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1 July 22

Lower 4 created and played their own designed games called the Escape from Pompeii which teaches the player all about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD!

1 July 22

On Wednesday 22 June, Middle 5 received a talk on creative writing from Cecilia Knappl. Her talk was interactive and insightful, and inspired the students to explore creative thoughts in preparation for our upcoming GCSE English language creative writing coursework. The talk included analysing different poems followed by writing our own poems, using the prompts…

1 July 22

The Computing department was delighted to welcome back a former student, Natalie Kay, to speak to the our students who are doing Computer Science GCSE or will be next year. Natalie is currently working as a Senior Software Engineering at Bloomberg. During her talk she explained her route into becoming a coder, what a Software…

15 June 22

Mrs Mayer who taught mathematics at Elstree for 30 years died on 25 May, just days before she would have celebrated her 80th birthday, following a short illness.  Veronica was born and brought up in Bristol, where she was Head Girl at St George Grammar School and met her husband, before studying Mathematics at Royal Holloway. …

7 June 22

The following students from the school were shortlisted and gained a distinction certificate for entering the “If you were an engineer what would you do?” competition run by the leadersaward group. www.leadersaward.com. The students researched a problem that they felt could be solved with technology and submitted a design and an accompanying letter saying who…

7 June 22

Year 6 had an absolute blast working on their play, ‘Madagascar – A Musical Adventure’. Putting on a show as a year group is not an easy task. Everyone in year 6 was involved in the show, whether it was on stage or as part of our technical crew. Rehearsing for over just one week,…

30 May 22

The Habs Mencap Funday is back after a two year pandemic pause! Every year Haberdashers’ Boys’ and Haberdashers’ Girls’ Schools come together and hold a Funday for children with learning disabilities who live in and around North London. This year’s event is held at the Boys School on Sunday 26 June and we welcome over 100 children and young people…

23 May 22

On Thursday 12 May, the Lower Sixth hosted a fascinating talk on the recent French Election. We discussed the two-round system of the elections, and how close the election was between the current president, Emmanuel Macron, (who is on the centre-left part of the political spectrum) and the runner up, Marie Le Pen, (whom is…

18 May 22

After two years of not being able to perform due to COVID the Drama department have been back with two productions this year. In the Autumn Term we saw students from Year 10 to 13 perform ‘The Glove Thief’ and last week we were back in late 16th and early 17th century England with Morgan…

12 May 22

On Thursday 5 May, the day of local elections, the Politics society were privileged to have Councillor Laurence Brass come to Habs to present on a topical and important subject: Why bother to vote? Councillor Brass spoke about his experience in politics, which included the time when he stood against Margaret Thatcher for the Finchley…