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TV Historian delights pupils Dr Lucy Worsley best known for her BBC documentaries including ‘Six Wives with Lucy Worsley’, visited BGS to share her passion for history ...

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… I“ love” visiting schools to scout out the historians Welcome from of the future. LuCy WoRSLEy, TV HiSToRiAN

the Headmaster With the aid of props including Laura Beddows, Programme enormous trousers, a plastic Coordinator for Ilkley Literature 3

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om Lucy explained Queen Victoria’s to deliver events like this to schools Almost 1,000 pupils from 40+ schools, complicated family tree and the across the region and it’s always

ED FR ED coincidences that brought her to brilliant to see authors sharing their u N including our Juniors from Clock House, i the throne. passion for a subject with students.’

NT BGS breaks rowing o joined together to take part in the C Lucy also met with BGS A Level READ MORE … history students and answered their bradfordgrammar.com/news world record questions on topics as diverse as Brownlee Foundation Mini Triathlon ... the Russian Revolution, Ann Boleyn and why history is a great subject Students broke the World U19 Lightweight Concept to study at university. 2 24 hour Rowing Club record with a fnal distance It was great fun to spectate (but tropical hot poolside), the atmosphere Further thoughts … was wonderful and the children from all schools were brilliant! Hermione Baines, Head of History Discipline and of 389,317 metres, beating the previous record set Wild things: Why we need said, ‘Lucy Worsley has made her dedication! by Orlando Rowing club, Florida. The ‘mini-tri’ gets a mention later and I hope you will enjoy this latest to get outside reputation as an extremely efective snapshot of school life. It is but a taste of all that has been ongoing during and enthusiastic communicator summer term, none of which would be possible without the sterling Two of BGS’s pupils have Rowing in two-minute shifts, a team of ten senior BGS rowers carefully I believe in the benefits, for the of the stories that make up History had fantastic success in practised changeovers to avoid losing momentum. The boys rowed eforts of our talented staf and tremendous support of BGS families. sake of mind, body and spirit, of on-screen. It was a real privilege to Thank you all. swimming recently. all through the day and all through the night, with eight rowers involved going outside from time to time see her in the flesh. She had 200 in each two-hour shift allowing two of the team to snatch a little sleep to enjoy rural and wild landscapes. schoolchildren spellbound with her Finally, as is fitting, I’d like to play tribute to our students who continue to Ciara Schlosshan, aged 15, from before they were back on the ergometer. Additionally, I understand that explanation of the complexities of make the most of the opportunities to get stuck-in and enjoy success both As a young teacher I brought won 200m butterfly gold at children can experience such the Georgian succession problem inside and outside of the classroom, even when the prospect of summer my love of climbing and all things the British Swimming Championships The following morning, with over an hour to spare, the boys crashed benefits as part of a broad – no mean feat!’ exams sets nerves jangling. Maintaining balance and keeping up the things mountainous to the profession. 2017 in Shefeld, after being through the existing world record and went on to row until 10 am, curriculum and that teaching and you enjoy, even when pressure mounts is essential. These pages pay Getting young people out and selected by British Swimming breaking the record by an impressive 18,182 metres! learning is enriched greatly by tribute to this ethos. about and involved in the world to attend a training camp in venturing on occasion beyond the around them is part of what I do Indianapolis and a US Grand Jane Chapman, Assistant Head (Pastoral) said: ‘I had the pleasure and classroom. I also fully appreciate as a Geographer and educator. Prix competition. privilege of seeing this magnificent efort by our rowers. It is a tremendous that not every family is quite as keen Children can’t get everything they achievement for the ten boys involved, and was a truly impressive event. on tangled woodlands, muddy need in a classroom. She has previously won gold in Hours of training and planning have gone into it and the teamwork and puddles and camping as we are at the Junior Women’s 400 metres the atmosphere were wonderful!’ Simon Hinchlife home and therefore our nation’s LATEST BLOG … Individual Medley (15 years and schools have a role to play in LATEST BLOG … bradfordgrammar.com/simonsblog 1 under) and the bronze medal in bradfordgrammar.com/simonsblog broadening children’s experiences, the Junior Women’s 200 metres … in part by ofering an authentic Individual Medley at the National “ ” taste of our natural world. ASANER 2015 Short Course Well done to our Concept 2 24 Championships where she also broke two records in hour record breaking rowers!

