University of Birmingham Summer School
Harjot Dosanjh and Brandon Masih have successfully secured places on the University of Birmingham Year 10 Summer School, Your Future – Your Choice. Both students will attend the University for 3 day placements in Health related careers in July. Congratulations!
Sutton Trust Summer School Success
Three HGS Year 12 students have been successful in their applications to the Sutton Trust Summer Schools this academic year.
Anisa Farooq and Tukeer Hussain have been offered places on the Warwick University Sutton Trust Summer School from 25th to 29th July. Anisa will be attending the Law Degree Course whilst Tukeer will be attending the Economics Degree Course.
In addition to this, Abdi Mohamed, Iffat Jahangir and Tahera Rahman have all been offered places on the Cambridge University Sutton Trust Summer School for Medicine.
This week long course takes place between 8th and 12th August and will be held at St Catherine’s College, Cambridge University.
These are fantastic opportunities for our Year 12 students and will enable them to have a real insight into life as a student at two of the best Universities not only in this country but globally. It will also put them in an ideal position to make a strong application to those Universities in September. They have secured their places from tough competition as there were hundreds of applications for a very small number of places. This is a fantastic opportunity as well as a wonderful achievement and we are certain that they will have an amazing experience.
Meet the Marines
A group of 15 Year 12 and Year 13 students from HGS visited Upton Warren in Bromsgrove on Wednesday 27 April to take part in an exciting day, working with the Royal Marine Commandos.
The students listened to a welcome from Captain Simon Dack MBE, a Captain in the Royal Marines, who is the Officer in Charge of the Commando Recruiting Troop based at CTCRM in Devon. Captain Dack talked about the wonderful opportunities in the Royal marines, and also their proud history.
Then the students took part throughout the day in activities ranging from fitness work, high wall climbing, lazer quest, and were even passengers in lightweight Zodiac boats which sped around the lake at Upton Warren.
Our students were accompanied by Mr Conway and Ms May from the Sixth Form team and also Mr Morgan, the School Business Manager and himself a former Naval Officer who served for many years.
The photo shows Sushanto Chanda (12 AHA) taking part in the high wall climb with a Royal Marines Commando Instructor. Our students were great ambassadors for HGS and were complimented on their determination, focussed approach and zest for life. All involved had a fabulous day doing something completely different and enjoying every minute!
Futsal Champions
The Under 16 Futsal team won the West Midlands Regional Championships at the Hockley Futsal Centre last night.
The team went into the final fixture, after four previous games, knowing that only a victory would do. North Leamington School were our opponents and they too needed to beat us to win the trophy. A draw would have handed the trophy to Coventry Champions President Kennedy, but in the end it was a fantastic 3-0 victory which gave the brave boys from HGS the trophy, and passage into the National Finals.
Our team was made up of Myles Henry (Captain) Francis Czech, Shuja Mehmood, Emile Thompson-Smith, Ettan Korpal, and Taran Gill who unfortunately was injured in one of the group matches and had to miss the final game.
We look forward to the National Finals in June.
Photo shows the team:
(l-r) Mr Conway (coach), Emile Thompson-Smith, Shuja Mehmood, Ettan Korpal, Myles Henry and Francis Czech.
Bridge Trust Society Football Fixture
The HGS Sixth Form team suffered a narrow 4-3 defeat to their more experienced opponents from the HGS Old Boys’ Football Club on Friday 29 April.
The match was held at the HGS Old Boys’ Romilly Avenue headquarters, which will soon have a brand new pavilion and changing facility, to add to the excellent playing facilities.
The game was played in a terrific spirit as the students took an early 2-0 lead with goals from Fahim Ahmed and Sonjeet Paul. Yet, constant pressure from the Old Boys’ eventually resulted in a defeat, despite a third goal from Shuja Mehmood. The student team were assisted by Mr Conway, playing in the middle of defence alongside Amrit Sandhu, and ably supported by the energetic Pavandeep Marva in goal who made a number of fine saves.
The boys very much enjoyed the post- match hospitality and hopefully some of the student team will go on to play for the Old Boys’ in the near future.
Thanks to Society President, Ashley Winters for organising what we hope will be an annual fixture, and we hope to see some of the HGS student team going on to be playing and non-playing members of the Society for many years to come.
