Drum Workshop – EGS Drummers…

4th March 2022Mrs S Field

Drum Workshop – Friday 4th March 2022

2.00- 4.00pm     C12

Run by Mr Dave Storey and Mr Joel Waters

Student Form
Yusef Ali 7U
Alex Aning-Bonsu 7M
Emmanuel Ampong 10M
Edward Bareham 7R
Mark Deocares 7S
Luke Escott 9S
Tahir Fecirsu 8P
Efo Genc 9R
Yafet Ghebremeskei 7M
Romeo Gjakova 11U
Jaiden Joseph 11R
Yamakami Katambo 8M
Ihsaan Khair 7S
Harley Kisten 8F
Ed Kocabali 11S
Ben Mammen 8F
Ethan Morgan 10S
Malakai Morgan 8S
Tochi Onyema  
Lemuel Owa 7F
Anand Ramdial 9R
Zion Small 7U
Luca Sorrentino 9M
Toby Sorrentino 7M
Kyle Szydlo 7M
Oliver Webster (Assisting) 12SU
Henry Willett 11U
Aaron Whitely 9R

All about the Y12 Maths Fest with Mrs Paraskeva

3rd March 2022Mrs S Field

On Friday 25th of February, 16 year 12’s and myself went to the Royal Institution in London for Maths Fest.  A great day was had by all in a beautiful building. The speakers were engaging and the topics they covered interesting.

We learnt how statistics is used to verify whether a new drug is effective, how data can be misleading and that you must look at the bigger picture and how WIFI and phone signals work so we can all use our mobile phones at the same time without the signals being blocked by someone else’s device.

We also learnt about the lesser known Lorenzo machine the top Nazi generals used in WW2 to communicate between each other which was cracked by a team effort of a linguist, mathematician and engineer.  This machine was reversed engineered.

In the afternoon we learnt about cake envy – how do you cut a cake so no one is envious about the slice of cake someone else receives.  Seems like a trivial problem until it is put into the real life context of international relations.

We also learnt how Pythagoras worked on music chords which culminated with speaker and mathematician Ben Sparks singing to us with his twin brother on the screen.

Here is what some of our students thought of the day:

A very fun and educational trip to the magnificent royal institute, and I found out that maths is involved in many different aspects of life

Life changing experience

It was interesting seeing how the mathematics of sharing a chocolate cake could relate to the broader topic of international relations

It’s World Book Day!

3rd March 2022Mrs S Field

Lots of competitions are being run so get involved! 

  1. Student Librarian short story competition
  2. Student Librarian book cover competition
  3. Staff Dress Up competition – grab an entry form from your tutor! 
  4. Library Quiz 
  5. Form time Reading Quiz

There are also lots of event taking place across the school 

  1. Year 8 Murder Mystery in the Library
  2. Year 9 Breis visit (Monday 7th) 
  3. Year 7, 8 and 9 World Book Day lessons in English
  4. Year 10-13 World Book Day Blurbs
  5. Ms Broadley’s World Book Day Variety Pack
  6. ‘Readers are Leaders’ World Book Day Virtual Talk (Friday 4th)
  7. A World Book Day lunch!

Menu!: Green eggs and ham (Dr Seuss ‘Green Eggs and Ham’) Fresh Mud Burgers (Roald Dahl ‘James and the Giant Peach’) Bruce Bogtrotter’s Fudge Cake (Roald Dahl ‘Matilda’) 

Mrs Broadley’s Variety Pack!

Choose a Task from the Variety Pack below!

Once complete, send your work to Mrs Broadley at: [email protected]

Certificates, prizes and merits for the best entries. Good luck and enjoy!

 

1. Re-create the front cover OR title of a book using food items (either real food or hand-drawn) 2. Review a cookery book – write a short report about what you think is good about it. 3. Make a themed display to go with a book eg Rat Boy – toy rats, cheese, etc!! You could create a real display or a virtual one using the computer to generate ideas.
4. Who can collate the longest list of fictional book titles that contain food connotations? eg ‘Burger Boy’ 5. Make a character from a book out of food – either draw the character or model using food 6. Research a scene from a book that features food and write about how well it is described or why it is used. Eg. The chocolate cake scene in Matilda. 

Gardening Club Receives Grant & Is Up and Running Again :-)

25th February 2022Mrs S Field

Our Gardening Club is back up and running again this year with some enthusiastic students from nearly all year groups. It was wonderful to see so many turn up 🙂

This week we started off by putting the compost bin together, pruning a few plants, planting & watering broad beans, weeding and turning over soil near shed, re-planting lavender & rosemary – Good Job!

We’d like to say a huge thank you to the Finnis Scott Foundation, who generously awarded us a grant of £500 which enabled us to purchase a little shed, greenhouse, soil, seeds, tools, compost bin and a water butt. – these items have made a great difference!

Our focus is on sustainable gardening, growing herbs for our Food Tech department, creating a meadow to attract insects and pollinators and growing various other flowers and vegetables which we hope to sell in Enfield Market in July!

This enterprise is very rewarding and enriching for our students and also offers support for our DofE Award students who can opt to volunteer as a helper or join in to learn a new skill.

More info about the grants available for horticulture and plant science:

https://www.finnis-scott-foundation.org.uk/about-the-foundation/

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