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July 2018

  • 17/07/18

    Geography Field Trip 2018 - Student Comment

    From the 9th to the 13th of July, the Year 10 GCSE Geography students visited Orielton Field Centre in South Wales to complete some field work for our exams next year. On the first two days, we did some work on rivers in Haversfordwest and the Afon Syfynwy, where we assessed the effectiveness of...
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  • 17/07/18

    ICEAW BASE Competition 2018 - A Student Review

    The annual ICEAW Base Competition is an exciting and innovative challenge offering sixth form students from all around the country to compete against each other in a task designed to develop key employability skills and to offer an insight into the business world as a whole, as well as potential car...
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  • 12/07/18

    Enrichment Week For Year 9 - HR Expert Speaker On Equality

    SGGS welcomed Melanie MacWilliam, HR expert on equality law and equal pay cases, to speak to Year 9 students in their Enrichment week this year. After leaving the Stratford on Avon District Council in 2015, Ms MacWilliam has worked as an HR specialist in various institutions, before setting up he...
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  • 12/07/18

    Y12 Drama: Hamlet Workshop With RSC Actor James Cooney and RSC Practitioner Sophie Hobson

    Year 12 were very lucky to be involved in a workshop that explored the function of iambic pentameter, power struggles within Hamlet and how to work together as an ensemble. Year 12 Drama and Theatre Studies students said... 'It was interesting when we broke down the soliloqu...
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  • 12/07/18

    Y12 Upton House Project 2018

    In 1927 Lord and Lady Bearsted viewed Upton House with ‘the eye of imagination’ and soon set about creating their made-to-measure country home. Year 12 Drama and Theatre studies students were very lucky to be given permission to perform for The National Trust at Upton House as part of th...
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  • 05/07/18

    SGGS Geography Department Wins Again and Starts Planning!

    The Geography Department are very pleased to announce that they have been awarded one of only one hundred Place Makers board games, available from the Royal Town Planning Institute. The game itself is roleplay-based and asks students to decide where they would plan to build...
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  • 05/07/18

    Hedgehogs! SGGS Student's Report About Her Appearance on BBC Programme 'SpringWatch Wild Academy'

    Hi! My name is Sophie smith and I am in Year 7 at SGGS.  I rescue and rehabilitate hedgehogs.  A couple of weeks ago I had the amazing privilege of being asked to go on the BBC programme, Springwatch Wild Academy !  It was such an exciting experience and we got to meet Chris...
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  • 05/07/18

    French Exchange 2018 - A Student Review

    Between 15th-21st June, fifteen SGGS girls went to Monistrol-sur-Loire for the away leg of our French exchange trip with the Notre Dam du Château school. We began by journeying from Birmingham to Lyon airport before meeting our exchange partners at the school on Friday evening before diving st...
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  • 03/07/18

    Year 7 Maths Students Visit The Crystal for Cracking The Code Competition

    Last Friday myself and Miss Martin took 4 Year 7 students down to London for the final of the Cracking the Code competition. The event took place at an amazing location, in a building called The Crystal in east London, which overlooks the River Thames, directly below the Emirates Air-Line cable...
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  • 03/07/18

    Mainly It Wasn’t ‘To be.’ Year 12 Hamlet Trip Underwhelmed Discerning Critics

    Year 12 English Literature students are trained to develop a critical ear. They had ample opportunity to put their skills to the test during a trip to London’s Bankside on June 29th to watch a performance of William Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet.’ Under new Artistic Director Michelle...
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July 2018

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