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Hertfordshire Mark Scholarship Fund
Provincial Grand Master and Team Visit Scholarship Fund Recipients at The University of Hertfordshire
The Provincial Grand Master, Chris Radmore, accompanied by the Assistant Provincial Grand Master, Colin Hellyer, and the Provincial Grand Charity Steward, Steve Washington, pictured with Natalie Sawyer and Jenny Polley at the University of Hertfordshire on 26th of January 2009.
Jenny Polley [right] is studying for a BSc in Palliative Care and says:
I am very grateful to the Mark Master Masons for giving me the opportunity to become a Palliative Care Nurse. I have been encouraged by the senior Mark Master Masons continual interest in my progress as well as through their financial support. I qualified as a nurse many years ago and had taken a break in service to bring up my children and accompany my husband abroad. When I returned to the UK I fully intended to go back into nursing but found that the employment market was very difficult so I started to volunteer at my local Hospice and embarked on a short self-funded course at the University of Hertfordshire to learn more about palliative care. As I was beginning my studies I was extremely fortunate to obtain a scholarship through the Mark Master Masons and this continual support over the last 3 years has given me the chance to study for a degree in Palliative Care which I hope to complete successfully this year. The degree course has given me the opportunity to learn so much more about end of life care and led directly to my obtaining a permanent post as a Staff Nurse at my local Day Hospice, Grove House in St Albans, which I started last November. I feel very privileged to do the work I do in helping to look after people as they reach the end of their lives and am convinced that without the Mark Master Masons support this would not have been possible. I am determined to graduate this year and look forward to sharing my success with the Mark Master Masons at the Graduation ceremony in St Albans Abbey in November.
Natalie Sawyer [left] is studying for a BEd in Primary Education and says:
I am currently completing the final year of a BEd Primary Education degree. I am focussing on lower primary; children aged 3 – 7 in the Early Years Foundation Stage and Key Stage One, and also specialising in History. The scholarship I have received annually from the Mark Master Masons of Hertfordshire has been much appreciated and extremely useful whilst completing my degree. As I do not have exams to pass, I have six assignments per year based on the different subjects of the National Curriculum and Professional Studies. In order to pass these I have to do a considerable amount of reading and I purchased these books using the scholarship money. Without them I would not have been able to complete the assignments and would therefore have failed the course. These books are also a great help to me whilst on placement and teaching a class, giving me ideas and resources to use in lessons.
The course is full time and I am expected to be either in lectures or in schools every day from 9.00am until 5.00pm. The scholarship money has enabled me to continue my studies without having to work, which I would have had to have done as there are a lot of travel expenses!
I have recently completed my skills tests and I am about to start an eight week placement in a Year 1 Class. Currently I am looking for a job and after gaining my Qualified Teacher Status in May I hope to be teaching my first full time class in September. I would like to thank the Mark Master Masons of Hertfordshire again for the scholarship over the three years of my degree, it has been a great help. Thank you.
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