Goodbye & Good Luck Year 13

6th July 2024Mrs S Field

As opted for by the students, one of the leavers events was a Staff v Students football game!

Wednesday saw the Staff XI play against the Year 13 leavers in a highly contested and hard fought match, played in great spirits. EGS staff are pleased (relieved!) to announce that experience triumphed over youth and the staff emerged victorious. The game ended 1-1 in normal time, but the staff XI held their nerve to win on penalties, 8-7.

The leavers really enjoyed the afternoon which ended with an amazing BBQ run by our SLT team.

We wish them all the best of luck and health in their future endeavours whichever path they choose, and look forward to seeing them on results day.

Year 13, we will miss you! Please keep in touch and join our Alumni membership.

 

FEGS Annual Quiz Night – Cancelled :-(

26th June 2024Mrs S Field
The FEGS Quiz Night this Friday has, sadly, had to be cancelled due to not having sold a sufficient number of tickets to host the event.

FEGS would like to thank those of you who have purchased tickets and confirm that you will receive a full refund via ParentPay.

We are very keen to hear from parents about the sort of events they would like to attend and, if possible, why you did not purchase tickets to attend the Quiz this week. This information  would really help us to plan for future events.
Please email any feedback to: [email protected]

Attention; parents & Carers family and friends, Staff, Ex-Students and ‘Old Boys’

Fancy a Friday night brain stretch?  Want a chance to test your fantastic knowledge?

Our annual quiz night returns with fun and games!

Whether you are competitive or not we invite you to come along and join us for a thrilling evening hosted by our talented quizmaster, headteacher Mr Lamb, and a chance for your table to win a £50 cash prize!

The evening will also include a game of Heads & Tails, and of course, thirst quenching drinks/snacks will be available from the FEGS Bar.

Tickets go on sale in the afternoon of Friday 7 June (today!).

Suggested team size is maximum 8 adults per table, and if you haven’t got enough people for a team, come along and we can help you to join up with another table.

Tickets can be purchased online at www.parentpay.com with your existing login details, at a cost of £7 each.

Date: Friday 28 June 2024

Venue: Upper School Main Hall

Time: Doors will open at 7pm for a 7:30pm start, and an end time of approx. 11pm

To pre-reserve a table for your team, please email FEGS at [email protected] after you have purchased your tickets.

Ticket sales will close on Friday 21st June.

Bar payments can be made by cash or card on the night and bring extra coins to play some games!

All to help raise money for our school…… this is not a night to miss!

Limited tickets, first come first served!

If you have any questions, please email: [email protected]

See you there!

As you know, the quiz evening is fast approaching and we would like to make the best out of this event for our school, we would like to ask if you or your business/employer are able to help in any of these ways? …. These are great responsible business initiatives!:

 *1. RAFFLE DONATIONS* 

Depending on the nature of the business, your company/employer may be willing to donate goods or services we could use as raffle prizes, which would effectively be good advertising for them. Examples could include vouchers for free treatment (manicure, facial, etc), meal for two, discount off products or services (e.g. free first consultation meeting, free assessment and estimate, etc), cash donations or products themselves. We will promote/share your kind donations our social media pages.

Please do reach out to your employer/consider whether your company could contribute and, if so, contact us ([email protected]).

 *2. MATCH FUNDING* 

Match funding involves an employer/company matching the money raised by employees for the benefit of a charity. The exact terms of how this works and any caps that apply to the money matched would be set out in each company’s own policy.

Please ask your employer whether they offer match funding. You can do this by sending your employer’s HR team an email (below is a template/draft email you can adapt to use for this):

Template/draft to send your employer asking about match funding:

Dear [NAME]

I am writing to ask whether [NAME OF EMPLOYER] offer “match funding” support to staff involved in charitable activities?

The parents’ association of my [child’s/children’s] school (Friends of Enfield Grammar School is a registered charity, number 269212) organises activities to raise much needed funds for the school and I am hoping to be involved in the next event.

I know that some employers engage in match funding (matching the money raised by a member of staff, which then goes to the charity) and wanted to ask if this is something the firm/company] does?

Kind regards

Please Note: You are welcome to bring your own snacks, but NO drinks are permitted, other than drinks purchased from the FEGS Bar. Please be reminded that the school has a ‘no nuts on the premises’ policy. This event has a ‘no refunds’ policy.

May: Mental Health Awareness Month

24th May 2024Mrs S Field
The Month of May is Mental Health Awareness Month.
This month there has been a display in the library for pupils shadowing the Penguin Books coverage that is all about ‘movement and the many ways it can improve your wellbeing and quality of life’. Harnessing the power of movement the display promotes the best reads and resources.
With Half-Term upon us, not only can you indulge in some reading, but you can also take the wellbeing advice to get ‘moving’; exercise, walk, play sports etc…… especially good advice for all those in the midst of exams who will be spending much time revising…..
Wishing you all a healthy half-term break.

Robert Peston Visits EGS

30th April 2024Mrs S Field

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

Next FEGS Meeting…..Date for your diary….

24th April 2024Mrs S Field

Are you a current parent/carer or member of staff?

  • WANT TO FIND OUT ABOUT JOINING OUR SCHOOL PTA GROUP?
  • INTERESTED TO MEET OTHER PARENTS/MEMBERS OF STAFF?
  • WOULD LIKE TO HELP AT EVENTS AND FUNDRAISING?

THEN,  OURPLEASE JOIN US FOR OUR NEXT MEETING – ALL WELCOME!

Just to let everyone know that if you are a:
– member of our FEGS Facebook group or
– a friend of Fegs Egs Pta on Facebook,
these will be closed/deleted tomorrow (25 April 2024).

We would still like to keep in contact with everyone, so please make sure you follow/like this Facebook FEGS page to follow what our newly elected FEGS committee is up to!

https://www.facebook.com/enfieldgrammarFEGS/