L 3 July 5 September 7 october Keep yourself those events. Our rowers organised themselves CT u Year 7 Transition Day First day of term Junior and Senior up-to-date! Rebecca Clynes, aged 14, from J SEP School Open Day

o and showed great team spirit in 5 July 26 September LATEST STORIES … Leeds recently qualified for the Clock House Founders’ Day bradfordgrammar.com/news 2 Junior women’s final ages 14-17 in Speech Day the breaking of this record; I am 29 September the 200m breaststroke at the British LATEST EVENTS … 9 July World’s Biggest Swimming Championships 2017. tremendously proud of them all. bradfordgrammar.com/events CAPTIONS David Hockney’s Cofee Morning Rebecca previously competed in SimoN HiNCHLiFFE, HEADmASTER 1 Lucy Worsley 80th Birthday IN THE PRESS … the Welsh Nationals winning an 2 Pupils had the abundance of medals – including chance to test their bradfordgrammar.com/press historical knowledge 5 golds! Well done girls! READ MORE … with a quiz bradfordgrammar.com/news 3 Our record breaking BGS rowers! 04 / 05 Diploma 1 for our National French teenage film prize winner soprano

Sophie Still won a national competition Ruby Hendry has gained a distinction in a new diploma. 5 run by The Department of French at Oxford Ruby, 18, took the first-ever University. There were almost 100 entries in Singing Diploma created by the Associated Board of the total, with 69 in the Years 7 to 11 age category. Royal Schools of Music. Tour de The entrants had to watch a film Previously, the performing and rewrite the ending in no more examinations ended with Grade 8 than 1,500 words. The entrants had but, this year, the board introduced Yorkshire! a choice of two films: ‘Jean de an advanced grade, with the first Florette’ or ‘Mic Macs’. Sophie chose entries in March. The race was on as the to study ‘Jean de Florette’ and her was controlled by a small Raspberry Tour de Yorkshire visited piece was so well received that the 1 Pi computer which the pupils Ruby has been studying singing Bradford. Our fantastic University asked permission to with Ilkley tenor James Grifett for programmed using Python. They Handmade Club got busy publish it on their website and blog. Cyber eight years and, following her A attempted all the events and scored sewing some lovely recycled enough points to rank 8th nationally. levels, will begin studying at Royal The organisers of the competition, Northern College of Music in yellow and blue bunting to Dr Jenny Oliver and Dr Jonathan Manchester in September. She is adorn the School railings. Patterson said: ‘There was a very fun! well known locally for appearances high standard of competition, … with theatre groups such as the Thanks to Mrs Tomlinson and the which made judging a difcult task! BGS hosted the first ever Team“ ”ZMS Upstagers, and for winning trophies club. We also took the opportunity But we thought that Sophie’s entry Yorkshire and Humberside at music festivals around Yorkshire. to display the original handmade was especially impressive as it both Cyber Games, organised by ranked 8th Last year she scooped a clutch of knitted bicycle that was created captured the mood and character to celebrate the 2014 Grand Depart Cyber Security Challenge UK, awards in the Festival of the film and dramatically nationally! of Performing Arts. in Yorkshire. reworked the ending.’ and involved several diferent businesses and experts Two teams of Year 7 and 8 pupils The Art Department with a Year 7 and As well as receiving a certificate and creating challenges based went to Juniors competition created land art getting her work published online, around cyber threats for STEM centre to compete against for the Governors’ Lawn. They were Sophie received £100. She deserves pupils to solve. local schools in a Lego Sumo big enough to catch the eye of the huge congratulations! Especially as competition. The pupils had helicopter pilots as they buzzed she has done this whilst preparing Several teams from local schools designed, built and programmed above the route in Lister Park. for her GCSEs. entered the event to test their robots built from Lego Mindstorms The BBC even brought their drone teamwork, problem solving and lateral that had to detect the opponent’s to film the art and interview the Junior thinking. The overall winner was a robot and to push it out of the sumo 4 ring. Our Year 7 team managed to competition winners and BGS was 500th Duke team from Grammar School. 2 featured on ITV Four (with an audience of Edinburgh beat the opposition in a close 2-1 CAPTIONS Year 12 BGS pupils have also final to win the whole contest. 60+ million) and ‘Look North’. 1 Sophie Still won this bronze award been doing an Extended Project prize whilst studying Well done to the competition CAPTIONS Qualification (EPQ) in Cybersecurity for her GCSEs Alicia Hawksworth was the winners – Francesca, Tadayon, 1 Winning Senior 2 National PiWars as part of their Enrichment School land art Rebecca and Annabel for the Juniors’ competition: BGS 500th person to be awarded programme. 2 Winning Junior robot controlled by a her bronze Duke of Edinburgh design and Evie, Joseph, Ammar and School land art small Raspberry Pi Ishaq for the Seniors’. Thank you to 3 The original computer which the certificate at BGS since starting Year 11 pupils called Team ZMS handmade knitted pupils programmed Mrs Horsfield and Mrs Morley and the scheme in 2002. (Zain Hussain, Marcus Steward 4 bicycle created to using Python all of the pupils for their fantastic celebrate the 2014 3 Alicia Hawksworth and Saif Panni) entered the national Grand Depart in – the 500th person to Nathaniel Davey and Mehreen Khalil PiWars competition at University designs – and of course to our Yorkshire, Lister Park be awarded a bronze (also pictured) have both completed of Cambridge. amazing estates team for making 4 Winning Senior D of E certificate their Gold award with the Sixth the photos possible. School TDY design 4 Ruby Hendry 5 Wall art of Hockney is set to soar! Form. Well done everyone. They designed, built and created by street artist VIEW MORE … programmed a robot to complete ‘STEWY’ – seven challenges devised by the bradfordgrammar.com/news www.stewy.eu competition organisers. The robot 2 3 3 A new website that encapsulates Our digital BGS at its best future ... IN DETAIL … discussion further for page back the to Turn e Simonf Hinchli BGS Headmaster, with bradfordgrammar.com 1

