Month: June 2020

30 June 20

Assembly this morning was hosted by Miss Lane and Mr Thakerar where they invited everyone to make a very special door hanger.  One side focuses on the 7 things that I can do now (or do better) than I could 6 months ago – we learnt that Miss Lane has been growing food in her…

29 June 20

As the first day of our Enrichment Week draws to a close we hear from one of our students with her reflections on the day. This Monday was one of inspiration, education and activism at Habs. ‘The Time is Now’ conference attended by 700 members of staff and students throughout the Senior and Junior school…

29 June 20

Mr Sabato, Deputy Head (Academic), gives assembly this morning to launch our first Enrichment Week. This new initiative begins this morning with a conference of internally recognised speakers entitled The Time Is Now. Students have been asked to consider questions to submit to each of the expert speakers and, in this assembly, Mr Sabato gives…

24 June 20

On Monday 29 June Habs Girls students will have the opportunity to kick off their Enrichment Week with a conference of internally renowned speakers. Mr Sabato, Deputy Head (Academic) writes: Next week’s off-timetable week begins with our first student conference that aims to tackle the major issues that will impact our students today and in…

22 June 20

Our Lower 6 students have spent their first week back at school, albeit in small groups of about 25 across the year. We asked them what it was like to be back at school and here are some of the responses. Coming back into school has been strange because I’ve been so used to working…

22 June 20

Three members of the Habs Community discuss Pride Month. Pride this year is definitely different. Our world has certainly been shaken around and turned upside down, which leads me to wonder where Pride celebrations fall. We can’t march, party or fund raise together, and due to a lack of customers, many big stores aren’t running…

16 June 20

This week we begin to welcome back Lower 6 students for a day of lessons and one-to-one meetings with teachers and form staff. Although remote learning continues to be the main method of teaching in the Senior School we were able to meet with about a quarter of the Lower 6 at a time before…

16 June 20

Former student Florence Bignell, who has just completed her first year at Durham University, has set up a charity, Threads of Change’ to help support the work of the NHS and the Alzheimer’s Society. Here she writes about her initiative – everyone at Habs applauds her for doing such amazing work. It goes without saying…

10 June 20

This half term students across the Middle School (Year 7, 8 and 9) are taking part in the Bright Ideas STEM challenge. This cross-curricular project is the result of a collaboration between the Geography, Physics, D&T and Art Departments and encourages students to find energy solutions for cities in 2050. The design brief on the…

4 June 20

A letter from the Headmistress to the Habs community – Friday 5 June 2020 We put out a statement yesterday that said how we felt at Habs about the recent letter published in the Independent newspaper at the start of the week, the signatories to which included some of our alumnae. I now want to…