COBIS. Council of British International Schools

Recipient

School

Citation

Alessia Mortara

Sir James Henderson School, Italy

Alessia contributes significantly to the school community with her role of Prefect (recently upgraded the Deputy Head Student!), School Council representative and regularly helping out at school events such as Bonfire Night, International Evening and the Rock Concert just to name a few. Through MUN she is developing a broad understanding of global issues facing countries and was an excellent delegate at the Milan MUN. Alessia has also been involved in a wide range of projects in the CAS element of her IB Diploma including: Dance, Volleyball, ANT Calendar (ANT is a children’s cancer charity), Piano, Skiing, Kenya - Imani Orphanage, Chamber Choir, Senior Choir, Modelling Changes and Esther Benjamin's trust drawing. She should be congratulated on her exceptional work in two of these projects in particular, the ANT Calendar initiative and her charity work in Kenya. The involvement, commitment and passion she has displayed has led to her winning the COBIS Award this year.

Alexander Beauclerk

British School of Paris, France

For outstanding academic achievement and sustained, high level contributions to the wider life of the School.

Alexandru Vlad Grigore

International British School of Bucharest, Romania

For outstanding academic achievement.

Andrei Berghianu

International British School of Bucharest, Romania

For outstanding academic achievement.

Assimakis Agememnon Kattis

St Catherine’s British Embassy School, Greece

For outstanding academic achievement. He secured 10 grade A* at IGCSE and the maximum A in Modern Greek O-Level. He also achieved an A* in Mathematics IGCSE when in Year 9. In the summer 2008 session he secured a grade A in Mathematics A level. In January 2009 he achieved a maximum 45 points in the internal IB Diploma assessment. Akkis is being entered for the IB Diploma Mathematics Higher examination one year early. He has also been a member of the school's world class debate team and is an accomplished classical pianist.

Bilal Abou El Ela Bourquin

English International College, Secondary School, Spain

For his consistently outstanding level of academic achievement throughout his school career (Bilal has been fast-tracked in English Language, Mathematics and Spanish) and his enthusiastic and successful participation in sporting teams.  Bilal has an unfailing positive, modest and polite attitude at all times - an excellent role model for his peers.

Casper Lindberg

Mougins School, France

For outstanding academic achievement. Casper was among the top ten students worldwide with regard to his results in Chemistry AS Levels and he has achieved A grades in all his GCSE and A level examinations and 100% in his Physics A Level examination. Casper is Finnish.

David Miladinovic

Aloha College Junior School, Spain

David is a hard working pupil who achieves well in all academic subjects. He is currently in year 6 despite being chronologically age appropriate for Year 5. His greatest achievement to date was his result in the World Maths Day. On March 4th over two million students from over two hundred countries took part answering maths questions online. 452,681,681 questions were answered in just 48 hours, smashing the world record of 182 million set by this event last year. David finished an amazing SECOND place in the world! David remained very humble with this result despite a lot of publicity. David is an extremely well rounded pupil. He is excellent at Sports and is a successful "Go karting" champion - something which he pursues at weekends. He moved into the Senior School in September and we are all confident that he will continue to achieve highly in all academic subjects.

Filipos Lekkas

St Catherine’s British Embassy School, Greece

For sustained, high level contribution to the wider life of the school. A member of St. Catherine's Debate Team. Awarded the Best Speaker at the 2009 Panhellenic (All Greece) Forensics (Oration and Drama Tournament) and at the Deree University (Athens) 2009 Debate Tournament. A member of the Greek Schools National Debate Team and semi-finalist in the World Schools Debate Championship held in February 2009. Filipos achieved 3 A* grades at IGCSE when in Year 10 and then added another 6 A*.

Jana Hidalgo Hopson

English International College, Primary School, Spain

For outstanding academic achievement throughout KS2.

Jason Shi Shun

Northfields International High School, Mauritius

For the pupil who in a school year gives so much of him/herself in terms of potential, loyalty and initiative. Potential Award.

Jegor Lanovenko

English College in Prague, Czech Republic

For outstanding results at IGCSE.

Kanu Tewari

British International School, Cairo, Egypt

For outstanding academic achievement. Straight A* grades at GCSE, Head Girl, and heading for Harvard University.

Karim Abusakout

English International College, Primary School, Spain

For sustained, high level contributions to the wider life of the school.

