Students at AGGS participated in the Stockport MUN competition last weekend. The team represented India and explored topics on the environment, disarmament and other general political issues. Our team were all relatively new delegates howeverContinue reading
Category: Citizenship
Citizenship
Year 10 trip to the Town Hall
Year 10 GCSE Citizenship group were hosted by the Local Mayor Tom Ross last Friday at Trafford Town Hall. Students went on a tour of the building and learnt about the role of the localContinue reading
Eleanor’s Petition Gets Heard
Eleanor H of Year 8 created a petition to get a crossing by St Margaret’s Church on the A56. Eleanor gained over 500 signatures and as a result the local council have listened to herContinue reading
ALTYMUN 2019
On MUNday 4th March 2019, 6 months of hard work, planning and preparation came together in the AltyMUN 2019 conference hosted at our school. In the months upcoming to this fateful day, the Model UNContinue reading
Digital Surgery 2019
To get a better understanding of Parliament and politics in general, the Y10 Citizenship classes were lucky enough to video call a member of the House of Lords, Baroness Lister, about important political topics, suchContinue reading
ALTYMUN Success
Last night saw AGGS host ALTYMUN 2019, this was the first time we have hosted a conference in 6 years. We had 5 schools with over 60 young people in total and our students wereContinue reading
London Trip
The Y11 and Y10 citizenship classes went on a trip to London to explore the Supreme Courts and visit the Houses of Parliament. The journey to London, in all honesty, was incredibly exciting but alsoContinue reading
Year 11 General Citizenship challenge: ’The Body Myth’
Students were asked to create a campaign message in line with the aims of the ‘Dove self-esteem project’ to help to build body confidence in our school community: staff and students as well as parentsContinue reading
My experience at the 2018 MGSMUN conference
We started the day with an opening ceremony where a teacher from MGS gave us an inspiring note to start the day and the Former Labour MP Nick Bent gave us a talk on theContinue reading