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The Glendower Collection 2019-2020

Contents 3. From the Head’s Study 4. From the Head Girl 6. From the PA 8. Glendower Highlights 10. Take One Picture 14. Assemblies

16. Reception 18. Year One 22. Year Three 24. Year Four 26. Year Five 28. Year Six 30. Shakespeare Workshops

45. Creative Writing Competition 46. Poetry Rectital 47. Author Visits 48. Book Week 52. Maths 54. Science 56. Music 57. Music Exam Results 60. Art and Design Technology 64. History 65. Geography 66. RE 68. ICT 69. French 71. Mandarin and Spanish 72. Upper School Highlights

Lower School

School Activities

32. Reception 34. Year One 36. Year Two 38. Lower School Highlights

74. Clubs 76. School Trips 80. Post 11+ Programme 82. Interhouse Events 85. Competative Sports 90. PE at Home 92. Prizegiving 94. Staff List 95. Year Six Leaver Destinations

Drama

Upper School 40. Year Three 42. English 44. Handwriting Competition

From the

y d u t S s ’ d a e H Mrs Nina Kingsmill Moore MEd, Headmistress It is such a privilege to run a school as a Headteacher, but never more so than in times of significant turbulence on a global scale and, to be given the opportunity to steer Glendower through this period in its history, has been the greatest privilege of all. All schools weather storms and have their moments in the sunshine, but this year can only be described as having had four seasons in each day. I am sure that when I look back on the year 2020, there will be a surreal sense of wonder at how the year unfurled; at times taking on a dreamlike quality. However, what I will be able to say with absolute certainty, is that my sense of pride for our girls, staff, parents and governors here at Glendower, has never been more acute.

In true Glendower fashion, our kitchens soon reopened and began providing 150 hot meals every day for local vulnerable families, as well as NHS staff at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. Our girls made the most delightful, heart-warming cards for each of the recipients of the meals and we were so proud of the true Glendower spirit, bringing our community together, in spite of being physically distanced. As you will read on, the return to the classrooms began again in June, with tentative steps into bubbles, which then gained momentum, with every girl back on site by the end of the summer term. The delight on each girl’s face as she returned to school was only matched by that of her teachers’, who were equally enthralled at being back together again!

What you will read in the pages ahead will tell its own story. Photographs of matches and events that took place when life was blissfully unaffected by any virus, swiftly followed by the rapid shift to online learning and remote teaching, where homes became classrooms, and “you’re on mute” became the catchphrase of the day.

There is no doubt that what this pandemic has taught us is that togetherness is what gives our school its heart, we are a community bonded by a common desire to look after each other and nurture each other, and when we do this, we thrive. I could not be prouder of each and every girl and member of staff here at Glendower for all they have achieved in the most extraordinary of years.

At first there was almost a sense of euphoria as everyone adapted to a very different way of operating. This soon settled as everyone realised the enormity of the situation in our surrounding communities and on a more global scale.

Nina Kingsmill Moore

Head Girl My name is Mati La Magna and I was the Head Girl during the academic year 2019~2020. I hope that this short recount of my time at Glendower School can give you a sense of what being Head Girl was like and the memories I have made at Glendower, where I have spent the last seven years. Glendower has not just been a school for me or a simple place for learning, it has been a wonderful community that has taught me so much. Being Head Girl was an experience like no other. It was exciting every day and I got to learn how to take on responsibilities with passion and poise. Although a duty I did perform was “prefecting”. A prefect stands on the stairs at the end of break times and kindly reminds the girls how to behave. I also got the pleasure to recite an allegory from the holy Bible at the harvest festival in November. That moment was very touching and fulfilling. During all those years I have made friendships like no others and bonds with teachers too. Glendower has been like my second family since the day I started in year 1. I remember I was lining up at the front door waiting to shake hands to my headmistress. Millions of thoughts were flooding through me as the door opened at 8.30 am; no second earlier or later as always! (That I will never forget). The moment that I stepped in that hallway, excitedly waving to my parents, I instantly felt that I belonged. Now that we are in Year Six and inevitably moving on to our secondary schools, I begin to look back on all my memories and what they meant to me. First off the school has taught me how to be kind, respectful of others, patient, resilient, passionate, and committed to improve and to not take my privileges for granted. All the subjects from Maths to Science to History, Glendower has opened my mind to a variety of different topics and allowed me to pursue my passion in them. I am especially grateful for the variety of sports Glendower had to offer: netball, cricket, football, swimming, rounders and the list goes on endlessly. My best sporting memories were going to the netball and swimming I.A.P.S. because the competitive atmosphere. Or, how could I forget, our first Christmas Carol Concert and our residential trip in Year Four. We toasted marshmallows around the campfire and sang jolly songs. Going to the Isle of Wight in Year Five was another highlight, I remember how I was in a group with 3 other girls when we went sailing and I was eager to try and steer, who knew it was going to turn out in disaster! The boat was tipping side to side frantically and I was screaming at the top of my lungs! These memories will remain engraved in my mind forever. This year has been particularly special and like everybody has said, we are leaving “unprecedented times”. As a result of the corona virus pandemic, we have experienced classes from home in a virtual setting but learning has been with same intensity and fulfilling and despite this has made us all feel quite disappointed and, in some cases, discouraged, as “Glendower girls” we found the best way to get up and we have all been keeping in contact, showing a high sense of community. Additionally, a special thanks go to all Glendower staff for their hard work and dedication; they all have been amazing! Glendower School: the White House, the teachers, all the staff, the playground, the countless stairs, will always stay in my heart. I will be personally embracing another exciting experience moving to boarding school and although our paths will divide, I will always remember my school where little girls have been forged to become confident, kind, reassuring, women. Mati Head Girl

From the

What a surreal year 2019-2020 has been for all including the Glendower Parents Association. Due to the pandemic our usual exciting timetable of activities was thrown into the air and we had to postpone all our scheduled events. Our committee members had spent many hours preparing and organising, but these hours have not gone to waste because as soon as we are able, we will hopefully be able to come together and continue the wonderful and charitable work that our Association does so well.

The Christmas bazaar team had an extra hard task given that the school was in the midst of major renovation work, and it was only the night before the bazaar that the old office entrance was finally finished which allowed for the route into the school. Elf security ensured that everyone attending was able to move around safely. A pick and mix candy stall and PA merchandise were new additions in the marquee whereas the ever-popular tombola delighted the girls in the Whitehouse. The bazaar raised in excess of £10,000 for charitable causes.

As I reflect upon the year and what we achieved, I wish to thank our wonderful parent community for their generous support. The pandemic has been difficult to navigate but I know that this will make us resilient and we will continue with the fulfilling work of the Glendower Parents Association in whatever form we can.

Our second-hand uniform sales are hugely popular, and this year was no exception. Last year we made the decision to sell both winter and summer uniforms together with PA merchandise at all future sales in order for parents to get everything that they needed. We also introduced an afterschool sale which has been very successful. The PA is always sourcing fun and practical merchandise, this year we launched a very cute and cuddly Glendower bunny together with a new water bottle, both have been very popular and continue to be available at our sales.

We held our annual book fair in aid of the school library in November. Parent volunteers came into Glendower to assist the girls make their selections from a wide range of exciting and new titles. The girls also purchased books from the donations table that were donated to the school library, as a consequence the library received a wonderful selection of new books that the girls can continue to read over the coming years.

A few year groups were able to host a bake sale before the pandemic put an end to this activity. Lots of different sweet treats and savoury items were on sale. Through the combined efforts of the girls and their parents we were able to raise over £1500.

November also saw the annual Christmas bazaar, themed ‘Winter Wonderland’. For the first time tickets were sold online on our new Glendower PA website which proved to be hugely successful. Year on year I am surprised by how magically the school is transformed. Following on from last year success the girls were invited to make personalised decorations that were hung around the school.

Years 3 and 4 now hold a second-hand book sale in lieu of a bake sale. This took place in February in the playground. Girls were able to donate their old books and purchase books from those on sale. The sale raised over £400 and the surplus which was in excess of 300 books was donated to a local School in Earl’s Court.

We continued to run the PA lecture series, these lectures always prove to be very popular and tackled important issues facing parents. In October John Perry delivered a very interesting talk on building personal resilience and in February The Parent Practice came in to talk about Developing emotional intelligence in children. Both lectures were well received and we continue to look for further interesting topics that would benefit our parent community. Glendower Head’s night is held every two years and is aimed predominately at Upper School parents, arranged entirely by the PA, six heads from popular day and boarding schools are invited to talk about their school and to take questions from Glendower parents. There is a further opportunity to speak to the Heads of these schools in an informal drinks event afterwards. This year the Heads Night team had worked tirelessly to organise the evening to take place in April. Unfortunately, this all had to be cancelled. We hope to be able to host this again in the near future. The Spring gala is a biannual event which the entire Glendower community looks forward to and this year was no exception. Detailed planning had begun in earnest and the venue ‘The Londoner’ an exciting new hotel in Leicester square had been booked and the theme of red carpet chosen, befitting of the venue. The Gala committee had started to source and receive many exciting donations unfortunately this was all put on hold as the pandemic worsened. We are preparing to relaunch this event once we are able so watch this space! It has been a very strange year, but I am extremely thankful to the PA Committee and class representatives who have worked tirelessly through such adversity. Thank you to all our Glendower families for helping us make our events successful and for their generosity. I also extend my gratitude to the Glendower governors and staff for their support and assistance in what can only be described as a very challenging year.

Mrs Kiran Bahl PA Chairperson

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Ottie (Y4) had her drawing selected for the Kensington and Chelsea Road Safety Calendar. She was presented with a copy of the calendar by the mayor and the calendar was displayed in the Office for all to see. Eva (Y5) published her very first book at the tender age of ten! ‘Lucy Greenlight and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch’ follows the story of Lucy, a young girl, fighting to save the planet’s oceans and wildlife before it is too late. Eva was lucky enough to attend a special award ceremony in Russia, honouring all the efforts of young people in raising awareness of climate change.

