A GROUP of former Alder Grange students have been given a rare honour after having classrooms named after them.

The 12-strong group of prize-winners, part of the first cohort of students at Alder Grange Sixth Form, were selected to have classrooms in the school named after them as part of the sixth form’s fifth birthday festivities.

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The rooms were assigned based on students’ achievements.

Lauren Tahir, who spoke out at a planning meeting for the sixth form to be built in 2009, had a psychology classroom named after her to mark her success in achieving a psychology degree.

Sean Milligan, the first Student Union president at Alder Grange Sixth Form, had the Student’s Union room named after him.

Jo Griffiths, head of school, said: “We wanted to do something special to mark the birthday and felt it was important to honour the brave students who put their faith in us when we first opened.”

To recognise five years since the Sixth Form Centre opened, past and present students attended a special assembly to mark the occasion and to award the students with their name plaques.

The classrooms will be named the Lauren Tahir Psychology Room, the Alice Doherty Media Studio, the Sean Milligan Student Union Room, the Alex Stokes English Room, the Matt Fenner Science Lab and the Syedah Khatun Health and Social Care room.

The other rooms are called the Billy Doyle Geography Room, the Kathy Lucas Science lab, the Josh Simpson Sport Room, the Robert Pratt Tomorrows Teachers Room, the Jack Crowder Mathematics Room, and the Philip White Computing Room.

Student ambassadors from the first and second set of students to attend ag6 were given badges.