In celebration of world mental health day, the students at AGGS sported yellow items and accessories. The school was filled with a happy ambience, and in every corner, you found different shades of yellow. WalkingContinue reading
Summer Reading Challenge Winners
Congratulations to the following students who won the Summer Reading Challenge – 20 for 2020. Ikshita S (Year 7) Ranea B (Year 8) Priya V (Year 9) Anisha M (VI Form) A special mention toContinue reading
Successful Half Term for Music Department
The Music Dpartment has had a really successful half term with 9 extra curricular music ensembles now running, with almost every year group with the opportunity to join a music bubble at lunchtime. We alsoContinue reading
OpenUK MiniMu glove competition
More lockdown success came from a winning regional entry to the OpenUK MiniMu glove competition. Erin, Srihita Grace and Sueda all learnt to code their own micro:bit gloves to play the different musical sections ofContinue reading
Shell Bright Ideas Engineering Challenge
Over lockdown Preesha, now in year 10, entered the Shell Bright Ideas Engineering challenge. Her design for smart acoustic lights designed to limit pollution allowed her to be successful in winning the North West region.Continue reading
Crest Gold Award Success
Jahnavi, Lois, Samyu and Lavanya in year 12 are the proud recipients of the Gold Crest award after the successful application of their project on in-vitro meat production. The external assessor stated “This was aContinue reading
Thank You
Thank you everyone for your donations for the Macmillan coffee morning. Together we have managed to raise a huge amount of £884.90! We are very grateful for your help in raising money for Macmillan andContinue reading
September Book of the Month
Death Sets Sail by Robin Stevens Death Sets Sail is the 9th and final book in the hugely successful Murder Most Unladylike series. It is the most popular series of books for Years 7 andContinue reading
October Book of the Month
Wrecked by Louisa Reid In Wrecked, the author Louisa Reid, again revisits the verse novel form she executed so beautifully in last year’s Gloves Off. This time we follow the story of Joe, who weContinue reading
Wellbeing Newsletter, issue 1, october 2020
Created by the AGGS Wellbeing Ambassadors Read our first wellbeing newsletter for this academic year here:
Harvest Festival 2020
This year , the AGGS Harvest Collection has started taking place in our classrooms. Each form room has either a box or large Bag to put all the donated food items. Please watch our videoContinue reading
Alumni Advice from Anum and Isha
Here are the sage words of wisdom from two Altygirls who are now studying medicine (Anum Chaudhry and Isha Agarwal) decided to help us out by giving us insightful advice! Advice about BMAT – PractiseContinue reading
Macmillan Virtual Coffee Morning
The Macmillan Coffee Morning is going virtual this year. Please watch our video to see how you can get involved in supporting Macmillan Cancer Support. This year one of our cleaning staff members, Mrs. Simpson,Continue reading
Former Student Zesha’s Articles in the Press
Zesha Saleem, who left Year 13 this summer, is off to study medicine, but freelances for different publications in her spare time. We were delighted to read her articles in both TES and The Times,Continue reading
Charile’s first novel
Charlie in Year 12 has written her own full length novel, ‘Radio Silence‘ in lockdown which has now been published. During Lockdown Charile was busy preparing for the GCSE exams, but when the exams wereContinue reading
Freya’s story is a finalist
Freya S, Year 10, has been selected as a finalist in the ‘Writing the Pandemic’ Competition run by the University of Manchester School of Creative Writing. She was picked out of several hundred entries and her work willContinue reading
How Observe GP can offer insight into primary care
Hello there! Many prospective medicine applicants have started to look into the World Wide Web for learning more about the medical field. Here I’ve offered my own review of Observe GP, to see if it’sContinue reading
Aisha’s fundraising to build a well
Aisha, year 7, have been fundraising to build a well since Ramadan. She started off trying to raise money for 1 well that provides for a village in a poor country. To her surprise, sheContinue reading
Year 10 won awards for their packaging prototypes at the Starpack awards
The Schools Starpack Packaging Design Awards are designed to encourage students to take up a career in the exciting world of consumer packaging design. Open to pupils and students currently studying at Key Stage 4,Continue reading
Goodbye Homeschooling
As we approach, what will hopefully be the final week of homeschooling, some of the staff and students would like share another message with you all. Hope you are summer ready!!!
Citizenship during Lockdown – Year 7
During lockdown Year 7 have been continuing with their citizenship and PSHE learning, albeit with a slightly adapted curriculum. They studied a range of topics, including: VE Day & Gender Equality, World Refugee Day andContinue reading
Citizenship during Lockdown – Year 8
During their home learning Year 8 have studied a range of topics. All designed to help them make sense of the world around them. They had an introduction to economics, where they studied the lawsContinue reading
Citizenship during lockdown – Year 9
Each year in Year 9 citizenship and PSHE, students undertake a form of Social Action. However, COVID-19 prevented the usual group projects, presentations and actions this year. Therefore, Year 9 were tasked with creating anContinue reading
Food & Nutrition Remote Learning
Mrs. Clutton would like to say an enormous thank you to all her students for all their hard work in the kitchen over lock down. A big thank you must also go to the parentsContinue reading
Y9 TNEC Virtual Finals 2020
Six students from 9-6 have been working on a virtual enterprise final for The National Enterprise Challenge which takes place next Weds 15th July. The students would have been attending the final competition in BirminghamContinue reading
Shona’s 2.6 Challenge
Prior to quarantine Shona, Year 12, reached out to The Seashell Trust, a fantastic charity who help disadvantaged and disabled children, as she wanted to complete their CADS sporting programme. However, of course due toContinue reading
Free online jazz sessions over the summer 3-7 August
Simon Lodge, who runs our AGGS Jazz Band is promoting a great jazz online course over the summer. This would be great for any budding jazz musicians – aged 11-18. Woodwind, brass, guitar and pianoContinue reading
