**Update: Y7a football game with Winchmore has been cancelled!
EGS proudly hosted the Regional Finals of the Jack Petchey Speak Out Challenge last night.
The event was expertly chaired by our own Ethan Bousula (last year’s winner of the competition), with a rousing welcome and introduction delivered by Headteacher, Mr. C. Lamb.
The highlights of the night were the performances of our speakers, who were all finalists from various schools in the Enfield Borough. Fifteen schools, including Enfield Grammar School, participated, with all speakers demonstrating such confidence, passion, and the potential to effect positive change in the not-so-distant future.
Two bold speakers took the stage to represent EGS;
Oheneba (Kwadwo) Osei highlighted the hidden blights of football in a speech titled ‘The Football Underworld.’
Dylan Da Silva-Simpson moved the audience and changed perspectives about people living with autism in his speech titled ‘Wake Up!’
Both boys represented the school phenomenally and, no doubt, will be agents of positive change in the world.
Two student musicians from our school (Kleidi Perri and Micah Olowu) entertained the audience with amazing solo violin and saxophone performances – supported by our talented music department.
Overall, the night was a worthwhile investment in our youths, and the presence of MP Feryal Clark, Mayor of Enfield Cllr Suna Hurman, and a hall full of parents, teachers, students from all the schools involved was testament to this.
Congratulations to ALL the students who took part, speaking about their passions and thoughts, and especially to the winners whom we wish ‘Good Luck’ to for the next stage!
Regional Champion: Ivan Twumasi, St. Ignatius College
Runner-Up: Kiara Lee Minto, Kingsmead School
Third: Karen Yiadom, Oasis Academy Hadley
Runner-Up: Kiara Lee Minto, Kingsmead School
Third: Karen Yiadom, Oasis Academy Hadley
See all the photos here: www.jpspeakoutchallenge.com/albumenfieldregionalfinal202324
A huge thank you to all our staff who supported the event:
- Ms E Senior, who has been the lead on this programme this year
- music dept who guided and supported the musical performances for the evening
- catering staff who served refreshments and nibbles
- site staff
- parents and staff who came along in support and of course
- JP Speak-Out Challenge and The Speakers Trust
Fantastic result for our 1st xi football team – congratulations boys! ⚽️
Our basketball teams also seem to be on a winning streak! 🔥💥
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KS3 Concert is tomorrow at 7.30pm
There will be the sound of music drifting through upper school tomorrow as all the performers and tech crew prepare to entertain you all in the evening.
FEGS will be running a licensed bar and selling snacks.
Congratulations to Years 7 and 11 for their Well done to all the boys who played in all sporting fixtures last week!
We have to mention how proud and excited we are for a number of our more recent ex-students who have all made enormous progress in the very hard field of professional football….
- Just announced that our ex-boy Romaine Mundle has just signed for Sunderland for a whopping £2m (spent his youth career with Tottenham Hotspur and was also previously signed to Standard Liege in Belgium).
- Romaine’s younger brother Rio Mundle, also an ex-student left school to go to Norwich Football Academy.
- Ex-Student, Reiss Greenidge played for Maidstone in the recent FA cup win over Ipswich.
- Sydie Peck, ex-boy, made his premiere league debut for Sheffield United (having spent his youth career with Arsenal)
Wishing them all continued success in following their sporting careers.
Whilst watching the News or documentaries on TV, have you ever thought; “I could do that” or “I’d love to write about what’s going on around me?”
Well, the BBC has a competition that you can enter and test your reporting skills!
Please let us know if you enter…..
For the second year in a row, these two brothers have succeeded in gaining a place in the Enfield trampolining team to represent Enfield at the London Youth Games.
The LYG trampolining competition was held yesterday and the Enfield team (comprising 6 boys and 6 girls from across the Borough) competed against 27 other Boroughs.
They were fantastic and proudly brought home the Silver medal, an improvement from Bronze last year!
Congratulations Michael and Gregory!
If your son has something to be proud of (in or out of school) let us know! We would love to #Spotlight him!
