On the 11th December the AGGS Social Action Society held a disco to raise money for three social action projects. A grassroots project in India; helping to fund educational, health and agricultural initiatives. Further informationContinue reading
Category: Citizenship
Citizenship
MGSMUN2019
On Saturday and Sunday 14th/15th December, delegates from AGGS, representing the states of Brazil, Nigeria and Poland made their way over to Manchester Grammar School in order to enjoy a ‘fruitful’ debate at MGSMUN2019. AsContinue reading
AGGS Mock Elections
AGGS ran their own parallel hustings and elections. Students from Politics Society took up the role of various party leaders and put themselves forward to be quizzed by their peers in the AGGS Hustings. OnContinue reading
Mock Trial Champions
A huge congratulations to the Year 12 Mock Trial Team! On Saturday 30th November the Year 12 Mock Trial team took part in and won the Sir Rhys Davies School Mock Trial Competition in theContinue 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
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
Citizenship Campaign Makers Final
For the past couple of months, the whole of year 9 have been working on a Campaign Makers project in their Citizenship lessons. This project has led them to learning about social issues in theirContinue reading
Campaign Makers
Hi AGGS! In year 9 we’re doing a project called Campaign Makers, where my group and I had to choose a social issue that we were especially passionate about and also a charity that promotesContinue reading
SGS MUN
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
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