Year: 2019

5 December 19

Amy S in Lower 6 has been awarded a prestigious Arkwright Engineering Scholarship. The Arkwright Engineering Scholarships is a programme from national STEM education charity, the Smallpeice Trust, which has been providing scholarships to students since 1991. Scholars are selected for their potential as future engineering leaders by assessing their academic, practical and leadership skills…

4 December 19

Aparna S in Lower 5 has been shortlisted for the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory School Science Prize. The final will be held on 17 December 2019 – good luck Aparna! Aparna’s prize entry, an essay on ‘Why I Love Science’, is reproduced below. I was always a curious child. I always wanted to know why…

28 November 19

St Catherine Singers joined with Ely Cathedral Girls’ Choir to sing Evensong at Ely Cathedral. The music included Christopher Robinson’s setting of the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis that he wrote specifically for the Ely Girls’ Choir and Fauré’s ever popular Cantique de Jean Racine. We were delighted to work with Sarah MacDonald, Director of the…

26 November 19

Upper 6 students Anya, Elisa, Ruby and Rhea took part in the Joutes Oratoires 2019 held at North London Collegiate School. The motions were: Liberté, égalité, fraternité: une fiction française. La mondialisation mène inévitablement à l’uniformisation culturelle. Il n’y a que les Etats qui puissent sauver la planète. Ruby and Rhea reached the semi-final after…

22 November 19

On Tuesday 19 November the newly refurbished Sime Hall hosted the first Chamber Concert of the year. The concert showed off the tremendous variety of musical talent at Habs and it was wonderful to hear so many students perform as soloists, in duets and in instrument-specific ensembles. Congratulations to all who performed on what was…

20 November 19

It’s been an exciting week for debating and public speaking here at Habs Girls. On Monday 18 November, a team comprising Maryam M, Priya K and Shalini S participated in the English Speaking Union’s prestigious Mace debate at North London Collegiate School. The motion was ‘This House Believes that an individual should be restricted to…

19 November 19

On Friday 15 November, Dr Amy Edginton an Outreach Officer from UCL, came to Habs Girls to explain what studying Earth Sciences as a subject really means. Tori in Upper 6 writes about the visit.   During her talk Dr Edginton showed us some different rock samples, before explaining the story told by each piece…

18 November 19

A group of Upper 6 aspiring economists attended a talk at Absolute Strategy Research in London along with students from the Boys’ School. The morning consisted of a talk on the career options that could be pursed in Economics, followed by an excellent presentation on current economic conditions and strategy options, giving a forecast of…

7 November 19

The annual Lower 4/Year 7 Habs quiz took place on Wednesday after school.  The pupils took part in mixed teams with the Boys’ School.  There were 6 hard fought rounds which tested the pupils’ knowledge with subjects ranging from capital cities of Europe to can you name the chocolate bar via Disney plots in Haiku. …

6 November 19

Preparations are well underway for the Lord Mayor’s Procession on Saturday 9 November starting at 11am, which will be broadcast live on BBC One. In the 1960s and 70s many of our students travelled to London to see the procession (there was even a special tube carriage laid on for them!) but the School is…