Session 15 - Awards Ceremony

Session 15 was a lovely morning spent with the girls, their parents and other special guests. The sixth form mentors were all there along with many of the teachers that taught them during their time at SHINE.  The girls wrote their speeches last session and today they stood up and read them beautifully. The girls told their proud families and audience how they had felt when they were chosen for SHINE, what they had learnt in each session and how attending had allowed them to make new friends and grow in confidence.  Mrs Jones, Deputy Head of Merchant Taylors' Girls' School presented each girl with a certificate and Kate Maryon, the children's author and friend of SHINE signed her newest book 'A Sea of Stars' for all the girls to take away with them. 

Miss Ladbrook, Miss Burns and Mrs Coughlan have enjoyed meeting and getting to know all the girls and were a little sad to say goodbye to them at the end of the awards ceremony and we will miss you all.