Klara Nathanael

Riverside School, Czech Republic

For academic achievement. Klara achieved 3 A's at A Level - in English, History and Art. She achieved 100% in A level Art.

Lorna McKinlay

British International School, Istanbul, Turkey

For significant contribution to charity fundraising activities. Lorna has been very dynamic in organising charity relief for a local hostel for children in need. Lorna has done this of her own accord several times this year, organising parents and students to collect and deliver goods and clothes.

Maria Lorenzo

British School of Alicante, Spain

For academic achievement at A Level.

Marianne Paisley

Maadi British International School, Egypt

For academic and personal achievement. Year six is a challenging year in many ways. Being the oldest children in the school, pupils are expected to take on a role of responsibility and set the standards for other to follow. Marianne is an excellent role model. Academically she showed dedication and effort, as well as high levels of attainment, however, she was also able to reflect and improve on her personal performance. She is sociable, friendly and thoughtful, showing emotional intelligence through the mature ability to empathise with others in class and around the school. Naturally a quiet character, over the year we have seen this pupil start to blossom in confidence, we hope she continues to go from strength to strength as she moves through secondary school and beyond.

Marina Aoki

Independent Bonn International School, Germany

For academic excellence.

Nakshidil Sadien

Northfields International High School, Mauritius

For the pupil who made an extraordinary input into the performing arts, speaking, debating and school Newsletter. Cultural Award.

Natasha Cook

Independent Bonn International School, Germany

For academic excellence.

Ondřej Honzik

English College in Prague, Czech Republic

For outstanding results at IGCSE.

Pei-Ching (Peggy) Yang

St Michael’s College, UK

Peggy joined Saint Michael’s College in January 2006. She is from Taiwan. She joined the school on a six-month pre-A Level preparation course and then studied A Levels in Maths, Physics, Economics and Chinese. When Peggy started she had almost no English language at all. Within two-and-a-half years she had achieved the following results: Maths A; Physics A; Economics B; Chinese B; IELTS 6.0. She is now doing a degree in Accounting and Finance at Durham University.

Qawie Sabli

Jerudong International School, Brunei

For academic achievement – A level Science.

Sarah de Morant

British School in the Netherlands

For outstanding academic achievement and contributions to the wider life of the school. Sarah achieved 4 A grades at AS, with high scores in all modules; she is on course to achieve 4 A grades at A2 - this despite only beginning to study in English 5 years ago. She has been offered a place to study European Social and Political Studies at UCL. Sarah’s work ethic, motivation and commitment to her studies has been exemplary throughout her time at BSN, she is a role model for all younger students. This was exemplified when she completed her Diplome National de Brevet at the same time as completing her GCSE examinations. Sarah has always been committed to helping others – be that through tutoring or just being available for younger students to talk to; in year 13 Sarah was voted by her peers to Chair the Student Council. She has fulfilled this role with maturity and diligence – her ability to communicate articulately with staff, students and SMT has been instrumental in the School Council’s drive to improve the quality of life for students in all year groups. Sarah has also involved herself in Charity work, organisation and chairing meetings and organising social events. Through hard work and excellent inter-personal skills Sarah has made the most of her education and will be sure to continue to achieve great success in the future.

Syukrina Roselan

Jerudong International School, Brunei

For academic achievement – Humanities and Social Sciences.

Tammy Saad

British International School, Cairo, Egypt

For outstanding academic achievement. Best academic performance in Junior School – very high CAT scores and a wonderful work ethic.

Taylor Johnson

Mougins School, France

For sustained, high level contributions to the wider life of the school. Taylor was President of the Student Council in the year 2007/2008. He is a highly motivated young man and has the gift of motivating those around him. His morals and behaviour are beyond reproach. During his presidency he was the link between the students and the PTA and assisted with fund-raising and he was and is much appreciated both by students and staff. Taylor is American.

Winston Preece

English International College, Secondary School, Spain

For his exemplary work ethic and outstanding AS results culminating in an offer from Cambridge University.  In addition to academic excellence, as President of the Sixth Form Winston has taken a leading role in the organisation of social events, videography of the sixth form show, charity fundraising and extra-curricular sporting events.  He is a wonderful role model.

Yasmin Ahmed

British School of Alicante, Spain

For sustained, high level contribution to the wider life of the school.