Celebrate!

Last week we worked in partnership with the Outreach at team at the University of Sheffield to host our 29th Gold Award Ceremony at Firth Hall. Over 100 young people from 4 secondary schools, and 77 primary and secondary students who have been collecting credits with their Passport to Learning at Learning Destinations across the city were be invited to receive Gold awards for choosing to take part in over 100 hours of out of school activity.

All ready for the ceremony to begin in Firth Hall.

A proud award winner tries on a Sheffield CU cap and gown

Proud award winners have their photo taken by Tempest Photography

Sheffield CU also works in partnership with Languages Sheffield to ensure students who give up their time to learn their home language are celebrated and rewarded through the HoLA (Home Language Accreditation) project. Representatives from each of the language schools involved also attended the ceremony to receive Gold awards on behalf of students for giving up their time to learn their home language.

There were fantastic speeches from Professor Zoe Ollerenshaw Senior Lecturer and Director of Widening Participation from the University of Sheffield, Sam Martin Assistant Director of Lifelong Learning, Skills and Communities, and Student Union Activities Officer Clio Symington. We also had some spectacular performances from Razzamataz Theatre School, and the Sheffield Sea Cadets

Professor Zoe Ollerenshaw talks to the audience about her uniform of learning

Students from Razzamataz Theatre School perform at the ceremony

Students from Parkwood Academy receive their awards

Children and young people who have been collecting credits in their Passport to Learning receive their awards

Student Union Activities Officer Clio Symington talks about learning beyond the lecture theatre through the Universities socieites

Sheffield Sea Cadets give a fantastic performance at the ceremony

HUGE congratulations to our fantastic award winners, their parents/carers and school staff. We are so very very proud of all of you! A special thanks too to our spectacular events team - Sakina, Leah and Chris. We couldn't do it without you!

Visit our Facebook page to view all the photos from the ceremony: http://goo.gl/5sQobY