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St George’s Park

On 20TH June Mohit and I went to St George’s Park (England’s training ground). We had a training session with one of the best clubs in the world; Real Madrid. We did some drills, finishing, passing, movement and also played a little tournament at the end. It was a brilliant experience as this was my first time training with a coach from a different country and learning new skills. We also learnt new tactics that the coach showed us on his board. Thanks to Mr Campbell PE teacher for taking us.

Zakir Islam 8G

 

It was one of the best football experiences I’ve ever had. Training at St George’s Park and being coached by Real Madrid. I really enjoyed having a taste of Spanish football and being part of it. I learnt a few tips on possession and shooting which have helped my football ability. I will never forget that great day! Also thanks to Mr Campbell for taking me.

Mohit Naphray 8N

 

On 20th June 2018 we set off to St George’s Park the Headquarters of the England football teams and the FA Education programmes. Real Madrid and Inspire Sport had invited local children to free coaching sessions and discuss possible tours to Spain to see the Real Madrid Facilities. Two Year 8 pupils Zakir Islam and Mohit Naphray were the lucky pupils to be selected by Mr Griffiths.

The boys were exposed to various drills on finishing, movement, ball distribution and decision making all using the Real Madrid philosophy of constant use of ball skills.

The day concluded with a mini tournament and a presentation of certificates and badges to all participating schools. The boys thoroughly enjoyed the day and hopefully took away some new ideas.

Mr S Campbell

 

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Outreach: St Clare’s Catholic Primary School

On Wednesday 13th June 2018, fifteen pupils from St Clare’s Catholic Primary School attended KEVI HGS and participated in two interactive STEM workshops, both of which were designed to give them a flavour of what our students do at KS3 and beyond. During periods 1 and 2, they attended the Design & Technology workshop, during which they designed their own custom pen and pencil holder (to take home) at our brand new design studio, using 2D CAD (Computer Aided Design). The laser machine was then used to cut their acrylic designs. Finally, they used the Line bender machine to fold their acrylic design and attach it to a wooden base. The pupils also watched watch our cutting-edge 3D printer in action, making a frog for their teacher to take away; and enjoyed exploring the tools and toys previously printed.

Following a brief break at the canteen during, which they enjoyed drinks and biscuits, they went for a tour round the school and enjoyed seeing our students during break time, and were complimentary about their behaviour. The tour ended with the pupil in the Science labs, which hosted the Science workshop. During this workshop, the pupils took part in a variety of stimulating practical activities that included looking inside cells using powerful microscopes; using Bunsen burners to carryout flame tests of select Alkali and Alkali-Earth metals); burn magnesium (making sparklers); put their hands through the flame; and understand how fireworks. They also enthralled by the exploding hydrogen balloons; screaming jelly baby; whoosh bottle; and much more.

To finish off the day, the pupils were issued with yet more drinks and biscuits as well as flyers about the 11+ familiarisation programme and encouraged to sign up and complete the online training material in preparation for the 11+ in September. Both staff and pupils thoroughly enjoyed their HGS experience and we look forward to, once again, working with St Clare’s Catholic Primary School to enthuse more year 5 pupils, next year.

Mr F. Ahmed & Mr. D. Bansal

 

 

 

 

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WM County Track & Field Championships

On Saturday 9th June three pupils were selected to represent North Birmingham district at the West Midlands County Track and Field Championships held at the Alexander Stadium. They were selected due to gaining qualification spots at our earlier Camp Hill Athletics Meet. The standard of the competition at the meet was extremely high. That being said the boys’ overall put in some fantastic performances taking home two silver medals and one bronze.

 

Nigel Agboola (7H) – Silver – 200m (27.0s)

                                   – Silver – Discus (18.89m)

Divine Wodi (9A) – Bronze – Long Jump (5.28m)

Daniel Otalundun (9A) – 11th  – 100m (12.8s)

 

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Athletics Success for Jordan Ricketts

Jordan  ran a Personal Best in the Mason Trophy event on Saturday at the Alexandra Stadium and then he travelled to Bedford, where he won the silver medal in the U18 100m hurdles. 

He is now ranked No. 1 in GB for the U17 100m hurdles. He has a very good chance of being selected to run for Team GB in this year’s European Championships. We wish him the best of luck!

