We congratulate the following on their appointments:
Head Boy: Nasim Miah
Head Girl: Huda Benrekia
Deputy Head Boy: Elias Idjer
Deputy Head Girl: Olivia McKnight
Chair of School Council: John Siby
We wish them the very best as they take up their new appointments.
Both our Under 16 and Under 14 Badminton teams finished top of the Aston Badminton Leagues for 2017/2018. The Under 14 team played 6, won 5 and lost 1 which meant they were top of the league with 16 points and their nearest rival was 9 points adrift of them. The Under 16 team played 7 and won 7 and their nearest rival was 10 points adrift of them. Congratulations to both teams and Mr Gallagher for a fantastic season.
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We had our first ever inter house rowing competitions on Friday 23rd March, to coincide with Sports Relief 2018.
100 boys from years 7-10 took part in this exciting event
Year 8 competitors rowed for an exhausting five minutes in each race, and all others rowed for three minutes.
The overall results were that in year 7 William won; in years 8 & 9 Galahad won, and in year 10, Nelson won.
The overall rowing champions were, Galahad.
Individual top performers in each year group were:
Year 7, Adam Ahmed for William in race 4 with 662 meters in 3 minutes.
Year 8, Oliver Beesley for William in race 4 with 1,195 in 5 minutes.
Year 9, Christopher Lee for Galahad in race 3 with 783 meters in 3 minutes.
Year 10, Zakir Khan for Galahad in race 4 with 785 metres in 3 minutes
Mr Conway
On Tuesday 27th March we had our annual house quiz competitions in “Big School”.
Competition was fierce throughout the day as our students displayed their finest general knowledge in front of their peers.
The winning teams were as follows:
Year 7: Galahad (Amar Aulakh and Dylan Guiney-Bailey) after a tense tie break question.
Year 8: Nelson ( Reece Qureshi and Hassan Shah)
Year 9: Nelson ( Devjot Surmay and Craig Oshiogwe)
Year 10: Henry (Raul Bhatti and Eesha Rashid)
Year 11: Alfred ( Sahil Mufti and Ikhlas Sayed)
Sixth Form: Alfred ( Muhammad Nazakat and Mohammed Mohammed).
Many thanks to all who took part in this fun event.
Mr Conway
It is not uncommon for students to want to listen to music while they try to revise but this comes at a significant cost. A recent study found that students who revised in quiet environments performed sixty per cent better in an exam than their peers who revised while listening to music that had lyrics. Listening to music without lyrics was less detrimental but the optimal environment was to revise in silence. Students would be well advised to take scheduled short music breaks between working rather than trying to revise and listen at the same time. Please click here to read an article in the Guardian about this, and click here to access the original study.
Going into the game we had recently won the Aston league, with the chance to go undefeated so our confidence was up. The game started pretty evenly with both sides having a chance until we broke the deadlock with Adam Ahmed scoring first. Shortly after that first goal there was a second from Gavin Shergill putting us in a comfortable position at 2-0 up. The next goal once again came from Gavin Shergill more or less claiming the game. It was coming up to half time when Corey Wainwright was fouled leaving us with an opportunity to go into the half 4-0 up. This free kick was then scored by Zane Baker (35 yard screamer) taking us into the half 4-0 up. At this point the game was basically ours, but nevertheless we still wanted more goals and that’s what came. Nigel Agboola scoring a goal to make the scoreline 5-0. It was coming to near the end of the match now with the cup in sight and then with one minute left, the game was surely won when Ateeb Ilyas finished the game off with a headed goal. As a result of winning this game we now progress to the Champions Cup Final where we play the winner of the Erdington cup [John Wilmot] and we hopefully will put our name on another trophy!
Zane Baker 7G
From September 2018 there will be a very minor change to the shape of the School Day. Mid-morning break will be extended by 10 minutes to make it a 30 minute break. The end of the School Day will finish 10 minutes later at 3:05. All other timings, including the start of the day, lessons and lunch break and so on will remain exactly the same. This is to enable us to provide a flexible, broad and balanced curriculum based on a two-week timetable.
50 boys, mostly from years 7 and 8, participated in the annual Instrumental Progress Evening on Thursday 15th March . The concert is designed to showcase the students who are beginners or in their first few years of study. The boys performed to an audience of over 100. We heard solos from Simeon Tinley (piano), Hasnain Jafar (recorder), Keir Msuya (clarinet) and Max Rueff (trumpet), and the Year 7 Guitar Ensemble, Junior Guitar Ensemble and Year 7 Keyboard Ensemble provided a range of pieces from classical to popular.
We have become accustomed to international comparisons of the academic performance of students and school systems, but last week saw the publication of a new perspective on education: the global parents’ survey. The survey by the Varkey Foundation examined the responses of twenty-seven thousand, five hundred parents across the world on matters relating to their children’s education. The BBC summarised the findings in this article, emphasising that UK parents strongly valued the quality of their children’s teachers and that they are likely to spend less time supporting children with homework when compared to parents in other countries. Please click here to read the full report.
