Young Musician of the Year 2011
This years ‘Young Musician‘ award goes to:
Joe
This years ‘Most Promising Young Musician’ award goes to:
Krishan
Well done to all students that took part.
150th Anniversary
January 2012 marks the start of the 150th anniversary of Handsworth Grammar School. To celebrate this momentous occasion a number of events and fundraising activities will be held throughout the year, culminating in a Grand Gala Dinner in December 2012.
For many years the School has produced a magazine called The Bridge and the earliest edition available, dates back to 1913. In the run up to the start of the anniversary year we will be publishing extracts from various editions. The first extract can be found here.
These snippets are not intended to be an official record of the School’s history, but to allow visitors to our website an insight and maybe an opportunity to reminisce into the past activities of the school.
If you have copies of school reports, memorabilia or factual information that we could use to write an update to the official School history then please contact us directly.
Watch this site for the latest news and updates of how you can get involved in the events and the gala dinner.
Red Nose Day 2011
Well done to everyone who helped raise money for Red Nose Day.
We raised a total of
£2289.46
The results for the main activities were:
Football: The Sixth Form beat the staff by 7-2
Penalty Shoot Out: Tyler in Year 7 and Shahid in Year 10 both scored 3 goals and won a prize
Basketball: The Staff beat Sixth Form by 20-0
T-Shirt Competition:
Aniel Year 9 and Zakir Year 8 both got 1st place
RND – Wrap The School
Students and staff have been busy this morning wrapping the school up for Red Nose Day.
RND – Results So Far
Well done to everyone who have been participating in the fund raising activities for Red Nose Day that have happened so far.
The results of Monday – Wednesdays main activities are:
Monday Football: The Sixth Form beat the staff by 7-2
Tuesday Penalty Shoot Out: Tyler in Year 7 and Shahid in Year 10 both scored 3 goals and won a prize
Wednesday Basketball: The Staff beat Sixth Form by 20-0
The rest of the weeks activities can be found here
RND – Library
The Learning Hub is celebrating this year’s Comic Relief day with a display, highlighting some of the things you can do to raise money for this worthy cause.
To find out more about what you can do to raise money for Red Nose Day, please visit this link: www.rednoseday.com
RND – Activities
| Activity | Location & Time |
Monday | Football – Staff v 6th form Writing a song for comic relief | Sports Hall @ 12:50 M1 @ 12:50 |
Tuesday | Penalty Shoot Out | Sports Hall @ 12:50 |
Wednesday | Design a ‘T’ shirt Basketball | RM12 @ 12:50 Sports Hall @ 12:50 |
Thursday | Hunt the Red Nose Competition Cake Competition | Hall / Main Entrance @ 1:00 |
Friday Red Nose Day | Sixth form event Cake sale Wrap the school | Hall @ 12:40 Hall @ 12:40 |
11+ Results
Parents who would like their Son’s results from the 11+ exams need to write to the Headteacher, Mr Shephard,
Please ensure your Son’s name, date of birth and postal address are included in all letters and emails.
Replies to letters and emails will be sent by post as soon as possible.
Desert Island Books
This is a similar idea to Desert Islands Discs – a BBC Radio 4 programme that has been running since 1942! On Desert Island Discs guests are asked to choose the 8 records they would take if they were stranded in a desert island.
Recent celebrities on the show include Tammi Grey Thompson, Ewan McGregor, Gordon Ramsey, Gok Wan and Frank Cottrell Boyce. For World Book Day this week Handsworth Grammar School are inviting people to list their 8 favourite books with a chance of winning a prize.
ICT Visit: Birmingham Science Park Aston
On Thursday 27th January 2011 a group of ICT students in the lower and upper sixth visited Birmingham Science Park Aston. We met Mr. Hugo Russell, an IT entrepreneur, he guided us to a state of the art video conferencing suite, where we were shown Tandberg’s video conferencing system costing approximately £80,000. It had a true-to-life picture interface and a clever moving HD camera connected to a very large TV which had call making capabilities. This effectively enables meetings to be conducted in several places around the world simultaneously on one large screen without the need for transport. A direct connection can be made between universities and schools from the suite to discuss research and product development, to create a greater depth of knowledge on one particular project by using more unique minds. We were also given an opportunity to interact with the system which was fun; this was supported by a technology seminar which lasted about 90 minutes.
Next we met the Managing Director of an upcoming, rapidly growing social networking games company called Soshi games who announced a top secret game project concerning music. The company initially started with three members of staff and now is expecting a turnover of £20million in the next 5 years with 20 staff. The company is shortly releasing a game called “Village raffles” on Facebook. We were given advice by Mr. Russell about the opportunities in new emerging technologies, where there is bound to be financial gain. Intel AppUp development, which is currently under exploited and overlooked due to Apple and Android applications development which is peaking at present, was felt to be an under developed opportunity. He felt that in the near future social networking games on platforms, such as Facebook, will eclipse the gaming console and most gaming will take place online with different users around the world, which is looking very likely. Hugo instructed anyone who is serious to set up a business and has a genuine business plan with a movement made already, should approach Aston Science Park who would be happy to accommodate the business free for 6 months subject to conditions.
The knowledge gained from this visit gave an invaluable insight into the convergence of Business and ICT and how things are marketed to us, for example 3G is put across to us as the consumer as an exciting new feature when a 4G wifi connection already exists at the Science Park. I also personally learnt that business powered by Information Communication Technology is an essential part of the world we live in today. We also learnt that to succeed in business you should not fear failure as it is a stepping stone to success. These concepts will support me in my Advanced Diploma Course where ideas and experience from the ICT Business world need to be applied to work, for example in database development and website development which I am currently studying.
This is an exciting time for ICT as it is being rapidly evolved to comfortably integrate and positively impact all aspects of our lives and make us all dependent upon it. The Visit was an over whelming success. Another educational visit which is currently being arranged is to Land Rover Solihull, which is a thrilling prospect as it will provide an opportunity to see the latest ICT and manufacturing technologies!
Raihan
