Social Enterprise Award

The pupils of Hamilton Grammar received the Social Enterprise Award given by the Social Enterprise Academy. The ceremony was held at the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow yesterday.

Our pupils received the award for the excellent work by Mr Dyer and the Eco Group for all their work for Ghana, Mrs Breen and the Frozoz smoothie company, and Mr McGowan and Young Enterprise's Carbon Offset initiative.

The certificates were presented by Sandra Ewen, MBE, of Determined to Succeed. Hamilton Grammar were the only High School in South Lanarkshire to receive an award this year - another great achievement by our pupils.

One of the guest speakers included Rachael Arnold, who was formerly part of the Virgin Group but who now runs Impact Arts - which aims to help develop young bands. Rachael's speech was truly uplifting and inspirational.

Once again we are all very proud of the pupils for all their hard work and we are just a bit sad that not everyone could attend the event due to the South Lanarkshire Sports Day!

We would like to thank everyone at the Social Enterprise Academy and in particular Claire Fraser for all her hard work in organising the event.