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Back to Winning Ways

The Year 7 Cricket Team proved that practice does equal success in their latest fixture against Broadway School. Having been narrowly defeated in their previous game, the Year 7 Cricket Squad have been religiously at training to work on their areas for improvements. Their training has paid off with a huge win again Broadway School by ten wickets! Broadway won the toss and elected to bat first. With some exceptional bowling from the team we managed to bowl Broadway out for just 26 runs, then surpassing their total in just four overs with no wickets falling! An excellent afternoon of cricket on show from the boys who were a delight in representing the school. The victory means that they go in to the Quarter Finals in the cup.

 

MOTM – Noah Mohmand (7A) – claiming 4 wickets.

 

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HGS Old Boy receives Knighthood

From Birmingham to Buckingham Palace

 

Ex HGS pupil Mark Rowley QPM was made a Knight in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List which was published at the weekend. Sir Mark was until very recently the Assistant Police Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and the Head of UK Counter-terrorism. This position made him the second most senior Police Officer in the UK. We send him our warmest congratulations on such an honour and achievement.

 

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Outreach: St Matthew’s C of E Primary School

On Tuesday 5th June 2018, ten pupils from St Matthew’s C of E Primary School attended KEVI HGS and participated in two interactive STEM workshops, both of which were designed to give them a flavour of what our students do at KS3 and beyond. During periods 1 and 2, they attended the Design & Technology workshop, during which they designed their own custom pen and pencil holder (to take home) at our brand new design studio, using 2D CAD (Computer Aided Design). The laser machine was then used to cut their acrylic designs. Finally, they used the Line bender machine to fold their acrylic design and attach it to a wooden base. The pupils also watched watch our cutting-edge 3D printer in action, making a frog for their teacher to take away; and enjoyed exploring the tools and toys previously printed.

Following a brief break at the canteen during, which they enjoyed drinks and biscuits, they went for a tour round the school and enjoyed seeing our students during break time, and were complimentary about their behaviour. The tour ended with the pupil in the Science labs, which hosted the Science workshop. During this workshop, the pupils took part in a variety of stimulating practical activities that included looking inside cells using powerful microscopes; using Bunsen burners to carryout flame tests of select Alkali and Alkali-Earth metals); burn magnesium (making sparklers); put their hands through the flame; and understand how fireworks. They also enthralled by the exploding hydrogen balloons; screaming jelly baby; whoosh bottle; and much more.

To finish off the day, the pupils were issued with yet more drinks and biscuits as well as flyers about the 11+ familiarisation programme and encouraged to sign up and complete the online training material in preparation for the 11+ in September. Both staff and pupils thoroughly enjoyed their HGS experience and we look forward to, once again, working with St Matthew’s C of E Primary School to enthuse more year 5 pupils, next year.

Mr F. Ahmed & Mr. D. Bansal

 

 

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Outreach: Sledmere Primary School

On Wednesday 6th June 2018, thirteen pupils from Sledmere Primary School attended KEVI HGS and participated in two interactive STEM workshops, both of which were designed to give them a flavour of what our students do at KS3 and beyond. During periods 1 and 2, they attended the Design & Technology workshop, during which they designed their own custom pen and pencil holder (to take home) at our brand new design studio, using 2D CAD (Computer Aided Design). The laser machine was then used to cut their acrylic designs. Finally, they used the Line bender machine to fold their acrylic design and attach it to a wooden base. The pupils also watched watch our cutting-edge 3D printer in action, making a frog for their teacher to take away; and enjoyed exploring the tools and toys previously printed.

Following a brief break at the canteen during, which they enjoyed drinks and biscuits, they went for a tour round the school and enjoyed seeing our students during break time, and were complimentary about their behaviour. The tour ended with the pupil in the Science labs, which hosted the Science workshop. During this workshop, the pupils took part in a variety of stimulating practical activities that included looking inside cells using powerful microscopes; using Bunsen burners to carryout flame tests of select Alkali and Alkali-Earth metals); burn magnesium (making sparklers); put their hands through the flame; and understand how fireworks. They also enthralled by the exploding hydrogen balloons; screaming jelly baby; whoosh bottle; and much more.

