Category: Sixth Form

28 June 21

Neuroscience is the future. This was the resounding message that Brain Day, attended by an enthusiastic cohort of psychology students on 22 June, centred around. The talk, led by Dr Guy Sutton, an honorary assistant professor in psychiatry at the University of Nottingham, and the director and founder of Medical Biology Interactive, delved into the…

25 June 21

Over the past three weeks our Upper 5 students have engaged in the Bridge Programme to prepare them for sixth form life here at Habs. They started the programme with a reading week, and all students were bought a subject related book and given access to a wide array of subject specific resources, including MOOCs,…

23 June 21

Students in Upper 5 and Lower 6 are settling in for their final night of their Duke of Edinburgh expedition. They will have completed four nights of camping up in the Peak District to complete their Practice and Qualifying Silver back to back and in the ‘proper’ way and have kept smiling through rain, wind,…

20 January 21

Art for Medics is an enrichment course for sixth formers that helps aspiring medics think about the human body in 3D.  Aspiring medical students from both the Girls’ and Boys’ School are equipped for interviews at medical school with some examples of their manual dexterity and creativity, and evidence that they have not spent all…

16 November 20

Lower 6 students from the Girls’ and Boys’ Schools taking part in the Criminology and English Law enrichment classes were lucky enough to welcome His Honour Geoffrey Rivlin QC today.  Tilly Weston and Aaron Rashid have written about the experience. His Honour Geoffrey Rivlin QC talked to students about his career as a criminal barrister…

30 September 20

At Assembly recently prizes were awarded to students who have demonstrated exceptional levels of independent and scholarly study. After delivering the annual St Catherine’s Day Lecture in 2013, the philosopher AC Grayling inaugurated a philosophy prize in his name. It is open to all Upper 5 students who are invited to submit an essay of…

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…

25 February 20

Rachel in the Lower 6 writes about the recent Leadership Day. Valentine’s day for the Lower Sixth this year was perhaps not much of a romantic occasion, instead, the year group took part in a packed day full of exciting and undoubtedly challenging activities for Leadership Day. Confidence, teamwork, resilience, good humour and a positive…

16 October 19

Zoe in Upper 5 writes about a taste of life in the Sixth Form at Habs Girls. The Sixth Form Experience Day day started off with us getting our timetables for the day, hoping that we would be in the same classes as our friends, and before we knew it the bell rang for first…

2 October 19

Habs Girls and Boys share many things: our founder, Robert Aske; a one-hundred acre site on the outskirts of North London; a reputation for excellence, both inside and beyond the classroom; and now a shared vision, mission and strategy for the future. After an extensive and far-reaching review, the Governing body of our two Schools has…