I n s p i r i n g L o n d o n ’ s W o m e n o f t h e F u t u r e

Dear Parents, Carers, students and friends ofHornsey School for Girls,

I am delighted to bring you our latest editionof Hornsey News containing lots of wonderfulnews stories and information about ourupcoming events. It is a real pleasure to sharewith you the outstanding achievements of ourstudents and staff once more.

Our recent GCSE results have put the school inthe top 6% of schools in the UK. This is awonderful achievement and testament to allof the hard work put in by our students, staffand parents and carers. Well done to us all!

On the back of this amazing news, we havejust won a KS4 Pupil Premium Award for ourresults. Prompting David Laws MP, Minister ofState for Schools, to write to us saying:

“The reason you have been selected is thatyou are one of the most improved schools inthe country in terms of the attainment andvalue-added progress of your pupils since2011.  It is clear that you and your staff haveprovided your pupils with a good start in life.

In addition your school has been proven to beone of the top 90 in England showing thegreatest sustained improvement in thepercentage of pupils achieving five or moreA*-C grade GCSEs, including English andMaths….Finally your school is also one of thetop 100 non-selective state funded schools inEngland based on the KS2 to KS4 value addedmeasure”.

Last week saw our second annual PrimarySchools Gymnastics Competition which was agreat success. Students from 12 local primaryschools took part in the competition that wasjudged and officiated by Year 10 Hornseystudents. It was fantastic to see theconcentration on the competitors’ faces andthe enjoyment it brought to all involved. Well

done to the PE department and Year 10students who participated.

Last year we created avideo asking Year 8students to discuss theirexperiences at HornseySchool for Girls. If youwould like to view thevideo please visit ourwebsite or Youtubechannel or via Twitterusing the search #ImAHornseyGirl.

Dates for Your DiaryThursday 26th FebruaryPSA Quiz Night, 6.30-8.30pm in theCommunity Theatre.Thursday 5th MarchYear 8 Parents’ Evening, 4.30-7pm, for parentsto come and discuss their daughter’s progress.Monday 9th MarchInternational Women’s Day Celebrations, forstudents during the school day. A chance tochallenge discrimination and to encourage girlsto go into traditionally male dominated jobs.16 -20th MarchScience Week. A week of experiments andscientific learning for students and parents,with a Science Evening to be planned.

More details for all of our events will be madeavailable on the school website and will beemailed to parents closer to the dates.

We all wish you an enjoyable half term break,school will return as normal on Monday 23rdFebruary at 8.35am.

Ms GibbinsActing Headteacher

MESSAGE FROM THE HEADTEACHER

#ImAHornseyGirl

Figures from the Department of Education show that our GCSE resultsfor 2014 are significantly higher that the national average and that weare in the top 6% of schools in the UK.

Over the last three years, students securing 5 or more GCSEs A*-C,including English and Maths, increased from 56% to 70%. This is 15%above the national average. Whilst students securing 5 or more GCSEA*-C results increased from 77% to 86% in 2014. This is 22% above thenational average.

In English 88% of our students achieved A*-C, 21% above the nationalaverage. In Maths 72% of students achieved A*-C, 7% above thenational average.

93% of students made expected progress in English significantly higherthan the national average of 70% expected progress. With 54% makingbetter than expected progress.

In Maths, 76% of students made expected progress, higher than thenational average of 65% expected progress. 40% made better thanexpected progress.

The progress of more able students, for English and Maths, issignificantly above the national average.

Results for 20 subjects (including Maths, English and Science) atHornsey School for Girls are above the national average at GCSE.

“This is wonderful news and is testament to all of the hard workof our students and staff. We are absolutely thrilled to see thattheir effort has been rewarded and our results continue toimprove each year, across all subjects.

Our personalised programme of learning for every studentensures that they are provided with an outstanding level ofteaching, their progress is carefully monitored and they are fullyprepared for their exams.

These outstanding results are also proof that single sexeducation enables our girls to achieve higher grades, whencompared to mixed schools, where boys and girls mature andlearn at different rates.”

Ms GibbinsActing Headteacher

WOMEN’S DAYDid you know that only 6% of the engineering workforce in the UK are female?On the Monday 9th March Hornsey School for Girls is celebrating International Women’sDay 2015. Led by students, the day will be used to focus on Women in the Workplace andwill inspire our young women to change male domination in the workplace.

Hornsey School is planning a day of activities with a focus on getting our young women to aspire toachieve in any career! There will be workshops and presentations from women in male dominatedcareers who will discuss what it has taken them to achieve their goals.

We will be focusing on breaking the barriers down between young women and a ‘male dominatedenvironment’; with guest speakers from real women at the top of their career. There will be acareers stand for students looking for information on roles they wish to pursue, how you canachieve your dream job, even if they are not sure what it is yet.

Students, have you ever wondered what a meteorologist was or how many females go intoScience, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) careers? There will be Year 11s withinteresting STEM related questions and answers, speak to them for more information. Somestudents will be dressed in work uniforms showing different careers and answering any questionsyou may have. In each of your lessons your teacher will talk about a successful woman in thatcareer- this should give you some ideas for future career options.

Full details about the International Women’s Day will be emailed to parents/carers and posted onthe school website, closer to the event.

Fahmida Uddin & Mayes Fusco-Fagg Year 11

IS YOUR DAY

An entertaining evening for our parents, carers,teachers, staff and Governors to attend.Come along, have fun and test your knowledge!(or lack of it??)

£2 entry per person

Haringey Council’s annual Outstanding for All Awards saw fiveHornsey students rewarded for outstanding success inside andout of the classroom!

Amira Ali (right) won the Unsung Youth Award for her workraising awareness of Female Genital Mutilation in the localcommunity.

