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==NOSTALGIA: Boston Grammar School prize-giving 1994==

''An article in the [[Boston Standard]] Thursday, 9th January 2020<ref>[https://www.lincolnshireworld.com/news/nostalgia-boston-grammar-school-prize-giving-1994-1354095 NOSTALGIA: Boston Grammar School prize-giving 1994] - Boston Standard Thursday, 9th January 2020 ([[David Seymour]])</ref> written by [[David Seymour]]''

[[Boston Grammar School]] welcomed the first British person in space, [[Wikipedia:Helen Sharman|Helen Sharman]], when it held its annual [[Speech Day|prize-giving]] event at the end of 1994.
Helen was a special guest at the event, along with her father, former [[Parry Gold Medal]] winner [[John D Sharman|John Sharman]].

The Sheffield-native spoke to youngsters about her eight days orbiting the Earth, mostly on board the [[Wikipedia:Mir|Mir Space Station]], which took place as part of [[Wikipedia:Project Juno|Project Juno]] in May 1991. Helen, who today works full-time at the Department of Chemistry, [[Wikipedia:Imperial College London|Imperial College London]], was selected from almost 13,000 applicants for the mission.

The prize-giving event was held at the Centenary Methodist Church, in Red Lion Street, Boston. It saw headteacher [[John Neal (staff)|John Neal]] speak about the fact that nationally girls were performing better at [[Wikipedia:General Certificate of Secondary Education|GCSE]] than boys, regardless of the type of school. He put this down, in part, to "the apparent need of many adolescent boys between the ages of 14 and 16 to conform to mediocrity: to a culture where it is not 'cool' to achieve." He also referred to the 'continuing obsession' of the media with school performance in the form of league tables.

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File:1994JuniorPrizeWinners.jpg|Junior prize winners (Photo: [[Boston Standard]])
File:1994SeniorPrizeWinners.jpg|Senior prize winners (Photo: [[Boston Standard]])
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==References==
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[[Category:Prizes]]
[[Category:1990s]]
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Boston Grammar School prize-giving 1994 - Revision history

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