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Whilst 2019-2020 was one of the most unique years Glendower has witnessed, it did not put a stop to the wonderful achievements, competitions and events that took place. Here are just a few highlights of the monumentous year that none of us will forget.

Primary School category based on expression through art, film, photography and creative writing. In November, Olivia (Y5) swam with Brompton Swimming Club in eight events. Showing great determination and talent, she recorded seven club records and seven county times. She also beat a club record by ten seconds! This is a wonderful achievement and a great demonstration of the swimming prowess at Glendower.

Anastasia (Y5) was selected as part of the 2020 GB Gymnastics Team (Performance Pathway - Espoir Selection). Glendower have been excitedly watching Anastastia achieve great success in her rythmic gymnastic endeavours.

Celestine (Y5) was offered a place at the National Children’s Orchestra (U10s) playing her violin. Celestine and her sister, Aurelia (Y2) both competed at the West London Pianoforte Festival, winning a handful of bronze and gold medals.

Emily (Y1) won third place in an exhibition held at the Africa Centre organised by the charity My Start, which supports a refugee camp in Kenya. Emily’s work on flags was part of t h e

Shireen (Y4) officially became a citizen of the United Kingdom and gave a fantastic write-up of her experience at the ceremony she attended. Her oath ceremony took place at Kensington Town Hall and she was the only child present! The Superindentant Registrar held the ceremony along with many other councillors and Shireen has great memories of this special event. Isha (Y6) addressed a crowd of over 200 peoople at the Festival of Wellbeing organised by the Resurgence Trust. Isha was contacted to be the inaugural speaker after the organisers heard of her ‘Kids Climate Food’ idea. Not only did Isha speak beautifully, she was very brave to take on such a challenge at such a young age.

Take One

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Take One Picture is the National Gallery’s nationwide scheme for primary schools. Each year, the gallery focuses on one painting from the collection to inspire cross-curricular work in primary classrooms. Take One Picture Week allows us a week in school unlike any other. We have the opportunity to work together as pupils and staff to develop ideas as a team, sharing skills and research into the painting.

This year, we have encouraged a pupil-led approach to the art projects created across the school. Introducing the painting to the whole school in advance of Take One Picture Week allowed for greater discussion and personal responses to the painting.

This year’s painting was ‘The Battle of San Romano’ by Paolo Uccello (1438-1440).

Each year group and subject area focused on a different aspect of the painting that appealed to them. Whether focusing on the horses, the physicality of battle or the missing pieces to this triptych, there were so many different responses to the painting that ensured an exciting and interesting week around the school.

‘The Battle of San Romano’ is a set of three paintings by the Florentine painter Paolo Uccello depicting events that took place at the Battle of San Romano between Florentine and Sienese forces in 1432. Mrs Cox, Miss Lambert and Miss Leslie spent a day at the National Portrait Gallery learning about the painting and various ways to deliver the project across the school.

Across the page are some of the highlights of the week that involved trips, workshops and lots of creativity.

The teachers across Lower School and Upper School worked incredibly hard to create a fun-filled week of engaging activities that brought the painting to life.

Mrs Cox Head of Art

Art Scholars

Year Two

Embroidery

Design a Horse and Armour

This year, the Art Scholars felt embroidery was one of their strengths they wanted to share with younger pupils. Year Six taught Year Two girls a range of stitches including running stitch, back stitch and cross stitch. Year Three girls also created some beautiful embroidery samples which formed part of a horse blanket, inspired by the painting and a visit to The Household Cavalry.

Year Two visited the Household Cavalry! They got to see the exquisite outfits on the guards and even try them on. They also watched the Life Guards’ Inspection. The horses had shiny black coats and the girls were allowed to feed the horses and stroke them gently. Year Two couldn’t wait to design their own horse and soldier over the course of Take One Picture week. 12

Year Three

Year Five

Renaissance Symbols

Battle Scene Model

Year Three enjoyed learning about symbols portrayed in the painting and other renaissance art pieces. Taking inspiration from the fruits in the picture, Year Three looked at another renaissance artist, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, and created their own fruit and vegetable pictures. The girls worked in groups of 3 or 4 and tried to recreate a familiar face using the fruit and vegetables.

Year Five were interested in making a model of the battle scene. In Humanities lessons, they researched the regions of Italy and created their own flags for the regions. In Art, they made a 3D map of the country showing the regions from 1438. They created the battle scene in clay and sculpted specific details of interest such as horses, soldiers and scenery. 13

Assemblies This year, our assembly programme has been wide and varied with a heavy focus on citizenship, adventure and interests. We started off strong with a speaker from a local charity, My Start, who addressed the girls on the topic of refugees in Kenya. Both Upper School and Lower School were invited to enter an art competition on the topic, and we were delighted to have several winners across the year groups!

We welcomed speakers and were encouraged to donate to help support local charities from Notting Hill Foodbank and the Venture Centre. Girls offered support in the form of harvest donations and Christmas shoeboxes. We have had many staff and parent volunteers who spoke on a variety of topics including turtle and whale conservation; protecting the Amazon; women in medieval art history; technology, engineering and design; holidays and hospitality; giant clam shells and even how Heinz beans are produced! We were very impressed with the varied line-up!

2G - We Have Character! When we grow up, who will we be? What’s inside us is more than you see. We all react in different ways Brave or afraid on different days. The choices we make, the traits we need Are sometimes found in what we read.

Resourcefulness

As always, the Glendower Learning Habits (6Rs) were explored across several informative assemblies and regular Glendower ‘days’ and ‘weeks’ were introduced for some topical fun. We enjoyed ‘Odd Socks Day’ for Anti-Bullying Week; Science Week; Take One Picture Week and of course, Book Week. Much fun was had by all!

Mrs Kingsmill Moore held an assembly on resourcefulness. First, we watched a clip of two people stuck on an escalator! She told us that if we ever felt like we were stuck on an escalator, we need to try and be independent and solve our own problems. It was a good way to get us thinking at the beginning of the term about work and how we can do our best.

Mrs Sweeney

Medieval Art Emilia’s mum came to talk to us about medieval times and how the ladies were not allowed to say that they were powerful and in charge, even though it was clear that some were. They were also not allowed to fight in battles and so had to lead from afar.

1B - The Cloud Spotter 1B’s assembly told the tale of a boy called The Cloudspotter who spent his days alone, making up adventures from the cloud shapes he saw in the sky. The Cloudspotter didn’t realise how lonely he was until a girl came along and changed everything! The girls in 1B told this story of friendship beautifully with such enthusiasm and confidence.

Ms Chan - Mozambique

Mrs Murty - Technology in the Future

Countess de Grivel - Heinz Baked Beans

Rev. Jenny Walsh - New Beginnings

Reception

Nativity

Tricky to Wrap! Something special’s going on! God has sent the angels a message – it is time to give the people on Earth a present! But this present is a baby and it is too wriggly to wrap. What will the angels do? How can they show the people on earth how very special this present is? One little star has the perfect solution. Words by Sarah Martin Music selected by Caroline Marley

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Year One

Each year, Father Christmas delivers presents to children who have been good. One little girl had been well behaved all year and only asked for one thing – a rainbow! Father Christmas gathers his top elves together and sends them off on a mission to collect the colours of the rainbow. They travel through the enchanted wood meeting all sorts of strange characters – bickering unicorns, polite fairies and grumpy wild animals. Finally, they deal with the Evil Wizard and return triumphant with all the colours of the rainbow – making sure that the little girl’s Christmas wish comes true! Well done to all the girls in Year One for their fantastic performances, amazing costumes and boundless energy! Script by Dominic Tucker

y r r a t S s t h g Ni Year Three Year Three were the Queens of Melodrama when filming their silent movies in the spring term. They exaggerated their gestures and facial expressions to represent stock characters from the Silent film era. These ranged from damsel in distress to hero, villain, silly policeman and much more.

Unfortunately, we were unable to go ahead with our ‘Starry Nights’ movie premiere due to the lockdown. Instead, our starlets enjoyed watching their movies at home.

A Surprising Valentines Day

Ransom and Rescue

The Great Escape

The Gypsy’s Curse

Unlucky Day at the Cottage Cafe

Trouble Comes in Twos Mrs Kingsmill Moore announced the GAFTA winners during an online assembly. Superb work Year Three, you made highly entertaining movies along with some wonderful memories! Miss Martin Head of Drama

City

Year Four

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Roxanna announcing the death of Hamlet

Anaya at the funeral of Ophelia

Alice’s Alien News Desk

Year Four love to perform and they were extremely excited when rehearsing for their play ‘The Jungle Book’. The girls loved learning the choreography sequences and the lead roles worked hard during drama club rehearsals. Unfortunately, due to the social distancing measures in place, we were unable to perform in the Spring or Summer term. However, I was delighted with the energy and enthusiasm they brought to remote learning activities! The girls worked on their improvisation skills through our alien news desk, 10 ways to wake up and tableaux activities. We learned about Ancient Greek Theatre and had fun making masks and writing chorus lines. Upon our return to school we staged our own City Dionysia in our classrooms. The girls performed the Greek myths, ‘The Golden Chariot’ and ‘The Kidnapped Bride’, as dramatic readings. Thank you for your hard work, resilience and commitment to drama Year Four! Miss Martin Head of Drama

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Year Five

Mystery Plays

Stone Masons

Blacksmiths In the autumn and spring terms the girls performed a cycle of Mystery plays in class. These were short pieces derived from the original York Mystery plays. The girls also worked together to devise their own Miracle plays. Unfortunately, we were unable to rehearse and perform these for our parents due to the lockdown. Some of the highlights of the year included; using stage combat techniques to re-enact the “Battle of San Romano” and using masks to explore Jungian archetypes. During remote learning we had great fun working on our improvisational skills with our news desk, infomercial, cartoon voiceovers and 10 ways to enter a room activities. I was impressed with the girls’ commitment and enthusiasm when working from home. Superb work Year Five!

