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