Category: Sixth Form

10 March 23

This half term, Habs Boys and Habs Girls were excited to enter an Elstree team into the French Drama Festival, hosted at King Alfred School. It was fantastic to see the students performing to such a high level and providing a brilliant show to all who attended. The team presented Jean Anouilh’s Antigone and we…

7 March 23

On Friday 3 March two combined Year 12 teams from both the Girls’ School and the Boys’ School travelled to St Paul’s School in Barnes, London to take part in the South East Regional Forum of the European Youth Parliament UK (EYPUK). This is a team debating competition run by EYPUK, a youth-led charity, who…

1 March 23

Habs was extremely fortunate to welcome Councillor Ameet Jogia MBE to Politics Society this February. He is currently a political advisor to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, and in fact had to ask his permission on the day to come to Habs to give the talk! This was a great opportunity for students to ask questions…

1 March 23

On Thursday 9 February, Mr Dinu gave an honest talk on politics in his home country of Romania. The country has an extremely interesting history with them being under the control of the USSR for the majority of the second half of the 20th century and since then have  developed into a stronger, more independent nation….

1 March 23

On Thursday 2 February, Sophie Graham gave an insightful overview of a topic not many people were familiar with. She informatively explained what autism is and ways in which autism relates to politics in the UK. Sophie started by informing us about how autism is treated and dealt with by the NHS under the various…

1 March 23

On the evening of Wednesday 22 February, students studying A Level Spanish went to the Teatro Cervantes to see a production of Federico García Lorca’s play ‘La Casa de Bernada Alba’, which they study as part of their A Level course. To really immerse themselves in the Hispanic world, some students went to a tapas…

1 March 23

Habs Girls was excited to welcome Old Haberdasher, Daniel Black, to speak as part of the Visiting Speaker programme at Elstree Schools. Daniel studied at Habs until 2009 before going on to have a highly eclectic and highly successful career in engineering and innovation. Working at Global Innovation and Technology Centre | PA Consulting, Daniel also…

23 February 23

A team of five Lower Sixth Chemistry students from Habs Girls and Habs Boys took part in the Cambridge Chemistry Race which was held at the University of Oxford’s Chemistry department. They did extremely well coming 10th out of 20 teams , considering most of the other teams were Upper Sixth students. They had to…

16 February 23

Congratulations to Aparna (L6 RY) who participated in ARTiculation this year. Aparna discussed the Brihadeeswarar temple, designed by Kunjara Mallan. Aparna was commended on “allowing us to think about these places as living sites and for bringing the past and the present together, adding that this was not something that naturally comes to art historians”…

14 November 22

As part of the academic enrichment programme, students in Years 4 – Upper 5 6 were treated to an inspiring talk by June Angelides at the start of this week about women in technology, taking risks and being brave. Born into a family of entrepreneurs, June is passionate about getting people from all backgrounds into…