Sharing these fab cricket results….
Exam Season is Here!
Wishing our students the very best with their exams over the coming weeks.
Keep calm
Revise
Do your best
You’ve got this!
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Team Enfield are putting together their Table Tennis teams for the London Youth Games – see details on the poster below:
**Update: Saturday games all start at 9am.
EGS Y7 & 8 are at home
EGS Y9 is Away
Cricket Fixtures for this week……
Huge congratulations to the Year 10 DofE boys who all successfully made it through their Practice expedition!
A week ago today, they were all packing their rucksacks and making sure they all had the necessary items for their weekend.
WE were all hoping that it wouldn’t be as damp as it was today…..but it was!
Saturday morning saw them all set off, hiking to the overnight venue that was to be Base Camp, where training sessions on Navigation, Cooking, Tent Pitching were delivered. Then, it was time to put them all to the test.
Camp was set up, lunch was cooked/eaten and then off they went on mini hikes testing their compass and map skills. Luckily the rain held off for them.
Downtime in the evening where pizza and marshmallow treats were consumed before heading off to bed. The sound of tent zips could be heard around the site…..just before the pounding of raindrops on tents took over!
The morning saw a very damp breakfast session and some difficulties packing up wet tents in a muddy field before setting off on some pre-planned hikes back to school…..and just like Peppa Pig….’some jumping in muddy puddles’!!
They all made it back in fantastic form. Proud to say their behaviour, effort and teamwork were excellent. They’re on track to smash their qualifying expedition in June (we have pre-ordered dry and warm weather for that one!)
The Duke of Edinburgh Awards are all about challenging yourself, learning to work as a team, learning to become independent and self-sufficient, learning new skills and importantly, developing an understanding of your surroundings, the area you are in and the people around you. During this time, friends are made, fun is had and hopefully each participant grows in confidence and gains faith in themselves.
At EGS, we offer the Bronze Award in Year 10 and then the Silver in Year 11. It is open to ALL the boys who wish to participate and is definitely a plus point on your CV or in your personal statements when applying for college, university or jobs/apprenticeships.
www.enfieldgrammar.org/dofe/
For this week…
ITV’s political editor and the founder of ‘Speakers of Schools’, Mr Robert Peston, visited the school last Friday (26th) and was interviewed on stage in the Main Hall by two year 13 students – Serban Beta and Qae Benjamin-Fleming.
Mr Peston initially gave an insight into his schooling, university and how he became a journalist before answering questions posed by students that were collated in advance of his visit.
After the interview, Mr Peston chose two questions he thought were the best of the day.
The two students whose questions were chosen each received a signed copy of Mr Peston’s latest book ‘Bust’. The questions that won the prize were:
“If you woke up as Chancellor and had carte blanche on policy, what changes would you make first and why?” This question was asked by Serban Beta from Year 13, and,
“Is there a way to get politicians to focus on long term economic growth rather than the short run which is always used to gain votes for the next election? This was asked by Ewan Neilson from Year 12.
Before departing, Mr Peston gave salient advice to our students as he recounted how it took him time to realise what he wanted to do with his life.
He told students to: “…always aim high, don’t sell yourselves short…” and to “…put yourselves into positions to have choices…”
We thank Mr Peston for his time and look forward to welcoming him back in the future.
#motivational #mentoring #careerpaths #advice #politicalviews #yourfuture
We would like to congratulate Felix on achieving a music grade 3 in Violin AND grade 5 in Piano! It is quite an accomplishment to be studying 2 instruments and passing grades at the same time – Fantastic achievement, Felix.
Felix started playing the piano by the time he was in Year 3 and then decided to take up the violin as well in year 7. The decision to take up piano was mainly due to the fact that his brother already played the instrument, however, Felix wanted to play a second string instrument, unique to him and decided on violin over the cello.
Although he has not joined any school bands yet, he does perform at our concerts.
Felix told us; ” I have really enjoyed music and I am picking music for GCSE because the music department is really good!”
#enfieldgrammarschool #enfield #studentachievements #musiclessons #EGSmusicdept #lovemusic #GCSEchoices #GCSEoptions
Our Bronze DofE groups set off this morning and wish them all the best on their practice expedition where many of them will be learning new skills; pitching tents, outdoor cooking, navigation and hiking with a heavy load!
So far, the rain has been fairly kind to them and we look forward to seeing them back at school tomorrow!
#ENFIELDGRAMMARSCHOOL #dodofe #dukeofedinburghawards #bronzeaward #enfield #challengeyourself #teambuilding #confidenceboosting