… The“ new” website joins a suite of revamped school publications which bring to the fore aspects of BGS heritage,

3 including our motto

2 ‘Hoc Age’. Simon HincHliffe, HeadmaSter

4 The redesign of the website has left no stone unturned, showcasing our truly astounding school and celebrating our pupils’ achievements.

1. Navigation completely overhauled 2. An inspirational window on life at BGS 3. Bite-sized content for ease of reading 4. Intuitive and engaging user experience We have consulted widely with existing and prospective parents, pupils and colleagues, all of whom have fed directly into the design process. A back-to-basics approach began by sketching things out with … pencil and paper - clearly, traditional “ ” methods still have a place in an ... the new site increasingly digital world. will evolve Content and navigation have incrementally now been completely overhauled to create a more informative and in order to intuitive ‘user journey’. We kept an open mind about what might represent BGS work best and after extensive user-testing (thank you to those of in the most you who took part) have arrived at an outcome that we believe is a significant improvement upon the possible. previous website. We recognise that the majority of pupils and parents We have endeavoured to present will access the School website these sympathetically with a whilst going about their daily modern touch. In so doing it has routines. Time is often (always!) been our intention to provide an short, so being able to deliver the authentic impression of the school School’s notices and information in as it is today, defined by our historic an engaging yet informative, ‘bite- foundations, values and cherished sized’, way has been of primary traditions, but also by our innovative importance. Visitors to the new and forward-looking approach. website will also be struck by the imagery of everyday School life, our With all of the above in mind, we impressive architecture and a series hope you will agree that the new of fabulous pupil portraits that tell website encapsulates Bradford a visual story of our School. Grammar School at its very best!

