Sporting News: Results & Fixtures

29th November 2023Mrs S Field

Fantastic results from last week- well done all who took part!

Basketball
Year 11 vs Laurel Park win 69-42
Year 7 vs Winchmore win 19-8 – this is the first time EGS have entered a Year 7 team, so what a fantastic start!
Football
Year 11 vs Kingsbury High Middlesex Cup win 5-1
Year 7 vs Beauchamps National Cup win 5-1
Upcoming Fixtures:

High Achievers

24th November 2023Mrs S Field
Winchmore School hosted the High Achievers Evening this week, celebrating STEM, Languages and overall academic achievement from Enfield Secondary Schools. We were delighted to attend and very proud to celebrate some of our students.
Congratulations Tamzid, Bryan, Arlind, Ben, William, Ewan, Zakaria, Hamza, Tyler & Abdul

Ethan’s Jack Petchey Speak-Out Winners Ceremony!

24th November 2023Mrs S Field
The Jack Petchey Speak Out Challenge, a national speech competition that is run with Year 10 pupils every year, is a fantastic opportunity for our students to learn confidence and eloquence. Thousands of students took part last year and we were thrilled that our very own Ethan Bousoula won the nationals with his hilarious, wise and moving words.
Last week, the English department was delighted to run an awards ceremony for Ethan with The Speakers Trust. The Mayor of Enfield, Ethan’s father, and other representatives from the Speaker’s Trust attended the ceremony with the rest of Year 11 to recognise Ethan’s great achievement and congratulate him on this impressive accolade. Year 11 made us proud as a supportive and mature audience.
Ethan serves as a great example for this year’s competition hopefuls and he gave some sage advice to our Year 10 students who are currently taking part in the competition. The first workshop kicks off next week – good luck boys!
EGS looks forward to hosting the Regional Finals of the competition in February of 2024, where Ethan will no doubt be supporting this year’s local finalists.
To listen to Ethan’s award-winning speech, click here:

EGS Choir At The Choir Festival

23rd November 2023Mrs S Field

EGS Choir performed at the Enfield Music Service Choir Festival this week.

They performed two songs they’ve been rehearsing and then sung alongside four other primary and secondary Enfield schools as part of one huge choir!

The boys did fantastically and we’re very much looking forward to the next one.

Happy Birthday to one of our Alumni….. aka Frankenstein!

23rd November 2023Mrs S Field

Wishing a posthumous happy birthday to Enfield Grammar School ‘old boy’ and ‘king of horror’, Boris Karloff, who would have been 136 today!

We are inviting ‘Old Boys’ (our alumni) to a Jingle & Mingle reunion event in December …….let’s hope Boris (William) doesn’t choose to attend!

Born William Pratt on the 23rd of November 1887, he attended EGS from 1891, and was the first man to play Frankenstein’s Monster on film.

He went on to star in over eighty Hollywood movies including “The Mummy” (1931), “The Mask of Fu Manchu” (1932), “The Bride of Frankenstein” (1935), “Isle of the Dead” (1945), “The Body Snatcher” (1945), Black Sabbath(1963), The Raven(1963) and of course Abbott and Costello Meet Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1953).

#exstudents #alumni #studentsuccesses #ourhistory

#StudentSpotlight: Ibrahim Ghelleche

21st November 2023Mrs S Field

Congratulations to sixth former Ibrahim in the OxBright Essay Competition Awards Ceremony 2023!

We are delighted to say that Ibrahim was Highly Commended by the judging panel, ranking in the top 20% of a competitive field of over 1000 entries. This is a great achievement, and we at Enfield Grammar School feel very proud!

Ibrahim wrote a brilliant essay answering the question “How can long-term thinking in the field of Law foster optimism about the future?”

The panel of judges were very impressed with Ibrahim’s essay, nominating it as Highly Commended and ranking it within the top 20% of a competitive field of over1000entries. Ibrahim received a Certificate of Achievement and has won a free place at an OxBright academic conference.

OxBright’s mission is to inspire students to succeed, find their purpose and make a difference in the world. They do this by offering courses, internships, conferences and resources for teenagers, and you can find out more on their website: https://www.oxbright.org/

Entering an Essay Competition is a great way to prepare for university applications, think deeply about a topic beyond the school curriculum, and widen your academic horizons. OxBright warmly welcome entries from Enfield Grammar School for future Essay Competitions, and any students who are interested can find out more here: https://www.oxbright.org/resources/essay-competition/