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DT Department win National Competition

The DT Department entered a national competition called The Ripple Effect which was sponsored by Misco, HP and Intel. Our entry was based upon the move across to new GCSE and A Level courses in product design as well as the major developments that have taken place in the department over the past 6 months. Two fully refurbished and redesigned laboratories have been created upstairs which will have a significant impact upon teaching and learning.

The department has won an HP STEM & Creative Learning Studio which is worth over £20,000. Congratulations.

  

 

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Top 100 STEM School

Handsworth Grammar School has been given the accolade of being named one of the top STEM schools in the country according to new rankings produced by Government backed education campaign Your Life.

Your Life which aims to boost uptake of A Level Maths and Physics has worked with data science company Starcount to analyse School Performance Table Data from the Department for Education on England’s 2500 Secondary Schools.

In doing so it has provided the first in depth analysis of Schools performance in terms of both STEM subject and grade performance.

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Great start to the season!

The Year 7 Football team got off to a great start to the new season with a 6 – 1 win against Hamstead Hall in the Aston Cup. Congratulations to the boys and to Mr Gallagher in their first match at HGS.

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University of Birmingham

Please see the certificate below in recognition of the work we are doing with the University of Birmingham.

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Saragarhi Memorial

Year 13 students from HGS were invited to attend the Saragarhi Memorial at the National Arboretum on Tuesday 12th September.

The memorial commemorated the Battle of Saragarhi in India in 1897 when 21 Sikh soldiers fell after fighting against ten thousand Pathans.

The memorial ceremony coincided with the launch of a new documentary about Saragarhi made by ex HGS student Jay Singh Sohal.

Our students also heard presentations from the British Army Sikh Association, and were wonderfully received by the organisers of the memorial.

 

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Readathon Certificate

Please see the certificate below in recognition of our fundraising last term.

 

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HGS joins King Edward VI Academy Trust and King Edward VI Foundation

As of 1st September 2017 Handsworth Grammar School has converted to Academy status and has joined the King Edward VI Academy Trust Birmingham and King Edward VI Foundation.

Handsworth Grammar School now becomes King Edward VI Handsworth Grammar School for Boys. We look forward to further collaboration and closer ties with the King Edward VI Foundation, the Academy Trust and its family of schools of which we are now a part of, in order to continue providing outstanding education to the children of Birmingham.

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GCSE Success at HGS 2017

Handsworth Grammar School has enjoyed an excellent set of GCSE results despite the national volatility and turmoil surrounding new courses and grading systems, with some outstanding individual results achieved by our hard working students. It is acknowledged that there has been much unpredictability this year (and last year!) in the light of major reforms and changes to the examination and assessment system. We are very pleased to report that the overall picture at HGS is again one of consistent and sustained progress as well as positive development. Approximately 50% of all entries were at A* and A grade which is up on the results of the last 2 years as well as being well above the national figures. Overall 97% of all entries were at A* to C grade. In Mathematics 100% of all entries were at A* to C grade. In both English Literature and English Language 99% of all entries were at A* to C grade. This is a wonderful achievement bearing in mind the changes that have taken place in both of these subjects this year. 100% of all entries were at pass grade level.

40 students attained 8 or more A* and A grades.

33 students attained 10 or more A* and A grades.

14 students attained straight A* and A grades – they were:

Joshua Nagra, Khanh Pham, Sunni Purewal, Arunvir Singh, Sankavan Sukanthan, Ibrahim Kabir, Raqeeb Khan, Hassan Ahmed and Jubaer Ahmed, Hasan Arif, Kyron Chander-Masaun, Safwanul Haque, Elias Idjer and Gugandeep Sohal.

We congratulate all of our students for their hard work and dedication to their studies, and wish them every success as they embark upon their A Level courses. We also congratulate and thank our dedicated staff who have supported their students every step of the way.