The F24 Greenpower electric car team (Grace S, Freddie L, Sam H, and Alastair S) travelled to the Lotus test track at Hethel to take part in the team’s first F24 race.
It was a great day, the car performed well initially but had some teething problems with wires being shaken loose and we managed to shred a tyre. However, they finished many laps in the hour thirty race and finished mid table. The team has many ideas on how to develop the car for the next race and had a great time.
Our Year 9 and 10 pupils have been taking part in The Big Help Out, taking part in a variety of voluntary initiatives to give something back at the end of this academic year. Members of Tallis; Woodlands and Edinburgh houses went litter picking in Holt and High Kelling helping to keep our communities tidy.
Just about 20 dogs and their owners turned out on a baking hot Father’s Day to contest various classes at Grufts 2023. Although we had hoped for rather more contestants the rings were happily busy and most dogs went home with a rosette. A great deal of fun was had by canines and humans alike and just over £200 was raised for Olpalagilagi School. This will go towards an extension for a severely overcrowded, corrugated iron dormitory, improving the conditions for the boy boarders. Thank you very much to all who came along and took part, and also to those who just bought lots of cakes from the tea stall.
This was an event for all of Year 12 and parents to give information and advice on some of the different pathways available post Sixth Form.
Mrs Mousley and Mrs Osborne had organised an excellent variety of topics & speakers for pupils and parents to choose from, including.
This trip marked International Day of Women in Engineering.
Gresham’s pupils were invited by Lotus Cars to attend the day at their training academy in Norwich. Mrs Osborne took nine female pupils, from Years 10 and 11, on the trip who showed interest and ability in science, technology, design, engineering and maths.
In the morning they enjoyed talks from Lotus female engineers and an insightful and encouraging talk from Elizabeth Donnelly, CEO Women’s Engineering Society.
The afternoon was interactive with a production line exercise and time spent in the simulated learning workshop environment.
Zinnia-Claire, one of the pupils on the trip, said, “I loved the trip! I was inspired by both the people and the cars. This was a fantastic experience and it encouraged me to potentially pursue a future in engineering.”
Year 13 pupil Tanya P had a week’s work placement with Holkham Estate where she was given an insight into the diversity of the work at the estate.
Tanya said “It was really insightful and interesting to learn about all the different aspects of the estate.
My time in the land and property area was really helpful to understand different developments and rental properties for my future career. I found everyone at Holkham incredibly friendly, approachable and happy.”
Read more on the Holkham blog.
Year 12 pupil George will be doing a week’s work placement in July with stockbrokers Barratt & Cooke. Mr Coventry, Mr Mack and Mrs Osborne interviewed a high calibre of applicants from current Year 12 for the placement. This is a yearly opportunity offered to one pupil from Gresham’s and one from Norwich School.
Erin L in Year 12 is doing a three-day placement with OG Jeremy Dugdale, Barrister at Law, Octagon House Chambers.
Year 12 pupil Jimmy T will be doing a placement with North Norfolk Railway to further his insight in engineering.
Year 12 pupil Erin L has completed her work experience at Norwich Crown Court. Erin said, “just finished 2 days of work experience, was very interesting! Spent Monday with Jeremy, attending his cases and spent the Tuesday with a judge, where I got to sit in on lots of different family court cases and 1 criminal case!”
We enjoyed a visit from William Sachiti and Jill Lloyd from The Academy of Robotics based at the former RAF base RAF Neatishead. They visited pupils in the Dyson Building.
They said, “it was an absolutely fascinating visit. We were so impressed by the level the students are working at. It’s an incredible space to work in, but it was also abundantly clear that the level of work produced by the students is very much driven by the passion their teachers have for their subjects and for sharing this knowledge with the students”.
Congratulations to Year 13 pupil Henry B for securing a degree apprenticeship with Richard Utting Associates.
Henry will be starting as a Trainee Quantity Surveyor in their Norwich office. Henry will benefit from a comprehensive inhouse training programme, as well as part-time day release at Anglia Ruskin University, studying a BSc (Hons) degree in Quantity Surveying.
Congratulations to Year 13 pupil Archie W for his perseverance and dedication in research, work experience and application for the PCDA (Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship) with Norfolk & Suffolk Constabulary.
The whole process has taken 9-12 months from application to rigorous assessments, culminating in an in-depth, testing interview. This was an extremely intensive process alongside doing A levels.
Our Year 6 team had a very successful day at the Greenpower races at Scottow Park. This is now the second year that we have competed at the event. The team won the fastest Drag Race, Fastest Slalom and were the overall winners of the event at which many other schools fiercely competed. Well done to all involved!
A group of 10 lucky Year 12 pupils and two members of staff travelled at the start of half term to spend two weeks on the southern edge of the Maasai Mara. They were hosted in superb style by the Cottar’s 1920’s camp. The key focus of the trip was to work at Olpalagilagi Primary School, where each of the Gresham’s pupils taught up to 80 children at a time with few resources to hand. In addition to this, activities included litter picking, erosion control work, learning from the local community about Maasai culture, and of course the odd safari to look for the Big Five took place.
On Thursday 22nd June, the Prep School hall came to life with the annual Year 6 Science Fair.
Over the previous weeks, the children worked in teams and conducted science investigations of their own choosing. They then created displays of their findings.
As always, there was a fantastic array of interesting questions, such as:
To name but a few!
Well done to everyone who took part and congratulations to the overall winners.
1st Place Overall: Boombastic (Nathaniel, Norah and Oli) Which fizzy drinks react with mentos the most?
2nd Place Overall: Beat Biologists (Erik, Millie and Charlotte) How does music affect your heart rate?
3rd Place Overall: Sweet Energy (Hetty, Paddy and Lulu) How does sugar affect your ability to exercise?
Miranda and Serenity attended the Wells Literary Festival ‘Sea Fever’ to listen to Professor John Mullan speak on Charles Dickens. Using extracts from his recent book, ‘The Artful Dickens’, Professor Mullan led his audience through the weird, wonderful and often humorous aspects of Dickens’s style. Listening to this eminent academic speak locally was such a privilege – we look forward to attending the festival again next year!
The Prep School were delighted to host 12 boys from Mayo College in India. The boys enjoyed a taste of life at Gresham’s Prep School alongside several trips to enjoy all that Norfolk offers to visitors. The boys presented a fabulous assembly to Prep School pupils who learnt much about their school and culture. Particular highlights included demonstrations of Indian dances and a puppet show. We hope that this will be the beginning of a long and happy association with Mayo College.
Congratulations to our Year 10 girls, Francis R, Jemima M-E, Romilly H and Zelie B who have been crowned county champions. It is an event made up of four singles and two doubles, and they had an exciting match in the county final to beat Norwich High School 4-2. They now go on to the East of England finals in September, good luck girls!
