Badges, Colours and Honours
School badges are awarded by many of the extra-curricular clubs and organisations which run in the school, including Young Enterprise, sports, music and other groups. Badges are also given to members of the school council and prefects.
Pupils who have excelled in sports, music or in other ways can be awarded with a colours tie (the normal school tie with navy stripes running diagonally down), and for further excellence in those fields pupils can be presented with a colours-with-distinction tie (the colours tie with the navy and maroon reversed). Special achievements such as head boy and girl, outstanding contribution to sports or music, or academic achievement such as 10 A*'s at GCSE level will be awarded with a maroon honours blazer and honours tie.
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