To finish off the day, the pupils were issued with yet more drinks and biscuits as well as flyers about the 11+ familiarisation programme and encouraged to sign up and complete the online training material in preparation for the 11+ in September. Both staff and pupils thoroughly enjoyed their HGS experience and we look forward to, once again, working with Sledmere Primary School to enthuse more year 5 pupils, next year.

Mr F. Ahmed & Mr. D. Bansal

 

 

 

 

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Athletics Meet

With the weather taking a beautiful turn and the winter behind us it is time to turn our focus to some Athletics. The King Edward VI Camp Hill Meet held at Norman Green Stadium saw all the schools athletics teams from Year 7 through to Year 10 compete. Our pupils were a credit to the school and displayed some excellent performances with fantastic levels of effort put in by all involved.

The Year 7 Team made a fantastic debut achieving 5 podium finishes, consisting of 3 gold and 2 bronze medals. Overall they finished an impressive third place in the standings and just one point behind second place King Edward Stratford. A team to keep an eye on for the future.

Year 7 Team

Gold – Nigel Agboola (7H)– 200m (26.26s)

Gold – Nigel Agboola (7H)  – Discus (20.01m)

Gold – Solomon Kolap (7N) – 300m (47.34s)

Bronze – 4x100m Relay Team – Solomon Kolapo (7N), Nigel Agboola (7H), Jiaxi Lu (7W) and Corey Wainwright (7G).

Bronze – Jiaxi Lu (7W) – Long Jump (3.91m)

 

  

Year 9 Team

Silver – Daniel Olatundun – Triple Jump (11.00m)

Bronze – Divine Wodi – Long Jump (4.85m)

Bronze – Lovelle Small – Discus (22.75m)

Year 10 Team

Silver – Francis Czech – High Jump (1.45m)

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Project Reform

On Monday 30th April 2018, a team of students participating in the ‘Legacy’ program hosted a charity dinner to raise money and awareness for the homeless. ‘Legacy’ is an optional project offered by the school in year 12 as a way for students to give back to their community and allows them to focus on developing a social action project to combat a local issue of their choice. The team had previously done bake sales within school, which proved incredibly successful.

‘Project Reform,’ hosted a successful fundraising evening at the award winning restaurant ‘Eurasia,’ which is owned by Shamim Haque, the father of one of the team members, Abdul Haque. Award winning Chef Amjad Ali (crowned the best in Indian cuisine with the Tommy Miah Best Chef Award), served a special menu to all guests that evening – the food was one of the best the students had ever tasted.

The evening began with all students arriving at the venue and greeted in a hospitable manner by all the staff; they made sure the students were comfortable, providing free drinks, and overall making the event a pleasant experience. Customers came from all over the West Midlands, ranging from Wolverhampton to Shropshire, and included guests of honour Mayor and Mayoress of Bridgnorth, Councillor Ron Whittle and Cllr. Mrs Carol Whittle. The people were incredibly generous in their donations, with local school ‘Brockton C of E Primary’ managing to raise £64 to support the cause. We received a great reception from the customers, who were eager to support the homeless as they often came over and talked to us about our project. Hannah Qadeer, Aadam Zaman and Abdul Haque went round to the different tables and managed to sell a great number of raffle tickets to the kind people of Bridgnorth. The first-place prize was a £40 voucher for the restaurant; second place a basket of chocolates and third place was an expensive bottle of champagne.

After starters had been served, Suhaib Hamad, Abdul Haque and team leader Britney Okhiria stood up to do a speech thanking the restaurant and its staff, while also spreading awareness about homelessness in a snappy two minutes. Donations were beginning to flood in from the guests with Mayor Whittle gifting the team £40. As people began to leave, they came round to thank us for the evening and expressed their support for our cause, eager to help us in any way possible. In total, the students managed to raise around £804.00 from the evening which will be used to provide care bags for one hundred homeless in Birmingham, providing them with the essential tools to survive.

A kind thank you would like to be given to ‘Eurasia’ for hosting the evening, and all the staff for providing a hospitable environment for the team. Thank you to David Masih and Shamim Haque for providing transport to and from the restaurant.

Project Reform Members: Britney Okhiria (Team Leader), Hannah Qadeer (Deputy Team Leader), Abdul Haque (Secretary), Aadam Zaman, Ibrahim Kabir, Samadul Chowdhry, Brandon Masih and Suhaib Hamad.

By:

Suhaib Hamad 12JST