Apart from being a window on bradfordgrammar.com all that is amazing about BGS, the new site will evolve incrementally in order to represent BGS in the A new website most efective way possible. Text, pictures, videos and such like can be added and amended at a that showcases moment’s notice. Additionally, it has been vital to ensure that the new website is as future-proof as all that is amazing possible and we are delighted with the way in which it appears on about BGS mobile devices. The creation of the new Bradford Grammar School website presented us with an Simon Hinchlife opportunity celebrate our pupils’ Headmaster achievements and promote our [email protected] @sh_hinchlife astounding School. 01274 553702 06 / 07

Volunteering for Barnardo’s

Year 13 students mentor a group of young carers every week who work with Brownlee Barnardo’s to help with their schoolwork and homework. 2 Foundation This not only improves the young carers grades, but also gives them Mini Triathlon confidence in their own ability and for a short time they can focus on themselves and not who they are We were excited to host the Brownlee caring for at home. Foundation’s event for over 40 local Bradford schools. With almost 1,000 junior Kerry McKenna Children’s Service pupils following in the Brownlees’ Olympic Manager at Barnardo’s said ‘On 1 3 success, this was the biggest mini-tri to date. speaking to the young carers they Almost 200 BGS Juniors participated and were extremely positive about the were handed their finisher medals by Mr and whole experience – they had enjoyed going to the grammar Mrs Brownlee, Alistair and Jonny’s parents. school, building up the friendships Our first with their mentors and benefitted with their studies. The mentors themselves talked about how they 6 Dragon Boat had found it rewarding and for Spring Fair some it had inspired them for their Race for Life future career choices.’ The Parents’ Association The sun was shining when a Race! (BGS PA) has had another The scheme has been nominated group of staf, students and busy year supporting the for the prestigious Queens Award their parents formed TEAM School and funding a for Voluntary Service – the highest BGS and ran the Race for Life If it wasn’t for a cold North Easterly wind, it number of public events. award given to volunteers across at the beginning of May. would have been a perfect day for the frst- the UK. Including the Spring Fair, proving Runners, joggers and walkers ever UK schools’ dragon boat racing event. donations to local charities, donned their training shoes to cover bringing communities together the 5km route around the beautiful The race was held on the at Roberts Park, at the and helping to provide spaces for Lister Park to raise awareness of beginning of May as part of the of Bradford Lord Mayor’s Appeal. conversation. cancer afecting women.

BGS has never participated this sport in before, so a scratch crew of Year 7 The theme for this year’s Spring Cheered on by the crowds of and Year 8 pupils entered with more enthusiasm than expectation to race Fair was ‘All Things Bradford’, people, all the members of TEAM against other schools teams, all of which included pupils two years older celebrating our great city and BGS finished with a smile on their than them. Yorkshire heritage! It was certainly face. Grace Dawson, in Year 8, a fun family day out featuring Otley 4 finished in 19 minutes and five BGS pupils listen carefully and learn fast so our team’s technique improved Brass Band, giant games, music and seconds, 27 seconds faster than last quickly. Each time we raced, we went faster and we were thrilled to post a selection of stalls. year when she also crossed the the second fastest time of the day and to finish second overall. finishing line first. TEAM BGS also The BGS PA also continue to CAPTIONS occupied second place as 11-year- It was a great day out, and we will be back next year to see if we can fund small projects such as the old Rebecca Flaherty, in Clock 1 A perfect day for finish one place higher! the first ever UK Photography Competition which House, finished in 19 minutes schools’ ‘Dragon was available to all pupils across the Boat Race’, River Aire 47 seconds. 2 Pupils listened junior and senior schools; the carefully ... … purchase of several picnic benches Definitely, the taking part counted, 3 Pupils race which are in continual use by pupils, 5 as the atmosphere was electric. against teams from “ ” provision of a bowling machine that The whole team made a sterling other schools Our pupils listen 4 Year 13 students is used by cricketers and hockey efort and they all did amazing, mentor a group players, fins for the swimmers and raising lots of sponsorship for such of Young Carers carefully and learn fast every week rugby pads and overjackets for the a worthy cause as well. 5 Spring Fair rugby players. 6 The whole BGS so our team’s technique READ MORE … team made a sterling READ MORE … bradfordgrammar.com/news efort at this years bradfordgrammar.com/news Race for Life improved quickly ... 08

