Duke of York Digital Enterprise Award
Congratulations to both Year 7 and Year 8 students who have successfully completed The Duke of York Bronze Award in Digital Enterprise this term. Through a series of online challenges and events, each student has won career enhancing badges for their bronze award with hard work, determination and digital skills. Challenges are split into four main categories, each with its own set of badges to be won including Online safety, Cyber Security and Brain Hacks. The award has been funded by different charities including the Prince Andrew charitable trust and is the Digital equivalent of the Duke of Edinburgh award. All students will now be working hard over the summer holidays to achieve the Duke of York Silver certification.
Higher Education Week at School
Year 12 students had three days of higher education support and information as well as two different trips from 25-29 June.
On Monday 25th, all of the year 12 students attended the UCAS Higher Education Exhibition at the NEC in Birmingham. Supported by the year1 2 tutors the students had the opportunity to speak to university representatives from every HE provider in the country, as well as attend various UCAS workshops to help them to prepare for their university application.
On Thursday 28th the students were guided through the UCAs process by Mr Duck, UCAS Co-ordinator and then had the opportunity to hear from former students about their UCAS journeys.
Our ex -student panel was made up of Aliyah Mohammed and Riju Shah who have both just completed their first year at Aston University, Mayur Parmar who has just graduated from the University of Leeds, Hung Nguyen who has just completed his first year at the UOB, Rahul Patel who has had a pre-university year working in Bath, before starting a Natural Sciences degree at the University of Cambridge in September, Bobby Bola, who started a degree at the UOB and has now changed to pursue a medical career, and finally Hasan Din who left HGS and decided to take an alternative route in his career and is now an apprentice with Cap Gemini a national IT company.
We would like to thank the ex -students for their kindness in coming back to HGS to share their UCAS journeys with our present students.
Finally, all of our year 12 students visited the University of Birmingham on Friday June 29th where they had a campus tour and attended lectures on “Applying for university” and “Student Finance”.
Our thanks go to Mohammed Ansar of the UOB Outreach team, who facilitated our visit.
Prom Night Success
The year 13s celebrated the end of their year 13 exams with the second school Prom to be held in recent years at Parklands in Hockley. Organised by Head Boy Suraj Sanhi assisted by Zubair Javed and Aman Choudhury assisted by Maryam Shafiq and Anastasia Martin, our students donned their finest outfits to finish of their careers at HGS with a memorable night.
Many thanks to all of the staff and students who made the evening so memorable and also to Ms May who co-ordinated a very memorable “Awards Ceremony” for our students.
We will be publishing some of the photos of the evening on the school TV screens.
Mr Conway
Ex-Students Return
A panel of ex students returned to speak to Year 12 students about their UCAS experiences.
From left- right
Mr Bird, Mayur Parmar, Rahul Patel, Hung Nguyen, Bobby Bola, Hasan Din, Riju Shah, Aliyah Mohammed, Mrs Hartt.
HGS receives Schools Guide 5 Star Award
King Edward VI Handsworth Grammar School for Boys has been awarded the top rating of 5 Stars in the Real Schools Guide 2018 published by the Birmingham Mail.
The guide is put together annually based on local government data and by using 50 different measures such as pupils’ attainment, average grades, the quality of teaching and school inspection information. HGS received the top overall rating of 5 Stars as well as the top rating of 5 Stars in the key groups of:
Attainment
Progress
Attendance
Outcomes.
This places HGS as a Top 10 Birmingham school as we are ranked 3rd out of all the schools in Birmingham.
This is a significant achievement and all staff and students are to be congratulated.
Focus on Education
As public exams reach their conclusion for another year it is worth remembering that the practice of remembering in a test doesn’t just lead to an exam result but also improves future recall of information. In this TES article Daisy Christodoulou describes a study from 2010 where some students attempted to learn by studying more while another group revised by testing. They found that those who revised by testing had much higher levels of recall than those who simply studied the material, and that they also performed better when asked to apply this knowledge flexibly.