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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, -6-
Hitchin Girls’ School Stronger’ project. We all (staff included!) kick started the week with a mass Zumba session on the field! Nearly 800 students and staff met on the field at 8.50am and proceeded to be led in an invigorating Zumba session that left us all energised for the day ahead. We would like to thank Ruth our professional Zumba instructor who led us all in dance. In addition to this the PE department ran a range of exciting activities both during lessons and at lunchtimes which included a Cheerleading workshop, Dance workshops, Wheelchair basketball, Christians in Sport, UK Jump Rope team workshops and Rugby workshops. The whole week was captured on camera and thanks go to the Media department for their help in organising this. Special thanks go to Vicky Barclay (SF C2) who filmed the vast majority of the week and who has created a wonderful film that students will see during the end of year Celebration Assembly. Our HGS Olympics Week culminated in a very special day that saw in the morning our Founders’ Day followed by a very special Sports’ Day complete with full Opening Ceremony, Olympic Flame and Medal Ceremony. Throughout the afternoon announcements were given in a variety of languages spoken by our girls including German, Swedish and Hungarian as a celebration of the wonderful array of home languages that our girls speak. Thanks go Positive Solutions FOR ALL YOUR INTERESTS CONVEYANCING WILLS AND ESTATE PLANNING WEALTH MANAGEMENT LANDLORD AND TENANT BUSINESS AND EMPLOYMENT LAW MATRIMONIAL & FAMILY MATTERS FOR ALL Y DISPUTE RESOLUTION 25 Bancroft, Hitchin, Hertfordshire SG5 1JW TELEPHONE: 01462 458711 FACSIMILE: 01462 459242 www.foremanlaws.co.uk -7-
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