The Cantabria 2019 trip has arrived home safely after four fun packed days. The students were great and really immersed themselves in Spanish culture and practiced their language skills to the full! A huge thankContinue reading
Month: July 2019
Thought for the Week
Create your future from your future, not your past
AGGS Sports Day 2019
AGGS Sports day took place on Thursday 18th July, and was a great success! Activities included Shot putt, Javelin, discus, Long jump, high jump, some other fun activities alongside entertainment by Mrs. Hulme in manyContinue reading
Illuminate Online are the winners of the Entrepreneurs of the Year Award
Congratulations to Illuminate Online – winners of the Entrepreneurs of the Year Award! The Illuminate team Rose, Orla, Ibby & Amy were nominated for the UKFast Young Entrepreneur’s of the Year award for inventing an anti Cyber BullyingContinue reading
Eleanor gets a Silver award for her design from Starpack
Eleanor, Year 9, won a silver award in the National Starpack Competition. The competition idea is to introduce young people to the design process and provide them with an early introduction to the industry, toContinue reading
Y10 Enterprise Day
On Wednesday, the Year 10 cohort took part in an Airline Masterclass enterprise day presented and delivered by Young Enterprise. The programme aims to develop employability skills and business awareness. Students set up and ranContinue reading
Y10 Careers Day
During the last week of term we invited volunteers into school to conduct practice interviews with our Year 10 students as part of their Careers Day. The day started off with an inspirational talk fromContinue reading
Eurovision 2019
Year 8 wowed the judges on Tuesday 16 July at the annual Eurovision Song Competition. The vent has been running for 15 years now, but staff agreed that this was one of the best. YearContinue reading
‘A Pirate, A Merchant’ – Asma K, Y7
‘Sail ho! Another booty tonight with the yellow iron Attack the ship and take with the bounty, ye rapscallion!’ A vulgar pirate glared at me, gold teeth glinting in the light A grotesque scar uponContinue reading
‘Mutiny’ – Kitty D, Y10
Miserably, the day plodded on as the grey clouds shrouded the heavens. The dim light of the dying sun buried itself below the horizon. The rain bled into the murky ocean solemnly, softly. At attentionContinue reading
Women of Troy at Victoria Baths
It is known that the first appearances of Theatre in history occurs in Ancient Greece through the Greek Chorus, where actors would use nothing but their own skills to teach their audiences about the godsContinue reading
Grace Success at the Dance World Cup Finals
Grace S from Y9 represented Team England at the Dance World Cup Finals held in Braga, Portugal last week, which held over 10 days with finalists from 62 countries competing in multiple dance genres. GraceContinue reading
M for M trip
The year 12 English literature students had a highly successful trip to Stratford Upon Avon on Saturday 6th July, to see their set text Measure for Measure performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company. We travelledContinue reading
Language Leaders
The language leaders course has been running all year once a week for a group of about 40 Y10 students: This year we have been very busy at language leaders. It has been an engagingContinue reading
The Ryman National Enterprise Challenge
Imogen, Alishba, Lauren & Rachel travelled down to Wembley Stadium with Miss Kirby on 10 July to pitch their idea of getting more girls into football by 2020. Although they didn’t get through to theContinue reading
Food & Nutrition this term
I would like to end this academic year by saying well done to all of you who have made some of the amazing dishes that leave F7 every day. Thank you for all your hardContinue reading
Year 8 Maths Interform
The morning of Tuesday 9th July was no ordinary one – it was time for year eight maths interform! We separated into different maths rooms and split into groups of five, all competing against eachContinue reading
Year 8 Dance Interform
On Monday 8th July, Year 8’s excitedly filed into the main hall and took our seats, ready to enjoy dance interform. We had spent the last few weeks working together in our forms – aidedContinue reading
Thought for the Week
‘If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.‘ (Robert Fritz)
Winners of the Charity Fundraising Appeal: The Wellspring
Following our charity fundraising appeal for The Wellspring back in June: And the winner is… 7-1 !!!!!!!!!! On behalf of the Charity Committee I am delighted to announce this term’s prize winner for the FormContinue reading
WiMUN XI
On Sunday 30 June, delegates from AGGS, representing the states of Poland and the Philippines, made their way over to Withington Girls’ School in order to enjoy a ‘fruitful’ debate at WiMUN XI, the 11thContinue reading
Translation Bee national final
Our fabulous year 9 linguists; Sara, Esomchi, Aahi, Parnika, Aditi and Alekhya travelled to Cambridge last Wednesday to take part in the national final of the Translation Bee competition and they all performed to aContinue reading
Y12 Work Experience
Year 12 have just completed their week’s work experience in industry. Work experience placements serve multiple purposes, including experience of the world of work, employability skill development and experience to help guide future career decision-making.Continue reading
7-7 – BFET Celebration of Languages
Last week 7-7 went to Cedar Mount Academy and took part in a languages festival. Our form did a German Fashion Show describing what the models were wearing. The other schools that took part wereContinue reading
Summer Reading Challenge
Reading regularly and reading for pleasure has a huge impact on your wellbeing and academic attainment. Try to read every day of the summer holidays if you can and join in our Summer Reading Challenge.Continue reading
AGGS is The top school in Greater Manchester according to the MEN
Once a year The MEN crunch the data on every state-funded secondary school in the region. This year’s results put Altrincham Grammar School for Girls on top as the best school in Greater Manchester: SeeContinue reading
Safa A won a prize in the New College of the Humanities essay competition
On Tuesday 25th June 2019, New College of the Humanities (NCH) announced the winners of the 2019 NCH London Essay Competition at a special award ceremony in London. We are delighted to announce that SafaContinue reading
Summer Serenade
This week we were treated to a wonderful evening of music by the students and staff of AGGS. There was something for everyone on the programme with the ‘Big Band’ sound of Duke Ellington, anContinue reading
String Orchestra Music for Youth Birmingham July 2019
We had a wonderful day on 4th July in Birmingham with String Orchestra, who performed as part of the National string/chamber music final. All 26 students from Y8 – 13 performed brilliantly. Despite there beingContinue reading