ROLL OF HONOURS

2005 WINNERS
1. State School of the Year:

Winners: Northampton School for boys, Northampton
An example of outstanding sports development at every level across a range of sports, both in and out of term time. Out of term sports camps particularly successful.

Highly Commended: Halesworth Middle School, Suffolk
An old-fashioned example of all round sporting success for the pupils through the dedication of many teachers. 

Commended: Altrincham Grammar School for Girls in Cheshire
The key to their success has been the diversity of sports for students.

Commended: Sir John Colfox School, Bridport, Dorset
Great results by many sports teams, administered by a PE staff of only four.

 
2. Independent School of the Year:

Winners: Sheffield High School, Sheffield
Brilliant acknowledgement of the importance of sport in the school environment from the positive recognition of the physical, psychological and sociological benefits to all students from elite to recreational level.

Highly Commended: Kent College, Canterbury
Outstanding in several sports, but exceptional record for hockey, year after year producing players who continue into senior clubs.

Commended: Bedford Modern School, Bedford
School is led by a sporting role model in Head teacher Stephen Smith, who was instrumental in bringing together leading Government figures and Independent Head teachers to link sporting expertise within fee-paying schools to help improve state school sport.
 

3. Specialist Sports College of the Year

Winners: Isleworth and Syon School, Isleworth
Staggering sporting achievements with limited sport facilities. It included turning a store room into an Olympic weights facility at a cost of 5000 pounds. Dedicated staff, several ex-professional sportsmen, old Grammar school ethos.

Highly Commended: Wilson Stuart School and Sports College, Birmingham 
Groundbreaking sports development with and for pupils with disabilities.

Commended: The Hayesbrook School, Kent
Groundbreaking project using basketball as a metaphor for learning across a wide range of subjects within the curriculum.

 
4. Male Student of the Year.

Winner: Tom Cummins - Hereford Cathedral Junior School, Hereford
Aged 11, last summer, he demonstrated great levels of concentration at the crease for his year group school team, scoring six half-centuries in six matches. Seen as a role model by the school in his attitude to sport. 

Commended: Paul Dazeley - Royal Grammar School, Buckinghamshire
An outstanding talent at foil and epee, the English Under 18 champion, is truly dedicated. He travels far and wide to compete in spite of almost no funding.

Commended: John Harris - Red House Independent School, Stockton-on-Tees
A true sporting all rounder who represents the school in ten school sport teams. County standards in three sports. Also captains several school teams, and organises school teams off his own bat.

5. Female Student of the Year.

Winner: Sian Edwards - Southfields Sports College, Kettering
True determination with a fantastic record in running. Showed her mettle in first school race, when she fell into mud in a cross-country race, lost her glasses, had to find them, but tracked down the runners ahead of her to finish first. Has not looked back.

Highly Commended: Courtney Gowers - Tring School, Hertfordshire
Dedicated to a life as an ice-skater outside school with early starts and late finishes, yet also considered a role model for her attitude and application at school.

6. School Sport teacher of the Year.

Winner: Ian Bradbury, Head teacher at Danesfield Middle School, Somerset.
Since 1999 Ian has given up evenings and weekends to turn a school with a crippling budget deficit and almost no competitive fixtures into a hotbed for sport - notably cross-country and athletics.

Highly Commended: Mike Legg, Head of PE and Sport at Priory Community School, Weston Super Mare.
Twenty-eight years of unstinting dedication to developing school teams in a range of sports. Legg has developed a lifelong love of sport cherished by so many of his pupils.

Commended: Norman Smith
65 years dedicated to Suffolk Schools Football Association.

7. School Team of the Year.

Winners: The First XI cricket team, Harrow School
The entire tour party forced to flee onto the pavilion roof at Galle cricket ground when the Asian Tsunami  last Christmas. They had been involved in a pre-match warm-up. Tragically the stepfather of one of the boys lost his life. They returned home to inspire the school community to raise £250,000 towards rebuilding a school and sport facilities in Galle. Galvanised by their experience, they finished the season unbeaten, including a 7-wicket victory over Eton at Lord's in the 200th anniversary year of the fixture.

Commended: Girls U16 hockey team, Ecclesbourne Girls School, Derbyshire
Won the national under 16 schools hockey championships, which included all the independent schools in the country. The school has neither hockey pitch nor sports hall. Most of the team eligible to defend title next year.

Highly Commended: Testbourne Community School U12 rugby team, Whitchurch, Hampshire.
No dedicated rugby pitch or posts, the state school's U12 rugby team won its national age-group final at Twickenham. Tournament involved 2000 teams nationally. They triumphed in a final - held during half-time of the Army versus Navy match in front of almost 50,000 spectators.

8. Special Award - Ambassador for School Sport

Winner: The Breadalbane Academy, Perthshire.
Worthy of being a national template. Again, through dedicated PE staff, with a sports development officer and a qualified coach alongside them, they have become a beacon of sporting excellence. Many pupils at the school now showing capacity to reach elite level.

Commended: Ursuline Preparatory School, Essex
Exemplary in their development of sports networking and fixtures with other schools, and in particular, their neighbouring state schools.

Highly Commended: The Hayesbrook School, Tonbridge, Kent
Brilliant, innovative use of sport as the vehicle to engage pupils in academic subjects

 
9. Life Time Achievement Award (for Services to School Sport)

Winner: Norman Smith - Secretary of the Suffolk Counties Football Association.
Norman, 89, has given 65 years of his life to the cause of Suffolk schools football. He retired from teaching aged 75, but as secretary of the county school's association his stamina and attention to detail remain staggering. Every season he canvasses the schools, chases sponsors, compiles fixtures, books the venues and coaches, appoints officials, and then produces match day programmes on his computer. At the matches he sells the programmes, chats to parents, makes the tea, provides refreshments, awards medals, and then picks up dirty shorts to take home and wash. His work does not stop there. He also phones local newspapers with match reports. People like Mr Smith are the lifeblood of British sport at an amateur level.