The team from St Paul’s Girls’ School was presented with the most prestigious of the prizes on offer at the Shine 2011: School Media Awards held on 27th June at Stationers’ Hall in the City of London. Their magazine “The Marble” took the Gold Award.
The Silver Award went to SFM produced by Langley Park School for Boys and Blackpool Sixth Form College collected the Bronze Award for Sixth Sense.
Sir Christopher Meyer, our former Ambassador to Washington and previously Chairman of the Press Complaints Commission presented the awards ceremony and Kevin Fitzgerald CEO of the Copyright Licensing Agency spoke on the importance of copyright.
Clifford Jakes, Chairman of the Shine School Media Awards 2011, comments: “The Stationers' Foundation, the charity arm of the Stationers' Company, is proud to have launched the inaugural Shine Media Awards. The 2011 competition has been strongly welcomed by schools across the country with support from both state and independent secondary schools. We have been delighted with the calibre of entries and we congratulate the winners, but also all the schools that participated. The competition proves that there is a generation of new talent that has the ability to make its mark on the future of the publishing industry.”
As well as the teams from the finalist schools the audience included many of those from the media industry who had judged all the entries. They were extremely complimentary about the standard of publications, both in print and online, and about the dedication and effort that the students had shown in their work.
This is the first year of this competition in England and Wales. It recognises young creative talent, helps develop literacy, business skills and teamwork and encourages the students to consider the publishing industry as a career choice. Prior to the ceremony the students were able to visit an exhibition provided by many of the sponsors at which they could ask questions about the products on show and the career options open to them.
The Shine School Media Awards competition is open to every secondary school in England and Wales and is managed and promoted by the Stationers’ Foundation.
The winners:
Best Cover
The Ravensbourne School/Outline
Best Overall Design and Layout
St Paul’s Girls’ School/The Marble
Best Original Artwork or Photography
Kingsbridge Community College/Abridged
Best Editorial Feature Article
The Latymer School/TheLatymer Magazine
Best Overall Editorial Content
St Paul’s Girls’ School/The Marble
Best Commercial Strategy
St Paul’s Girls’ School/The Marble
Best Community Initiative
Dinnington Comprehensive School/Dinnington Newsletter
Best Environmental Strategy
Blackpool Sixth Form College/Sixth Sense
Most Inspirational Teacher (nominated by pupils)
The Marist School/Miss Natalie Stops
Outstanding Pupil
Gaynes School/Amy Simcock
The Prizes
The Gold Award – £2,000, three places on a TES workshop, a commemorative plaque and Harrison Challenge Cup.
The Silver Award - £1,500, three places on a TES workshop and a commemorative plaque.
The Bronze Award - £1,000, three places on a TES workshop and a commemorative plaque.
Ten category prizes - QuarkXpress 9 DTP System and a commemorative plaque each.
All finalist schools - a Highly Commended certificate marking their achievements
Competition Sponsors
Main Sponsor; CLA: Media Partner; the TES: Technology Partner; Quark Systems: Gold Sponsor; Antalis McNaughton: Silver Sponsor; Robert Horne Group: Media Sponsors; The Telegraph, BBC Magazines and Cambridge University Press: New Media Sponsor; Channel 4 Clipbank; and in association with NOCN, PPA, Skillset and the Newspaper Society.
Registrations for the Shine 2012 competition are being taken now and for further information please contact Deborah Rea on communications@stationers.org or on 020 7246 0998.
About The Stationers’ Foundation
The Stationers say: “The Stationers’ Foundation is the charitable arm of the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers. Its mission is to promote and encourage education and research in the Communication and Content industries, to provide financial assistance and care to those who work or have worked in those industries and their dependents in time of need to provide a well managed library and archive for the Stationers’ Company and to support, amongst others, the charities of the Lord Mayor and Corporation of London and the Royal Marines.”
