WINNERS OF THE 7TH RUSSIAN ESSAY COMPETITION 2014
CATEGORY 1
Level 1 (Design a Facebook profile of a famous Russian sportsman)
1st
Holly Eagles (Bexley Grammar School)
2nd
Isabel De Sousa (Sevenoaks School)
Kathryn Bowers (James Allen’s Girls’ School)
Sophie Alexander and Amy Davison (Robert Pattinson School)
3rd
Eleanor Berry (Oundle School)
Dolly Nash (James Allen’s Girls’ School)
Amy Rymer and Rebecca Nolan (Robert Pattinson School)
Freddie Sywak (Harrow)
Level 2 (10 reasons to travel to Sochi)
1st
Hannah Haseloff(Stephen Perse Foundation Cambridge)
2nd
Amelia Irwin (Sevenoaks School)
George Walker (Calday Grange Grammar School)
3rd
Alice Sacripante (Impington Village School)
Betty Shuttleworth (St Paul’s Girls’ School)
Maariyah Quazi (Woodbridge High School)
Tom Smith (Calday Grange Grammar School)
Level 3 (Create a blog of a space tourist at the “Mir” station).
1st
Hethvi Gada (Sevenoaks School)
Theo Jefferies (Manchester Grammar School)
2nd
Sarah Lloyd (The Sixth Form College Solihull)
Hannah Sanderson (St Paul’s Girls’ School)
Isabella Darby (St Paul’s Girls’ School)
Fergus Blout (Harrow)
3rd
Elysia Moncur-Byrne (Presdales School)
Olly Banks (Sevenoaks School)
Dasha Scanlan-Oumow (Stephen Perse Foundation Cambridge)
Giles Hart (Harrow)
Level 4(If I were a character from Russian literature I would be ...)
1st
Martha Bellamy (St Paul’s Girls’ School)
2nd
Michaela Hine(Bristol Grammar School)
Alex Ward (Manchester Grammar School)
Giles Skrine (Marlborough College)
Callum Grange (Bolton Boys’School)
3rd
Archie Rowan-Hamilton (Eton College)
Edward McBarnet (Harrow)
Natasha Doughty (Presdales School)
Nikita Andersson (Cheltenham Ladies College)
CATEGORY 2
Level 1 (Facebook profile of a famous Russian sportsman...)
2nd
Emily Cook (University of St Andrew’s)
Level 2 (A day in the life of a participant of the 1980 Moscow Olympics)
2nd
James Goodfellow (UCL)
3rd
Max Eisenhardt (Bristol University)
Level 3 (Hitchhiking from Moscow to Vladivostok)
2nd
Vitalija Lavreckyte (University of St Andrew’s)
Heidi Gordon (Russian Language School Raduga, Edinburgh)
3rd
Emma Gloag (Russian Language School Raduga, Edinburgh)
Level 4 (Interview with a Russian poet)
1st
Harriet Cole (University of Sussex)
2nd
Victoria Sheridan (University of Sussex)
3rd
Romilly Moses (Independent student)
Francis Hodge (University of Sussex)
CATEGORY 3
Level 1 (Design a poster “Good and Evil in Pushkin’s Fairy Tales”)
1st
Dana Malasenkova (Dulwich College)
2nd
Aleksander Konnov-Roberts (DAR Education Centre)
Aleksey Styrkas (Friendship Society Kingston)
3rd
Sophia Bahmutova (Friendship Society Erith)
Egor Solodov (DAR Education Centre)
Level 2 (A Funny Incident. Describe something amusing that happened to you in Russia)
1st
Misha Kersh (Dulwich College)
2nd
Anna Novikova (Friendship Society Erith)
John Pedersen (Dulwich College)
3rd prize
Tom Schtasel (DAR Education Centre)
Abigail Lander (Bel Royal Primary School Jersey)
Sofya Smirnova (Friendship Society Kingston)
Level 3 (Describe the holidays of your dreams)
2nd
Peter Bariev (Cambridge Russian School)
3rd
Kirill Kapitsa (Cambridge Russian School)
Sonya Naschekina (Cambridge Russian School)
Level 4 (Do I believe in Russian superstitions?)
