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.

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

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′.

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 25^th to 29^th 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 8^th and 12^th 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.