Birmingham Cup Football Update
Year 11 beat St Albans 4 – 3 in their Birmingham Cup game last night. However Year 8 lost 4 – 3 to John Henry Newman in a close fought match.
MacMillan Cancer Support
Year 13 Students led by Sharaye Campbell made and sold cakes in aid of MacMillan Cancer Support on Friday 27th September. £405 was raised by the sale of cakes, drinks and donations by Pupils and Staff. Many thanks to all the Students and Staff who helped to make and sell the cakes.
Aston League Football Success
Year 10 enjoyed a close game against Holyhead School in the Aston football league – The game ended in a 4-3 victory to HGS.
Well done!
Open Evening in the Mathematics Department
There was lots of puzzle solving fun in room 27 at open evening. HGS students, year 5 and 6 visitors, their parents and even the teachers all were having a go! The winner was a young man called Gillis (but that was bettered by our own Al-Fahyd in 8A – which was actually bettered by none other than our own Mr Nicklin!).
Lots of our young visitors went away with our puzzle books, here are the solutions that I’m sure you’ve worked hard on:
Handsworth Grammar Further Mathematicians flourish at Warwick University
Places to study at the Mathematics department at Warwick University are highly prized. Not only are the requirements extremely challenging (A*AA grades required at A Level) but you must also sit an additional examination known as the STEP paper. Last year we had two Handsworth Grammar boys accepted onto the course at Warwick and this year I took some of our Further Mathematicians (Gulfraz Ahmed, Nazem Khan, Arrandeep Dhillon and Bapinder Bansal) for a STEP paper problem solving day at the prestigious Mathematics Institute. It was a wonderful day at my old university and our boys did us proud. Up against the very best Mathematicians from around the country the boys performed very well and were a credit to themselves and our school. Indeed they put the other students through their paces! We had the perfect end to the day when five prizes were drawn at random. Amazingly between the six of us we won three of the five prizes! This in itself was no mean achievement as there were over one hundred people at the event. What are the odds (that’s your homework by the way!)?
These achievements really go some way to further illustrate the vast improvement in Learning and Teaching taking place at Handsworth Grammar, particularly in Mathematics and I hope to see many more of our boys and girls studying at Warwick University in the future.
Mr Dhillow (Head of Mathematics)
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Double Header Football Success!
Year 7 launched their new football season in great style with a double header victory over Aston Manor. HGS won 8-2 in a joint Cup and League fixture. This is a great start to the new season – well done!
The Benefits of Reading for Pleasure!
Recent research has shown that reading for pleasure really benefits children and is important for a child’s development. Reading for pleasure in free time enables children to perform better in Mathematics and English. Please click on the link below and read the article in full. It makes very interesting reading!
HGS Teacher has his hair cut off in aid of charity
Mr Sood who until recently taught Law at HGS will be having all his hair cut off to raise funds for the Little Princesses Trust which provides wigs for cancer patients. Prior to him leaving HGS at the end of last term Mr Sood (who was ably supported by Sixth Form students) had collected over £400 towards the fundraising event. Please click the link to the press release for more details.
Year 7 raise funds for Lepra
Year 7 raised over £300 for Lepra recently which is a great achievement – well done. Lepra work on a global scale fighting disease, poverty and prejudice.
New Sixth Form Centre – work begins!
Exciting times are ahead for HGS as work has started on our brand new £1 million Sixth Form Centre and as a result you will notice that the Woodbine Pub is no more and the ground is being checked and cleared in readiness for the build phase of the project to commence. Work has also started on the new Substation by the back gate as this is an integral part of the new Sixth Form project. There will be some minor disruption during the next year as the project continues to take shape so please bear with us at the busy times but we are excited about the prospect of having an excellent new facility operational for our Sixth Form this time next year. The final product will mean that Handsworth Grammar School will offer its students one of the best Sixth Form facilities in the city. Do visit the gallery to see up to date photographs as the work continues.
