Switch Off

Switch Off Fortnight took place nationally from 2 to 13 November. A campaign that's all about encouraging young people to think about how we use electricity and energy. As part of the NHGS campaign we encouraged students to read the electricity meter during the first week and then in the second week 'Switch Off' and see what impact it made. We even had our own website about it, visit the NHGS Switch off Website here: http://www.nhgs.co.uk/switchoff

Year 7 Forensic Science ‘A case of identity’ workshop

On Wednesday 4th November, Year 7 took part in a forensic Science activity. A forensic scientist came over from Australia. We had to solve the murder of Sally. She brought in evidence, which we used to narrow it down to three people. The evidence we used included Sally’s skirt, DNA and the fingerprints from her coke can. Three volunteers came up pretending to be the three remaining suspects: ex-boyfriend, friend from University and an electrician from Sally’s school. We then found out that the ex-boyfriend wore a wool jumper and wool was found on her skirt. The electrician was found running from the scene. Finally the friend’s fingerprints were found on the bottle that killed her. He later confessed that he wanted to more than just friends with Sally. Also Sally was rich and the police believe that she was attacked for those reasons. The friend was sentenced, has served his time and has been released. He still lives in Australia where this case happened. We enjoyed the activity and found it really interesting.

Peter and Richard 7(4)

German Course

Joanna Lees (Y13) applied for, and was awarded, a place on a 2 week course in Germany. The British and German governments subsidise the course and only the very best students are successful in their application. Well done to Joanna! This is what she wrote about her experiences…

Aneka Shoukat 11(3) went to Germany in July with an organisation called UK German Connection. UK German Connection is an organisation which allows students from the UK to visit Germany and students from Germany to visit the UK. She was chosen to go to the trip to Frankfurt with 14 other people from different parts of the UK. She went for three days and visited many places such as Wiesbaden and Schloss. Her favourite place was a German school called Liebigschule. They had a tour of the school and then talked to some students in German and they talked to us in English. What surprised Aneka was how good the German students were at speaking English. She said that she really enjoyed the whole trip and would love to go again.

A big WELL DONE to all those students who took part in the interviews held on the last Wednesday of the summer term. Lucas Hütten came into school for the day to conduct interviews in German with students in Years 9 and 10 who had submitted the best applications and CVs for a summer job working in an Eisdiele in Saarbrücken, Germany. Lucas was very impressed with the standards of German spoken by our students and the enthusiasm they demonstrated for this virtual job! Students he interviewed were David Greenwood, Deanna Holroyd, Sophie Hoyle, Siarlot Lloyd, Duncan Lomax, Oliver Marshall and Aneka Shoukat in Year 10 and Beth, Charlotte Greenwood, Jennifer Kidd, Elizabeth Lamb, Rosie Payne and Thomas Townend in Year 9.

Lucas that all our candidates came across as very confident, very mature and very brave to attempt such a daunting task!

The two candidates who were absolutely stunning in the interview and who were awarded the job were Elizabeth Lamb and David Greenwood. Lucas was bowled over by the quality of both Elizabeth and David – he said he had never heard such impressive German from students so young. Read their experiences here…

Human Influenza Pandemic (Swine Flu)

Information has been communicated to students. Please read and follow the advice, which can be downloaded here. [opens as a PDF document in a new window]

Parents: School Clothes and Equipment

Please visit the Parents section to find out details of how you can order school uniform (new or hardly used) and purchase school equipment from our 'buy and sell' area, for the new school year.