Hosiers

Miss Martin Head of Drama

Shearers

Shipwrights and Mariners

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Theatresports and Elizabethan Theatre

In the autumn, the girls enjoyed participating in a range of theatresports games involving teamwork, building on the ideas of others and spontaneous improvisation under a time limit. One of our favourites was the ‘Elevator’ game where a group of strangers enter a lift which then breaks down between floors. The children must use their improvisational skills within this situation to help the audience guess which character they are playing.

In the spring, the girls rehearsed and performed an improvised scene set in a tavern in Cheapside following a performance by the Chamberlain’s Men at the Globe. The barmaids moved from table to table bringing various tableaux to life. We had spies from a rival theatre company attempting to steal Shakespeare’s latest script. Kit Marlowe’s hot temper had him in trouble and heart throb of the day, Richard Burbage, was pursued by adoring fans. Sadly, we were unable to perform our Year Six play due to the lockdown. However, the girls enjoyed many opportunities to perform during remote learning activities and within class upon our return to school. Their commedia dell’arte servant and master lazzi were highly entertaining!

Miss Martin Head of Drama

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Y4 - Hamlet

The Upper School had a wonderful time attending our annual Shakespeare workshops! It was a delight to see the girls completely absorbed as the stories were vividly brought to life. The girls took on individual and group roles, acting as audience, chorus, sound effects and lead characters to retell some of Shakespeare’s most popular plays. Our workshop leader, Fiona, was im-

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pressed with the creativity, energy and confidence of our girls.

Miss Martin Head of Drama “We had a great time! Our favourite part was when some our friends performed Peter Quince’s play to the rest of us. We loved it when Puck put the magical flower juice on the wrong man, it was very funny!” Nancy and Kaila

Y6 - Macbeth

“Our favourite part was when Mercuitio died because she did amazing facial expressions, her voice was very realistic, and she didn’t laugh too much. The workshop leader was very amusing, especially when she played the part of the prince and warned us to stop fighting.” Talia G and Daphne

Y5 - Romeo and Juliet

Y3 - Midsummer’s Night Dream

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Autumnal Walk We went for a walk to the local area and discussed the changes in our environment during autumn.

3D Dragons During our Book Week, we read the story ‘Dragons Love Tacos’ by Adam Rubin. We worked in small groups and created dragons from empty boxes. Addition with Numicon We used Numicon to solve addition problems. We have also learnt how to record addition as a number sentence.

Chicks Reception girls waited patiently for the eggs to hatch in a special incubator in our science room. We watched a video of them hatching and then, we went to see ten fluffy chicks in the science lab. We also looked carefully at each one of them and handled them gently.

3D Dragons

Addition with Numicon

Chicks

Healthy Eating We learned about healthy eating through activities and stories in the autumn term. We especially enjoyed making our own veggie wraps!

Healthy Eating

iPad Patterns We used our iPads to practise making patterns. Anja made 3 patterns. Can you tell which shapes come next?

iPad Patterns

Big Ben and London Big Ben We have learnt about London, our capital city, and its famous landmarks. We also had a go at drawing and painting Big Ben (Elizabeth Tower.) Look at our beautiful artwork! Repeating Patterns In Reception, we used a variety of resources, such as beads and jewels to create simple and complex repeating patterns.

Repeating Patterns

e n O r a e Y English

At Glendower, we learn to read for pleasure and to gain knowledge, but we also read books for lots of other reasons. We base the ideas we gather from stories to write our own, we learn to hear rhyming words, develop comprehension and a curiosity for the world around us. Reading also helps us with our spelling and we use books to spot spelling patterns. In this activity, we read the story of a little girl’s favourite toy, Knuffle Bunny. We focused on the sound ‘le’ in Knuffle and used a variety of books to find alternative words with the ‘le’ ending.

Maths In maths we would often embark on investigations. We would look at ways to solve problems by discussing processes and drawing conclusions. We would often work in teams or pairs and on occasion, we had a surprise visit from Mr Ludwick! We learned about fractions of shapes and amounts. We made sandwiches and then cut them up into halves and quarters. Then we got to eat them! We use Numicon in lots of different activities. It helps us with our number bonds, when adding and taking away, calculating fractions, adding groups of the same numbers, the list is endless. In these lessons, Numicon helped us to calculate totals of an amount of money, where each coin was represented by a Numicon piece, which we then added together. Science One of the topics we study in Year One is electricity. We learnt how to create circuits and experimented with different materials to see if they were good conductors of electricity. We had a visit from Fizz Pop who showed us lots of fun ways to experiment with electricity safely. We also learn about different forces and how the force of gravity and friction effects how things move. We conducted experiments using ramps and cars, measuring how the distance travelled changed depending on the gradient of the ramp. We discussed the importance of a fair test and how to answer certain questions by changing one element of the test. Art In art and English, we read the story ‘There’s a Lion in my Cornflakes’ by Michelle Robinson and Jim Field. We designed and then made our own cereal box. We thought of what to call our cereal and how to describe its taste. We also designed and made our own puppets. PSHEE In PSHEE we spend time sharing our feelings and reactions to certain scenarios. We talk about how to learn form our mistakes and how to celebrate the similarities and differences between us. In this activity, we discussed the things we enjoy doing and the things we might be less enthusiastic about and why that might be. We made decisions on whether we liked or dislike a specific activity or situation and then gave reasons why. For example, swimming in the sea and darkness. We compared our thoughts about each and experienced we’ve had.

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Imagine Refugee Week is an annual festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees. As part of Refugee Week, the girls were asked to imagine – and fight for – the world they want to see. The girls wrote poems or stories about what their school, community, city or planet would look like, if they made all the rules.

When exploring 2D and 3D shape, the girls used a variety of materials, such as straws, toothpicks, marshmallows, playdough and jellybeans, to create different 3D shapes. They were then able to describe the properties of each shape, for example the number of faces, vertices and edges. We even went on a 3D shape hunt around our homes, during one of our Zoom lessons, and discovered that maths really is all around us!

Tree House Project During the last few weeks in lockdown, we looked at a storybook called ‘The 13-Storey Treehouse’ by Andy Griffiths. This book inspired the girls and they were very excited to take part in their own ‘Tree House Project’. Using mathematical concepts (such as shape, length, perimeter and area), the girls created miniature rooms for their very own tree house using a variety of different materials. As you can see, they came up with so many wonderful, creative and imaginative ideas!

Habitats In science we have been learning about ‘habitats’. Each of the girls created a wonderful ‘diorama’ to describe and show what each habitat is like. After learning about different habitats and the animals that are suited to live in each, the girls wrote a non-chronological report to inform others of what they had learnt. They also looked at food chains and came up with creative ways to show these.

Andy Goldsworthy During lockdown, we were inspired by the work of Andy Goldsworthy and used natural materials to create our own temporary artwork. We explored and manipulated colour, pattern, texture, line, shape and space to create our own imaginative designs of insects. Can you guess what these insects are?

Repeating Patterns

Lower School

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The bridge between the Lower and Upper School. Who ever would have thought that almost half of the year would be spent online learning? It has been an action packed year and the girls have all adapted to the demands of Upper School fantastically. It has been wonderful to watch them develop both academically and socially. Throughout the year, we have continued to develop our learning habits. Our focus has also been on organisation and team work. The girls have worked hard to complete collaborative challenges in maths, art projects and class assemblies. Everyone has been encouraged to take risks, trust in their ideas and be empowered by their own achievements.

British Museum Trip

Online Learning

We are so lucky to have so many fabulous museums on our doorstep. This year, Year Three visited the British Museum and immersed themselves into Ancient Egypt. All the girls enjoyed looking at the Rosetta Stone, which unlocked the secret of the hieroglyphics. We also enjoyed listening to a captivating talk about how some mummies were discovered and cleaned. We then explored every inch of the Egyptian Rooms which were packed full of people and artefacts!

All the Year Three girls have worked extraordinarily hard to participate in online learning through Zoom calls and the Seesaw platform. Both Mrs Karara and Miss Slater did not even know that Zoom existed before Lockdown 2020 let alone the girls. We have been so impressed with your resilience, resourcefulness and positivity.

Zoo Project

Greek Goddess Visit

After the May half-term holiday, we began a project-based topic all about the zoo. The girls began by selecting the different animals within their zoo and calculated the area required for each enclosure and the schedule for the zookeepers feeding times. The girls used their writing skills to create information texts for an animal of their choice and even investigated the changes and challenged faced by zoos during World War 11. Following our return to school, we continued with the project and investigated the different bugs in Stanhope Gardens and designed our own enclosure.

We were extremely lucky to have Athena, goddess of war, wisdom and the arts come and visit us. It was an action packed workshop. Athena shared with us fascinating facts about the Ancient Greeks. We learnt so much including some Ancient Greek words, about other Ancient Greek gods, all about the Olympics and Ancient Greek myths. It was a really engaging and interesting workshop filled with lots of games and drama.

Book Week

Drama Workshop

During Book Week, we read the story of ‘A Little Princess’ by Frances Hodgson Burnett . The girls wrote diary entries, described scenes in the story using new language tools they had learnt such as similes and fronted adverbials. We also welcomed lots of parents and grandparents into the class to read a chapter or two from their favourite book.

The girls took part in their first Shakespeare workshop and began with ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. Girls were given key parts and went on a journey through the story. It was wonderful to hear dramatic shrieks and the flow from one character to the next.

