What school prizes do you remember?

[OneUmberJoker]

I remember someone getting a tv for 100% attendance

We were given amounts to spend for books only, then got a bookplate to put in them.

In order to maximise my pretentiousness, when I won the English Literature prize I bought Les Fleurs du Mal by Baudelaire. I’ve never finished it.

I won a jar of Cadburys Roses in the school summer fete raffle in 1978. Never won in a raffle since!

Everyone with good attendance was in a raffle and a girl from my class walked away with a Nintendo switch.

A wooden spoon given in assembly to the child who came last in maths tests at high school.

I don't recall anyone getting anything other than house points.

I once got a gold coloured painted wooden trophy for something crap like "well she's literally here, so". I was a kid and life was hard at the time and I felt small and mute and invisible, so the funny thing was that as nothing as it was, it meant something to me.

Prize giving day took up a whole afternoon. It was a big event attended by the whole school and 6th formers who had left the previous summer , the governors, parents of prize winners, the lady mayoress and a visiting speaker. Prizes were always books. I collected a prize as a recent 6th former. Most of my classmates had gone on to university and had selected text books, but I hadn't and chose A Woman of Substance by Barbara Taylor Bradford.

We won a bike and an MP3 player in the school raffles at primary, not to shabby (two different raffles).

At secondary I was given a book for my diligence award. At the leavers assembly in year 11 we were all gifted with a bible (CoE school) that was directly addressed to us on note in the front cover. Not religious but I do have it in the loft somewhere as it is special.

My senior school gave out various grandiosely-named awards towards the end of sixth-form, mainly for the best overall performance in a given subject.

That meant there were only 12-15 "best" awards to hand out among 60 students, so there was a very vaguely-worded catch-all award, the Mrs Borwick Prize, given to around ten more students whose middle-of-the-road performances would otherwise have passed completely unnoticed.

...Unfortunately, we were all bright enough - and cynical enough - to recognise this fact, even before we reached the dizzy heights of sixth-form. The Mrs Borwick Prize was universally referred to as the Mrs Joyful Prize for Raffia Work.

I've still got the books I got for being "Top of the class" in 1967 and 1968 which I treasure. After that, primary school prizes were abolished.
In high school the only prize I ever won was for music in S3,4 and 5.

I won a bike in a school raffle. It was talk of the school for a few days. My 15 minutes of fame.

I remember getting a few little souvenir type thing's from Weymouth (bookmark, pencil and rubber, etc.) for winning the sandcastle competition and despite not being remotely interested in football, the world cup was on, each child was allocated a team and I happened to win that as well.