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<strong>Hitchin</strong> <strong>Girls</strong>’ <strong>School</strong><br />
‘Thanks so much to you and your talented, creative,<br />
dedicated team. These will be delivered to the kids in<br />
Honduras over the summer. The kids are really going to<br />
value these gifts.’<br />
We were also thrilled to receive the images below of the<br />
portraits that our friends at The Chapin <strong>School</strong> have been<br />
creating for the same orphanage in Honduras.<br />
Mrs. R. Cooper, Assistant Headteacher<br />
STUDENT GLOBAL<br />
LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE<br />
This summer, we; Rebecca Hankin, Ayo Awokoya and<br />
Nikki Lau (Year 12) will be travelling to Hawaii for two<br />
weeks to attend this year’s Student Global Leadership<br />
Institute. This will involve many different schools from<br />
countries all around the world, including America, China,<br />
Singapore, Sweden and Japan participating in activities<br />
based on this year’s topic which is ‘Health’. On our first<br />
day, we must give a presentation about ‘Health’ from our<br />
perspective, i.e. as we know it in our own country. This will<br />
give us an amazing opportunity, working with students from<br />
other schools, to see how the UK’s health system compares<br />
with that of other countries, such as the United States and<br />
China. For example, a major topic (of course) will be the<br />
NHS, and the pros and cons of being able to have a free<br />
National Service for the whole population.<br />
During our stay, we will be listening to talks and seminars from<br />
many prominent figures from the International Health Industry.<br />
So far, we have been completing online tasks as<br />
‘homework’ for the upcoming trip, we have contacted girls<br />
from The Chapin <strong>School</strong> who we are combining with to<br />
represent global girls’ education for the trip. Our friends<br />
there seem very enthusiastic about the trip and we are also<br />
very excited to meet them, so we can further develop our<br />
partnership with their school.<br />
Upon our return we will begin to put into action, both in<br />
school and the local community, the project we have<br />
devised whilst at the SGLI.<br />
We would love for you to follow us while we are away. We<br />
will be making a daily blog and video diary which you will<br />
be able to access via the school website.<br />
HGS OLYMPICS WEEK<br />
In this great year of British sport we marked the forthcoming<br />
London 2012 Games with a fun packed week in school.<br />
Across all subjects students had Olympic themes and elements<br />
highlighted in their normal lessons. Just some examples of the<br />
activities that took place are:<br />
The Paula Radcliffe Challenge – Year 10 girls tried to<br />
complete the same distance and time as Paula Radcliffe –<br />
even by combining their efforts this was hard!<br />
Year 7 composed fanfares for the opening ceremony in Music.<br />
Qualities of an Olympian were explored through lessons in<br />
English.<br />
Students in Classics lessons looked at the Ancient Olympic<br />
Games and what they contributed to modern Olympics – not<br />
to mention Miss Hay, Amy Saunders and their team of<br />
students preparing the performance for the ‘sacred lighting<br />
of the flame’ for the Opening Ceremony.<br />
Health and Social Care students looked at Disability in Sport.<br />
Get set - on your marks, get set, breathe experiments were<br />
undertaken in Biology lessons throughout Years 7-9.<br />
Technology ran a competition for students to design their own<br />
Olympic Logo and have it made into a t-shirt.<br />
In Art students looked at how movement is captured and<br />
represented in Art looking at the work of an artist from the<br />
Futurist movement.<br />
Olympics based tasks, differentiated at Bronze, Silver and<br />
Gold level to cover different year groups and abilities, were<br />
used in Maths along with the Grand Finale of our annual<br />
Maths Road Show with teams from William Ransom, Purwell,<br />
St. Andrews schools and our own Year 7 students.<br />
In MFL lessons students undertook language tasks against<br />
the clock. In doing so they built up a range of vocabulary<br />
and structures relating to the Olympic Games and<br />
developed a greater understanding of how foreign<br />
languages play a pivotal role in the success of the games.<br />
In Geography students continued with their ‘Faster, Higher,<br />
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