Ancient Greek Workshop

In the Playground

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The English curriculum is designed to allow pupils to explore the wonderful world of literature and to encourage them to foster a lifelong love of books. The girls are encouraged to think critically about the texts that they study and they are given countless opportunities to develop their creative skills through tasks linked to various themes and characters. This year the girls in the Upper School have been inspired by an array of texts ranging from ‘Macbeth’ by William Shakespeare to ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ by C.S. Lewis. From role play and art, to letter writing and play scripts, the girls have learnt to explore a range of genres and they have allowed their imaginations to take them to new and exciting places. Creativity is the key ingredient in every lesson.

This year, our Glendower Handwriting Competition required the girls to write a poem based on the topic of ‘Truth’. Our annual Poetry Recital, judged by staff from South Hampstead High School, City of London and Wycombe Abbey, brought out the performer in us all. Our Creative Writing Competition based on ‘The Future We Want’ took us on an array of wonderful journeys. Opportunities to perform, recite and debate have allowed the girls to develop their ability to address an audience with confidence and express their opinions maturely and articulately.

Year Four Year Four have delved into many different styles of writing: from instructions and diaries to travel writing and the adventure stories, to mention a few! The girls have been exploring poetry and used ‘Hold Fast to Your Dreams’ by Langston Hughes as a framework to write their own, based on the theme of chasing your dreams and never giving up. We also studied the poet Lemn Sissay and created our own versions of his poem ‘When I’m Older’.

The curriculum comes to life in a multitude of ways at Glendower. Shakespeare’s life and works have been explored during Shakespeare Week and through a range of workshops and role plays. School trips have taken the girls to many inspiring places – Year 6 have traced the steps of Charles Dickens by visiting the Dickens Museum and they witnessed ‘A Christmas Carol’ coming to life on the stage at the Old Vic Theatre. Year 5 had great fun at the Sky Skills Studio filming and editing their own trailers. Visits from animated storytellers and wonderful authors, such as Jeremy Strong, allow the girls to delve into the world of literature and learn from the very best. These special experiences enhance the curriculum and give the girls wonderful memories to treasure.

As ever, the termly set texts were received with open arms and the girls enjoyed the fantasy story ‘How to train your dragon’ at the start of the year. This is always a fun and exciting way to begin Year Four, as we start to pick-apart the vivid characters and learn about inference. ‘Pig-heart Boy’ by Malorie Blackman is another well-loved text which allows the girls to explore more mature themes of moral dilemmas, poor health and ultimately, death. The move to online learning offered girls the opportunity to play with the formatting of their writing and was extremely useful when creating their explanation texts. The girls produced some factual and wellconsidered explanations of alien adaptations to different planets in our solar system. We also had some hilarious examples of how our home appliances really work. Did you know that the dishes in your dishwasher are actually licked clean by cats? Well, you do now!

It has been a busy, productive and exciting year in the English Department! Here are a few of the tasks that the girls have completed this year. Mrs Cadenhead Head of English

Year Six Year Six went on an adventure through Middle-earth for this year’s Book Week as they explored the wonderful story of The Hobbit. They began the week by designing their own hobbit character and creating an identity card for them. In maths they created detailed maps of fantasy lands, using their knowledge of scale, proportion and direction. They examined some of the bizarre creatures that Bilbo and the Company come across (from the unintelligent trolls to the bizarre, cave-dwelling Gollum) and they had great fun designing their own imaginary beast for their hobbit to encounter. The girls then created their own lost tale for the book, detailing their hobbit’s adventures. Their map was completed with a set of instructions from none other than Gandalf. As Tolkien said, ‘Courage is found in unlikely places’ and our hobbits were quick to learn this lesson in the girls’ stories. What a memorable week!

Year Five Year Five explored a stunning book called ‘The Lost Words’ by Robert Macfarlane. It was inspired by the decision to remove 50 everyday words from the Oxford Junior Dictionary in 2017. These words were all related to the natural world and they included: otter, dandelion, heron, conker, fern, kingfisher, ivy and willow. The decision to take these words out was made because it was argued that children do not use them enough these days and that they should be replaced with words that are more common in today’s world, such as blog, broadband, voicemail and celebrity. The Lost Words book started an important debate about the loss of language and, on a wider scale, the loss of the natural world all around us. Year Five set themselves the challenge of bringing these words back to life! The Lost Words book is referred to as a ‘book of spells’. It contains acrostic poems that are meant to be read out loud in order to summon these words back into our hearts. The girls were inspired by this idea, and so they selected a natural word that was special to them and then created their own ‘spells’ using ambitious vocabulary and striking imagery. The final poems were simply beautiful and 5C shared some of these in our class assembly.

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In the Autumn term we held our annual Glendower Handwriting Competition. Every pupil in the school takes part, and it is a great opportunity for the girls to demonstrate the progress they have made with their handwriting, whilst also using their creative skills. We linked this year’s competition with National Poetry Day and the theme was ‘Truth’; the girls could write any piece they liked on the topic of the truth. Reception explored the reasons why it is so important to tell the truth, using a book called ‘Ruthie and the (Not So) Teeny Tiny Lie’ by Laura Rankin. Year 2 used fantastic wordplay and unusual vocabulary to write a poem revealing all of their favourite things. Year 5 wrote beautiful ‘Lost Word’ poems that brought words related to the natural world back to life on the page. The standard of work was incredibly high, and it was lovely to see the girls taking such pride in their handwriting and presentation. Mrs Cadenhead Head of English

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The summer term was an unusual one for us all in many ways, but it got us thinking about what the future may have in store. The girls recognise the power that they have to change the future and make it a better place for us all. With that in mind, our theme for this year’s Creative Writing Competition was ‘The Future We Want’. The wonderful thing about this annual competition is that the girls have the freedom to let their imaginations run wild. Some girls decided to imagine the jobs they would have in the future and the difference they would make to the world around them. Some decided to time travel, imagining what a new settlement would be like on a faraway planet. With climate change in the forefront of our minds, some girls wanted to imagine a futuristic world where we had solved the world’s problems and let nature thrive once again. As always, the stories were inventive, inspiring and incredibly thoughtprovoking for us all. Mrs Cadenhead Head of English It Started July First (an excerpt)

Big Ben (an excerpt)

It started July 1st, 2553. It started with the rain, coming down hard like the spit of someone filled with spite. Soon murky puffs of smoke began to billow out of the blue. Then came the rumbles, separating the planet apart into millions of little towns. It was then: the ocean was set free, flowing and mixing. Exuberantly soaring, it went into the clouded, soapy atmosphere, creating firm, glittery globes over the floating quadrants. Some bubbles stood tall and thin, others squat and wide.

I’ve been standing here for 2146 years. Watching every moment that has passed me by. My powerful hands would strike at every hour that I had painted on my ivory face. Over my endless life, I have seen people come together and torn apart. I was the very heart of London. Every day I would chime faithful hours without a single moan. My charm would devour anyone who laid eyes on my golden, crystal beams. Now my towering body just exists, collecting dust, which layers itself on my butterscotch-coloured obelisk. I have been forgotten, abandoned; I was starting to be refurbished and for a few moments, I could stand proud and look forward to be gleaming in the London sun. But then, all of the world’s problems started to cloud my chances of ever ticking my ancient hands ever again.

It started July 1st. So much devastation and destruction, but only for a hundred years. So July first, 2653, all started fresh, on a new leaf. Our old selves left behind. Corporations closed, smog soon cleared up, devices thrown away. We began to embrace our bubbles, after all, they were bearable - isolation had occured once before in 2020.

Covid-19, the plague that left me to sing my sorrowful songs in the scaffolding sheets of darkness. This was a time where many other countries - not only England - lost a lot of lives. Chloe Year Five

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Lower School Winner

Recital

Daliah - ‘Wind on the Hill’ by A.A.Milne

The Poetry Recital Competition is a firm favourite in the school calendar for pupils and teachers alike. The event gives the girls the opportunity to explore the wonderful world of poetry before memorising and performing their favourite one. As usual, the girls recite their poems in class and the class finalists take part in a special assembly in front of their friends, the teachers and Mrs Kingsmill Moore. We were lucky to be joined by visiting headteachers from local secondary schools who had the impossible role of selecting the winners. The girls performed their poems to perfection, often with lots of expression, enthusiasm and super characterisation. Performing to a large audience can be daunting, and so the finalists should be so proud of the confidence that they displayed during their performances. A huge well done to everyone for entering again this year and making the event such a highlight. Mrs Cadenhead Head of English

Upper School Winner Amalia - ‘No Breathing’ by Michael Rosen

or h ut A Visits

We are always very lucky at Glendower to have visits from some of the UK’s favourite children’s authors and this year was no different. See below for some of the highlights that the students particularly enjoyed.

Jeremy Strong On the day when Jeremy visited, he showed a great sense of humour whilst reading one of his books named ‘Lost, the hundredmile-an-hour dog’. He studied at York University and went on to become a primary school teacher. From there, he started to write stories for children. He has successfully published over 70 books even a few of his books were turned into a BBC TV series! A fact that we found out was that he didn’t particularly didn’t enjoy his lessons at primary school and hated having to do country dancing. He even told us to tell our English teachers (Mrs Cadenhead and Miss Mogridge) to get a fridge in our English room, which still hasn’t been installed yet, so we can get a quick snack while we are writing stories. Overall everyone had a fantastic time and Jeremy showed his passion for writing children’s novels. Alexia and Polina Year Six

Colas Gutman During book week, Year Six met Colas Gutman, a French actor and author, famous for his hilarious and endearing character ‘Chien pourri’ (Dumpster Dog). During the workshop, the girls discussed what it meant to write a story, how to create a simple dialogue and how to build a storyline. Inspired by the book covers, small groups of girls imagined a story using simple French sentences. Madame Metro Head of French

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by the fantastic storyteller, Chris Connaughton. The children were treated to a range of exciting stories including ‘Little Red Riding Hood’, ‘The Firebird’ and ‘Perseus and the Gorgons’. This year, Chris delighted the Year 5 and 6 children with extracts from his new book ‘The Essence Hunters’. This fantasy book full of suspense was the perfect selection for Book Week. Chris is a firm favourite during Book Week and I know how much he loves performing at Glendower.

