Favourite Book Friday!
MFL teacher, Ms Montfort’s book choice claims to keep us intrigued by using all 5 of our senses! Let’s read on…
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
“It was hard to choose just one favourite book! Süskind takes his readers on an adventure which is not only visual but also olfactory, creating a book in which all five senses are reunited. We see, we hear, we touch, we taste and, most importantly, we smell as we follow Jean Baptiste Grenouille – a craftsman of a new genre, a highly-skilled perfumer–wandering in the streets of Paris in the 18th century. ” “He who rules scent ruled the hearts of men.”
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International Nurses Day is celebrated each year on 12 May, on the birthday of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing. It’s a day of celebration and acknowledgement of the compassion, professionalism, bravery and round-the-clock commitment of nurses caring for patients around the world.
Here at EGS we will be reading an extract from “Looking at the Stars” by Lewis Hine.
Lewis Hine is a British teen who was diagnosed with water on the brain and a life threatening brain tumour at the age of 17 months.
Lewis initially shared his experience with millions online before deciding to write it into a memoir.
He now spearheads the “A World With Friends” charity, which ensures no child faces illnesses alone. He constantly praises and honours the doctors, consultants, nurses and paramedics who supported him.
More about International Nurses Day:
The ICN has set the theme this year as ‘nursing the world back to health’, with a focus on the ‘true value of nurses to the people of the world’.
Annette Kennedy, the ICN President, has said that, ‘This global COVID-19 pandemic has shown the world the important role that nurses play in keeping people healthy across the lifespan’ and so the day will be focused on the future of healthcare.
Each year, the International Council of Nurses prepares and distributes the International Nurses’ Day kit, containing valuable educational and public information materials that can be used by nurses around the world.
However, countries around the world celebrate this occasion in their own ways. For example, in the UK, there is a service held each year in Westminster Abbey in London where a symbolic lamp is passed between nurses until it reaches the Nurses’ Chapel in the Abbey where it is then placed on the High Altar. This symbolises the passing of knowledge from one nurse to another.
Please help to fill our library with new books!
A good school library isn’t just important for academic achievement, reading for pleasure also improves wellbeing.
Please share around and ask family and friends to nominate Enfield Grammar School!
www.nationalbooktokens.com/schools
Nuffield gym has an offer for all EGS staff that would like to join the gym.
Up until the 17th May, there are no admin or joining fee’s and 15% off Personal Training sessions.
If you are interested or would like additional information, you can email Josh at josh.aremu@nuffieldhealth.
This year the theme for Mental Health Awareness Week is ‘Nature’.
There’s a lot of good research to support the role nature can play in protecting and supporting our mental health.
www.mentalhealth.org.uk/campaigns/mental-health-awareness-week
Click here to download the Thriving With Nature pdf guide
See below for some top tips and to watch the video….
More info on our website:
Teacher of English & Media, Ms Dakin’s choice is Animal Farm; a book that should be read by everyone and is very apt for the world we live in today.
Our Year 7 book club have recently been reading it too…
Animal Farm by George Orwell
“Orwell had an exceptional insight over 70 years ago into the strategies that the Media and governments can use to control people. Animal Farm is more relevant now than it was at the time that it was written. It is a skill to be able to condense decades of complicated history into a novella, as his aim was to ensure that everyone had access to this information. Once you have read it, it makes you question all embedded meta-narratives; every time I read it again, I learn something new which is the sign of a great book.”
“If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
