Jack Petchey Awards Evening
February 11th | Dr Shah
Celebrating the winners of the Jack Petchey Award, from schools across Harrow!
Achievement comes in many forms and the Jack Petchey celebrates and acknowledges what our students have accomplished. This celebration also gives us all an opportunity to say thank you to the adult leaders, teachers, staff and volunteers who work so hard to inspire and encourage young people!
If you think you can... you can!
When a young person wins an Achievement Award, they receive a certificate, a medallion, and choose how to invest a £300 grant within their school or youth organisation to benefit their peers. The funds are used for a fantastic range of initiatives and projects, including equipment, trips, training and more.
The programme also enables young people to celebrate adult staff and volunteers from the organisations that support them through the Leader Award and Leader Award Grant, which the leader gets to work on a project of £1000 that will benefit the students!
Dr Shah, the co-ordinator for Jack Petchey, spoke about her role in organising the awards:
"As a Jack Petchey co-ordinator of Canons High school, I send a Ms Forms link to all our students from year 7-13 and staff to nominate a student. Results are collated with the student with the majority nominations being selected. Whilst students get to nominate staff for the leader award."
Mr Wahab and Ms Dabasia were this year's staff nominations!
"Students are announced in assembly and certificates given, with a notice board to announce the winners. As a coordinator, I have regular meetings with JP representation of the Harrow borough and have to meet deadlines of entry and apply for education grants and trip reports.
Additionally we are running the Gold and bronze scheme and Environmental award, Speak out challenge workshops and competition where students are given training on public speaking and then they get to participate in the Harrow Borough competition. "
Our Canons Jack Petchey Winners!
Congratulations to our Jack Petchey nominees, and now winners. We are truly proud of your accomplishments over the year!
1) Dhanishta R (Year 11)
Dhanishta went out of her way to ensure that a new student felt supported in school, bringing her to the key stage office whenever she needed help or felt uncomfortable. Dhanishta spent her time showing this student around the school, taking them to lessons and finding her a quiet space during break and lunch. Dhanistha has been recognised for being a role model always going above and beyond helping students.
2) Teodor G (Year 13)
Teodor was awarded a praise-worthy action for going beyond and showing bravery in a situation. The situation was also recorded by the external organisation. Teodor had left a cadet meeting and came across an injured scooter rider hit by a car. Cadet Teodor ran to the detachment for a first aid kit , asked for help and to call 999 for an ambulance . St Johns assisted the scene . First aid was given and after ten minutes an ambulance arrive. After treatment the casualty was taken into police custody. Teodor showed his braveness and acted immediately at a scene with lots of bystanders watching, and took the appropriate right action and saved a life.
3) Ayub D (Year 13)
Ayub is seen as the kindest person who always ensures his peers are in a good head space and goes out of his way to avoid offending anyone. Ayub has demonstrated remarkable dedication to his studies consistently improving his grades to become an A* student. He is an exemplary student seen to be supporting classmates with study work/revision within and outside classrooms. Ayub constantly volunteers for many extracurricular reasons which is very inspiring and helpful. He has helped the younger years with basketball lessons and he has been a constant helper during open evenings, bringing great reputation to Canons High School.
4) Evie P (Year 7)
Evie has been an excellent ambassador for the school from the moment she walked through the day. Evie is personable, polite, and never shy of sharing an opinion. She is a delight to teach and is very supportive of her classmates should they ever be struggling. In that sense, she is a real leader—and an inspiring one too.
5) Navien R (Year 9)
Navien has been seen as a role model with all his peers and excels in Maths, taking part in Interhouse competitions and challenges. He is very polite and respectful to all students and staff members. Navien is very resilient, achieves the highest of everything and is very dedicated. He is very trustworthy, motivating, and excelling all-rounder.
6) Alberto M (Year 8)
Alberto goes above and beyond in every single lesson, very resilient. Alberto has not received a single detention and is a pleasure to have in all his classrooms. Alberto demonstrates excellence through his kind nature and is always there to support his peers. We are very proud of him!
Bronze award winners: Jan-June 2025
1) Andreaa C (Year 13)
Andreea has gone above and beyond the expected high standard and the evidence in her progress and written work is excellent due to consistency in effort. Amazing progress in written work, essays and knowledge. Very positive attitude and trying really hard with difficult and challenging concepts within A Level History. Andreea is a role model to other students.
2) Claudiu P (Year 13)
Amazing consistency of high standards in written work, essays and knowledge. Very positive attitude and trying really hard with very difficult and challenging concepts with A Level History. Claudiu is an exceptional historian, extremely thorough in his knowledge and is always on the ball making excellent contributions and asking excellent questions. He has gone above and beyond the expected high standard and the evidence in his progress and written work is excellent.