“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island”. - Walt Disney Our Book Week topic this year was ‘Fantasy Worlds’, so the girls had lots of fun exploring imaginary lands and discovering unusual characters. As ever, the week was jam-packed with events to inspire the girls. On Monday, the Lower School took part in a range of workshops run by Freshwater Theatre Company. Reception went down the rabbit hole to take part in an ‘Alice in Wonderland’ Story Hunt. Using songs and puzzles, they entered Wonderland to learn about the extraordinary characters and to find clues that Alice left behind. Year 1 and 2 took part in an interactive group storytelling session. They explored a range of stories from Africa including ‘How Anansi became King of all the Stories’ and ‘How the Zebra got his Stripes’. They had great fun dressing as the characters and re-enacting key parts of the story.

On Friday, we were lucky to be joined by the award-winning author Jeremy Strong. He met with the whole school throughout the day and he had the girls in fits of giggles – his book ‘My Brother’s Famous Bottom’ was particulary popular! It was so interesting to learn about how he gets his ideas for stories and his method of writing. We learnt that he has his own writing studio at the bottom of the garden and that it is vital he has a fridge stocked with fruit and chocolate! It was great to be joined by such a well-known author for the day and many of the girls went home with a signed copy of one of his books.

On Tuesday we held a ‘Donate a Book Day’ and the girls brought in their unwanted children’s books for a collection for Inspire Malawi. Each girl was asked to write a message of kindness in the front of their book, and the books will be sent to help build a library at a rural school called Theke in Malawi. Thank you so much for your kind donations – we have lots of lovely books to send off and we collected £290 for the charity, which is wonderful.

This year I launched the ‘Read for Good Sponsored Read’ once again. The girls were challenged to read as much as they could over a three-week period in order to raise money that will be spent on books and storytellers in local children’s hospitals. The girls could read whatever they wanted, from comics to classics, and it was a fantastic way to encourage them to develop their love of reading even further, whilst also raising money for a worthy cause. At the last count, we had raised over £600, so thank you so much for your generous donations.

Later in the week, Upper School pupils were visited by West End in Schools, a drama and dance company led by West End dancers and actors. This year, Years 3-6 focused on the story of ‘Matilda’ by Roald Dahl. The girls worked hard to tell the story through a series of moves, actions and freezeframes. They ended the session by creating their own 3D front cover, using their bodies and expressions to become key characters from the story.

What a busy and exciting week we had exploring our fantasy worlds! A big thank you to all the teachers for their hard work and support. Mrs Cadenhead Head of English

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Reception In Reception, we chose ‘Dragons Love Tacos’ by Adam Rubin as our theme for the week and many of our activities were based on this story. We read the first part of the book and we thought about what could happen next. Then, the children wrote predictions about the story. In maths, we revised 2D and 3D shapes and designed shape dragons. The children worked in groups to make their 3D dragons and learned about the importance of teamwork. We used our 2D shape dragons to decorate our classroom doors. The girls wrote party invitations and some girls chose to write an apology letter from the dragons to the little boy from the story. In Expressive Arts and Design, we used paper plates and tissue paper to create paper tacos. Finally, we enjoyed having a Taco Party and ate yummy tacos with our favourite fillings.

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Linked to the theme of ‘Fantasy Worlds’, Year One cho of a little boy and his adventures in the weird and wo duced to synonyms and thought of alternative words fo tasy land. They then wrote all about the absurd things and the food they might eat, illustrating their ideas to d

Year Six Year Four During Book Week, Year Four were transported to the golden city of Jumanji! To introduce the book, the girls were given puzzle pieces and, in groups, they had to make a complete illustration from the text. We then predicted what might be happening in the pictures. Why is there a lion on the piano? Why is it raining in the lounge? Where have those rhinos come from? Another puzzle revealed the title on the front cover, back cover and blurb, and finally the opening page which was a great introduction to the inspirational book by Chris van Allsburg. After reading the text, we decided to add another chapter to the story. We began planning by discussing our ideas. What else could occur in Jumanji? Who might arrive? We then sketched an illustration using pencil and shading, just like Chris had. The final step was to write the additional chapter, paying particular attention to strong verbs. We hope to collate all of the chapters and illustrations together to make our very own Year 4 Jumanji text. Of course, we also enjoyed all the additional activities like parent readers and author visits. The Matilda dance and drama workshop was great fun and we loved working as a team to decorate our doors.

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Year Five

In Year Five, we immersed ourselves in the wonderful w ing to Professor Dumbledore’s invitation to attend Ho majority of us very excited to take up our place.... altho their place at Glendower! The week culminated in pr complete with interviews with some of JK Rowling’s mo of Harry’s greatest adventures. What a magical week!

ose a book called ‘The Emperor of Absurdia’, a story onderful place called Absurdia. The girls were introor absurd when picking the name for their own fanthat happened there, the creatures that lived there decorate the class door with.

Year Two Linked to the theme of ‘Fantasy Worlds’, Year Two chose to look at the infamous book by Roald Dahl – ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’. We had a fantastic week reading the book and exploring the way in which Roald Dahl describes his characters. Roald Dahl loved playing around with words, and his character descriptions are full of humour, disgust, admiration and fun! In the spirit of Roald Dahl, we created a ‘Guess Who?’ game by describing some of his favourite characters. We also designed and created our own magnificent sweets and we described what happens when you eat one!

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Year Three Year Three have loved exploring the book ‘A Little Princess’ by Frances Hodgson Burnett. We have undertaken lots of exciting activities related to the book. We have written character descriptions using interesting adjectives. We also wrote setting descriptions using our senses to help us; we thought carefully about how our senses really bring alive a setting. We also thought about how often items in fantasy stories are not quite what they seem. We used our imagination, like Sara Crewe does, to transform mundane objects into fantasy objects. For example, we looked at an old wax candle and imagined it was a sparkling, diamond encrusted chandelier. We also looked at an old rope and imagined it was beautiful, twinkling diamond necklace. In the story, Sara goes missing so we also created ‘wanted’ posters to help us locate her.

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During these interesting times, the maths department has continued to deliver exciting and thoughtprovoking lessons, albeit from a distance. The girls in the Upper School have been able to use a wide variety of online resources to support their learning. Atom Learning provided learning opportunities and extension for the Year Four and Year Five girls; Doodle Maths continued to be a daily staple reinforcing the notion of “little and often” and Seesaw allowed a conversation to continue between staff and students to ensure that the girls were getting the very best out of all we had to offer.

The final few maths lessons of the year offered an opportunity to put all logic and calculation skills together to solve some truly baffling mathematical mysteries. Great fun was had by all! Year Five have had a series of puzzles to solve on Seesaw, they have been really challenging and the girls have enjoyed submitting answers. They have also been encouraged to take part in the PuzzleoftheWeek.com competitions, with some Glendower parents also participating – with some great results. Year Six had great fun looking at Space Maths - a resource provided by NASA, tangram puzzles and working in different bases including binary. They also created their own board games. Once back at school, attention was turned to more visual and practical tasks, and the girls thoroughly enjoyed a study into the aesthetic that maths can produce and its relationship with nature. Girls created videos about Fibonacci and explored the beauty of the Golden Ratio in architecture.

The Year Five Girls also started using Microsoft Teams to communicate their ideas, this cementing the links between maths and ICT. Lockdown did not mean that the fun was removed from the learning process and the girls were able to carry out investigations to show application of what they had learned in topic areas. Year Four students have undertaken to investigate more and develop an independent approach to mathematical thinking. One day a week has been given over to this, with great effect.

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The girls have also plotted beautiful graphs and made 3D identification keys and did some great research as well.

In science, many girls impressively adapted from being in the lab to being at home. From dissecting flowers to baking cakes with different amounts of baking powder, to measuring the length of shadows to experiments with magnets, they proved that science is all around us!

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6L were also able to perform their World War 11 themed music assembly before lockdown began. Their assembly featured musical icons the now late Dame Vera Lynn and Glen Miller, as well as much of the girls’ own compositions and choreography.

The year got off to a good start with fantastic performances from all the girls at the Harvest Festival. In particular, Year Three and Four’s rendition of ‘Eat Your Greens’ greatly amused the audience and Reception performed their food themed song with such confidence at their very first Glendower concert. The Senior Choir were privileged to be invited to perform at the Glassdoor Homeless Charity Concert at St Mary the Bolton’s in December. As well as giving an excellent performance themselves, the girls were excited to hear other professional singers perform at the event. Inspiration for the future! The Carol Concert featured a polished performance of the ‘Coventry Carol’ from the orchestra and a confident debut from the Strings Group thanks to the amazing Mrs Park. The choirs showed their flexibility in tackling lively, contemporary repertoire and more reflective, traditional songs.

It has been a pleasure to see so many pupils from across the school participating in our termly Rush Hour Concerts. Following lockdown, we moved to hosting these remotely. In this format we were able to host a further three concerts throughout the summer term. Clearly many pupils have used lockdown time to develop their playing as the progress made by many girls has been exceptional! Special mention to Keira whose violin recording was chosen to be featured in the Celebration Concert Finale of Nicola Benedetti’s virtual orchestra workshop. Also, huge congratulations to Celestine for gaining a space at the Junior Royal Academy music department and a position with the National Children’s Orchestra in the under 10s category.

