Table Tennis Success

Hassan Nawaz 10H represented Aston Villa Football Club Premier4sport in the Midlands Table Tennis Championships in Nottingham. His team came 3rd overall. A fantastic achievement.

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Football Success

The Year 11 Football team continue to be successful with a recent 6 – 4 win over Aston Engineering School. Well done.

Handsworth Grammar School Sixth Form Centre

Our new £1.6 Million Sixth Form Centre is now open and operational. This fantastic new facility offers our Sixth Form students their own bespoke area of the school. It comprises a spacious Common Room, a Café Dining area, Work spaces, a fully networked ICT Suite, Classroom space, a Seminar Room and a Board Room. The Sixth Form Centre is linked to the Lodge where there is a one stop shop for Careers advice and guidance and Examinations advice and guidance.

Year 7 Music trip to Symphony Hall

Forty five boys and four members of staff travelled to Symphony Hall to listen to a special Key Stage 3 Concert given by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.  The concert was hosted by Alastair Malloy, a professional percussionist and composer, who had arranged some music especially for this event. Alastair explained how the orchestra and western music has evolved throughout time, and how certain pieces are structured. This involved a fascinating performance of Beethoven’s famous Symphony No 5 clapped by the orchestra! We also heard the theme to Harry Potter, Angry Birds and Pharrell William’s song ‘Happy’. It was a fantastic experience and was enjoyed by all.

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Red Cross Certificate of Appreciation

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Primary School Outreach Work

We continue to work with our Community partners on a number of levels and most recently HGS hosted 90 Year 5 Primary school students for some General Science lessons. The Grove School students enjoyed lessons delivered by Mr Mohsin and Ms Bilkhu on separating mixtures as part of their Science curriculum.

England Call Up!

Shoaib Farooque has been called up to the England Under 15 Cricket Squad by the ECB (England and Wales Cricket Board). He will be training with the ECB squad this winter with a view to playing various England fixtures in the summer. Shoaib has been playing County Cricket for Staffordshire for the past 2 years and all his hard work has paid off with the call to join the England squad. Well done!

NACE Membership

Handsworth Grammar School is pleased to be re-awarded its’ NACE membership for showing consistent commitment to provision for more able and talented pupils in school. NACE is the National Association for Able Children in Education.

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Winter Concert 2014

Handsworth Grammar School musicians, family, and friends assembled for the annual Concert at the Ladywood ARC on Thursday 18th December. A range of performances took place by students playing a variety of instruments; including three guitar ensembles and two keyboard ensembles. Many students showcased their talents through both duets and solos. These included dhol, tabla, guitar, and woodwind duets, and several solo performances on the piano, saxophone, clarinet, guitar and violin. Is there no end to our talents?

It was great to see so many year 7 students taking part in groups notably in the choir and the newly formed year 7 guitar ensemble. The penultimate items were performed by the school orchestra and included themes from two well know programmes – the orchestra just gets better and better with every year! This performance was really enjoyable and the quality reflected the overall standard throughout the evening. The finale in which all students united for a ‘sing-song’ put us all in the mood for the festive season and the start of our holiday.

Special thanks to Mr Ward, Mr Czepiel, Mr Knight, Mrs Whitling, Ms Vaughan, Ms Strudwick and Mr Matharu for their support in preparing everyone for the concert and to Mr Conway for being a wonderful compere.

Robert Frater 10A

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ICT at Cadbury World

On the morning of the 11th December 2014, 30 students from KS3 were lucky enough to get a chance to go to Cadbury world for an educational visit to see how ICT was used to make the chocolate we all love. Soon after 9:00am we departed for Cadbury World where upon arrival we visited the Bournville Experience and learnt that both George and Richard Cadbury were the founders of Bournville village. We discovered how the Bournville village was first created and even attempted creating and designing our own Cadbury packaging. (One of the designs by Arjun Salian, 7 Nelson, can be seen below). We also saw a gigantic chocolate Christmas tree although it wasn’t made of actual chocolate though! From the Bournville experience we then made our way to the worlds’ biggest Cadbury store to make some essential purchases including a selection of unique handmade chocolates. The store also contained chocolate that was exclusive and not for sale in other retail outlets.

We then got to the main part of our trip, which was the ICT educational lecture about how Cadbury use ICT to produce their famous chocolate. Firstly our lecturer informed us about Cadbury’s success, their progression in the confectionery world and their current owners. We also found out that they were recently bought by Mondelēz Europe who are owned by Kraft who are a big distributor of confectionery. The use of ICT was extensive, especially CAD/CAM software which is used to make the moulds and also to see how the new chocolate might look. Adobe Photoshop was used to design the Cadbury flow wrap which can stretch out to over a mile long and only lasts for 45 minutes in the manufacturing process! Our lecturer also explained how other types of software were utilised, including Outlook for emails and a technology called RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) which uses intelligent bar codes to track items.

The quality control process was very impressive and we were informed that if a chocolate bar happened to fall from the production line onto the floor it would immediately be classed as unfit for human consumption and fed to pigs instead. This is because they have a similar digestive system to humans! We then experienced the Cadbury World 4D cinema complete with motion seating and a 3D ride on the Crunchie Rollercoaster.

After lunch we made our way into the Cadbury exhibition and were given lots of free chocolate. The exhibition informed us of the history of chocolate production and we had a demonstration on how chocolate can be produced without the use of machines and technology. Finally we had a tour of the Cadbury factory which was an enjoyable and informative way to end our trip to Cadbury world.

Jude Folorunso, 8 Nelson.

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