Seventy-NINE St Christopher's Senior School students were recognised for outstanding achievements at a ceremony held at its campus in Isa Town. The Outstanding Academic Achievement Awards Evening 2009 recognised 60 GCSE students who had achieved five A* and A grades and above and 19 A level students who had achieved three A grades or above.

The students who received awards sat for their General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) and A level examinations in June last year.

A level students who had been accepted by top universities such as the University of Cambridge and London School of Economics were also recognised at the ceremony.

At the annual event, held under the

patronage of Edexcel Examination Board, students were presented with certificates and medals by Edexcel regional development manager Sonia Carr.

Mrs Carr, senior school head teacher Nick Wilson and former A level student Amanda Victoria Stec, who is reading English and related literature at the University of York, UK spoke at the ceremony.

AWARD WINNERS

GCSE students to receive awards were:

Nivedita Agarwal, Nareen Agha, Narjess Al Alawi, Amani Al Asfoor, Isa Al Janahi, Katrina Al Qarainees, Sarah Al Saati, Faten Alansari, Hussain Alfardan, Osama Al Haddad,Yasser Alomran, Sami Anderson-Talbi, Liam Appleton, Anant Bahl, James Betley, Harsh Bhatia, Mitchell Bibby, Jonathan Breeze, Dana Bucheery, Samantha Carlsson, Robert Cook, Leilani Cooper, Gabriella Denlew, Nabila Dos Santos, Ahmed Elgohary, Komal Gandhi, Lucy Griffin, Flora Hamilton, Suzanna Hobday, Mobeen Iqbal, Tarun Iyer, Laura Jackisch, Cameron Jellett, Ismaeel Kazerooni, Farah Khoshabi, Nadine Khoury, Kora Krizaj, Manali Kulkarni, Fatin Marzooq, Peter Meawad, Maryam Mir, Diksha Misra, Omar Mumtaz, Hanan Mustafa, Praveer Nidamaluri, Tanya Noor, Natasha Owen, Annika Pathmanathan, Sid Ramchander, Ayman Saeed, Afreen Saheb, Azhar Seedat, Jack Sellers, Andrea Sequeira, Samantha Sequeira, Michael Stec, Vivek Thaker, Janine Walters, Samir Yassin and Christina Young.

A Level students to receive awards were:

Meshal Abdulla, Ameena Al Mehza, Jenna Alansari, Ali Almusawi, Mohsen Ameeri, Aditi Banerjee, Laala Kashef-Alghata, Rashaad Kazi, Willem McIsaac, Rebecca Perkins, Sruthi Pillai, Patrick Pollmann, Petros Poullaides, Sarah Rouben, Nina Saeed, Victoria Stec, Laurence Stokes, Nada Tayeb and Abeer Zainal. becky@gdn.com.bh