In the Spring Term, Year Four entertained their audience with a music assembly on the music of the Far East. Amongst other musical treats, they managed to learn a song in Japanese and perform a traditional Chinese fan dance!

Well done to all the girls for the commitment they have shown to the school’s musical groups this year and the progress they have made in their playing and singing! Mrs Marley Head of Music

Music Exam

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ABRSM Results Autumn 2019

LCM Musical Theatre Singing Results Spring 2020

Siv Bassen 1 Harp Merit Siv Bassen 1 Violin Distinction Imane Benhima-Chow Prep Piano Imane Benhima-Chow 1 Clarinet Sasha Buvat 1 Trumpet Sasha Buvat 1 Piano Amalia Cassel Thompson 3 Singing Amara Choraria Prep Piano Raahi Choraria Prep Piano Shireen Duggal 1 Piano Merit Chiara Gea 2 Singing Celestine Korschelt 6 Piano Distinction Aurelia Korschelt 2 Piano Distinction Surina Krishanthan 2 Singing Distinction Sophia Labrande 2 Violin Merit Talia Levy 2 Singing Merit Polina Milekhina 3 Singing Hadia Seetal 3 Clarinet Hannah Nizar 3 Singing Merit Elizabeth Petrow Prep Singing Alicia Rowan 2 Singing Amelia Scott 2 Violin Sophia Sinik 2 Singing Elora Thaker 2 Singing Merit Maddy Trusted 2 Singing Merit Alice Wheelhouse 1 Singing Elodie Wilke Prep Piano Hannah Wong 3 Piano Kallista Wright 5 Clarinet Kallista Wright 2 Singing Distinction Olivia Yuen 2 Flute

Harper Beckham 1 Natalie Clark 1 Lily Nedev 1 Emily Levinson Hawes 1 Kiara Sehgal 1 Alice Wheelhouse 1 Alessia Chandler 2 Anya Wills 2 Reiley Willis 2 Chiara Tondo 2 Paulina Calo 2 Cecilia Goar 2 Amelia Apkarian 2 Surina Krishanthan 2 Chiara Gea 3 Sonia Kazakova 3 Talia Levy 3 Lyla Ondyak 3 Alicia Rowan 3 Polina Milekhina 3 Lamar Moussa 3 Sophia Sinik 3 Maddy Trusted 3 Kallista Wright 3 Chloe Zaimi 4 Amalia Cassel Thompson 5 Agathe Metternich-Ratibor 5 Hannah Nizar 5 Lara Devi Saigal 5

ABRSM Results Spring 2020

Alexia Naydenov 5 Violin Inna Huynh 2 Piano Lily Nedev Prep Singing Melanie Kabysh 1 Clarinet Merit Leticia Franz 1 Piano Kaila Nathoo 1 Singing Merit Alexia Hansen 3 Piano Merit Alexia Hansen 4 Clarinet Hope Muir 3 Violin Emily Levinson Hawes Prep Singing

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Congraulations to all the girls who took part in exams during the academic year; your wonderful results are a testament to your hard work and dedication. A big thank you to all of our peripatetic music staff who work with the girls to prepare them for these exams. Mrs Marley Head of Music

Art and Design

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Year Three girls are introduced to specialist art teaching in the Upper School with a range of projects to explore new processes and materials. In the autumn term, pupils created sarcophagus sculptures of an embalmed animal god in response to their Ancient Egypt project. In the spring term, pattern was explored across cultures and art movements.

Year Five have produced beautifully illustrated books. As a cross curricular project with the English department, they wrote animal stories and bound the books with a traditional Japanese book binding method. In the spring term, Georgia O’Keeffe‘s flower paintings inspired watercolour studies of flowers.

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Year Four have taken inspiration from a range of styles and movements this year. They experimented with charcoal illustrations to create a miniature stage set in a shoebox inspired by the ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ book series. In the spring term, they worked in the wax resist technique to illustrate their own ‘Willow Pattern’ plate designs.

Year Six girls visited the V&A in the autumn term which informed a cross curricular history and art project on the Victorians. Natural forms inspired repeat patterns to produce a wallpaper design. In the spring term, pupils explored drawing in Indian inks to create fantasy landscapes inspired by The Hobbit.

For their Pop Art project, pupils created pastel drawings inspired by the large scale sculptures by Claes Oldenburg.

Mrs Cox Head of Art

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y or st i H In May 2020, Glendower commemorated the 75th anniversary of VE Day. As it was during lockdown, the whole school joined a virtual Zoom assembly on this topic. The girls learnt about the celebrations that took place in the UK on this day, 75 years ago. They then created a commemorative teacup design to celebrate VE Day. During Parliament Week in November, the girls enjoyed finding out about the history of the UK’s Parliament.

In Year Five history lessons, the girls encountered the terrible Tudors and the subsequent Stuarts. The girls were enthusiastic and keen to ask and answer questions using a wide range of source material. The girls were keen to find out why Henry VIII had six wives and did some detailed research on the wives. The various portraits of Queen Elizabeth I were explored, and their hidden meanings researched. In the Summer Term, the girls enjoyed finding out the Pilgrim Fathers and the journey of the Mayflower ship. They retold this historical event using their skills on the iMovie App.

The Year Four girls explored ‘invaders’ in their history lessons this year. The Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Viking people were all delved into. Using a variety of evidence, the girls produced a wide range of impressive work: Boudicca ‘Wanted’ posters, and at their homes, during lockdown, the girls created some excellent models of Viking longships, and even reproduced some detailed Anglo-Saxon artefacts! The girls also enjoyed their creative writing history lesson, where they described one of the Viking worlds and one of its inhabitants. The Year Six girls began the year with a study of the Victorian era. It was a time of great progress and the girls produced detailed work on a broad range of famous Victorian inventors, architects, explorers and engineers. We visited the Victoria and Albert Museum with the Art Department to sketch artefacts of interest in the Victorian galleries. We explored William Morris designs and textiles, paintings, furniture and models to find out more! In the subsequent terms, the girls moved on to studying the two World Wars. Mr van Rooyen Head of Humanities 64

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In class, Year Four studied the Caribbean and some girls were inspired to create Caribbean island models as a Takeaway Homework task. In their ‘World of Water’ topic, they explore how rivers and the coastline change and how people are affected by these changes. One of their tasks was to choose a river and do independent and in-class research on their chosen river. Their posters or digital booklets were very well designed and informative. One of the topics the Year Fives studied was the climates of the world. They explored how climate affects the way people live in various parts of the world. They plotted the climate of the Mediteranean on a graph and found out how locals adapt to living in this particular climate. In the summer term, they focused on UK and Europe and enjoyed choosing a UK physical feature to promote as a tourist site. Some girls produced excellent video adverts to promote their tourist site using their IT and video editing skills. Some girls even managed to superimpose themselves in their promotional videos.

Year Six explored the current developmental issues facing our world in the 21st century. They debated, made decisions, worked as a group and presented, which are essential parts of the geography curriculum in Year Six. During Take One Picture week, the girls worked in pairs to find out about a region of Italy and designed a poster to advertise their chosen area using 1960s travel posters as a stimulus and source of inspiration. In the year, the girls also enjoyed exploring the African continent and artefacts from there. They appreciated the Environments topic, learning about an environment of interest to themselves, and exploring our wonderful world! Mr van Rooyen Head of Humanities

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This year the Year Four girls explored three faiths - Christianity, Sikhism and Judaism. The girls also explored the topic of inspiration and the qualities required to both lead and, importantly, to inspire people to make a difference to the lives of other people. They wrote some excellent ‘inspire’ acrostic poems. When looking at the inspiring life of Desmond Tutu, the pupils learned about peaceful protest, forgiveness and reconciliation. They then took part in a roleplay simulation of apartheid to experience the inequality of this system.

In Year Six, much of our religious education lessons are discussion based. Year 6 learnt about Buddhism and how it is often not seen as a religion but more a philosophy of ideas. They also explored the beliefs that they and their classmates have and life’s ultimate questions. In the Buddhism unit, the girls learnt the skills of origami, and during our online lessons while at home, they made paper crane birds. They connected the art of origami to Buddhist beliefs - as a form of meditation, and learning the art of patience, focus, mindfulness and perseverance. During remote learning, they also enjoyed finding out about a religious belief system of their choice and in a Zoom lesson shared their work and learnt from each other about various belief systems.

Year Five Year Fives have focussed on Hindu and Muslim beliefs and actions during their RE lessons this year. They found out more about Islamic art and religious symbols used by Muslims. The girls also acted out the stories of some of Krishna’s avatars during our Hinduism topic. The girls thoroughly enjoyed designing stained-glass windows for our Take One Picture project. In the summer term, the girls explored issues around ‘Justice’. We discussed prejudice and discrimination in the past and present. The girls were moved when looking at the lives of people who paid a high price for fighting injustice including Martin Luther King Jr, Sophie Scholl and Peter Norman.

Many girls also enjoyed doing the takeaway homework tasks set for RE. Mr van Rooyen Head of Humanities

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In May, Karl Hopwood, created internet safety video presentations for pupils which were shared via Zoom during their computing and PSHE lessons; this sparked some interesting discussions. Staff and parent presentations were also shared, highlighting the dangers online and how to keep pupils safe in the use of technology.

It’s been a very busy year in the Computing Department. The girls have continued to develop skills in ICT, coding and Internet Safety throughout the year. Coding has been the focus since January and pupils in the Upper School have created animations, educational and interactive games using Scratch as well as coding in JavaScript, HTML and Python. We have also coded Beebots and BlueBots including age appropriate coding apps.

