A Milestone in Expedition Terms

This weekend our Duke of Edinburgh's Award Silver group complete their expedition, and for many of the group, this will mean that they have completed their Silver Award. This expedition also marks the end of Joanne Anderson's time as leader of our Award Scheme. Joanne set up the scheme in the college when she first came to teach at Shimna, and she and Jess have been the driving force behind generations of successful Award holders. It is very appropriate that the baton now passes to ex-Shimna students Paul Swail, for the expedition section and Rebecca Murphy for the other sections. Joanne and the Award scheme have made an enormous contribution to the college, and we are very excited that Joanne's retirement from this aspect of college life coincides with news of a Gold Award presentation coming up soon for Naebh Dunn.