QUEEN Ethelburga's Collegiate Foundation has marked the end of another successful school year with its annual Speech Day event.
Guest speaker, NBC News' senior foreign correspondent, Keith Miller, addressed the 1,000 pupils, teachers and parents who gathered at The Undercroft, the College's new event facility at Thorpe Underwood Estate.
The students were awarded their priz
es by Mr Miller, who has covered most of the world's trouble spots over the past 30 years, including the Iran-Iraq war and the civil war in The Lebanon.
He spoke about the necessity for education in overcoming the challenges that the world faces. He included some fascinating insights from interviews with Nelson Mandela and Pope John Paul II, as well as from those involved in terrorism.
His coverage of terror attacks in Britain won him the National Headliner Award for Breaking News, the Edward R Murray Award for Excellence in Broadcasting and a nomination for a national Emmy award.
More than 70 prizes were awarded at the Speech Day, covering subjects such as art, history, drama, equestriansim and ICT. They included prizes for progress as well as attainment. A number of special prizes were awarded for excellence at GCSE, AS and A-level.
Also speaking at the event were the outgoing head boy and girl, Stephen Stott and Manuela Burki.
Steven Jandrell, headmaster at Queen Ethelburga's, was delighted with this year's awards. He said: "It was very difficult to pick the winners of the speech day prizes, as the quality of students' work improves each year.
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