The girls have enjoyed using the iPads using productivity apps such as Book Creator, Explain Everything, Popplet, GarageBand Scratch Junior and many more. The pupils have enjoyed using iPads in lessons and feedback has been very positive.

During remote learning, lessons were adapted to use online platforms such as Scratch Online, Atom Learning, Twinkl, Microsoft Teams and Zoom. Pupils and teachers used technology in innovative ways as teachers adapted their lessons and pupils developed confidence in uploading their work to SeeSaw. Year Six pupils took part in the Fiver Challenge and communicated with their groups remotely. They created a business plan, designed a logo, researched and designed their chosen product leading to a final presentation to their peers. Year Six worked in pairs and created their own apps using Appshed. These included apps on baking, technology, fashion, art and craft and many more. The girls were very proud of the apps they created. Mrs Verma Head of Digital Learning

Languages

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Upper School

Reception classes had fun learning new vocabulary through stories, games, art work and rhymes. They loved re-enacting the dialogues of ‘La Surprise d’Handa’ and ‘Mandarine la Petite Souris’. We also kept active whilst practising numbers with the ‘number gym’ and the ‘colour walk’.

Year Three loved using Duolingo and the AP sock puppet to practise their vocabulary. They drilled their vocabulary on family with Piccolage. Their favourite activities were to role play with vegetables and to turn into little chefs, giving instructions on how to prepare a galette or a sandwich!

Year One rejoiced singing songs and poems about colours and body parts, especially ‘Jean Petit qui danse’, the French alphabet and ‘Petit Lapin plein de poils’. They had fun solving and making up riddles. They loved describing themselves and their family members using their own fingers as finger puppets. They loved making cards to celebrate special dates such as ‘la fête du Muguet’.

Year Four recorded and shared on SeeSaw videos of themselves performing group singing, baking or role playing. They used Piccolage to present a French speaking Caribbean island. They were creative at making up comics and holiday settings to practise asking and answering questions. After watching a short animation film called ‘le vélo de l’éléphant’, they discussed in French the meaning of the story and read captions, carefully ignoring silent letters.

Year Two enjoyed describing their hair do and using silly props to describe descriptive vocabulary. They turned into photo reporters, documenting the weather in London. They memorised the vocabulary best by playing games on the Rigolo software or practising hard on Duolingo. They loved turning potatoes into characters and playing with them.

Year Five classes enjoyed designing their book front cover. After going to the cinema, they used Piccolage to describe some characters of ‘Rémi sans famille’. For their form assembly about space, 5M wrote and performed funny role plays, a space rap, a song and a quiz on Kahoot. The two classes loved designing posters on planets and playing “qui suis-je?”. Year Six used poplet to present information about sports and to understand how French determinants work. They learned about Jeanne d’Arc and designed a poster for the ‘Take One Picture’ project. They practised emotions while taking selfies. After learning a poem about race and colours ‘homme de couleurs’, they worked on idiomatic expressions with colours. Madame Metro Head of French

n i r a d n a M panish +S Languages

Mandarin

Spanish

Year Four have listened to well-known children’s stories, in Mandarin – such as ‘The Hungry Caterpillar’. We used language and sentence structures from the book to learn from, and to create our own conversations about food and time.

In the spring and summer terms, the girls in Year Six learned Spanish language. We started the lessons learning how to introduce ourselves. We then moved on to numbers and colours and the girls proved to be excellent at remembering songs!

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We started learning verbs before Easter, and through Kahoot the girls showed their skills conjugating regular forms in the present tense.

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They have also been learning members of the family, descriptive vocabulary and the difference between masculine and feminine words.

Year Six have watched a cartoon version of ‘Journey to the West’ to learn more about the book and its place in Chinese culture. We used the story as a springboard to describe people’s feelings.

Miss Broughton Spanish Teacher

Mrs Hayes Mandarin Teacher

Upper School

Highlights 72

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Food Technology

There are more than 60 clubs on offer to Glendower students each term. Most are run by Glendower staff with some run by external companies, but all are thoroughly enjoyed by all students who take part. From sport to creative and performing arts, logic to student voice, there is something on offer for every student. Here are some highlights from a range of clubs that took place during the year.

Food Tech has proved to be an extremely popular club again this year. Whilst we don’t have access to an oven or a hob we have been extremely resourceful and ‘baked’ a different treat each week. Some of the delicious dishes have included overnight-oat breakfast pots, fruit kebabs, Christmas canapes, fruity flapjacks, energy balls and raspberry cheesecake. The girls have developed and learnt new skills and there has been much laughter. The highlight has to have been the ‘Rocky Road’ which lots of the teachers also enjoyed the next day! The most hilarious memory has to be the disastrous ‘reindeer cake pops’ which did not want to stick together and ended up a total disaster!

School Council Every Thursday, we would all join up together in Miss Greenlees’ classroom and we would talk about what we could improve and what we could organise for this year. We really enjoyed these meetings because we also got to make friends with girls from different classes and year groups. We built great new relationships with them. This year we have organised: • Christmas Jumper Day where we raised £396.55 for the ‘Save the Children’ charity. Last year, we raised £291.55. Therefore, this year, we managed to raise £105 more. We feel like this is a big achievement because £105 is quite a lot of money! More people participated, and we think this is because we made lots of posters and a display board to encourage people to donate to ‘Save the Children’. • The School Council Obstacle Course where we raised over £600.00 for Sport Relief! We loved organising this event because it was fun drawing out and planning what the obstacles would look like. We designed the whole thing together! It was quite a big responsibility, collecting so much money, but we still had fun working together to do it. The obstacle course was another big achievement because we raised lots of money and everyone really enjoyed it. • An animal adoption to support dolphins in the wild. We organised a whole school vote to choose an animal to adopt and support in the wild. We decided to carry out a vote because we thought it would be unfair to choose ourselves. We held a vote in every class and then drew a bar chart to show the whole school the results on our special display board. It was lots of hard work, but the hard work paid off because we received an amazing pack to share with everyone in the library. This included a dolphin toy, some posters and lots of information on how we can help to save dolphins. The best part of being in School Council is knowing that our classmates relied on us to organise great events and that we could be their voice all together as a team! We also got to visit Mrs Kingsmill-Moore, in her office, for an amazing breakfast and we all told her our ideas and discussed what we had been doing. Mrs Kingmill-Moore was so kind, and she encouraged us with our ideas and let us know which ones she thought would be possible. The future of Glendower would be great if the next School Council could continue our work on improving the playground, as we had only just got started with this. School Council Members 2019-2020

Spanish Club

A Selection of Clubs in 2019-2020:

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Wallace Chess Puzzlers Club Lower School Choir Senior Choir US Netball Arts and Crafts Y4 Drama Chamber Choir Ballet Art Upper School Extra Swimming Swim Squad Robotics Science Junior Choir Football Dance Fit Musical Theatre Maths Thinking Skills Ballet Thrill Infinity Spy Agency Firetech Music Scholars Art Scholars Bridge

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LAMDA Italian Fashion Design Orchestra Strings Group Cricket

As always, it is delightful to run this club with such an enthusiastic group of girls. We have learnt a few songs this year, and the girls are starting to understand some grammatical concepts that are quite challenging! We have moved on from the basics, and we are starting to conjugate some verbs in the present tense. Conjugation bingo was incredibly fun! We had a few girls joining for the first time, and they were outstanding at catching up. Kahoot has proven to be a great tool at the end of the lessons! Hasta pronto!

French Drama Le club de théâtre français! This year girls from Year Three, Four and Five performed in autumn ‘Le Gruffalo’’. In the spring term they used small puppets to act out ‘Boucle d’Or et les trois ours’ (Goldilocks and the Three Bears). They all work together to rehearse their lines and gather props. A big well done to everyone for two entertaining plays with very good articulation, acting and a great sense of fun !

Art Club Art club girls provide the stunning visuals to accompany many events throughout the school calendar such as programs for concerts and props for plays. Art competitions are entered regionally and nationally. We have seen successes this year but due to lockdown restrictions the exhibitions have been postponed until next year. In Autumn term, Ottie was a winner this year for the annual Road Safety Calendar Competition hosted by RBKC, she received her award at the Town Hall and met the Mayor and Deputy.

Purple Pages The Purple Pages newspaper club has been hugely popular ever since it first began six years ago. It is fantastic to see the girls lead the project to produce a paper that is written and edited by and for the girls! Every issue the girls produce is unique, and our team of editors carefully select articles that they feel are important to us at Glendower. They all work together to collate and edit the final edition and they have a lot of fun in the process. A big well done to everyone who has contributed to the Purple Pages this year.

s p i r T ol o Sch Year Five - Sky Skills Studios

On Friday 7th February, Year Five went on an incredible trip to the Sky Skills Studio in Osterley. We were visiting to take part in a workshop where we could create our own bespoke movie trailer using Sky’s professional equipment. First, we went to see a model whale which had plastic surrounding it - this was part of their #PassOnPlastic campaign. From the start, we knew that Sky was a very environmentally friendly company. As we walked inside the building, we got to watch a little episode of a children’s programme, which was fun. We were then collected by the staff and we walked inside another building where we were going to create our trailer. We were separated in to two groups and we used our storyboards that we had planned at school as a basis for our movie trailer. Each person was given a different role (actor, director, cameraperson, editor etc.) and we had to work together to create our trailer. Our trailers were called ‘Chaos in the Castle’ and ‘Danger in Disneyland’. When we had finished, we got to watch each other’s clips. This was a brilliant experience and we were so happy to get the chance to see how to film and edit an original trailer. Here is what we had to say about the experience: ‘ I enjoyed using the green screen to make really cool scenes. I learnt how to use the camera and to put our scenes together effectively.’ – Ava ‘ I loved visiting Sky as it taught me how to communicate, improvise and compromise.’ - Emilie ‘ It was just lovely to watch the trailers afterwards – this was our product, our script, our plan and it all came to life.’ - Alessia

