Friday Headlines

DANCE 

Sarah Labban (Y10) 

In the Performing Arts Spotlight, Sarah rose to the challenge and created a dance duet from scratch. She danced beautifully and it was very impressive. Excellent effort and dedication to the Arts. Well done! 

Marlah Gill (Y10) 

In the Performing Arts Spotlight, Marlah rose to the challenge and created a dance duet from scratch. She danced beautifully and it was very impressive. Excellent effort and dedication to the Arts. Well done! 

Sophie Bushell (Y10) 

In October there was a Performing Arts Spotlight, which Sophie and another student were asked to perform. Due to unforeseen circumstances Sophie’s duet partner was no longer able to perform at the event. Sophie took it upon herself and volunteered to make a duet into a solo. Sophie gave an excellent performance at the event and received positive feedback from the audience. 

ENGLISH 

Kavya Modhavdia, Naomi Sze, Lily Wang, Raya Watkinson (Y9) 

For their impressive creative endeavours on the novel Purple Hibiscus. All 4 used language in such a way to express powerful emotions and convey the themes of the novel. 

Phoebe Lindenmeyer, Maryam Merali, Zaina Murtaza, Susie Tomlinson (Y9) 

For outstanding creative responses to the novel Purple Hibiscus. The sense of foreboding and sadness in the story was conveyed beautifully. 

GEOGRAPHY 

Anabel Vincent (Y8) 

For being a fabulous student, always completing her work to a very high standard such as a climate graph analysis and a beautifully drawn poster on the differences between the Artic and Antarctic. Anabel gives 100% to anything she is asked to do – a true EHS student. 

Kavya Modhvadia, Naomi Sze, Mary Tse (Y9) 

For their informative and well-presented Posters on ‘Why Choose Geography?’ For the Young Geographer of the Year 2024 Competition. Their posters met the criteria given to a high standard and demonstrated excellent efforts. 

Isabelle Brennan (Y9) 

For making a video which demonstrated four plate boundaries. 

Isobel Gough, Arisha Rahman, Aisha Shiraz (Y9) 

For outstanding creative writing on ‘A Journey to the Centre of the Earth’. Isobel’s beautiful writing could be the next teen sci-fi fiction must read. Arisha’s ended on a dramatic cliffhanger ending and Aisha’s use of metaphors and personification made for a gripping read. All 3 included accurate and detailed geographical information. 

Azka Anjum, Ruhad Zur (Y9) 

A wonderful story on ‘A Journey to the Centre of the Earth’, which included loads of geographical information and literary techniques. 

Jossie Ding (Y10) 

Beautiful revision notes produced for Geography assessment. 

HISTORY 

Sophie Bushell (Y10) 

Sophie interviewed Holocaust survivor, Mindu Hornick, for her History presentation. She produced a lovely video and answered questions from the group at the end with lots of detail. Well done, Sophie! 

Zainab Loonat (Y7) 

For an excellent and fantastic historical research project on Harriet Tubman. Zainab demonstrated excellent innovative skills by creating her project in the shame of a train to represent the underground railroad. 

Fun fact: Zainab’s sister is in the Excellence Book in the Autumn Term 2023 for her History project on William the Conqueror. 

Akshana Rajaguru (Y7) 

For producing an amazing fact file poster on King John. 

LATIN 

Annabel Moss (Y8) from Summer term (Y7) 

For producing detailed and creative artwork on a flood myth and writing an interesting analysis comparing it to flood myths in different cultures. 

Kritika Singh (Y8) from Summer term (Y7) 

For producing a detailed picture book on a flood myth and writing an interesting analysis comparing it to an Ancient Greek flood myth. 

FRENCH 

Sarah Gray (Y10) 

For excellent paragraphs written in flawless French on family and friends. Sarah used some complex vocabulary and lots of different tenses. 

GERMAN 

Jacqueline Luo (Y10) 

An excellent piece of writing on friendship and relationships. Jacqueline wrote in a lot of detail and with accuracy and was able to include structures correctly. 

Lottie Hollway (Y10) 

Lottie wrote a detailed text on friendships and relationships. She wrote in very accurate German, demonstrating an excellent group of tenses and advanced structures. Well done! 

SPANISH 

Lily Clarke, Ali Croke-Lennon, Harleen Garcha and Tiffany Latham (Y11) 

For completing independently an examination booklet on reading skills during the Summer holiday. Well done. 

Alyzah Hussain (Y11) 

As part of her study at A level, Alyzah has prepared an excellent and informative presentation to compare the festivals of the Day of the Dead in Mexico (el Dia de Muertos) and All Saints Day in Spain (el Dia de Todo los Santos). The level of Spanish used in the presentation is excellent, and the information contained in it is clear and concise. Well done! 

Alyzah Hussain (Y11) 

Alyzah has written an outstanding essay in Spanish about the causes of the Spanish Civil War. She not only wrote a highly pedagogic essay, but also deployed a wind range of complex structures which only a talented A level student would write. Well done! 

Ruby Gayle (Y13) 

Ruby has written an excellent essay in Spanish about the play ‘La Casa de Bernada Alba’. Ruby’s excellent analysis on the question ‘Discuss whether all characters in the play are portrayed in a negative manner’ is a very well-crafted essay and is highly commendable.  

PSYCHOLOGY 

Alessandra Belli, Olivia Dougan, Lily Ram, Ronaya Weerathunga (Y12) 

For producing an excellent (and most entertaining) video on classical conditioning with reference to the experiment of Little Albert (ably played by Ronaya). 

RELIGIOUS STUDIES 

Alya Karamehmed (Y8) 

For a fantastic project on a place of worship, Temple of Saint Sara, which was detailed and interesting. Alya also created an amazing painting of Jesus in the style of Eastern Orthodoxy. 

PHYSICS 

Simran Bansal, Anya De, Alyzah Hussain, Rasunpreet Kan (Y11) 

For extensive additional work in Physics on regenerative braking. All 4 were able to explain clearly and precisely what the benefits and pitfalls were of this system, fantastic future Physics teachers (if they want to be). 

COGNITO 

Livi Mitchell (Y8) – from Summer Term (Y7) 

For her Cognito project where she designed a new swimming costume to enable swimmers to feel more confident and comfortable. Livi put a huge amount of effort and thought into the problem and the solution, coming up with a creative solution. 

CO-CURRICULAR 

Grace Bennett (Y10) 

For creating the most beautiful and inventive design for a Harry Potter inspired creature. It had incredible detail, excellent annotations and was presented in a wonderful way – Grace’s design has been entered for a National Competition to win a trip to the Warner Bros Studios in London. Mrs Macro particularly liked the feathers and the name – The Topodapuss (even though it is quite difficult to say). 

SWIMMING 

Cora Batchelor, Charlotte James, Livi Mitchell, Isabel Poade (Y8) 

For being part of the U13 ESSA team that were placed 14th and 17th nationally for EHS. The whole team swam with commitment and courage. A fantastic achievement and experience!