Last night saw over 90 Musicians from Handsworth Grammar School perform to a packed and delighted audience at Ladywood ARC. The Church was left with literally standing room only at the back as our Musicians performed a full and varied programme of music. We enjoyed the talents of the Choir, Saxophone Quintet and Guest Clarinet, Keyboard Ensembles, Saxophone and Clarinet Jazz Group, Tabla Group, Dhol Group, Woodwind Ensemble, Guitar Ensembles, Full Orchestra as well as various solo pieces. The evening was completed by a rousing finale which paid tribute in part to some of Birmingham’s other talented Musicians from years gone by! It was fantastic to see Students from Year 7 to Year 13 taking part and being so well supported by Parents, Friends, Family, Staff and Governors. Mr Conway was a splendid compere for the evening and special thanks should go to Mr Ward and his team who worked so hard with and for our Students – Ms Vaughan, Mr Czepiel, Mr Knight, Ms Strudwick, Mrs Whitling and Mr Matharu. Well done!

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Please see our final E-Newsletter for this term in the Publications area of the website.

As part of our recent Citizenship Day Year 10 worked with the Police on raising awareness and education surrounding the issue of Knife Crime. Our Students were praised by the Police for their sensible, mature and intelligent approach to the topic. Please click on the video link to see a sample of the work produced by our Students – Mohsin Gandhi, Reedwan Ali and Ayyan Sattar of 10 Henry.

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This term our sixth formers and I have attended both of the FREE maths lectures run by Birmingham University’s Maths department. The first entitled ‘Maths in the making of the modern world’ was of great interest to our students giving them an insight into where Maths can lead in terms of careers (for more info please see mathscareers.org.uk) and also the type of mathematics they can experience at university which is much broader than at A level.

The second lecture entitled ‘Pi, interstellar dust clouds, single pixel camera: some surprising uses of random numbers’ was a far more rigorous lecture which went into the detail of how high resolution images can be compressed to much smaller sizes and how surprisingly we can unpack a single pixel camera images to give us an image which is almost identical to that taken by the new Nokia Lumia 41 megapixel camera.

After Christmas there are 3 more lectures, please click here for more details.

Moodle

The maths moodle pages are constantly being updated for all year groups, these include important resources such as:

• Revision sheets to use before assessment tests for years 7-11
• Sample and past papers for GCSE
• The interactive GCSE test book

As well as our

• Maths Fun page

Maths Prizes

Three lucky HGS students will be receiving an Amazon voucher for Christmas!
In the maths department we have been giving any student who has received a merit a raffle ticket. At the end of term we will be drawing three winners who will receive £20, £15 or £10 amazon voucher.

If you miss out this term remember we start again for the spring term – so impress your teachers and start collecting your tickets.

Well done year 11s

Our top two sets sat their GCSE in November and will be receiving their results in January. For the first time at HGS we have students who will have top grades in GCSE Maths before the summer. These students are now working on Additional Maths which is a AS equivalent qualification. They will all have a great opportunity to take Maths far beyond GCSE and be successful at A level.

Lastly, a big thank you to our head teacher Mr Bird who despite pressure from government policy changes decided to keep this fantastic opportunity in place for our students. HGS boys have benefitted from an opportunity which is starting to be taken away from many other students across the country.