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Year 7
In a new school it helps with settling- in if everyone, staff and girls, get to know each other as quickly as possible.
So after just 2 weeks at Notting Hill and Ealing High School the whole of Year 7, along with their form tutors and Head of Year headed off for a day at Hillingdon Outdoor Activity Centre. Challenges, team building exercises and lots of mud ensured that shyness was quickly overcome !
Borneo Expedition
In July 14 sixth form girls accompanied by 2 staff undertook a four-week expedition to Borneo. The trip encompassed everything from snow-capped mountains and jungles to coral beaches and offered something to students of biology, geography and the environment as well as those interested in the wider world and a chance to test themselves. This week the girls gave presentations about their experiences to the school and groups of parents.
Highlights of the trip included climbing Mount Kinibalu – south east Asia’s highest peak and a stay in a jungle survival camp. The group spent time working with a project called MESCOT, cutting a transect for mapping purposes through virgin rain forest and in the conservation area did some tree planting and helped in the tree nursery. There was a visit to the Tambunan area where expedition members stayed with local families for five days. The group also spent time at the Sepilock orang-utan rehabilitation centre. Before returning home they spent few days relaxing on the idyllic beaches of the Tunku Abdul Rahman Marine Park.
Year 10 Artists
Year 10 Art students visited the British Museum and Courtauld Institute this week. They had the opportunity to study and sketch African art at the British Museum and also took part in one of the Courtauld’s workshops. These workshops are designed to develop critical skills for exploring ideas and to build confidence in looking at art. Students looked at works by Rubens; Van Gogh; Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Roger Fry and Alexej Jawlensky and then took part in a practical drawing exercise.
NHEHS Winner of GDST Dame Kitty Anderson Prize 2008
Congratulations to Alex Barry who is the winner of the GDST Dame Kitty Anderson Prize 2008
The essay prize is competed for across all 29 GDST schools by those in the Sixth Form.
Alex’s winning essay on the 1976 Soweto uprising and its role in the eventual end of apartheid in South Africa was described by the judges as “ …a quite outstanding piece of research”. As well as incorporating citations from an extensive range of academic texts, Alex’s essay made use of memoirs, foreign-office files in the National Archives, and the personal testimony of eye-witnesses garnered by email to argue
convincingly that the Soweto uprising was a pivotal point in the history of South Africa between 1960 and 1990. The judges report concluded “ The level of historical engagement and expertise displayed in this essay would be well regarded if this were submitted as an honours degree dissertation; from a sixth-former it is breathtaking.”
Alex wrote her essay while in the Upper Sixth and is now in her first year at Oxford where she is reading Medicine.
GCSE and GCE A level Results - August 2008
Congratulations to all our Year 13 A level students who achieved 100% pass rate in all their subjects. 93% of our girls gained A or B grades in these examinations (71% of the total entries were A grades).
Congratulations also to our Year 11 GCSE students who also achieved 100% pass rate. 88% of the grades achieved were A* or A.
Retiring Head Susan Whitfield was thrilled by these results and said "... staff were brilliant and have been really supportive of the girls who have of course worked so hard to achieve these outstanding results ... "
Full details appear in our results section. |
