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10 May 22

The French department at the Girls’ School recently ran a competition for International Women’s Day (la iournée internationale des femmes). Students were asked to research a famous French woman and to present their research however they wanted to. Our winner was Diya Patel in the U4 who made an excellent presentation on Marie Curie and…

12 April 22

On Tuesday 29 March, Habs Girls hosted the MBDA robot rumble competition. Nine teams of 74 students from eight different schools battled it out on the VEX robotics competition field to secure a place at the National competition in Telford in April. There were several matches during the day. Our Lower 5 team worked brilliantly…

29 March 22

The UK Space Design Competition consists of multiple ‘companies’ (teams) who are given a brief to design a detailed space settlement, set years into the future. Our team was divided into four main sections: Structural, Operations, Human and Automation, each displaying a huge relevance across a wide range of academic subjects. By working efficiently as…

23 March 22

Year 1 hosted an Easter Egg hunt for the Year 1 pupils at the Boys’ School. It was a fantastic morning of teamwork as they partnered up to find their hidden eggs.  

23 March 22

On Wednesday 16 March, L4 pupils took part in a rocket design and build workshop. This was part of British Science Week. In the morning, they all gathered in the lecture to listen to a special brief led by Miss Percy about NASA’s Launch Vehicle, knows as the Mars Rover, and it’s mission to Mars….

21 March 22

Our Politics Society were delighted to host on Friday 18 March John Lough, Associate Fellow of the Russia & Eurasia Programme at Chatham House and a consultant with Highgate, a London-based strategy advisory firm. Mr Lough spent six years with NATO’s Office of Information & Press, including a posting to Moscow where he set up NATO’s Information Office….

16 March 22

The Grand Final of Habs Dragons’ Den 2022, a biennial competition which runs across the Boys’ and Girls’ Schools, took place on the morning of Wednesday 9 March in the Bourne Hall to an audience made up of students, staff, governors, parents and alumni; as well as a high-profile panel of ‘Dragons’. The Final takes…

15 March 22

On Tuesday 8 March, four students in Year 10 from our school took part in the St Helen’s Physics Tournament, where we were competing against 11 other schools. There were three different activities which we took part in during the course of the day, such as an experiment, where we learnt to plan a practical…

15 March 22

On the 3 March PolSoc held a discussion on the pressing and very current issue of the Russia-Ukraine crisis. The first thing that discussed was a timeline of the military action that Putin had taken and the actions the international community had taken in response to this. This then led a discussion of what more…

14 March 22

Two joint teams of Year 12 students from Habs Boys and Habs Girls took part on Friday 4 March 2022 in the South East and London Regional Forum of the European Youth Parliament at St Pauls’ School in Barnes. Our delegates were Aditya L6C1, Anant L6J2, Anjali L6ADL, Arjun L6H2, Betsey L6RDD, Claudia L6GAM, Evie…