Congratulations to 2 previous students, Jordan Foley and Mohammed Shafqat who were presented with their DofE Gold Awards on Monday 16th May at Buckingham Palace. The certificates were presented by Nick Hewer and HRH the Duke of Edinburgh was there to meet them and offer his congratulations too.
HGS recently enjoyed considerable success in the UK Junior Mathematics Challenge. Our boys were awarded:
Hubert Walczak and Jason Bhatti have both secured a place in the next round – the Junior Kangaroo.
Well done and congratulations to all who took part on a great achievement.
On Parents Evening for Year 7, our parents were invited to come and hear about our comments on our studies and behaviour. It was from 4:30 to 6:30, in Big School and also other parts of the school. Lots of students arrived at the school, to have their parents evening with their subject teacher. I was hoping to have achieved the highest I can in my studies and behaviour.
At Parents Evening, each appointment was 5 minutes. The system worked well, and everyone managed to have the appointments, and discuss the improvements that are needed in order to get a good grade. Also, the teachers advised other resources that will be helpful and help us achieve our target, like Kerboodle and MyMaths.
Overall, I enjoyed the Parents Evening session, because I had good comments about my behaviour and education, and also, my subject teachers gave me help, for improving my work, to get a good result in my end of year exam and help me achieve my target level and mark.
My parents were happy with my comments and my achievements for each subject. I and my parents would like to thank my subject teachers we met, for helping me in my lessons and thanks for trying your hardest to make me improve my work.
Gowshikan Gajadevan
7 Alfred
The House quiz competitions took place on Friday 15 April with every year group in the school competing for points for their house.
Each of the house teams were represented by two pupils who had to answer questions in front of a live HGS audience in the hall.
The overall winners for each house competition were as follows:
Year 7 :
Joint first place between Alfred (Rohan Minhas and Jack Griffith), Nelson (Israel Taylor –Carlton and Craig Oshiogwe) and William (Ali Mohammed and Gurshaan Dhillon).
Year 8 :
First place Henry (Kijani Sullivan and Raul Bhatti)
Year 9:
Joint first place between Alfred Sahil Mufti and Ikhlas Sayed) and Galahad ( Majid Khan and Subhan Mahmood)
Year 10:
Winner William (Bilal Akram and Manamrit Bains)
Year 11:
Winner Nelson (Caleb Brown and Marcus Grandison)
6th Form
Winner: William (Khizar Hussain and Rajdeep Thandi)
Congratulations to our two outstanding Young Musicians of the Year 2016. They have both been awarded trophies for their successful performances in the annual competition. Joe Feiven was named ‘Young Musician of the Year 2016′ and Godfrey Leung was named ‘Most Promising Young Musician of the Year 2016′.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
