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END OF YEAR MAGAZINE 2018-2019 1 CONTENTS East Barnet School Sports Day 2019 Year 7 First Day 2 Special Events 3 - 7 Art and Photography Exhibition 8 - 9 Rewarding a Growth Mindset 10 - 12 Residency Programme 13 What a Busy Year! Library News 14 - 15 At East Barnet School, we There are many honours of being a Headteacher but endeavour for students to there is no greater pride than seeing the children happy. acquire a love for learning This year that happiness can be seen on the children’s Student Leadership 16 - 17 coupled with the development of smiling faces from the first day in Year 7 to the farewell their moral compass, identifying Sixth Form Prom, and all that goes in between. I am Performances 18 - 21 their own sense of integrity, grateful to all the staff and friends of the school who equality and justice. This provide the children with such fabulous opportunities End of Year Magazine is full to from mindfulness to robotics, art and design to creative PTFA 22 the brim with students displaying writing and university trips, from choir and chess to sports the “I want to learn” and and shows. The evidence of the wonderful year we Garden Project 23 “Do the right thing” philosophy. have had is shown in these pages and I hope you enjoy Be it in their community spirit reading about it as much as the students, staff and I have with charity work and acts of enjoyed living it. Year 11 Prom 24 - 25 kindness, or in their maturity and drive, when they took collective I wish all members of our community a restful, happy and Sixth Form Prom 26 - 27 and purposeful action against healthy break. climate change. The students have faced many challenges and hurdles along the way School Trips 28 - 30 but the growth mindset they have displayed towards their acquisition of new skills has meant that they have L. Swaine Headteacher Houses 31 developed, achieved and simply had lots and lots of fun. Design & Technology Department 32 - 33 The School Mental Health Award Robotics 34 - 35 East Barnet School has been fortunate enough to be able to work with Leeds Beckett University to begin the process of achieving ‘The School Mental Health Award’. The process Sports Round-up 36 - 41 has seen us evaluate our current practice, questionnaire and interview staff and students as well as set up a parent forum. We now have a named lead Governor for Mental Health and are developing our website to include more information and advice to support both parents and students. In the coming months we will be introducing ‘be well zones’ ‘well-being warriors’ and developing group mindfulness sessions. We are also excited to announce that we are joining the ‘Resilient Schools Programme’, designed to help young people develop resilience to overcome challenges. We look forward to sharing our progress with you at the start of the next academic year! Remember, if you need to speak to anyone over the summer, you can contact Kooth: End of Year Magazine Produced by N. Bain Edited by H. Seckleman, S. Monahan and L. Swaine The Winner of the House Cup 2019 - Keller! 2 Year 7 First Day Special Events 3 AWARDS EVENING 2018 Students, families and friends were welcomed to this year’s Award Ceremony by our fabulous Head Girl and Deputy Head Boy; Bethany Hargreaves and James Williamson. In total, 55 students were invited to attend the prestigious event at which they were each presented on stage with golden trophies and special commendations recognising their outstanding achievements. Awards were presented from all faculties in the school. Three students were recognised for their outstanding academic performance, achieving the highest grades overall in their Key Stage. To celebrate the importance of wider achievement in school and beyond; Community, Leadership and Governors’ trophies were also presented. The evening concluded with the presentation of the Headteacher’s Award which, this year, on invite by Ms Swaine was presented by our much treasured former Headteacher, Mr Christou. The trophy was received by the very deserving Tommy Simmons-Perez. Before and during the evening there were musical performances from Tommy Simmons-Perez, Evie Craggs and Finn Emmens-Green, creating a wonderful ambiance for all to enjoy. Our guest speaker for the evening was Luke Garrard, a former EBS student. He shared his fondest memories of school and explained what a fundamental part EBS played in his life. As manager of Borehamwood FC, Luke is a great role model for our students. He was excited to be reconnected with EBS and looks forward to creating opportunities to work with the school and our students in the future. Thank you to all staff, governors, parents, family members and friends who attended the event making it such a special occasion, and huge congratulations