b'exams. I think the most important trait I have HENRY seen this year with Henry students is Resilience. Resilience is a key personal quality that is required It has been another great year for House Henryin the modern world of work and all Henry at HGS! Some headlines from this years multiplestudents have been able to show that this year. house events include:Some examples of this include: Year 10 placing second in the Indoor AthleticsYear 7s navigating a new school environment and first in both the Handball and Football. with confidence.Having not one but two winners from HenryYear 9s persevering in an important year whereHouse in the School Photography competitionthey pick their options. from Years 12 and 13.Year 10s, 11s, 12s and 13s all showingYear 8 placing third in the House Countdowncommitment to their studies and never giving up. event and second in the House MastermindThese CARES characteristics have been so clearly competition. evident in House Henry, which can be seen in our Year 9 winning the House Spelling competition.solid second place regarding conduct for the whole HENRY V Year 7 coming third in the House Debate and firstyear. As a House, we have very high standards, in the House Flag competition.and these have been maintained throughout the Our House CARES value this year has beenyear by all students. There is a special mention Endeavour, and I am proud to say that I havewhich I would like to include: seen many students generally, but House Henry Special congratulations to Adam Cunninghamstudents in particular, embody this characteristic.for 392 achievement points, twice as many as Endeavour is all about showing resilience,his nearest rival in the form, the highest in House responsibility, bravery, and commitment.Henry and Year 9.Throughout the year, there have been manyAs Head of House Henry, I just want to say a examples of Henry students portraying thesebig thank you to all of those students who have personal attributespupils taking responsibilityembodied what House Henry is all aboutyou are for a low subject grade and doing somethingtrue role models for what HGS pupils can achieve! to change it, or Year 11s and 13s showing a commitment to their studies with upcomingMiss Morgansuccessful signing for Coventry City FC Academy. NELSON We all wish him the best of luck with his journey at the Academy and his future football career.I would first like to thank our House Captain, SimranBoth Tarun Rajput and Varinder Dhillon, of 9N, Kanda, and Deputy House Captain, Husnainachieved a gold certificate in the Intermediate Maths Mahmood, for all their hard work with Nelson HouseChallenge this year. 9N have also been involved this year. I also want to take this opportunity toin some charitable work this year. William Wells is wish our departing 11N, as well as those Nelsonscurrently collecting sponsorship for his 10km run who are leaving us in our Sixth Form, all the luck foralongside his family to help raise money for Cerebal whatever the next part of their journey will be. Palsy Midlands, and in particular to fund a Molli The Nelsons from every year group have excelledSuit. William and his family have already raised over themselves and have represented Nelson House1,700!strongly this year. Lets look at some of our highlightsOur 10Ns have had several successes this year from this past academic year too, with a third place finish in House Handball and 7N students have worked together well as a forma first place finish in the House Athletics event. A NELSON and have achieved two third place finishes in thewell done to the whole of 10N as these success House Football and House Handball. Sportingstories represent a real team effort. Two standout Enrichment Days have given our students theperformances came from Gurmukh Gill with a first chance to work together and share in each othersplace finish in the House Connect 4 competition and success. We also achieved a successful third placea second place finish for Treyan Patel in the House in the House Articulate tournament for Aaron KattriChess tournament. and Dylan Ly, as well as a second place finish in theOur 11Ns have continued to be involved in our Inter House Spelling competition for Aaron Kattri too. AHouse competitions this year with a winning entry special well done to Aaron here for his successesfor the House Photography competition for Mubarak and for helping to add to our House total.Da Silva, and another victory for Hasin Safi in the 8N took part in a Science CSI event during theHouse Spelling competition. December Enrichment Day, investigating who killedWell done to the top achievers in each form below:Mr Kafai. Our 8N students, in particular KartarNicholas Da Silva Xavier Woods (7N) +290Varaitch, Jedd Vergara, Masum Wais, SafdariqbalQasim Khan (8N) +270Javed and Abhay Bains, managed to achieve a thirdJai Sekha (9N) +200place in the CSI competition, giving a gory accountDaniel Alloh (10N) +240of how Mr Kafai had been killed and who the mainEhan Taseen (11N) +170suspect could be. Amar Dhillon added to our House tally with a resounding win in the House CountdownI am really pleased with all our successes this yearcompetition. Nelson House would also like to takelets build on these great achievements next year.this opportunity to congratulate Lucas Daniels on hisMrs Saleem56'