Callum Clements wins Achiever of the Year award

Broadgreen International School pupil, Callum Clements was celebrating after winning the 2016 Novae Educational Achiever of the Year award.

The awards were held in March at the London Palladium and were attended by HRH the Prince of Wales.

Callum was born prematurely with a complex blood disorder and placed into foster care shortly after his birth. Treatment involved a lot of travel and ruled out the possibility of medicating his ADHD. As a result, Callum suffered at school: he was disruptive, lacked confidence and was isolated from his peers.

Despite moving primary schools and taking part in a number of intervention programmes, nothing changed. It was crunch time and with Callum refusing to go to school, his adoptive mother contacted the school’s xl programme.

Callum agreed to attend and it was there that he started to learn how to manage his emotions and work with others. Leading by example and actively taking part in units like healthy eating and money management, Callum became a valuable member of the xl team and earned his xl award and first ever academic qualification: his Level 1 certificate.

The xl club was the catalyst Callum had needed. He now has a firm foothold in education and feels all the benefits that go with it. His outlook on life has completely changed and in his final GCSE year, his attendance rose to 95 per cent and he is now in the school’s sixth form.