Posted on: 24/04/2024Green Skills Career's FairEGA, in partnership with Love Design Studio and OKTRA, organised a careers fair that focused around companies / industries linked to the green economy. Students at EGA benefitted from understanding the pathways that exist .It was fantastic to see teachers and parents attend the event who will also get a better understanding of the different career paths on offer related to sustainability and the environment. A huge thank you to all the organisations who attended the event and spoke to our students, councillors Rowena Champion and Praful Nargund, who supported the event and especially our partners Love Design Studio and OKTRA.
Posted on: 22/03/2024Green GradsOn the 22nd March, we held a sustainability fair in partnership with Green Grads. Students were able to gain an insight to careers relating to sustainability, they will also be inspired by individuals who are making a difference to the wellbeing to our planet.
Posted on: 7/03/2024National School Attendance Award 2023/24Click on the document below to see our certificate: National School Attendance Award 2023 - 2024 For more inormation on attendance please visit our Attendance and Punctuality page
Posted on: 1/03/2024Food Tech Practical Congratulations to the food tech students for their practical work. Sherif's cheese cake was delicious.
Posted on: 23/02/2024Year 9 British Library Trip: Malorie Blackman This week a group of Year 9 students visited the British Library to see Malorie Blackman in conversation with illustrator Dapo Adeola. She answered questions submitted from schools around the country, on topics such as her inspirations, advice for writers, and weighty subjects such as institutional racism. The audience gained fascinating insight into the writing process, authors’ earnings, and how to deal with rejection when approaching publishers: Malorie received 82 rejection letters before her first book was accepted for publication! Every school attending received a beautiful edition of “Noughts and Crosses” specially produced by the Folio Society.
Posted on: 8/12/2023Book of the Month - December For December’s Book of the Month we are going back to 1813, and what I call ‘the OG rom com’, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1775-1817). Mr and Mrs Bennet belong to a social group known as ‘the genteel poor’, they have social standing but not a great deal of wealth, and no son to inherit what they do have, instead they have 5 daughters. It is imperative that they marry off their daughters to ensure their financial security and set about immersing their offspring in social gatherings to introduce them to eligible bachelors. 2 of these men are Mr Darcy and Mr Wickham. In this social satire featuring a big cast of characters, Austen weaves her way through upper class English society, featuring among it an unattractive suitor who will keep the Bennet estate within the family (Mr Collins), a melodramatic mother (Mrs Bennet), 2 cynical and intelligent sisters (Jane, and our heroine Elizabeth), a flighty teenager (Lydia Bennet), and a group of mean girls (Mr Darcy’s sisters). These characters could just as easily exist in a modern romantic comedy. This book may be more than 200 years old but it still offers a giggle, and a look into a time when writers were evasive about the provenance of an individual’s wealth (most likely slavery, see Said’s Orientalism), and women were essentially commodities.
Posted on: 10/11/2023Book of the Month - November THEMES/SUBJECTS: Murder; Royalty; Romance; Jealousy; Family CW: physical assault, only for Year 9 and above November’s book of the month is Royal Blood by Aimee Carter. This book really took off before the summer holidays and is still incredibly popular. “Kicked out of her American boarding school, Evan is sent to live with her estranged father, the King of England. Her existence as his illegitimate daughter is top secret - until someone leaks it to the press. Suddenly she's the focus of a thousand lurid headlines, plus the hatred of her stepmother the Queen and half-sister Princess Maisie. Then the royal scandal intensifies... After Evan is seen disappearing with a journalist's son at a party, he is found dead and she becomes the primary suspect in a murder investigation. Did "the Killer Princess" really do it? It seems that only the Queen's gorgeous nephew Kit will help Evan clear her name. But can she really trust anyone at the palace? The story is gripping, with lots of twists and turns along the way. Reserve a copy now in the library.
Posted on: 6/10/2023Lessons at 10Lessons at 10’ programme, which opens up No10 to school children and students for educational visits every Friday. These events have ranged from music lessons, tennis, and business to name a few. This initiative has been started by the Prime Minister ’s wife, Mrs Akshata Murty. On Friday 29th September EGA was invented to attend 'Lessons at 10'. The week’s theme will be centred around London Fashion Week. Panel guests were Mrs Murty PM' wife alongside fashion designer ME + EM brand owner Clare Hornby and Top fashion journalist Emily Cronin, we discussed the fashion industry, business and sustainability . EGA was also given a tour of the Downing Street state rooms and gardens.
Posted on: 8/09/2023Book of the Month - September GENRE: Science Fiction, Adventure, Short fiction Back in May this year, Green Rising by Lauren James was EGA Library’s book of the month.For our return to school, this month’s chosen title is also by Lauren James and is called The Starlight Watchmaker. The book is published by Barrington Stoke, a really important and respected publisher based in Edinburgh. Barrington Stoke publishes short books, usually no more than 130 pages, aimed at reluctant or dyslexic readers. They are physically designed to be easy to read, with large, widely spaced out type and coloured pages The stories are just as exciting as longer novels and written by established, popular authors including Malorie Blackman, Melvin Burgess, Eve Ainsworth and Marcus Sedgwick. Hugo is an old android, abandoned by his owner on a strange planet. He sets up a business fixing watches. When a student from a local private school brings him a watch to fix, Hugo discovers that quantum energy is being stolen from watches, and with the help of fellow robots, humans and aliens, he begins the search for the suspected terrorist (they believe that only a terrorist would need that much quantum energy to make a bomb) trying to destroy the planet where they live, work and study.Alongside Hugo, student Dorian and his friends attempt to find the thief Through their investigation they meet and interrogate a diverse array of characters expertly and fantastically imagined by Lauren James. If you are a reader who prefers a shorter novel, or a less confident reader, try this book or any other in the Barrington Stoke range, kept in the library in the ‘Easy Reading’ section.
Posted on: 24/04/2024
Posted on: 24/04/2024
Posted on: 24/04/2024
