{"id":3356,"date":"2019-09-30T17:43:28","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T16:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/?p=3356"},"modified":"2019-09-30T17:47:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T16:47:34","slug":"former-head-girl-receives-community-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/former-head-girl-receives-community-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Head Girl Receives Community Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"346\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Golden-Award.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Golden-Award.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Golden-Award-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Left to right: Bridgnorth Lions President, George Lee, Councillor Les Winwood, Holly Tyrls and Audrey Golden, widow of Alan Golden<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Bridgnorth Endowed School head girl, Holly Tyrls, was recently honoured at the Alan Golden Youth Awards, held at The Shakespeare Inn on Friday 20th September.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The annual Bridgnorth Lions Club awards, named after a past member who served as a headteacher in the town, are given to local young people who have made a difference in the community.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the five candidates that were nominated, Holly was announced as this year\u2019s joint winner with Ben Twigg and described as a \u201cfantastic role model\u201d for other students and a \u201cgreat ambassador\u201d for the school.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The school\u2019s Head of Creative Arts and PE, Mrs Tristham, reports: \u201cI nominated Holly, not only for how well she\u2019d taken on the role of head girl, but also for her outstanding work with younger pupils in the school who, for whatever reason, were finding it difficult to cope with secondary school life.\u201d<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDespite her busy work schedule, studying for three A Levels and carrying out her duties as head girl, Holly always made time to meet up with these pupils to listen to their concerns and give them plenty of support and reassurance.\u201d<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The competition was judged by Shropshire Councillor, Les Winwood, who presented Holly and Ben with a shield and a cheque for \u00a3100, and praised the youngsters for their efforts, especially their willingness to help others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Bridgnorth Endowed School head girl, Holly Tyrls, was recently honoured at the Alan Golden Youth Awards, held at The Shakespeare Inn on Friday 20th September. The annual Bridgnorth Lions Club awards, named after a past member who served as a headteacher in the town, are given to local young people who have made a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/former-head-girl-receives-community-award\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Former Head Girl Receives Community Award&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[14,2,25],"class_list":["post-3356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student-awards","tag-award","tag-bridgnorth-endowed-school","tag-community-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}