Termly Newsletter – July 2018
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OCR Bursary Scheme 2018/19
Our congratulations go to Amritpal Kullar who has been awarded an OCR Bursary for next academic year. Amrit has secured a place at St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge and this substantial sum of money will help him purchase resources for his History degree.
Enrichment Day
On Thursday 28th June the students in year 7 enjoyed a range of activities based on South America. This is the second year we held such and day and the boys clearly enjoyed the diverse range of opportunities to learn more about this fascinating part of the world. The activities included composing Latin-American music, creating salsa and a South-American style burger, mask making and performing Samba.
Summer Concert 2018
On Thursday 5th July the musicians of KEVIHGS participated in the final concert of the year. There were a number of solos tonight from students across all years; Balkaran Kahlon (year 7), Mohammed Saifullah Khan (year 7), Cody Casals (year 8), Arjun Sabherwal (year 8), Hanzblyth Camanzo (year 10), Anu Adeleye (year 10), Gabriel Dino (year 10), Akhil Gandham and Balkaar Bhopal (year 12). The quality of the solos was fantastic with a particularly outstanding performance on solo clarinet by Anu.
The main groups were out in force tonight – we heard pieces from the school orchestra, junior guitar ensemble, senior guitar ensemble, woodwind ensemble, brass ensemble and senior keyboard ensemble. All in all, it was a wonderful evening.
Winning Streak
The Year 7 Cricket Team have gone from strength to strength continuing their winning streak of games. In their most recent fixture they beat a strong Fairfax team by 4 wickets with 19 balls balls to spare in the Quarter Final of the U12 WSCA Cup. They now face our local rivals KE Aston in the Semi Final on Thursday 12th July. We wish them the best of the luck on their pursuit to become champions.
Mr Gallagher’s player of the match – Sulayman Khan (7G) for his exceptional captaincy and claiming two wickets.
Reading Celebration
On Monday the 2nd of June 2018, eight year 7 students went to Hamstead Junior School to deliver two assemblies to celebrate their reading. On the day that we were informed that we were performing, I, along with the rest of yea7, was ecstatic! We couldn’t wait to talk about the books we’ve been reading and to perform our drama piece in the assembly.
We took the school mini-bus to Hamstead Junior School – a 20-minute drive in an air conditioned van – a luxury considering the present heatwave! We said farewell to Mr Kafai (the Deptuy Head who is also an undercover minibus driver!) and then we entered the school gates.
The children lined up, in their cool summer clothes, with military precision before we delivered our first presentation, ‘The Jungle Book’. We acted out the first play for year 3 and 4’s, and the second for year 5 and 6’s; the second one was ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’. The children took an active part in the assembly and applauded for us at the end,
Finally, we taught a lesson to year 6 looking at subverting traditional plotlines whereby the antagonist triumphs over the protagonist. The students were articulate, enthusiastic and erudite.
We would like to thank Hamstead Junior School for allowing is the opportunity to perform. We look forward to visiting them again in the future for more English and drama related projects.
By Ivan Cheung Zheng 7A (KEVI HGS for Boys)
Duke of York Digital Enterprise Award
Congratulations to both Year 7 and Year 8 students who have successfully completed The Duke of York Bronze Award in Digital Enterprise this term. Through a series of online challenges and events, each student has won career enhancing badges for their bronze award with hard work, determination and digital skills. Challenges are split into four main categories, each with its own set of badges to be won including Online safety, Cyber Security and Brain Hacks. The award has been funded by different charities including the Prince Andrew charitable trust and is the Digital equivalent of the Duke of Edinburgh award. All students will now be working hard over the summer holidays to achieve the Duke of York Silver certification.
Higher Education Week at School
Year 12 students had three days of higher education support and information as well as two different trips from 25-29 June.
On Monday 25th, all of the year 12 students attended the UCAS Higher Education Exhibition at the NEC in Birmingham. Supported by the year1 2 tutors the students had the opportunity to speak to university representatives from every HE provider in the country, as well as attend various UCAS workshops to help them to prepare for their university application.
On Thursday 28th the students were guided through the UCAs process by Mr Duck, UCAS Co-ordinator and then had the opportunity to hear from former students about their UCAS journeys.
Our ex -student panel was made up of Aliyah Mohammed and Riju Shah who have both just completed their first year at Aston University, Mayur Parmar who has just graduated from the University of Leeds, Hung Nguyen who has just completed his first year at the UOB, Rahul Patel who has had a pre-university year working in Bath, before starting a Natural Sciences degree at the University of Cambridge in September, Bobby Bola, who started a degree at the UOB and has now changed to pursue a medical career, and finally Hasan Din who left HGS and decided to take an alternative route in his career and is now an apprentice with Cap Gemini a national IT company.
We would like to thank the ex -students for their kindness in coming back to HGS to share their UCAS journeys with our present students.
Finally, all of our year 12 students visited the University of Birmingham on Friday June 29th where they had a campus tour and attended lectures on “Applying for university” and “Student Finance”.
Our thanks go to Mohammed Ansar of the UOB Outreach team, who facilitated our visit.
Prom Night Success
The year 13s celebrated the end of their year 13 exams with the second school Prom to be held in recent years at Parklands in Hockley. Organised by Head Boy Suraj Sanhi assisted by Zubair Javed and Aman Choudhury assisted by Maryam Shafiq and Anastasia Martin, our students donned their finest outfits to finish of their careers at HGS with a memorable night.
Many thanks to all of the staff and students who made the evening so memorable and also to Ms May who co-ordinated a very memorable “Awards Ceremony” for our students.
We will be publishing some of the photos of the evening on the school TV screens.
Mr Conway
Ex-Students Return
A panel of ex students returned to speak to Year 12 students about their UCAS experiences.
From left- right
Mr Bird, Mayur Parmar, Rahul Patel, Hung Nguyen, Bobby Bola, Hasan Din, Riju Shah, Aliyah Mohammed, Mrs Hartt.