Nimra Butt (bottom right) was given the Overcoming AdversityAward for her amazing GCSE exam results despite having a visualimpairment.

Isatou Cates and Shanjida Ahad were presented withOutstanding Academic Achievement Awards and Tiana Chung-Taylor won Haringey’s Young Carer of the Year Award.

A special mention must go to Hornsey studentMoressa Chambers (top left) who impressivelyco-presented the award ceremony.

HARD WORK IS RECOGNISEDHORNSEY STUDENTS:

As part of Hornsey School for Girls’ fight to end Female Genital Mutilation, we are proud tohost the Haringey Conference: Working Together to End FGM.

The conference wil take part on Tuesday 17th February, from 10am - 3pm, and will bringtogether all of the work that has taken place over recent years to raise awareness of FGM andto support and protect vulnerable women and girls. It will enable further discussions about anintegrated approach to tackling and ending FGM. The conference is free and lunch will beprovided.

To register you interest please visit our website and follow the link from:www.hsg.haringey.sch.uk/news-and-events/calendar/EndFGMConferenceOr for more details please contact the Haringey Safeguarding Children Board support team atlscb@haringey.gov.uk

TEACHERSCORNEROxford University Undergraduate Admissionsruns an annual scheme to recognise‘inspirational teachers’ from UK schools andcolleges. This year English teacher MsBoardman was among twelve people given theaward after being nominated by a formerstudent, Holly Harrison-Mullane.Holly said:“Ms Boardman was the best teacher I ever had.Her English class had everyone really interestedin the subject and excited to study more. Shealso really helped us all feel much moreconfident about applying for university andmade going to Oxford feel like an achievablegoal”.Ms Boardman, who will attend the awardceremony in May said:“I am very honoured to have been nominatedfor this award and am even more surprised to

have actually won. Thank you Holly, thank youOxford and thank you to all the wonderfulteachers and pupils who have inspired me”.

Ms Ongley, Deputy Head of Dance, has beennominated for two awards for her work withthe Sky Sports Living for Sports programme.Her nominations are for Teacher of the Yearand Project of the Year 2013/14. We wish herlots of luck and congratulations for hernominations.

Ms Wiggins, Head of Social Sciences, wasinvited to give lecture at the  Institute ofEducation (UCL)  last week. She delivered asession on 'Delivering Excellent PSHE Lessons'to trainee Social Sciences teachers.

HornseySchool Peer Mentoring & Peer

Leadership programmes galvanise ourpassion to be an inclusive, ambitious,

innovative and compassionateschool

Peer Mentoring support at Hornsey School for Girlsis a long and well established provision which hasbeen recognised following recent accreditation fromthe Mentoring & Befriending Foundation (MBF).The foundation provides services which aim toincrease the effectiveness and quality of mentoring,enabling students to transform their lives and reachtheir full potential. The accreditation will seestudents provided with additional support, trainingand resources to help with the Peer Mentoringprogramme at Hornsey School.

Congratulations to the Peer MentoringTeam and all students who have takenpart in the scheme.

MissionStatement

Congratulations to Year 13 student Matilda Tempestwho has earned a place at Oxford University inSeptember to read Politics, Philosophy andEconomics.This year more than 17,000 people applied for just3,000 places at the university. Matilda was supportedat Hornsey by The Access Project, the Sutton TrustSummer School (The University of Oxford's UNIQ)and the RATU project (Raising Aspirations andApplications to Top Universities).

We wish Matilda every success in her studies.

In December, a group of Year 10 ASSociology and Year 13 BTEC Health & SocialCare students visited the V&A ChildhoodMuseum. Here they took part in aworkshop called “The Social Constructionof Childhood”. The workshop shows howchildren develop their sense of identitythrough play and how toys have changedover time to reflect this. Students had agreat time exploring the museum, playingwith toys and taking part in the workshop.

For the 2014-15 Coca-Cola Real BusinessChallenge, students were asked to create asoft drink product and packaging to raisemoney for athletes to go to the 2015 SpecialOlympics in Los Angeles.

Year 9 students formed teams in their ProductDesign classes. They experimented withflavour combinations, created a finance andmarketing plan alongside their designs andbranding of their idea. Votes were cast inclass and each group were scored to find thebest idea to send off to Coca-Cola for judging.

All groups were very creative, however theentry requirements were best met by teamCOLD. 9,000 students from London enteredthe challenge and COLD did extremely well tothen be selected for the London final by Coca-Cola.

The finals were held at The Oval CricketGround on 29th January. The 10 Londonschool team finalists were given a furtherchallenge to create a social media plan, learnApp design, create a bus stop poster and carryout event planning including financialforecasting. Each team had a business mentorfrom Coca-Cola working with them to supporttheir efforts. Calves, a mobile application(App) design company, held a workshop indeveloping Apps for phones and tablets whichwas brilliant.

After working hard all day the teams wereeach asked to present their work to a judgingpanel from Coca-Cola who picked a winner.Although we did not win this time, thestudents had an amazing experience and evenhad a working lunch! They showed greateffort throughout the day and were treatedvery well with drinks, cakes, pastries andchocolates at regular points in the day. They

left the event feeling very fortunate for theexperience they had been given and elated byhow well they had been treated during theday.

A big congratulations to all the students thatattended: Sara Abdalla, Mae Parker-Barnby,Shayma Abdulkadir, Wiktoria Popiel, RiaMolloy, Lucy Hodge-Sellers, Shaziya Begum,Sara Abdalla.

“The fundamental idea of the projectis for students to improve theiremployability profile and develop lifeskills with a live project. Gettingexperience in presenting and workingin a competitive environment in ateam, learning new skills and beingcreative in a viable way was incrediblyvaluable learning!”

Miss Fairhurst Teacher of D&T