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36 NELSON HOUSE nelson house have done quite well across the board this year both on and off the sports fields. There are many highlights to date however here are a few that stand a bit longer in the memory than others 11 nelson and 9 nelsons domination during inter House Football down at goals brought two of the early successes to House nelson. The enrichment days across the year have also great source of success pride and most importantly House Points for House nelson whether it be 7 nelson and 8 nelsons persuasive arguments for and against Uniform during the House debates or ibrahim Kahlil impressing in the Year 9 spelling Bee. its not all been about the successes sometimes the highlights have been just seeing the pupils trying their utmost to do their house proud. One such incident was during Mr nichols inter Form Football where 8 nelson demonstrated great resilience battling to a well-earned 2nd place overall. Just to prove we are more than just about sporting prowess the nelson boys went onto win three out of the five inter House Quizzes with ibraheem Yusuf and Caleb Brown 10 nelson Max Jeavons and shoaib raja 9 nelson Jude Folorunso and edward wu 8 nelson all winning their respective inter House Quizzes. it could have been even better if raphael d-Yates and Oliver r-dalton 11 nelson hadnt been pipped right at the last moment in their quiz. ALFRED HOUSE well House alfred it is early days at time of writing we are only beating House Henry. More participation fewer behavioural points keep up getting achievement points and more ideas for house activities should help us move up the table. Thank you to 7 alfred and Ms Brown for coming up with keepy-up competition we raised 40 for our charity the British Heart Foundation. Likewise thank you to all those in House alfred who helped me with the chocolate rafe we raised 70 for Comic relief 2015. some notable victories so far this year included 8 alfred in the spelling competition 9a in debating and suraj singh 10a who beat some impressive competition to collect 1st place in the Key stage 4 photography competition. well done to our quiz participants amman ali salmane nasri nayan dey Jawad Habib gurlin dhillon Jubaer ahmed Bhavik naik aadam varsani syed gilliani Qasim Mushtaq. WILLIAM HOUSE william House has seen a number of encouraging performances in the recent House activities. There were notable winners in the year 7 chess competition and year 7 were the winners of the indoor Football competition in the sports hall. 8w came second in the House Quiz Bilal Khalid and raqis Mahmood. They were also placed third in the House chess Uthman syed and had the overall winner for Key stage 3 in the Photography competition Jordan ricketts. 9w were worthy winners in the Basketball competition an outdoor penalty competition Mohammed Chowdhury and also a second place performance in the table tennis. Both 10w and 11w performed well in the football competitions with 11w coming second in both the indoor and outdoor competitions. The overall winner for the spelling competition in year 11 was from house william Khizar Hussain and also the winners for the inter-house quiz Khizar Hussain and rajdeep Thandi. The sixth form and the staff have also had an impact on the House system with the overall winners of the Photography competition coming from house william syed Hasan and Mr Kilkullen GALAHAD HOUSE after several years without a house system 2014-15 saw the reintroduction of a competitive five house system and this was greeted with genuine enthusiasm from students both old and current. as house leader of galahad house i have been keen to promote enjoyment participation irrespective of placing competitive spirit and a sense of camaraderie with other galahad forms and indeed forms from other houses. at the time of writing galahad house currently sit 2nd out of the five houses and during the course of the year we have achieved some notable successes as follows Yr 9 Badminton doubles champions Mohammed aziz and Balkaar Bhopal Yr 9 Chess champions Mohammed Khanoie and Hasan raziq Yr 11 5-a-side indoor football champions Uzair akhtar Hamza akbar amario Chander Hanif Khan Mohammed Yusuf Mohammed akhtar Yr 7 Basketball champions led by amar rupra who plays at a very high standard for City of Birmingham U12s and U13s Yr 7 Jasbinder singh won not only the internal Hgs german spelling Bee competition but then went on to CLUBs and sOCieTies House System Back Up and Running at HGS ALFRED HOUSE are only beating House Henry. Likewise thank you to all those in House alfred who helped me with the chocolate rafe we raised 70 for Comic relief greeted with genuine enthusiasm from students both old and current. as house leader of galahad house i have been keen to promote enjoyment participation irrespective of placing competitive spirit and a sense of camaraderie with other galahad forms and indeed forms from other houses. at the time of writing galahad house currently sit 2nd out of the five houses and during the course of the year we have achieved some notable successes as follows Yr 9 Badminton doubles champions Mohammed aziz and Balkaar Bhopal Yr 9 Chess champions Mohammed Khanoie and Hasan had the overall winner for Key stage worthy winners in the Basketball competition an outdoor GALAHAD HOUSE of writing galahad house currently sit 2nd out of the five NELSON HOUSE the year have also great source of success pride and most importantly House Points for House nelson whether it WILLIAM HOUSE william House has seen a number of encouraging performances in the recent House activities. There were notable winners in the year 7 chess competition and year 7 were the winners of the indoor Football competition in the sports hall. 8w came second in the House Quiz Bilal Khalid and raqis Mahmood. They were also placed third in the House chess Uthman syed and had the overall winner for Key stage 3 in the Photography competition Jordan ricketts. 9w were worthy winners in the Basketball competition an outdoor after a hiatus of a number of years the school re-launched the inter-house competition in september 2014 to a very excited school population. a traditional part of many British grammar schools our house system had not been part of Hgs for a number of years and many in the school believed that it would bring much fun enjoyment and healthy competition to the pupils and staff. indeed that has turned out to be the case with many pupils and staff getting involved in the inter-house competitions over the year and the school seeing many notable performances both in the field of sport and other non-sporting activities. There have been some tremendous competitions and exciting contests throughout the year as many pupils from all years have got involved in the various house competitions. Up to easter 2015 43 different inter- house events had taken place in school this year including debating basketball table tennis badminton football photography chess spelling cross country keepy upy and an inter-house quiz. even more events were planned for the summer and all of these competitions earned house points for each of our five houses alfred galahad Henry nelson and william. in addition to this every achievement point earned by a pupil for good work or good behaviour was also added to the total. But of course every behaviour point for poor behaviour was taken away from that houses overall total. This was a real incentive for pupils to do well with their academic work as every achievement point was added to their house total. The house names were taken from the stained glass window which is situated in the main school hall Big school and is an original feature from when the school began in 1852. Pupils at Hgs are allocated to a house when they join the school and the house also represents the name of their tutor group in school. we look forward to an overall House competition winner which will be presented at the end of the school year to the house with the most points. This trophy will be engraved with the name of the winning house and the house competition will become a feature of our school activities for many years to come.