St Andrew’s RC Secondary School

Well done to Wiktoria Sapko (S6) who was awarded the Ogilvie Award for October.

Wiktoria, like many of our young people is amazing.  She embraces our school values in every aspect of her life and treats everyone with love, respect, fairness, kindness and honesty, which can be seen from the many activities she is involve with.  Wiktoria is a very humble person, always sees the good in others and wants the best for everyone.  Perfect attendance throughout her school career and always strives to achieve her potential, appreciating and using her god given skills and talents to do so.  A beautiful girl who has been a true ambassador for St Andrew’s for the past 6 years.

• Social Subjects Ambassador promoting UN Awareness Days
• Rights Ambassador, which entails ensuring that the rights of every child are met in school by creating food banks and working to provide additional water fountains.
• Languages Ambassador, assisting a teacher with the delivery of her lessons by supporting the pupils with their work.
•  Digital Ambassador, promoting the use of technology in school helping rollout of iPads to S1 pupils by manually setting these up.
• Young STEM Leader
• Being a Sports Ambassador running a basketball club and interacting with pupils in a positive environment.
• Numeracy Ambassador – providing the opportunity to work with pupils regularly through a numeracy club.
• Pupil Leadership Team, providing a platform to influence school life and make positive changes in the school community.
• Leadership link with the Charities Committee, working as a team to give back to the community by fundraising and participating in charity events like the upcoming “Santa Dash”.
• School MacMillan Coffee Morning, fundraising activities like invigilating a staff quiz. Overall,
• Outside of school, Wiktoria volunteers as a Head Youth with Police Scotland Youth Volunteers, working with teams to assist at various events (including basketball games, local leaflet drops and national conferences, like the National Police Memorial Day), while maintaining high uniform standard, behavioural and operation standards, and ensuring that these standards are met by other Youths. Her role also entails interacting with the public to provide great customer service through communication, cooperation and respect, skills which she has gained experience with over four years of service
• Her professional standards and commitment to the organisation (she has volunteered over 400 hours) have been acknowledged by multiple awards, including the Commitment Award (2018), the Youth Volunteer of the Year Award (2019) and the SWDF Youth Volunteer of the Year Award (2020).
• Explorer Scout. Through Scouting she has learned to value relationships, and the foundations of teamwork. By completing countless team building activities and camps she has developed an appreciation of other people and how their skills, as well as her own, help to overcome mutual challenges (like surviving in the wild or completing a difficult homework assignment). Before the pandemic, she was heavily involved in Scouting – She chose to participate in an international Scout camp, and completed her Young Leader Award

Well done to Lauren Cawley from (S5) who is our Ogilvie Award winner for the month of September.

Lauren works tirelessly with the SAMS Club operating from St Michael’s Parish in Parkhead – the club assists young people with additional support and their families http://www.sams-glasgow.org/

Well done to William (S6) and Philip Cowan (S4) who have been presented with the Ogilvie Award for June.  Their nomination recognised the following:

Their continued contribution to their local Parish and wider community. The boys also complete track and trace data collection at their local parish as well as cleaning the church after Mass. They volunteer at the local foodbank on a Saturday, cleaning crates, mopping floors, portioning rice and lentils etc. The boys were also involved in supporting the Bellgrove Hotel and HMP Barlinnie  at Christmas time, providing food parcels and selection boxes. They also provide a supportive role to the Society of St Vincent De Paul.