Gavindeep Samra and Maugam Purewal who are both in year 12 were on work experience last week working with “Coca Cola ParkLives”. This is an organisation sponsored by Coca Cola who promote activities in local parks for young people and indeed older people. These activities can include tennis, football or simply walking and jogging around the parks of Birmingham. This is an initiative to get more local people using the free sports facilities in our city parks.

Maugam and Gavindeep were both offered summer employment as a result of their work experience, and the picture shows them both at the Alexander stadium holding the London 2012 Olympic torch.   Gavindeep is particularly keen to take a Sports Development and Coaching degree when he leaves HGS, and this experience will be invaluable to him when he applies to universities.

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Exam Glossary

The word of the week commencing 22nd June 2015 is: Mercurial.

This means subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind.

“his mercurial temperament”

The display is produced by the student librarians.

This display can be found in our Library.

On the 11^th, 12^th and 13^th of May over 100 Year 7 students (and 11 teachers and other staff) went on a residential trip to Whitemoor Lakes, which is an activity centre near Alrewas by Lichfield. We had a great time doing numerous activities like climbing, zip-wiring, abseiling, high ropes, team games and problem-solving. These were the outdoor activities. The indoor activities were fencing and archery. In addition, there were a couple of water activities – canoeing and raft-building.  During the breaks and in the evening, there were some games to play including pool, table hockey and table tennis. We enjoyed playing them!  Furthermore, the food at the Centre was delicious; there was variety of food to eat including vegetarian and halal choices. On the subject of food, there were also two vending machines, one for snacks and the other for drinks.  At 10:30 pm each day we went to bed. There were 4 lodges -Buttermere, Chasewater, Coniston and Derwent. In most dormitories (for 4 or 5 people), there were one bunk bed and two single beds and in other rooms there were two bunk beds and one single. There was a lot of space to store clothes in wardrobes and there was a shower room attached to each room. In each lodge, there also was a lounge with a television which had all the Freeview channels. Overall, our visit to Whitemoor Lakes was the best residential trip ever!!!

Sundeep Dhillon 7W

Our Year 8 Cricket squad recently supported the Handsworth Association of Schools Primary Cricket Festival which was held at the Wood Lane playing fields. Eight different Primary Schools took part in the event and our Young Leaders helped run all the different matches which saw Cherry Orchard go through to the Birmingham Finals. Our Young Leaders received much praise from the Primary School staff and the Handsworth Association Managers. Well done!