Month: March 2020

20 March 20

Our gymnastics teams have had fantastic success at competitions this year. Many medals were won at both regional and national competitions. We started brilliantly at the ISGA 2 piece championships: 1st place for U15 and O13 teams as well some outstanding individual results: Camille W 1st in the O13s and a clean sweep in the…

19 March 20

It’s ok not to be ok. We kicked-off our recent Wellbeing Week, with a host of inspired, mood-enhancing activities designed to highlight the fact that it is impossible to be happy all of the time and that sometimes everyone needs a little ‘pick me up’ to get them through the day. Centred around the theme…

18 March 20

Despite the cancellation of this week’s Spring Concerts we have been able to make recordings of some of the final rehearsals. In these first recordings you can hear St Catherine Singers perform Mendelssohn’s Laudate Pueri and Vivaldi’s Gloria, which was to have been performed by the massed choirs of the both Boys’ and Girls’ Schools. We hope…

13 March 20

The Upper 4 team travelled to Telford for the VEX IQ National Finals on Sunday 1 March and quickly got to work familiarising themselves with the venue, strategizing with other partner teams and writing code for their robot.  They worked hard throughout the day and by Monday they had qualified for the final rounds.  This…

13 March 20

Kiana in Upper 6 recently presented a moving and enlightening assembly on her own ‘Grand Tour’ of Iran.  You can read the full text here. As I was deliberating on what I wished to present as my last solo Humanist assembly, the options seemed vast. If there ever was a caveat in liking too many…

11 March 20

On Saturday 7 March, a team of three from Habs Girls competed at the East Region Finals of the English Speaking Union’s Public Speaking Competition. The competition took place in the prestigious surroundings of Magdelene College, Cambridge, before a distinguished panel of three judges. Jamila in her role as Speaker, had to present a five-minute…

10 March 20

On Monday 2 March, the Upper 4 drama club participated in the Welwyn Garden City Youth Drama Festival, which was hosted at the Barn Theatre. This is an annual, week-long festival, where schools in both the junior and senior categories, compete for various awards.  The best performances are awarded prizes at the end of the…

6 March 20

On Wednesday evening we thoroughly enjoyed an evening of music-making presented by the Music Department. A wonderfully diverse range of performances were offered including from the Guitar Ensemble, Trombone groups and a variety of solos and duets. Many thanks to all of our Music staff and visiting music teachers who helped to put on such…

6 March 20

At the end of last half term, Year 4 took heroically to the stage in ‘Go For Gold’, an Olympics-inspired musical comedy about reaching your goals and striving to be the very best you can be. They rose to the challenge, rehearsing for just 30 hours over a three-week period, seamlessly passing the baton between…