HUDDERSFIELD Grammar School pupils had their achievements honoured at a prizegiving event in Huddersfield Town Hall.

The 13th annual prize evening saw pupils receive their GCSE certificates, subject awards and special prizes from Geoff Lord, who taught at the school for 20 years.

The GCSE pass rate for 2008 was 94% of pupils getting five A* to C grades.

Star pupils Cameron Graley and Ben Wallis received nine A* grades and one A grade each and Jake Ramsden got nine A* grades and one B.

The top grades netted Cameron the K T Wilson Academic Award and Ben the J Hodgson Memorial Prize.

Joshua Couchman was given the Highest Endeavour Award and Callum Johnson won the Vivien Roworth Cup for achievement through effort.

Sarah Young took the Head Teacher’s Award and Cecelia Wood received The Grammarian Scholarship.

Musical performances were given during the event, including a solo from Music Scholarship prize winner Luke McNeil on guitar.

Other solos were performed by Ben Wallis and Ash Johnson on violin and vocally by Ashford Campbell.

Headteacher Mrs Janet Straughan said: “My congratulations go to a very hard working group of young people and to the dedicated and hard working members of staff who teach them.”

Mrs Straughan praised the success of the school’s Ofsted inspection this year, when it was rated ‘outstanding’.

She said the school had also raised £6,000 for charity this year, including money for the Christian African Relief Trust, World Vision, Marie Curie Cancer Care, Comic Relief, the West Yorkshire Forget Me Not Trust and Kirkwood Hospice.

In one day, the students raised £2,092 for Oxfam.