to the worthy recipient of the awards. We are so proud of you all. We look forward to celebrating more success next year. TROPHY & COMMENDATION WINNERS 2018 Caitlin Aley Sarosh Aminuddin Aryan Baheer Daniel Banyard Connor Barry Liam Bavington-Hodge Ewan Betts Yvon Borisova Joe Bunyan Tom Castiglione Vittoria Cavarero Oliver Cicopalus Freia Cooper Olivia Corbett Jessica Corbett Evie Craggs Matthew Dunton Alex Dunton Peter Durrant Finn Emmens-Green Kevin Fang Ben Floyd Emily Foster Natalia Georgopoulos Andrew Gurney Harry Hodgkinson Amber Irish Scarlett Irish Lola Jenkinson Abigail Keathly Christopher Leach Ryan Lura Angel Mangan Neo Merkis Esha Mistry Naresh Mohamad Salim Helaina Mousicos Chrissy Neocleous Elysia Neocleous Finley Noonan Taylor Olive Millie Pedder Knappett Beth Peters Lottie Rachel Aaliah Razi Dhvani Shah Tommy Simmons-Perez Shannon Smith Anthony Stefanou Karyn Takai Ozkan Tekcan Eduard Tepes Paolo Vetrano Scarlet Wright Omed Zarifi Year 7 First Day 2018 - 2019 4 Special Events Special Events 5 Mayor Visits EBS A Royal Wedding to Remember New Mayor Presents Teaching Award On Monday the 29th of October, the Worshipful Mayor of On 12th October, EBS student Poppy, was fortunate On 26th June, the (new) Worshipful Mayor of the London Borough of Barnet visited EBS to present Mr Sadler with an the London Borough of Barnet visited East Barnet School. enough to attend the wedding of Princess Eugenie and award. We are so excited that Mr Sadler won a Silver Pearson National Teaching Award in the Digital Innovator of the He met with members of the Student Council and invited Jack Brooksbank. The full story with more pictures can be Year category, which is an amazing achievement. As a Silver Teaching Award winner, Mr Sadler will now be considered members of the school community to join him at the found on the EBS website, but below are a few snippets for a Gold Teaching Award in his category which will be announced at the UK Ceremony at the Roundhouse, London on London New Years Day Parade, to represent the Borough from Poppy’s report: 20th October! Mr Sadler was also interviewed on BBC Radio 2 by Zoë Ball to discuss all of the brilliant work he does - and celebrate the theme “London welcomes the world”. I recently had the privilege to go to the royal wedding at thank you for everything you do, which inspires so many students! St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle. We were in the front row which meant we could see almost everything and have an opportunity to be interviewed by the press. When the celebrity guests started arriving it was about 9:00am, and we had a really good view of everyone going in. When the bride came, she looked so beautiful in her dress! I really enjoyed my trip and I was very lucky to witness such an historic occasion. Barnet School Awards London Teacher of the Year Barnet and Southgate College, in partnership with the The London Teacher of the Year Awards mark the vital London Borough of Barnet and the Barnet Times Series, contribution that school staff make to our community. The hosted the Barnet School Awards 2019 to celebrate the awards recognise the expertise and dedication that is the amazing and unique achievements of students and staff in hallmark of an outstanding teacher. This year, in Barnet, Barnet primary, secondary and special schools, highlighting Camden and Brent, Mr Sadler won STEM Teacher of the the great work Year, which is another great achievement! happening in local schools and the community. Year 7 EBS student, Alexandra Tsiotsi was nominated for her amazing charity work in the Most Inspirational Student category for raising £7000 Aurin Girls’ Choir Tour for The Brompton Foundation. This On Thursday 27th June, the Aurin Girls Choir visited the is an amazing school as part of a nationwide tour. They are a 50-strong achievement! group of very talented singers who all go to school in Alexandra also Hungary. Thank you to Margaret Emmens-Green who helped met the Mayor of organise the visit. It was a great afternoon filled with singing Barnet. Keep up all and interesting methods of learning the famous ‘Kodaly’ the charity work, technique. Our very own EBS Choir were in attendance to Alexandra, we are get some top tips from the very best! very proud of you! 6 Special Events Special Events 7 An EBS Cadet Feet Safely Back on the Ground Jack Petchey Achievement Awards On the 11th February, Sara Jikerjian received a trophy Huge The Jack Petchey Achievement Awards scheme aims to recognise students for Most Improved Cadet at the Enfield Sea Cadets unit. congratulations who have helped others over and above expectations, been a good role model, Sara was also fortunate enough to give a speech about to Tom in the demonstrated bravery or have overcome a personal barrier or challenge.