The Careers Department have been working with OGs to advise current pupils
News > The Careers Department have been working with OGs to advise current pupils
The Careers Department embraces working with the OG Club to link with Old Greshamians for talks, advice, mentoring & work experience opportunities.
At the beginning of June we welcomed back not one but three Old Greshamians.
Marietta Hickman B (2002 – 16) spoke to Year 12 pupils studying Business about starting her own business, Cheeky Nibble.
Lottie Alston B (2009 – 14) came back to her former House (Britten), now Queens’, to talk about her digital design study and work journey.
Pat Walton H (2015 – 20) gave insight to sports job roles from his internship with Bristol Sport.
This is such a fantastic platform of support.
Year 8 have been enjoying their leavers’ trip in the Ardeche
News > Year 8 have been enjoying their leavers’ trip in the Ardeche
Year 8 have been enjoying their stay in the Ardeche for their leavers’ trip. They have been completing high ropes courses, visiting the Med, running a 2-day canoe descent of the Ardeche Gorges as well as lots of other action-packed activities.
Year 6 enjoyed a Midsummer Night’s Dream theatre workshop
News > Year 6 enjoyed a Midsummer Night’s Dream theatre workshop
Year 6 were treated to a theatre workshop to explore the text they are studying in English lessons through Drama. Led by Miss O’Brien, Director of Drama at the Senior School, and Miss Corrigan, pupils created ‘fairy teams’ of Oberon and Titania. Using tableaux, movement, gesture and facial expression pupils created The Athenians and The Mechanicals. They even had the opportunity to perform their work in the fitting arena of the Theatre in the Woods!
Year 8 celebrated the end of exams with various activities
News > Year 8 celebrated the end of exams with various activities
Year 8 pupils celebrated completing their end of year exams with a fantastic rotation of activities. These included cooking with The Crown Inn, East Rudham, and intelligent self-protection with Absolute Defence.
The final Music and Munch of the year celebrated our school leavers
News > The final Music and Munch of the year celebrated our school leavers
The final Music and Munch of the academic year celebrated our wonderful school leavers. In a showcase of their versatility, we enjoyed performances from Alice S on piano, Noah W on cello, Julius S on french horn, and Beatrice G and Summer H singing. We will greatly miss them in the Music Department and wish them all the best. Year 12 pupils Ruby S and Larkin A also stepped in at remarkably short notice to perform – a brilliant indication of the high standard of next year’s leading musicians. Thank you to all those who have supported our Music and Munch recital series this year and we look forward to next year’s concerts.
Two teams of Gresham’s cadets travelled to Cambridge Gun Club on Saturday and Sunday for the National Clay Target Shooting Championships. The ‘A Team’ of Charles A, Will N, Jack K and George A came first in the Flurry Competition, holding off their closest rivals Ampleforth College, by just one point, and retaining the trophy once again. They also retained the ‘Down the Line’ competition trophy and so remain national champions, and Gold Medal winners in both events. Charles A was the top shot of all CCF competitors and therefore represented the CCF in the prestigious inter-services national final where he top-scored once again.
The B Team, led by Sam W, with Toby W Alec A & Max C also shot well, especially considering that most of them were new to the competition. They came a very creditable 5th in the Flurry, 3rd in the ‘Down the Line’ and put in an astonishing team performance to beat the ‘A Team’ and achieve the silver medal in the 6-stand Sporting event, with the ‘A Team’ taking the Bronze. Max C was ranked as the 3rd best CCF shot, in his first appearance at the competition.
This was another outstanding performance at national sporting level for the clay target shooters.
Year 4 have been conducting traffic surveys in their Maths lessons
News > Year 4 have been conducting traffic surveys in their Maths lessons
Year 4 have been exploring data handling in their Maths lessons. They are learning how to best collect, organise and present data before analysing and comparing it.
Cadets enjoyed the CCF Afloat Camp during half term
News > Cadets enjoyed the CCF Afloat Camp during half term
The CCF held a tri-service afloat camp at Hickling Broad during the half term break, 26-30 May. On Saturday and Monday the cadets took RYA training courses in powerboating and dinghy sailing with cadets earning stage 2, stage 3 and Assistant Instructor qualifications in sailing and level 2 powerboating.
Sunday was an upriver trip to Horsey Mill in sail and powerboats. All cadets also enjoyed an evening of paddleboarding, and some additional sailing time on the water. It was a great long weekend of camping and water activities, complete with excellent catering by our professional RAF chef. Even the unseasonably cold weather didn’t dampen spirits! We look forward to more afloat activity on CCF field days.
Pupils have created an art installation in Chapel inspired by WH Auden
News > Pupils have created an art installation in Chapel inspired by WH Auden
Just before the Whitsun half term break around 100 pupils from Gresham’s Prep and Senior Schools came together to create a new art installation in Chapel. The installation features 1000 metres of multihued ribbons cascading from the rafters which fill the space with a riot of colour: like streams of light connecting heaven and earth. Inspired by Old Greshamian W H Auden who died fifty years ago this year, pupils wrote words from his poem Whitsunday in Kirchstetten on each piece of ribbon to help us mark this significant anniversary as a school community. Whitsun is the festival in which the Christian church commemorates the coming of the Holy Spirit, and Auden is buried in Kirchstetten in Austria.
The different coloured ribbons contained in the piece are intended to match both the summer sunsets which come streaming through the West Window in Chapel and the stained-glass depiction of the Holy Spirit contained in the Chapel’s East Window.
School Chaplain Rev Jack Branford said, “The pupils have done a wonderful job creating this stunning work. It seems to lift people’s spirits and make them smile as they walk into Chapel.”
Well done to this year’s ABE Endorsed KidsMBA ‘Shark Tank’ event winners, ‘Sail Away’
News > Well done to this year’s ABE Endorsed KidsMBA ‘Shark Tank’ event winners, ‘Sail Away’
This half term saw the conclusion of the ABE Endorsed KidsMBA programme that our Year 8 pupils have been working towards throughout the year. The internationally recognised programme is part of the Year 8 curriculum and aims to provide future skills and business knowledge to unleash the entrepreneurship potential of the Prep School’s oldest pupils.
The ABE Endorsed KidsMBA has been identified as one of the world’s leading children’s entrepreneurship programmes by Forbes magazine (see story here) and it concluded with our second annual ‘Shark Tank’ event. The ‘Shark Tank’ event replicated TV’s Dragon’s Den, and the pupils pitched their business start-ups to three judges from both the Gresham’s and business community – we would like to thank Mr Paul Devlin, Mrs Ingrid Cox and Mr Charlie Mack for their time and support.
The business ideas varied from personalised Crocs, online stylists, upcycled sports equipment, ski safety devices and much more. The eventual winners ‘Sail Away’, sought to recycle used sails from the coastline to turn into eco-friendly, high-quality bags. This company idea will now be entered into this summer’s global competition, and all pupils involved will receive their certificate of course completion on Speech Day. Lloyd Stephenson, Head of Teaching and Learning at the Prep School, says “I would like to thank the parents, teachers and ABE for supporting the programme this year, and the pupils for being so creative and engaged throughout. We look forward to running the programme for the third year in September 2023 with our current Year 7 pupils”.
If you would like to read about last year’s Shark Tank event on the ABE website, please see this link.
