Newsletter
8th March 2013
Dear Parents and Carers,
I am very happy to report that the school is fully functioning following our flood last week and that many of
the repair works will be carried out over the Easter holidays.
Parents of Year 7 and 8 will have heard of our plans for the Malala Campaign Sleep Over at the school
(Friday 19th April) organised by our Year 10 students, which promises to be a really exciting event. Can I
remind everyone that reply slips need to be returned to us on Monday.
Congratulations to our Year 11 students, and their families, who have once again achieved fantastic results
following the January module exams. Keep up the good work girls and success will be yours!
This Saturday, I am looking forward to seeing our Year 9 students compete in the National Magistrates
Mock Trials at the Bow Magistrate Courts.
Happy International Women’s Day.
Madeleine Griffin
Principal
Year 9 students raise money for NSPCC
Year 9 students; Anne K., Doris, Sujitha and Tirivashe sold homemade
cupcakes on Thursday, to raise money for NSPCC. The cupcakes were so
popular that they sold out in 7 minutes.
They raised £23.80. Well done!
Building Game Challenge 2013
On Monday at EHX, Greenwich Education and Business Partnership delivered a challenge to all Year 7
students who had to collaborate and work creatively to solve a problem. The students worked in teams of
six to experience different job roles within the construction industry; Project Manager, Site Supervisor,
Quantity Surveyor, Marketing Executive, Architect and Building Contractor.
The main aim was to replicate a model building which is hidden
and can only be viewed by certain team members.
Paula, the presenter from GEBP said, “I found it very difficult to
choose a winning team as three teams finished very close
together but I am choosing ‘Dynamic Industries’ as overall winners
due to their fantastic team work.”
Congratulations to ‘Dynamic Industries’ who proved true to their
name and won the challenge. Well done to Aguda, Elisa, Anna,
Lailaa, Maiesha and Bukola from 7L.
Winners of the Building Challenge 2013
Dynamic Industries
Careers Speed Networking
As part of National Careers Week (4th-8th March 2013), a Speed Networking
Event took place at EHX on Wednesday. Ten volunteers who represented a
range of professions were invited to take part, five of whom had supported the
school last year.
Students were able to extend their knowledge about a variety of careers in an
informal setting, actively participated in a thoughtful and courteous way and were
a great credit to themselves and the school. The event was a great success with
both the students in Year 9 and the volunteers. Well done Year 9.
Comments from students:
… I’ve now found the career that I really want to do…great opportunity to meet so many different
professional people…you can wear glasses and still be a pilot…needed more time to talk to them…
Feedback from the volunteers:
..the students’ enthusiasm to find out more...asked some searching questions about what my job was really
like…offering students a valuable opportunity that I never had at school…happy to be involved…receptive
and polite girls…
The Volunteers: Parminder Bahra (Journalist), Ian Gray
(Video/Film Editor), Debra Todd (BP Banking), Hannah Akta
(Pharmacist), Diane Godwin (Chartered Accountant), Nicola
Ashley (Public Relations), David Sawkins (BA Pilot), Piers
Vernon-Kell (Fashion Photographer), Kelly Davids (Surveyor)
and Jack Bird (Design Engineer).
World Book Day
On Thursday, the English department organised in support of whole school literacy and World Book Day,
for staff to dress up as a character from their favourite books. There were some wonderful costumes and it
really got the students talking and involved in literature. An extra thank you to Ms Lloyd who spent her
lunch time face painting students, so that they could also be involved as different characters.
Well done to all staff who took part:
Ms Delaney - the Wicked Witch of the East
Mr Harty - Voldemort
Ms Boxall - Dorothy
Ms Lopez - Where' s Wanda?!
Ms Welch - Curley's Wife (Of Mice and Men)
Mr Luke - Lennie (Of Mice and Men)
Mr Macfadyen - Captain Hook
Ms Whittington - Little Red Riding Hood
Ms Hamilton - Sherlock Holmes
Mr Dreksler - Jungle book tie
Ms Sully- Eeyore
Mr Calcott - Hobbit
Ms Foyle - Katniss (Hunger Games)
Ms Kearney - The little Prince
Ms Osborne - Pippi Longstocking
Ms Pearson - The Little Match Girl
Ms Marshall - Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Ms Lloyd - Wellington the dog from the Curious Incident of the dog in the Night Time
Ms Patel - Kuroshitsuji (Sebastian the demon black butler)
Ms Ratnayake - Jess the cat from Postman Pat.
Vouchers for schools
The school is collecting Sainsbury's Active Schools Vouchers and Nestle Box Tops for Books Vouchers.
If you have either of these, there are collection boxes in the library.