World orienteering Day world record People strolling in Lister Park on May 24 were greeted by 2 the sight of over 240 children setting of in diferent 1 directions armed only with a map – taking part in World iceland French exchange Orienteering Day in an Fifty Year 8 to 11 pupils attempt to beat the world ‘The French exchange was such ‘Being on the French exchange record for the number of enjoyed a jam-packed tour a great experience. It was hard at was a great experience, not only people orienteering in one of the geographical highlights times because of the language vastly improving and widening my day across the globe. of Iceland over the Easter barrier, but we got through it as speaking ability with the language break including a relaxing the family we stayed with were but better still my independence bathe in the healing waters of very kind and our French and ability to make decisions. Classics Trip to Sicily the Blue Lagoon and being in vocabulary improved drastically I have seen many exchanges come The end of the spring term saw awe of the torrents of water in such a short amount of time. into school and always wondered Classics pupils from Years 9 to at Gulfoss. During the time we saw some what happened; my participation 13 travel to Sicily to explore the amazing parts of France. Our has shown me that it is far from wealth of Greek and Roman All members of the group braved favorite part was the Puy de Dôme what I expected. sites on this lovely island. driving hail to visit the snout of an because the views were amazing. ‘I also think one of the most active glacier, and swimming Sicily, a new destination for most ‘We found it very fascinating as important things is to try and stay proved a hit too – the experience of us, was full of exciting surprises, we didn’t realise how diferent the confident and not to worry about of bathing in 38-degree waters from amazingly well-preserved French lifestyle was. For example getting things wrong, as it helps to whilst temperatures fell below zero temples to the delicious and they have lots of food and they show your personality a bit more.’ outside was something that will many-flavoured arancini (‘little present it much diferently to how never be forgotten. Overall, the DAISY, YEAR 9 PUPIL oranges’: delicious balls of fried we do in England.’ students were inspired by rice in all kinds of flavours). geography in action! VICTORIA AND LIZZIE, YEAR 9 PUPILS Our itinerary took in the town and Physics lectures Cricket success Greek theatre at Taormina, the temples and sites at Segesta, Selinunte This year has seen a wealth of The 1st XI has completed the and Agrigentum, the mosaics at the opportunities for all students first half of the season with Roman villa at Pizza Armerina, and interested in Science. the first weather afected finally the wealth of ancient and match at QEGS. Despite a modern delights at Syracuse. In October 30 students in Year 11 fairly modest record (W2, D2, to 13 attended a research lecture L5), a young team has been in the Physics Department at the competitive in all its matches … University of Leeds on topological and there have been a “ ” matter, and its application to Sicily was full quantum computing. This was number of impressive followed in November with 50 individual performances. of exciting students attending a talk on Black surprises ... Holes by a visiting Oxford Professor. We hope that the experiences of 3 the first half term will lead to a We learned a huge amount about In School, we have hosted the successful second half of the the Carthaginians, the Greeks and inaugural BGS Open Science season. For the first time the School Lecture Series with two successful the Romans, and how far their hosted the initial group round of the power and influence extended lectures at Christmas and Easter. National T20 competition with BGS We have had scientists coming in beyond the countries with which CAPTIONS beating Ashville, but losing to a very we now associate those names: and talking across disciplines about 1 Pupils experiencing strong St Peters side who qualified a fabulous and eye-opening trip the awe of Iceland Extremophiles living in strange for the next stage of the tournament. for us all. 2 BGS French environments and the weird world 4 exhange students of slime where everything you The individual highlight of the 3 Physics lectures though you understood was turned season was Will Smith’s very 4 Our cricket success! on its head. With over 200 pupils, impressive unbeaten century 5 240+ BGS pupils setting of on World parents, siblings, staf and guests to against a very strong MCC side Orienteering Day! the school attending, covering all age becoming the first BGS batsman 6 Pupils explore the groups, more and more people are to score a century against the wealth of Greek and Roman sites on Sicily getting involved with science at BGS. MCC (first fixture 1966).

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