Please see the certificates and letters bellow from Children in Need, Birmingham Homeless, Guide Dogs for the Blind and Cancer Research UK.
As a school community we raised over £5,000 for those good causes as well as making our annual contribution to the Trussell Trust Food Bank.
Thank you for all of your support.
Please click here to see a news post from the B30 Foodbank.
Please also see the Certificate of Appreciation below:
Thanks to everyone for all their kind donations for this years food bank collection.
As you can see we filled the van again!
Special thank you to 7 Alfred, Ms Brown and Mr Duck.
To coincide with the country’s General Election held on Thursday December 12th, the sixth form held our very own “Election Hustings” where students representing the five major parties explained their parties’ manifestos to the sixth form audience.
The candidates also took questions and in a lively atmosphere, all of the five candidates demonstrated real knowledge of their parties’ political views and showed their political knowledge.
Well done to all of the candidates who took part and made speeches in front of an audience of students and staff.
Every sixth form student was then entitled to vote and the results were as follows:
178 votes Cast;
Jude Folorunso, Labour 103
Iessa Hussain, Conservative 6
Matthew Denning, Liberal Democrat 12
Mustafa Jahangir, Brexit 43
Tehreen Pervez, Green 14
Mr Conway
The whole of year 12 visited Aston university on 10th December as part of the programme to prepare students for university application.
This was a very good day with our staff and students meeting up with many ex HGS students who are now studying at the university. We even met up with the Aston University Vice Chancellor, Professor Alec Cameron who was delighted to see us at Aston.
Many thanks to the outreach team at Aston led by Tom Gregory and his student ambassadors.
Mr Conway
Please see below for more information on St Mary’s Christmas Tree Festival:
After seven years at Ladywood ARC, I decided to move the concert to St. Mary’s Church. The beautiful church sits on the edge of Handsworth park and is the resting place of Matthew Boulton, James Watt and William McGregor. For 20 years McGregor served in various capacities as president, director and chairman at Aston Villa, as well as being instrumental in the formation of the Football League. He also served as both chairman and president of the Football League and was also chairman of The Football Association (FA).
As usual, we heard a range of solo items from students (including Isaac Minto, Phil Mortera and Cody Casals), as well as piano duets (Grace Roberts, Hanz Camanzo and Phil Mortera), and an organ duet from Hanz and Phil. We heard Christmas items from the string ensemble, woodwind ensemble, brass quartet and school orchestra. The year 7 choir opened the evening with a beautiful rendition of Silent Night with organ accompaniment. This was also the first opportunity to hear the newly-formed ‘HGS Jazz Quartet’ as they played Autumn Leaves. The packed church had a musical treat and we look forward to hearing these students later in the year.
I am very grateful to Rev. Dr. Bob Stephen, Rector of Handsworth, for allowing us to use his beautiful church. We hope to return there next year.
On Friday 6th December, 46 Computer Science students from KS3 were selected to go on the Cadbury World educational trip to gain an insight into how Cadbury World uses computer science within their business. Upon arrival, we enjoyed a 45-minute talk on how Cadbury uses technology in manufacturing. Some of the topics also included the effect that cybersecurity has on the organization and the role of social media marketing within Cadbury’s. Other aspects examined were the design, production, monitoring and tracking used within the company. The benefits of computing are significant within the company as it provides them with various options that keep them up to date with the demands of modern society.
The students were also able to travel back in time to the reformation of the Victorian Bull Street where they met John Cadbury, a Quaker entrepreneur who in 1824 had a tea dealer shop. There was also an inspiring story of John as he relived his struggles to establish his business and how he later introduced his sons Richard and George to the company.
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 and we had a tour of the Cadbury factory which was an enjoyable and informative way to end our trip to Cadbury world.
On Tuesday 12th November, some Year 9 students went with Mrs Saleem and Mr Alishah to Cherry Orchard Primary School. The day before our visit we planned what was to take place. We had two Year 5 classes to teach. We taught them about how gears, pulleys, levers and pivots work and that force x distance = work done. We had to teach from 9:30 to 10:30 and we then had a 25-minute break before we taught the other class (from 10:55 to 11:55). We carried out practicals and demonstrations so that they could see the ideas in action and give them a fun day to remember. It was a great day and the children paid attention for almost all of it. There were some really intelligent pupils who asked very detailed questions and they were all very energetic and lively as they were constantly asking how this or that works.
Thevayan Navaratnam, Year 9
On Tuesday 5th November a small number of students from Year 8 made the short journey to Cherry Orchard Primary School. This was to teach Year 6 pupils about coloured filters that create different coloured lights, what convex and concave lenses are and how light changes as it travels through lenses.
We arrived at around 9.15am and started to set up the equipment before splitting into groups to help the children with their worksheets and to demonstrate the practicals.
The Year 6 children had to predict what the colour would be when the filter/filters were put into the ray boxes, then later they had to predict what would happen when the two lenses (convex and concave) were put in front of light rays before seeing what actually happened to the light.
At the end of the lesson it was time to go so we packed up the equipment, said goodbye and thanks to the pupils and teachers for being so polite. Shortly after, we arrived back at school at 12.00pm. Thanks to Mrs Saleem and Mr Alishah for organising the day.
Eshaan Prabhakar, Year 8
