Michael Duberry (old boy & ex pro-footballer) and DJ Spoony (friend of EGS & garage legend) came to EGS to talk about life, careers, choices, barriers, family, biases and racism, as part of Black History Month and Grammar’s ongoing drive to give hope and inspiration to all.
Mr Lamb took them for a coffee and bumped into Andy Cole (ex pro-footballer), as you do!
Thank you to Raymond Cathline, a school governor, who has been one of our leads in organising all our #BHM events.
Holler organised for one of their inspiring speakers to visit our Year 10s. ‘Inspirer’ Jermaine Hunter (ex pro-footballer, football agent and Personal trainer) came to share his story.
You can see Shawn below holding the Holler Hero UK award!
What a privilege it was for us! It’s all about inspiring the next generation and preparing young people for the journey of life.
We were truly honoured to have Leon Mckenzie, ex-professional footballer and boxer, visit our school today and speak to our boys.
He has excelled at two sports at the highest level and now he shares his story about his mental health history and how he tries to overcome it a day at a time.
Leon delivered the message that it’s ok not to be ok. That mental health affects us all at some point(s) in our lives.
That we can all work hard to be “good” men; that good men talk, cry, share, help, empathise and to be kind.
EGS have worked alongside the School Food Matters charity through their #KnowYourOnions project to develop and encourage our students to think about how food is grown, produced and consumed.
Our gardening club group and other selected students ran a stall in Enfield Town Market last week with products produced from items they have grown in school to sell to members of the public.
Our parent volunteer led our students to create unique and interesting items including seed bombs, dried bouquets, chutneys, seed packets and planted herbs amongst lots of other beautiful products.
There was a fabulous buzz in the air with members of the public, local business leaders, Enfield Council, school governors, parents, teachers and other students all coming over to give their support and make some purchases.
A nice little profit was made that will go straight back into the Gardening Club to help purchase items such as soil and equipment needed.
The boys have loved working alongside our volunteer and have learnt life skills including working as a team, gardening knowledge, environmental awareness and building important friendships.
On Market Day these boys were impeccably behaved and polite, resourceful and stepped up to the challenge of undertaking small Q&A sessions filmed by School Food Matters.
We are incredibly excited to continue to build on this work alongside our DofE Year 10s who will be supporting our volunteer with the gardening club. The aim is to provide a sustainable project that enables expansion to an existing well-accessed club and to provide a ‘team’ who will develop their own skill sets whilst also developing valuable in-school provision where we can also support our Food Tech dept.
Thank you to our exceptional volunteer who was fundamental within the project, our amazing students who have given up their lunchtimes on a weekly basis come rain or shine and to the SFM Team.
Today we see the beginning of Black History Month and EGS is celebrating this by delivering a full timetable of related events throughout October;
BHM lessons, assemblies, international dishes, baking, form time activities, art competition (portrait of an inspirational black/ethnic role model) and related content reading.
We are also proud to be receiving special guests (Leon McKenzie, DJ Spoony and Michael Duberry) to talk about their experiences followed by Q&A sessions.
Here is the 2nd of our 2 Mosaics unveiled at Lower School.
Again, a beautiful piece of work, this one also created by @alexmchallam with our Garden Club students. Terrific creativity! It now sits proudly next to our garden 🙂
A big thank you to FEGS (EGS PTA) for part funding this project.
