A Year 8 student from Oasis Academy Enfield has scooped a Special Recognition Award at the inaugural Oasis Community Learning Annual Awards ceremony held in Birmingham on the 11th May.
13 year-old Lucy Ince is a quiet member of the year group. Lucy is in remission from Leukaemia. Despite this, Lucy has shown a selfless and gritty determination to put others before her own needs.
Lucy wanted to raise money for a cancer charity. She started by emailing the Principal of the Academy - John Walton - to ensure he would support and promote the event. She then made posters and stood in front of school assemblies to advertise the ‘wear pink to school’ day. She even made refreshments to sell on the day.
Principal, John Walton, said, “Lucy is a quiet individual who does not like to take the limelight either in or out of lessons. She has had to show incredible responsibility and resourcefulness since becoming ill and has achieved some staggering results. Her selfless act has raised money for a cause very close to her heart and she thoroughly deserves this award.”
Steve Chalke, Founder and CEO of Oasis Community Learning, said, “We should all be very proud of what Lucy has achieved. She has seen her own tough situation as an opportunity to help others, and it’s taken great maturity and courage to do so. Lucy typifies some of the recently launched Oasis Community Learning Charter2 which says that we are perseverance, we are hope, we are community we are achievement. Well done Lucy!”
Lucy only had one comment to make, but it says it all: “I want to do whatever I can to help other people.”
Our Education Charter statements encapsulate the core essence of what Oasis Community Learning is striving to achieve; the values in the statements express what motivates our educational emphasis and focus, while also describing the attitudes and attributes shared across our organisational family. These statements are our identity and DNA – they inform the reader or listener who we are, and what we want to achieve, both in an educational setting, but also in our holistic approach to each and every person we encounter.
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