The Milton Award

At Gravesend Grammar School we strive to ensure that our students leave us as well rounded, creative, caring and accomplished young men. Running in conjunction with their academic studies, we are very proud to offer the Milton Award which provides a range of opportunities to the students.

The award will recognise students who go beyond the curriculum and aim to make themselves the most accomplished student that they can be. The award covers the following areas:

  • Practical Participation
  • The World of Academia
  • The World of Work
  • Benevolence
  • The Arts
  • The World of GGS and Beyond.

In order to ensure that the students gain experience in a wide range of areas, some of the activities are compulsory and some are optional. We have selected these core components for their appropriate rigour and challenge.

The Awards

There are three levels of the Milton Award to ensure that all students can achieve within the system but that the most engaged and committed are recognised.

Half Milton - The Half Milton can be achieved by ensuring that a student will have covered four compulsory areas of the award. They will need to achieve 130 points from 4 separate areas to be awarded a Half Milton.

Full Milton - The Full Milton is very challenging and more difficult to achieve. A student needs to achieve a range of credits over a sustained period of time in all areas. They will need to achieve 210 points from 5 separate areas to be awarded the Full Milton.

The Milton Scholarship - will be awarded to the most outstanding student who has displayed enthusiasm and dedication by achieving a Full Milton Award. They will have gone above and beyond expectations. To receive the award they must have achieved the following:

  • Range of Achievements - The winner of the Milton Scholarship will have achieved credits in all areas of the Milton Award.
  • Notable Achievement - The winner of the Milton Scholarship will have made a notable achievement in one area of the Milton Awards
  • Dedication and Commitment - The winner of the Milton Scholarship will have demonstrated dedication and commitment to their achievements.

The scholarship will be a £1000 prize aimed to support them in their academic career as they enter Key Stage 5. This money must be used to support them in their A-Level academic endeavours at GGS.The Tomori Award - The Tomori Award will be awarded each year to the student in Year 10 who is the most outstanding all-round student in the year group.

  • Academic Achievement - The winner of the Tomori Award will work hard in their academic endeavours, always striving to achieve their best.
  • Extra-Curricular Participation - The winner of the Tomori Award will immerse themselves in the Extra-Curricular provision at Gravesend Grammar School and participate in a range of disciplines.
  • Community Minded Qualities - The winner of the Tomori Award will be a community minded student who supports others when in school and the wider community.

The scholarship will be a £1000 prize aimed to support them in their academic career as they enter Key Stage 5. This money must be used to support them in their A-Level academic endeavours at GGS.

At the start of year 9 the students will decide if they wish to work towards a Milton Award.

Once they have made that decision, they will be signed up and assigned a Milton tutor. The whole process will last for two years with students signing up at the start of year 9 and receiving their award at the end of year 10.

When the student has completed a component they will need to produce the evidence for that in order to be awarded the points. This can be a signature from a teacher, a certificate of achievement, a letter from a parent or teacher or another form of clear proof of achieving that component.

Once all components have been completed, evidence has been submitted and checked, students will attend a Prize Giving event to receive their award.

There are a wide range of components for the students to choose from as we want to provide students with the opportunity to participate in, and be recognised for, a diverse range of experiences. Different components will carry different points. They will all contribute to the varying levels of the Milton Award.

Below you will find the options:

Practical Participation Academic World of Work Benevolence Arts World of GGS

Combined Cadet Force

 Attend a speech or lecture

Work Experience

Volunteering in the community

Participating in a performance

 Independent Project into the history of the school
Duke of Edinburgh  Bronze Award

University Visit

 Careers Project

Peer Mentoring of younger student

Music Grading

STEM Project - GGS

Crest Award
Rona Sailing Trip Extra Qualifications Languages or other interests Student Investor Challenge

Model United Nations

 Pottery or Photography Club The Fallen Project - GGS students from WW1
Coaching Sports in or out of school Language Learning Clubs (Outside of curriculum) Member of Medical or Law Society

House Contribution

 Work showcased in an Art Exhibition GGS & the Local Environment
Sporting Participation for the school

Debate Society

Attend a local entrepreneur talk

 Charitable Work Professional Production of Artwork Form Captaincy

 

Success Stories

Maxime CorolanMaxime Corolan
Sporting achievements:

Joined the Basketball Academy with Mr Tong.

Representing the South East Indoor and beach volleyball team for 2 years in a row at the Interregional competitions. Winning Bronze and silver medals

Finalist and Gold medalist for the U18 Grand Prix. Gold medal

Became a FIVB (Federation Internationale de Volleyball) registered player.

Passed 2 FIVB qualifications: Prevention of competition manipulation and play clean

Passed anti doping course with Volleyball England and obtained certification

Representing England at NEVZA ( Northern European championships), selected for CEV in Bulgaria but injured. Cornacchia  World Cup in Italy U19.

Becoming a Sportsaid Athlete. Selected as 1 of 4 talented Volleyball players, nominated by Volleyball England..

Selected to go to Montpellier, France to train with Olympic coach Stephane Canet and Elite 16 coach Mathieu Hamel as well as compete in 3 tournaments.

Finley Hampson-Pugh

Boxing - I've been boxing for the last 8 years.

Coaching - I have had the privilege to help strength and condition the Meopham colts U13 football team as a coach.

Combined Cadet Force - I've been a member of the combined cadet force for 2 years

  • I've had pleasure to some of the most prestigious naval bases in the UK, HMS Raleigh and Britannia Royal Naval College, for week long expeditions/courses, which I received a power boat level 2 licence and junior certificate of recognition for leadership
  • I've also been on various 'field days' with cadets, which are days out where we get to try out new skills, with the most recent one being open water canoeing.
  • I have also got a course coming up in mid July, which is a week away at Lympstone, the Royal Marine Commando Training Center.

RONA Sailing - I've completed a 5 day voyage on the annual RONA trip offered by the school. I also completed a weekend voyage (Friday to Monday) with RONA which was independent from the school, where I raced a yacht around the Isle of White

School Rugby - I've been playing rugby with the school for the past 3 years, regularly representing the school for A team

Club Rugby - I've also been playing rugby for Gravesend Rugby Football club since December 2021, for which I have the privilege of being captain

Milton Award Academic Lectures - I've had the opportunity to also go and watch a Milton Award Lecture, which was hosted by Mrs Shutt about Climate change and Developing World- a disappropriate impact

Learning Behaviour - I have achieved all excellent effort grade card for 5 of the 6 six grade cards (all of the grade cards for year 9 and year 10)

Form Vice Captain - I’m also proud to represent my form, School, as form Vice Captain, and have been doing for several school terms now.

British Physics Olympiad - I got nominated by my science teachers to take part in BPhO. This challenged me to apply my knowledge and face new challenges.