Year: 2018

9 November 18

Last year students in Lower 4 and Upper 4 built and programmed VEX robots in an after school Robot Club. They worked in teams to produce clawbots, a robot called Ike and even a V-rex robot.  They used their knowledge to help them research applications of robotics and prepared presentations. They were a delight to…

9 November 18

On Monday 8 October, the Upper 4 set off for Hampton Court Palace in Richmond-upon-Thames, Surrey. On arrival, we split into groups to take a tour of the palace. On the tour we saw Henry VIII’s kitchens, which had many different rooms including a whole (very big) room used for storing wine, and we visited a…

8 November 18

Excitement is certainly mounting this week as we prepare for the senior production of Arthur Miller’s classic play, The Crucible, to be performed next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. The shocking events that took place in Salem during the 17th Century were used by Arthur Miller to provide a parallel to the situation in America during…

18 October 18

A competition for aspiring young writers took place last Thursday (11 October) after school. Over the summer, 21 Haberdashers’ Aske’s students from across both schools took up the challenge of writing the first ten pages of a full-length novel. On the day, all the competitors came together for a brilliant event, where extracts were read…

17 October 18

On 4 October, the Drama department took a group of GCSE and A level drama students on an exciting trip to Milton Keynes theatre to see a stunning production of War Horse. After a noisy coach journey and a hurried dinner, Habs Girls flooded the theatre with our eagerness and high expectations. Filled with anticipation, we…

16 October 18

Hannah Penn is Deputy Head of Account Management at AMV BBDO and has recently been named in Management Today’s 35 Business Women under 35 list. Here she speaks to Sixth Former Alice Craig about life after Habs and how she is ended up where she is today. Reading through the AMV BBDO Gender Pay Gap…

15 October 18

On Wednesday 10 October, my Drama class travelled to Harrow Arts Centre, where we will perform “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” as part of the Shakespeare Schools Festival. On arrival, we were ushered into the auditorium and our excitement began to grow as we saw the endless rows of tiered seats and the vast raised stage…

15 October 18

The Careers Department has expanded further the experience of demonstration interviews for those students applying for courses which require an interview.  We have been delighted to welcome experts in Economics, History, Modern Languages, Medicine, Biological and Physical Sciences.  We are also very grateful to those Upper Sixth who volunteered to be interviewed in front of…

10 October 18

Last Friday a group of prospective medicine students were lucky enough to listen to a talk given by Professor Neena Modi of Imperial College. Professor Modi gave an energetic, engaging and interactive talk about the demands and huge rewards of being a doctor.  She challenged us to think about why we have chosen or might choose to…

9 October 18

A packed audience enjoyed a moving, uplifting and, above all, hugely entertaining production of Lee Hall’s Spoonface Steinberg, performed at Chicken Shed Theatre on Sunday 7 October. This play was originally written for radio as a monologue delivered by a young Autistic child who is also coping with cancer and this version was staged with…