1st
Nikita Grigoryev (New Hall School)
2nd
Alesia Berehavaya (New Hall School)
Dmitry Chernyshov (New Hall School)
3rd
Valeriya Bykova (Frienship Society Kingston)
Nikita Kuznetsov (Harrow)
Ekaterina Zorova (Independent student)
Special Prizes
For an impeccable presentation and imaginative composition - Patrick Thellwell (Calday Grange Grammar School) and Drew Wilson (CTC Kingshurst Academy, Birmingham)
For a thorough research of the subject and insightful treatment of a topic - Sheldon Kaplan (Harrow), Olivia Francis (Bristol Grammar), Otto Fooks (Eton College), Daniel Irwine and David Davenport (Bolton Boys’ School),Alexandra Nenasheva, Philip Gazmanov and
Olexandr Gorodnitskyi (New Hall School),Dariya Skeratt (Independent Student), Eden Bogie (Stephen Perse Foundation, Cambridge), Alex Robertson (Russian Language School Raduga, Edinburgh), James Carter (University of St Andrew’s)
For an impeccable presentation and a moving personal touch - Eva Nikolaeva (Friendship Society Kingston)
For a moving personal touch - Lyosha Wiseman-Clark (Dulwich College)
For a clear and persuasive delivery - Alua Koichumanova (Friendship Society Kingston), Svetlana Ignatenko (Lomonosov Russian School, Aberdeen),Thamanna Uddin (Presdales)
For a frank and compelling writing - Alisa Sheridan (Friendship Society Kingston)
For a convincing depiction of Sochi as an appealing travel destination - Lucy Newman (Presdales School), Amy Whitaker (St Paul’s Girls’ School), Anya Cook (New Hall School), Cailin De Wett (Sevenoaks School), Bradly Jones (Calday Grange Grammar School), Robert Younger (Oundle School)
For an informative and ambitious written account about famous Russian sportsmen - Samuel Masters (Bexley Grammar School); Rory Craig (Harrow) and Zetta Allas (James Allen’s Girls’ School)
For a creative design and presentation of a Facebook page: - Anastasia Kapkin (James Allen’s Girls’ School); Megan March, Raveka Raveendran, Sophie Alexander, Sam Benton, Lily Clark, Alex Daly, Hannah Smith, James Tyson, Max Cawthra, Josephine Foster, Josie McEneny, Hannah Toogood and Jodie Morgan (Robert Pattinson School)
For apersuasive presentation of Good and Evil in Pushkin’s fairytales (on a poster) - Ruben Shinanyan, Sophie Patrice, Yaroslav Chirikhin and Zeki Ruseckas (DAR Education Centre)
PRIZES
The prizes include:
1st place
£100. Could the winners in this category please confirm to that it would be OK to write a cheque in their name? ASAP please!
The 1st prize essays will be published online. It will be possible to access them from the Russian Teachers’ Group UK website and (from June 2014).
2nd place
a theatre ticket to see “The Cherry Orchard” at the Young Vic Theatrein Londonon8thNovember 2014 at 2.30. Could the winners in this category please confirm their availability to attend the playto ?
Please note that those who live outside London should make their own way to the theatre: transportation costs to the theatre and back are the responsibility of the students and/or their teachers.
If the winners cannot attend a play, they will receive books, CDs or DVDs instead of the theatre ticket.
3rd place
a ticket tothe Tate Modernin London to see a Malevich exhibition running on16 July –26 October 2014. Could the winners in this category please confirm their availability and preferred dates to attend the exhibition to ?
Please note that those who live outside London should make their own way to the art gallery: transportation costs to the gallery and back are the responsibility of the students and/or their teachers.
If the winners cannot visit the art gallery, they will receive books, CDs or DVDs instead of the ticket to the exhibition.
2nd and 3rd places
The winners may be awarded one of the following on a first come first served basis.
1)a free annual membership at Pushkin House in London 16+ only please(there are 4 memberships at our disposal);
2)an annual subscription to Russian Life magazine (there are 3 subscriptions available);
3)an annual subscription to Русская мысль magazine (there are 3 subscriptions at our disposal);
4)an internship for 15-16 year old winners inCategory 1 only, i.e., a practice/training, for a week at Pushkin House in London are 2 internships available).
Could the winners or their teachers please confirm their interest to asap?
Special prizes
books, CDs or DVDs.
Congratulations again on your students’ excellent achievements!