutchings

The R.Q. Edmonds Cup (for a combination of achievement in work and games, for girls)

Autumn: Dana Kuhn Lent: JessieWeir & Imogen (Immy) Allen

The Ray Metherell Cup (for a boy with total commitment and support for games)

Autumn: Attharitthi (Rapi) Krisdathanont Lent: Noah Boehmer

The Margaret Edmonds Cup (for a girl with total commitment and support for games)

Autumn: Emmie Li Lent: Weiwei (Ruby) Lin

Music Instrumental Awards and Achievements Choir Brass Strings Keyboard Woodwind Percussion Voice Guitar

Arushi Benefield Chopra & Noah Boehmer Thomas Hutchings Joe Netley Seongmin Hong Antonio Kuhn Dayyan Tariq Sofiya Kozlova Samuel (Sam) Ridge

Royal Academy of Music (Junior) National Children’s Choir National Children’s Orchestra National Youth Boys’ Choir National Youth Girls’ Choir Junior Guildhall of Music

Oliver Moh & Joe Netley Isabelle Stewart-Stanton Oliver Moh Alexander (Alex) Gaskain EmilyYoung Xiao Xiao Augur

Sports Department Individual Awards Football

Samuel (Sam) Ridge

Girls’ Hockey

Imogen (Immy) Allen & Jessie Weir

Rugby

William Holland & Bryan Onwuka

Netball

Dana Kuhn

Boys’ Hockey

Nathan Sumner

Fencing

Jack Beckley

Rowing

William Skoll

Sports Achievements Name

Regional / National Honours

Oscar Farthing

IAPS National Swimming Finals

Nathan Sumner

IAPS East of England Hockey Champions National IAPS Hockey Finalists Kent Hockey

Archie Brealy

IAPS East of England Hockey Champions National IAPS Hockey Finalists

Matthew Gurr

IAPS East of England Hockey Champions National IAPS Hockey Finalists

William Holland

IAPS East of England Hockey Champions National IAPS Hockey Finalists

Thomas Hutchings

IAPS East of England Hockey Champions National IAPS Hockey Finalists

Jasper James

IAPS East of England Hockey Champions National IAPS Hockey Finalists

Olisemeka (Olise) Oditah

IAPS East of England Hockey Champions National IAPS Hockey Finalists

Bryan Onwuka

IAPS East of England Hockey Champions National IAPS Hockey Finalists

Samuel (Sam) Ridge

IAPS East of England Hockey Champions National IAPS Hockey Finalists

Achievements Name

Drama Achievement

Grade

Sophia Robinson

Trinity (Acting)

Grade 5 Distinction

Dayyan Tariq

Trinity (Performing Texts) Grade 7 Merit

Music Name

Achievement

Grade

Ching Leung (Jacky) Chan

Trinity (Trumpet)

Grade 5

Daniel Kaufman

Trinity (Guitar)

Grade 5

Antonio Kuhn

Trinity (Saxophone)

Grade 5

Misha McAdam

AB (Piano)

Grade 5

Oliver Moh

AB (Theory)

Grade 5

Scarlett Langford

Trinity (Singing)

Grade 5 Merit

Sabrina Lindridge

Trinity (Piano)

Grade 5 Merit

Seongmin Hong

AB (Theory)

Grade 5 Distinction

Lefei (Philip) Chen

Trinity (Piano)

Grade 6

Arushi Benefield Chopra

AB (Horn)

Grade 6

Arushi Benefield Chopra

AB (Singing)

Grade 6

Molly Jones

Trinity (Clarinet)

Grade 6

Joseph Outram

Trinity (Saxophone)

Grade 6 Merit