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Eton Scholarship Offers Hasan Great Opportunity George Mitchell School Times Winter 2018 Eton scholarship offers Hasan great opportunity POLITICS enthusiast Hasan Patel has completed a remarkable year by winning OFFER: a £76,000 scholarship to Eton College, the Hasan school attended by Princes William and Harry. shows off his Hasan will rub shoulders with the elite scholarship when he begins studying at the world-famous letter Berkshire school next September. It comes after he became the youngest-ever speaker at a major political party conference when he addressed Labour Party delegates in August. Aged just 15, he was a year younger than the previous youngest speaker and former Conservative party leader, William Hague. Hasan won his Eton place after coming through a gruelling three-day assessment at the school, which included three entrance exams, seven interviews and a public debate. The Year 11 student was mentored throughout the application process by our Headteacher, Mr Hussain. Hasan, who has won an army of fans on Twitter for his outspoken political views, gave a rousing speech to the Labour conference at support I have received, particularly from my Marlborough College, and Martin Woodrow, the Liverpool Echo Arena. Headteacher but also the school in general, has who is at University College School. He said: “My politics won’t change because been incredible. Headteacher Mr Hussain said: “Hasan is I am entering a different type of environment. “This is a place that gives us, the students, a truly exceptional young man. Asides from Eton won’t change me, I will still be the same the tools and support to pursue our dreams. I being incredibly bright, he is the most engaged boy from East London when I arrive and when have been here since I was three years old in and motivated student I have known in my I leave. the nursery and it has played a crucial part in years of teaching. He is the type of person who “This opportunity will allow me to return making me the person I am today.” will seize this opportunity generously offered to my community better armed to tackle the Hasan becomes the third student to win a by Eton. His is a name I expect we will all be many social problems they face. He added: place at a fee-paying school, following in the hearing more of in the near future.” “George Mitchell is an exceptional school. The footsteps of Nadia Hassan, now studying at Hasan making his mark: Turn to page 3 Community comes first STUDENTS have been helping out in their community, raising money for charity and making toys for a nursery as part of our Kindness project. In September, Year 8 pupils held a bake sale (right) for the Macmillan cancer charity while Year 7 gave up their for the Christmas party at a surrounding the school and lunchbreaks to run SATs local care home and the choir sent thank-you cards to tutorials to the Year 6 pupils. sang carols at the event. neighbours. In October, Year 9 students Not to be outdone, our Students were also tasked assembled food hampers for Year 9 students then made with undertaking one act of local charity Sally’s Kitchen at wooden toys (left) in Design kindness over a weekend in the Leytonstone Food Bank. Technology for a local nursery. November, which they then Later in the month, Students also planted bulbs described on a card posted in Mind To Be Kind: See Pages 6-7 students donated raffle prizes in Albert Park, swept streets our kindness post box. n George Mitchell School n Winter 2018 newsletter YEAR 10 students learnt about the Global Citizenship Scheme Award during a OUR steel band won praise from local residents and councillors at the switch-on of the talk from ambassador Kim Christmas lights on Francis Road in December. Sorenson (above). Exam results are once again among the best GEORGE Mitchell School has been recognised as among the best in the country after a record-breaking year for GCSE results. Our Progress 8 score of plus 0.61 means the school is in the top 250 schools nationwide for exams, according to figures released by the Department for Education in October. The school is also in the top three non- selective boys’ schools in London and among the best in the borough of Waltham Forest. The score also means that George Mitchell outperforms the majority of Ofsted-rated Outstanding schools, which have an average Progress 8 score of plus 0.47. Progress 8, which is the new government benchmark for measuring school success, charts pupils’ progress from when they start to when they leave school. Moment of truth: Students discover their exam results at the school in August It comes as Headteacher Mr Hussain marked five years since taking over at the school. Fun Since his arrival, the school has been moved from being rated Requires by the Improvement to Good by Ofsted – and has seen results rise year-on-year with GCSE camp achievements among the best in the borough. Headteacher Saeed Hussain said: “To be fire recognised as among the top-performing YEAR 7 schools in the country for the second year in students a row proves we have built on very strong have fun foundations. toasting “It is possible to score top results in marsh- one year but then fail to capitalise on that mallows success by not achieving at the same level at our the following year. leadership “We have proven that our results are camp in based not on a lucky year but on a bedrock Bounds of very high-quality teaching and a focus on Green in academic success.” October. 2 n George Mitchell School n Winter 2018 newsletter Hasan making his mark in politics TEENAGE political activist newspaper on becoming a rising Hasan Patel has become the star of the left and his presence on youngest-ever speaker at a party social media. conference, aged just 15. He was chosen to represent The George Mitchell Year 11 Leyton and Wanstead Labour student was given a standing Party at the annual conference ovation for his passionate talk on following a members’ ballot. the closure of local services and Hasan was congratulated on how young people can bring about his speech by a number of high- a change in society. profile politicians, including During the conference, held local MP John Cryer and Shadow in Liverpool, Hasan also led a Secretary of State for Education, Question Time-style panel with Angela Rayner. fellow young activists at an event Hasan said: “Getting up and called World Transformed. talking in front of so many people The youngster has built a was really nerve-wracking, strong following on social media particularly given that I am so with more than 19,000 people much younger than most of them. following him on Twitter under “But if you are passionate about the handle @CorbynistaTeen. something you quickly forget your His account is followed by a nerves. number of high-profile politicians “I could see the audience and journalists, including BBC responding to me and got a real presenter Victoria Derbyshire rush of adrenaline.” and Shadow Chancellor John He added: “Afterwards, lots of McDonnell. people were coming up to me and Following his speech, Hasan saying well done on my speech. It was interviewed by The Guardian was such an amazing feeling.” Primary pupils settling into their £10m home PUPILS at our primary site had their first lessons in their brand-new building this term. Our pupils started the half-term in October in a new home following a £10 million redevelopment project. The two-storey building features a state-of- the-art library, drama studio and science and technology room, as well as a hall equipped with audio visual equipment. It houses both early years and primary school pupils on the same site for the first time in the school’s history. The move comes exactly a year after their peers in the secondary school moved into their own new £20m building last January. The work was carried out by developers Bowmer and Kirkland and funded by the Education Funding Agency under the Priority School Building Programme. Year 6 pupil Ismail, from Leyton, said: “It is so much bigger and more modern now than it was before. “There are some amazing new classrooms with equipment that we did not have before.” Fellow Year 6 pupil Mark, from Leyton, said: “It makes a big difference to your learning because you have much better equipment to work with. “The outdoor space is amazing because it means we have lots more room to play.” the country. Both our primary and secondary Our educational standards have consistently Headteacher Saeed Hussain said: “As a school students have access to the kind of been among the very best in the country but school we are very fortunate to have facilities state-of-the-art technology and equipment that now we have facilities across the primary and to match and exceed anything you will find in will have a real impact on their education. secondary school to match.” 3 n George Mitchell School n Winter 2018 newsletter Primary pupils ready to bridge generation gap OUR primary school pupils have teamed up with residents from a local community centre for an intergenerational art project. The two-year venture, run by charities Magic Me and the L&Q Foundation, will see our Year 3 and 4 pupils partnered with elderly residents from the Seddon Centre, Leyton. This month, the two groups took part in an arts and crafts dragon-making session with artist and puppeteer Polly Beestone.
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