Jaisal Shah Shines Bright: Gold Finalist in The Queen's Commonwealth Essay Competition 2024

Jaisal Shah, IGCSE G 9, participated in the prestigious, "The Queen's Commonwealth Essay Competition 2024" and won Gold Finalist Award.

Being selected as a Gold Finalist Award means that his piece was so highly commended that it was submitted to the Final Judging Panel for its consideration to be awarded the Junior or Senior Winner, or Runner-up prize. Out of a record-breaking 34939 competition entries this year, only 154 were selected as Gold Finalist Awards.

The theme for the essay was: ‘One Resilient Common Future: Transforming our Commonwealth’. He submitted his entry in the Senior Category - Write a speech highlighting what you think is the most challenging issue facing the world today, and how Commonwealth values can be used to solve it. His speech highlighted how mental health issues are the most challenging issues the world is facing and with help of resilience and positive thinking it could be resolved.