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.
On the 14th March 33 A level Geography students departed to conduct their geographical investigations in the Lake District.
Upon arrival we headed out for a 6 Km walk up to Easdale Tarn to see for ourselves the glacial and fluvioglacial landforms which we had learnt in the class room. This was a challenge even for A2 Geographers as they had to unpick the landscape and look for evidence of the Loch Lomond Readvance; a period when intensely cold conditions returned briefly after about 12,900 years ago when an ice cap developed in western Scotland, extending from Torridon to Loch Lomond, and small corrie glaciers were carved out again in the high mountains.
The next day we conducted our geographical investigation on the River Eea to see how the characteristics (such as the hydraulic radius and velocity of the river) changed as you went downstream. This meant we went from the source to the mouth at Morecambe Bay, which has the third largest tidal range in the world. Then in the evening we processed the data we collected and evaluated our methodology to see how we could improve it in the future.
After having a day and a half of physical geography we then turned our attention to human geography, much to Mr Bird’s delight! This involved an investigation to contrast a rural and urban settlement, which involved us getting closer to plutonium than we have ever been before as we did a “drive by” past the shipyard currently building the new ‘Astute Class’ nuclear attack submarines. Meanwhile the Year 13s went to the coast to study the change in vegetative communities as a result of succession on exposed coastal sand.
For the final morning we visited the Kirkby Moor to look at a wind farm. It contained 12 wind turbines, each producing 400KW to power around 2700 homes. This was one of the first sites to host a wind farm back in 1993, and there are proposals to upgrade the turbines with more efficient modern technology, but for reasons we weren’t able to get to the bottom of, the latest plan is for the existing turbines to be decommissioned in the next couple of years. This was a great insight into the complex issues surrounding renewable energy. At the same time Year 13s carried out survey on to establish the different ecologies on managed and non-managed moorland.
The evenings consisted of a seminar and then recreational time, which we spent playing football in the sports hall and also venturing out into the forest at night.
Overall this trip was an invaluable experience and it will set us up well for our Geographical Skills exam in the Summer.
By Josef Feiven 12AHA, Jasdeep Bhambra 12AFI and Harvinder Bhambra 12NHA
