Every day people in the UK go hungry for reasons ranging from redundancy to receiving an unexpected bill on a low income. Trussell Trust Foodbanks provide a minimum of three days emergency food and support to people experiencing crisis in the UK and specifically in Birmingham.

Over 13 million people live below the poverty line in the UK.

Foodbanks feed some 1,084,604 people nationwide. Of those helped, approximately 400,000 are children.

At HGS we can do something to help, If every student in the school brings in just one item we will be able to donate more than a 1,000 items to the Trussell Trust’s FoodBank in Birmingham.

Tins and packets are the best items to donate. Please see the list below for ideas about what to donate.

Milk (UHT or powdered)
Sugar (500g)
Fruit juice (carton)
Soup
Pasta sauces
Sponge pudding (tinned)
Tomatoes (tinned)
Cereals
Rice pudding (tinned)
Tea Bags/instant coffee
Instant mash potato
Rice/pasta
Tinned meat/fish
Tinned fruit
Jam
Biscuits or snack bars

Please bring your donations to your Form Tutor or to Ms Brown in Room 3.

Friday November 18^th saw the first ever staging of the PTA Autumn Arts Festival. The evening was a huge success with a packed audience in Big School who really got into the swing of it all.

After the PTA welcomed everyone a video message was played from Adil Ray who sadly could not attend on the night himself. Adil launched the evening and officially opened the event with some customary humour as well as serious points about the importance of the House Competition and enjoying taking a full role in all the opportunities available at HGS. Apache Indian having performed then introduced the House Competition and talked about his AIM Academy. The evening then progressed with performance by Alfred, Galahad, Henry, Nelson and William Houses. There were also performances from the Drama Club and LAMDA students as well as Nachda Sansar and the Bhangra Dancing team. Food and drinks were on sale all evening and there was a fantastic raffle. Godfrey Leung from Alfred was judged to be the winner of the House Competition and was awarded a special prize along with some extra House Points to sit alongside the House Points all the students were awarded for taking part. Apache Indian and the AIM Academy then brought the evening to a close in fitting style.

A huge thank you to everyone who made the event possible and for making it such a fantastic celebration of the arts at HGS.

 

 

This year HGS secured 24 certificates in the recent Senior Maths Challenge – a great achievement. Jovan Sandhu and Safran Hossain secured Gold certificates and have each won a place on the Senior Kangaroo Challenge. 4 Silver certificates and 18 Bronze certificates were also awarded to HGS students. Congratulations!

The Secretary of State for Education The Rt Hon Justine Greening MP visited HGS where she met with the Senior Leadership Team, the Senior Prefect Team and had a tour of the campus. She called in on a Maths, Physics, RS and MFL lesson where she chatted with students and staff. It was a whirlwind visit but an extremely positive and open one where we had the chance to discuss key issues such as funding, admissions, pupil premium, closing the gap and the expansion of existing Grammar Schools. We all very much enjoyed meeting her and her team and it was great to be able to demonstrate that HGS is in and of its community as well as very much a force for social mobility and certainly not a bastion of the white middle class!

Justine Greening tweeted: “Thanks @HandsworthGS for the warm welcome and for great discussions with students and the senior leadership team”.

Dan Brown from the Secretary of States office wrote to Mr Bird: “The Secretary of State very much enjoyed the visit and speaking with you, your staff and students and for the tour of the school. For her first visit to a Grammar School whilst in post it will certainly be one to remember.”

 

Yr 7 beat Holte 9-1 in the second round of the Aston Schools cup. After a tight first half which ended with us leading 2-1 we started the second half with a quick goal from the centre kick which was scored by Ty Barnett shooting from behind the half way line! After that goal we really started to get into a rhythm and the goals started coming. Goals scored- Arjun Toor 4, Ty Barnett 3, Rahim Ali 1 and Zakir Islam 1.  This takes our tally from 4 games to 33 goals scored and 7 conceded.

Mr Griffiths