THE continued success of Westholme School and its high profile students past and present were celebrated at the annual prize night yesterday.

Head Lillian Croston highlighted the achievements of the Blackburn school when she told the audience of a recent conversation with a former pupil.

She said: “I asked how she was finding London. ‘Oh’, she said. ‘I’m in touch with lots of old girls and we are all doing so well.

“There’s suchabody who is a surgeon now, and someone else who is with one of the top law firms, and I am about to be sent to Hong Kong for a work placement. Don’t worry, Mrs Croston, there will always be lots of jobs for us in finance. If everything goes down they will still need us to sort things out.”

Mrs Croston said it had been a “very successful, dynamic and interesting year”.

Commenting on the school’s X Factor contestant, Diana Vickers, she said: “Who would have thought that a choir member who became ‘Annie’ in one of our shows and Captain Von Trapp in this year’s production of “The Sound of Music” would find herself in the last 11 of X Factor?”

>> AWARDS

MUSIC
Young Musician Of The Year (Junior) Gabrielle Lamoury, Young Musician Of The Year (Intermediate) Hannah Dacey, Kenneth Halstead Memorial Trophy For Young Musician Of The Year (Instrumental) Angharad Lewis, Young Musician Of The Year (Vocal) Sophia Carroll, Challenge Trophy For Carol Composition And Performance 8W, Sarah Keegan Trophy For Entertainment, Hannah Higton, Amanda Jones Trophy For Outstanding Musicianship Elizabeth Halstead, The Whitfield Prize For Composing Mrinalini Dey & Keira Milles, The Trophy for Dance Jessica Avison and the Trophy for Services to the Arts Emily Jennings.

SPORTS Year 7 Badminton Singles Parinda Shah, Year 7 Badminton Doubles Victoria Spencer & Charlotte Millington, Year 7 Tennis Singles Deena Mahmood, Year 7 Cross Country Champion (Nina Jones Memorial Trophy) Katie Buckley, Junior Badminton Singles Emma Watts, Junior Badminton Doubles Emma Watts & Elizabeth Stebbings, Junior Tennis Singles Bethany Walker-Smith, Junior Tennis Doubles Sarah Maudsley & Bethany Walker-Smith, Years 8 & 9 Cross Country Champion (Nina Jones Memorial Trophy) Rebecca Taylor, Senior Badminton Singles Georgina Stapleton, Senior Badminton Doubles Emily Fairbrother & Georgina Stapleton, Senior Tennis Singles Stephanie Teece, Senior Tennis Doubles Stephanie Teece & Sophie-Anne Sharples, Years 10, 11 & 6th Form Cross Country Champion Rachel Wood, Westholme Association Rosebowl For Swimming, Emily Fairbrother, Neat Dive Trophy Laura Wolstenholme, Physical Education Prize The Victor Ludorum Trophy Megan Cooper, Prize For School Games Captain (Sports Prize) Zoe Waddicor, Prize For School Swimming Captain (Swimming Prize) Melanie Stones & Kara Shuttleworth, Gertrude Pemberton Trophy For Breast Stroke Style 2005 Gabrielle Lamoury and Trophy For Outstanding Sporting Achievement Emma Flanagan.

OTHERS
Junior Drama Prize Gabrielle Lamoury, Junior Spoken English Trophy and Prize Courtney Fisher, Stopford Trophy for Senior Spoken English Lauren Black, Dugdale Trophy for Public Speaking Sophia Carroll, Lomax Trophy for Fortitude Shannon Devlin Community Service Cup Nafees Hussain & Tanzeelah Ismail, Junior Science Cup Lesley Foster, Senior Spoken French Trophy, Jessica Cherry, Shakespeare Speaking Trophy Hannah Roberts, Junior Shakespeare Speaking Trophy Summer Kirkham & Eleanor Lynch, The Holmes Trophy for Art & Design Melanie Stones, Prize for Service to the School as Head Girl and The Horrocks-Hoyle Rosebowl Hannah Higton, Prize for Service to the School as Deputy Head Girl Hannah Cooper, Trophy for Outstanding Work in Home Economics Deborah Milligan, George Lamb Art Award Laura Moodie, Blackburn Chemicals Science Award Khadija Alam, The Numeracy Trophy Maaham Ahmed, The Ann Todd Memorial Trophy for Progress in Science in the Sixth Form Alina Hashmi, The Trophy for Group Public Speaking Meera Kumar, Sophia Carroll & Angharad Lewis, The Cavanagh Shield for Business Studies Zainab Dabir, Peel Foundation Scholarship Sophia Carroll & Kara Shuttleworth, The Arthur Rouse Trophy for the Girl Whose Years in School Have Fulfilled the High Ideals of Westholme Charlotte Horman