Objects of Substance- The Topper Cup for Citizenship (Year 1

• regular attendances at all practices that concern schoolwork • cheerful and unselfish willingness to help her school • greatest consideration shown to her school fellows • consistent observance of the Grammar school motto Nil sine labore

The E.V. Topper Cup for Good Citizenship criteria in the Grammar Archives – carbon copy undated.

This award was initially referred to in prize lists as the Cup for Citizenship in III (presented by Mrs E.V. Topper) and was first awarded to Joy Rackemann, a boarder, who received the cup at Speech Day accompanied by a book prize, Dust for the Dancers . The award was then presented across the next fifteen years to deserving girls, including a Head Girl (Jane Sellars, 1965), a Lady Lilley Gold Medal winner or dux of the School (Caroline Cavaye, 1968), and a future staff member, (Elizabeth Hatton, 1961). Girls were presented with the cup and usually a book prize, handing the cup back to the School at the end of Speech Day.