Sports Success Update
The Year 7 Cricket team beat St John Wall by 10 wickets. The Year 9 Cricket team beat Hamstead Hall by 70 runs. The Year 7 Cricket team are also into the third round of the Stacey Jackson Cup – a Birmingham Cricket Cup Competition. Congratulations!
Handsworth Association of Schools Primary Athletics Festival
Josef Feivan writes: “ 12 Students from the HGS Athletics team travelled to the Alexander Stadium which was the home of the American Olympic team last year for London 2012. Our role was to help with the Handsworth Association of Schools Primary Athletics Festival as Young Leaders. We arrived early on a hot sunny day and had half an hour to set up the Javelin and Long Jump events. Over 10 Schools took part and the Students involved were from Years 4, 5 and 6. It was a good day out for our Athletics team and it was good to see how enthusiastic the younger Students were about Athletics.”
National Support Staff Team of the Year visit Downing Street
Having won the Team of the Year Award at the National Awards for School Support Staff (NASBM) last October two of the Catering team are visiting David Cameron (by invitation!) at Downing Street this week. Watch this space for an update on how they got on at Number 10.
HGS Old Boy shows real determination in the face of adversity
When he retired HGS Old Boy Mr Paul M Smith decided to study for an Open University degree. Paul graduated this week with a BSc (Open) at a ceremony in Milton Keynes. This achievement is very significant as Paul suffered a major heart attack in 2011, and had to be shocked back to life, half-way through his penultimate module. Many congratulations Paul!
