Our wonderful catering team have decided to add a little warmth and cheer to Fridays running up to the end of term…..

• Guess how many sweets in the jar – win the jar of sweets!
• Christmassy cupcakes – who will be lucky and find the £5?
• Enjoy a warming, tasty hot chocolate with toppings – perfect for this weather!

And, to add some extra fun, IF we raise £500 a member of our senior leadership team has promised to be a school fairy on Christmas Lunch day! ….Now that will be a sight worth seeing!!

All monies raised will be donated to the charity SHELTER so please be generous, bring in some coins and join in over the next 3 Fridays 🙂

**CASH ONLY only at the tills**

In school, we have a memorial to all those alumni who never came home from the wars; Gerald E Bungey is listed in the first column.

All of our sixth form students who enrol in degree programmes at universities receive a £100 scholarship in their second year as a consequence of a moving story about one of our former pupils, who tragically lost his life in the First World War.

Mrs Bungey and her late husband agreed to leave half their estate to provide a memorial to their son, Second Lieutenant Gerald Edward Bungey. The yearly funding for the award comes from interest paid each year on a bequest left to the Enfield Grammar School Foundation from the estate of Mrs Maude Bungey and is paid out by our Foundation Trustees who are part of our governance structure.

Gerald attended the EGS from 1911 to 1914 and was Captain of 1st Cricket team and Football Elevens, and runner of the mile and half-mile

Joining the army soon after the declaration of war in 1914, he was killed in action on 4th August during the Battle of the Somme at the young age of just 19 years, while fighting with the 14th Fusiliers. 

It makes you reflect on all those young men (many just out of school) who never had the chance to go onto any type of further education or live out their lives.

Following our Remembrance Assembly last Friday, we will be holding a 2 minutes silence at 11am today.

“No greater sacrifice can a man make in giving his life in serving his country so that others may live in peace and freedom.”

Year 12 and 13 A Level Biology and BTEC Applied Science students took part in a unique opportunity to carry out research-level experiments.

Thanks to AMGEN and the University of Hertfordshire, they performed bacterial transformation using a red fluorescent protein gene from sea anemones. Over two weeks, they cut the gene, created recombinant plasmids, and inserted the gene into E. coli bacteria. The bacteria that absorbed the gene turned red and glowed under UV light (see ‘labelled result’ in folder).

Students also used gel electrophoresis (see ‘gel electrophoresis result’) and even got to see and use a PCR machine—which costs at least £15,000!

They learned valuable lab skills including micro pipetting, aseptic technique, DNA manipulation, bacterial transformation, gel electrophoresis, and PCR. These are key skills for any future in STEM.

It was challenging, but they did exceptionally well learning and applying so many new techniques.