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Your July 2024 Round-Up of Other News...

In this 'End of Academic Year' Special edition...

  • Marchants Hill PGL Trip.
  • Canons Cultural Day.
  • RSC Theatre Trip to Stratford.
  • 'The Brilliant Club' Graduation.
  • Cooking in French. 

    

 

 

PGL Adventure Trip

July 5th

Year 7 and 8 three day Residential Trip to 'Marchants Hill'.

We were very fortunate to secure a small number of places at the Marchants Hill PGL Adventure Centre.

Surrounded by acres of woodland at the edge of the Devil's Punchbowl, a gigantic natural geological amphitheatre of special scientific interest, Marchants Hill is conveniently close to London.

Ready for the off...

 

...teachers almost as excited as the students!

 

Activities included braving the high wire trapeze.

 


PGL Adventure Residentials might have been undertaken by some of our students when they were in primary school, but for others, even staying away from home was a new adventure in itself.

Activities included raft making which undoubtedly gets you wet.

 

and once you're wet you might as well just dive in!

 

Leading By Example

Head of Year 8 Mr B Wardle accompanied his students at PGL and we suspect he felt as if he was missing out a bit. Seeing the fun in the water our students were having, he took off his shoes and jumped in, much to the delight of his year group, and the dismay of the PGL supervisors.

Mr Wardle believes in leading by example and not asking anyone to do anything he wouldn't be prepared to do himself. Those are his excuses anyway!

 

Other activities included climbing, axe throwing, target shooting and fieldcraft.

Everyone returned home safe, tired and almost certainly with a feeling of new-found confidence and resilience.  

 


 

Canons Cultural Day

July 10th

Canons students and staff celebrated our amazingly diverse cultural identities and backgrounds during our regular Cultural Day.

National costumes and flags were proudly worn and waved as we all proudly proclaimed our cultural heritage and links.

It also made us all remember that we are all together as Canons High, no matter from where we or our families originate from.

Remembering your 'roots' is something which is important and shouldn't be lost; It makes us who we are and is a vital part of our individual life stories.

 

 

 

 


 

 

    


 

"The School for Scandal"

July 10th

Year 10 trip to watch the Royal Shakespeare Company.

A small group of Year 10 English students enjoyed a trip to Stratford-upon-Avon, the medieval village and birthplace of of nation's most celebrated playwright, William Shakespear.

Stratford-upon-Avon, sitting on the banks of the River Avon, is also the home to the Royal Shakespeare Company and it was to see them perform that our students had travelled.

 


But it wasn't to see a Shakespeare play!?!
There is more to life than Shakespeare (although some would argue that point!) and the RSC were performing 'The School for Scandal' written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. It was first performed in London at Drury Lane Theatre on 8 May 1777.

"After Shakespeare but long before Bridgerton, there was The School for Scandal, Sheridan’s brilliantly biting comedy of manners in five acts.
This new production — styled to the nines with period flair — promises an exuberant feast of big wigs and even bigger laughs."
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This incredible riot of Georgian neon pink brought together the old and the new in a fantastic production, thoroughly enjoyed by our students and staff alike.
Very special thanks to Principal Mr Bullock for driving our group there in our school minibus.
Rumours that he initially thought he was only driving 20 miles to Stratford in East London, and not five time that distance to Stratford-upon-Avon in the West Midlands are being hotly denied!

       



 

July 12th

Canons High School celebrates thirteen Year 10 students as they graduate from a unique university access programme.

  • Year 10 students at Canons High School in Edgware, London Borough of Harrow have graduated from The Scholars Programme, run by education charity The Brilliant Club

  • The hard-working students produced challenging university-style essays exploring Shabti figurines relevance today: a social commentary of historical objects through popular art.

Canons High School is celebrating the success of 13 students as they graduate from The Scholars Programme, a national university access programme.

Year 10 students at Canons High School were encouraged to think and work independently across seven tutorials with a subject expert PhD researcher. During the programme, they learnt about Shabti figurines and their relevance today and then completed a challenging final essay which was given a university-level grade.

The Scholars Programme, run by UK-wide university access charity The Brilliant Club, supports students aged 8-18 to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence needed to progress to the country’s most competitive universities and succeed once there.

By bringing together two communities – PhD researchers and students – who might otherwise never interact with each other, young people can study innovative and inspiring topics that very few people have ever covered.

The Scholars Programme has enabled students at Canons High School to learn beyond the core curriculum and helped them to develop key skills for university and later in life, such as critical thinking.

Beyond their graduation, these students have lots more to look forward to because the programme has proven impact on university progression rates. For the sixth year running, independent UCAS evaluation has found that Scholars Programme graduates are significantly more likely to progress to a competitive university compared with students from similar backgrounds (56% vs. 37%).

Aryan and Raneem commented on their experience:

"The programme was inspiring and taught us the demands of university, we were really proud that we could meet these. The programme helped us decide what we want to do in our futures and we are now set on a highly prestigious university. University of Oxford was brilliant and we would love to visit other universities."

 

Miss Cooney, Head of Science from Canons High School said:

“It has been amazing to see the confidence of the students grow as they took on a super-curricuar challenge beyond the scope of anything they would have learnt at school. Their focus in tutorials has been brilliant and receiving such detailed feedback from the PhD tutor has really improved the student’s confidence when it comes to academic writing.

We tell the students every day they can do hard things and now they have these excellent results as proof. Students are already asking to repeat the programme and to visit another university as they enjoyed their day at Oxford so much..”  

 

Anne-Marie Canning MBE, CEO at The Brilliant Club, congratulated the pupils on their achievements:

“Congratulations to these outstanding students as they graduate from The Scholars Programme. They join a community of over 110,000 young people who have taken part in The Brilliant Club since 2011."  

“Completing their final assignments was no doubt challenging, but it has shown that these students have a passion for learning and the knowledge to produce university-style work already. I hope they use these new skills throughout their education and continue their fantastic work.”

 

Our 'Brilliant Club' graduates at

St Anne's College, Oxford University.

 


 


 

 Double French Crêpes

July 22nd

Combining two subjects into one lesson can be great fun, and helps really concentrate the mind.

A great example of this was when Food Technology met French!

Head of Food Preparation & Nutrition Miss Campbell showed a group of students how to make French crêpes (not thick American-style pancakes), but she taught them in French.

What is the French for

"gently melt the butter"?

Miss Campbell has extremely good conversational French, but she was joined by Language Teacher Miss Matomby for whom French is her mother tongue.

 

 

Whether in English or French, our students had a great lesson, learnt a lot and then got to eat the results, so they won't forget it in a while.

We will be looking into more cross-curricular lessons in the new academic year.