Senior School Honours Assembly

On Thursday 29th September Grosvenor staged its opening Honours Assembly of the year, with a total of 42 pupils receiving blazers, stags, flashes and badges in recognition of their accomplishments in a variety of extracurricular endeavours.

The ceremony saw nine pupils awarded a blazer - the School’s ultimate honour - in recognition of their successes in Girls’ Hockey and Table Tennis respectively. In Hockey, Year 13 pupil Ellie Burgess’ recognition came following a superb season in which she was selected to represent the Ulster Under 16 Interprovincial XI in a tournament, held at Three Rock Rovers in Dublin, in which she helped the province to a 2-1 over Leinster in the final: a superb accomplishment.

 In Table Tennis, meanwhile, Junior Close and Ben Watson (both Year 13), as well as Euan Hanna, Thomas Norman, Thomas Rainey and Alfie Stone (all Year 12), as members of the School’s Under 15 Boys’ Table Tennis team, were awarded blazers in recognition of their outstanding achievement of securing victory at both the Ulster Schools’ Team Championships, held in Lisburn, and the All-Ireland Secondary Schools Team Finals, held in Dublin in April. So too, Melissa Johnston (Year 11) and Emma Mackey (Year 12), as members of the Under 15 Girls’ Team which also claimed victory at these events, were also the proud recipients of blazers, reflecting their outstanding success in a year of unprecedented achievement for Table Tennis within the School.

Elsewhere, Stags were awarded to Cara Miller, Freya Murray, Eve Stanfield, Lucy Simpson (all Year 14) and Martha Orr (Year 11) for their achievements in Athletics, while all seventeen members of the School’s Under 16 Football Team were awarded Flashes following their victory in the Belfast Cup, where they defeated ‘Our Lady and St. Patrick’s College, Knock’ in the final last March. 

Finally, further honours were awarded in the form of Flashes for Kitty Jordan, Nina Laing, Sophie Leckie, Katie Parker and Paige Stewart (all Year 11) in Athletics; Erin Cross, Liberty Molloy (both Year 12) and Keziah McCullough (Year 13) in Cross Country, and a Badge for Helen Osborne (Year 14) in Girls’ Hockey.

Well done to each of the pupils whose achievements met with such well-deserved recognition: in a year when extracurricular sport was re-establishing itself following two years of interruption, it is hugely impressive that such a large number of students enjoyed such an impressive level of success.

Grosvenor’s Ulster and Irish title-winning Table Tennis players.

The School’s Belfast Cup-winning Under 16 Football Team.