Netball Camp On Saturday, 30th November, girls from Year Five and Six got up early for a Saturday morning netball training session at Queen Mother Sports Centre in Pimlico. We worked very hard at the session... it was a fantastic opportunity for us to work on our skills and also learn from a special guest who is star from the world of netball! After a brief warm-up, we launched into a busy and active morning of drills and activities that focused on footwork, defence and most importantly, teamwork! At the end, we did some full court match play. The Yellow Team (otherwise known as the Golden Gods) came first. Adean Thomas was our special guest player/coach for the training session which was fantastic! Adean is a Jamaican International who competed at the World Cup in Liverpool and has recently joined London Pulse in the Superleague. She was also a bronze medal winner at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Adean was an amazing player - really tall and really fast - she was able to show us lots of moves to keep us on our feet. We were very grateful for the time she spent with us! All in all, a great morning session where we all improved our skills and movements!” Thank you so much to Mrs Payne and Miss Humble for organising this special event. Maddy

South Kensington Festival In November, the Upper School took part in the South Kensington Festival organised by the French Institute. Year Two attended a bilingual performance. Two actor-musicians weaved music, story and songs together to make a funny and touching tale about identity. With only their instruments and their voices, they created an imaginative space for children and adults alike. Year Three watched a collection of short films called ‘En sortant de l’école’ inspired by poems of Claude Roy. The poetical short pieces were created by young French directors fresh out of their animation schools. Year Five watched a film called ‘Rémi sans famille’ directed by Antoine Blossier. The film was in French with English subtitles. After the film, the girls described the main characters and discussed the main themes of the film. Year Six girls took part in a workshop with Colas Gutman. This author explores childhood and adolescence in his work. They listen to the French author read extract of his book and made up their own stories in French. Madame Metro Head of French 77

Year Six - Charles Dickens Museum To complement their studies of the famous novella ‘A Christmas Carol’, Year 6 visited the Charles Dickens Museum to take part in a tour and workshop. We started the day exploring the home of the famous Victorian author. The girls learnt about his childhood and the fact that he worked in Warren’s Blacking Factory when his father was sent to prison. Luckily, his father later inherited some money, so he was able to attend school, sending him on the path to writing. Dickens married Catherine in 1836 and in this year the first chapters of The Pickwick Papers were published. The girls looked around his home with Catherine and learnt all about his early life as a writer. We learnt that he loved performing in the drawing room and he even made a lady faint during one of his performances! We then split into groups to examine some artefacts from the Victorian period. We had to decide what the objects were and what they were used for. We then had to decide which items would be best to include in the Dickens Museum. We thought carefully about which artefacts would be most interesting and informative for the visitors. We had to present our conclusions to the group, persuading them to feature our object in the museum. Later in the day we went on a Dickensian walking tour all around London. We visited places that Dickens lived and worked, whilst also noticing features around London that appear in his novels, such as the famous doorknob that revealed the face of Marley in the opening chapter of ‘A Christmas Carol’. It was a fantastic day learning about one of the most famous writers in the world. Mrs Cadenhead Head of English

Fun Afternoon of Netball On Friday 8th November, Year Three and Four travelled to Norland Place for a fun afternoon of netball. Year Four played matches, whilst Year Three learnt some new skills and shared warm up ideas with each other. It was a fantastic day topped off with some lovely Norland Place cookies. We can’t wait for our next netball match. Thank you to all the teachers for taking us. Alice Year Four

Year Six - Old Vic Theatre On Wednesday 11th December, Year Six went to see a thrilling production of ‘A Christmas Carol’, originally written by Charles Dickens, at the Old Vic Theatre. After a short coach journey, our lunch was finished by the time we arrived in Lambeth and we were bouncing up and down with excitement when we reached the massive doors of the historic theatre. I was so happy when we went in to find our welcoming seats waiting for us. Then the lights dimmed! We all loved the bell chime songs and Ebenezer Scrooge’s actor was brilliant. The character of Tiny Tim charmed us all with his sweet words and adorable face and, to everyone’s surprise, all the three ghosts of Christmas were played by women. We all laughed when Scrooge, having been visited by the spirits, changed his miserly ways and set up for his Christmas feast with brussel sprouts floating down on parachutes and oranges, apples and potatoes tossed down two white cloth chutes to land in wicker baskets on the stage. Finally, to everyone’s joy, a massive turkey came flying down on a line and nearly hit poor Scrooge on the head! The staging of the performance was incredibly creative with flying fruit, roaming actors communicating directly with the audience and a great use of carols sung by the cast. Of course, the message of the play that love and generosity to one’s fellow man bring happiness is one that touched us all, especially during the Christmas season. Agathe Year Six

Post 11+

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Over the Summer term, we embarked upon our Post 11+ programme with the Year Six students, which I’m sure they would agree was enriching and engaging, despite the unprecedented times! Much of our programme ran in the form of Zoom conferences and the girls thoroughly enjoyed meeting fantastic speakers from a variety of impressive backgrounds and careers, including banking, advertising and hospitality. A key highlight was a ‘Careers Day’ by Year Six parent, John Sinik, who spoke to the girls about gender inequalities in the workplace and empowered them to be “whoever they want to be” in any job they desire. He really instilled in them that they can do anything if they put their mind to it. Another key highlight for the girls was a presentation and ‘Q&A’ with another talented Glendower parent, Kate Slesinger, who is Publishing Director of Tatler and Vanity Fair. The girls were lucky enough to gain an insight into Kate’s glamorous yet challenging job and to ask her questions about her field of work. I believe she may have inspired many budding journalists after this session! As part of lockdown, we decided to begin our own Time Capsule project which allowed us to explore how a variety of people across the globe have found the past few months. Within the project, girls wrote diary entries from the perspective of our NHS heroes and Captain Tom Moore, while others interviewed key workers and their family members, and some wrote poems from the perspective of our healing earth and the country’s teachers. We even received news reports filmed in Uruguay, America and India! There was also the opportunity for the girls to talk to former Glendower girls about their experiences in secondary school, including: Jolnar Mussar at Latymer Upper, Victoria Jansen at Francis Holland School and both Maddie and Maya Stoll at St Paul’s. It was brilliant for the students to gain an insight into what is to come and to gain fantastic advice for beginning at a new school in September. Finally, the girls were privileged enough to enjoy The Fiver Challenge competition, which saw them making an array of wonderful products such as bracelets, soaps and bags. They also enjoyed a ‘Build an App day’ and a day of coding. I would like to thank all the speakers for educating and inspiring the Year Six girls, you have provided the students with some fantastic tools that they can carry with them into the next chapter of their lives… and beyond! Miss Mogridge Post 11+ Co-ordinator

Dear Diary For the first time in a long time, I can take a deep, clean break of air. It tastes sweeter than heaven; I don’t choke on the usual smokey toxins. When the sun rises there are no cars honking, just the sound of nature waking up - birds chiping, panthers padding, pandas chompings bamboo shoots and calfs lowing to their mothers. As I rub the sleep from my eyes, I see the almight Himalayas towering towards the bright blue sky, I see the clear canals of Venice swarming with clicking dolphins and undulating jellyfish and I see the need sharpe tip of the Empire State Building piercing the smogless sky.... An extract from Agathe’s diary entry as Mother Earth 80

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Interhouse Marlborough

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House Captain: Stephanie Saran Martin Vice Captain: Mira Johnsson Associated With: Amelia Earhart Supports: St Cuthbert’s Day Centre

Wellington House Captain: Alicia Rowan Vice Captain: Ava-Valerie Hellmich Associated With: Florence Nightingale Supports: Venture Centre

Gordon

Wellington

House Captain: Liza Myshkina Vice Captain: Chiara Tondo Associated With: Rosa Parks Support:s New Horizons The three houses at Glendower meet twice a term during House Assemblies, led by the House Captains. where future events are discussed. Interhouse events this year have included: • • • • • • • • •

Drama competition Sponsored skip Christmas card design competition Games activties in the Lower School Handwriting competition Netball and Athletics competitions Collection of clothes for the homeless NHS fundraising Focus on family relationships and acts of kindness

Gordon

House events and assemblies are focused on the 6 R’s of Glendower - Repsonsibility, Resilience, Resourcefulness, Relationships, Readiness and Reflectivness. Madame Metro Head of House

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Drama Competition

Year Three and Four Interhouse Netball

On the Friday prior to half term, Glendower girls enjoyed watching the finals of our first ever HOUSE DRAMA COMPETITION!

On Thursday 12th March, Year Three and Four worked in their houses to compete against each other in the interhouse netball. We all worked hard and had so much fun! We had some amazing interceptions, great goals and fantastic overall playing. Everyone used what they had learnt in lessons and as well as showing some impressive sportsmanship. Thanks to our subs everyone felt supported and overjoyed. Year Three worked very well together for their first inter house netball. Gordon came first, Wellington came second, and Marlborough came third.

Interested girls were asked to form groups and given an excerpt from a Roald Dahl play to perform. This competition was greeted with enthusiasm and we had several entries per house. This task required the girls to work independently of an adult, arranging their own rehearsal times and collaborating on how to stage their performance. The groups performed during their house meetings and votes were cast to select one performance to go through to the finals. The performances were full of humour with some great characterisation and lovely theatrical ideas. Well done girls for your impressive efforts, your performances were a delight to watch! The finalists were:

Alice and Amelia Year Four “ I loved the interhouse netball competition so much. In netball were taught lots of skills, kindness, sportsmanship, and to have fun when taking part. All the teams were equally excellent and showed all the great skills they have been learning. Congratulations to Gordon who won the interhouse and Wellington and Marlborough for taking part. I loved playing WD the best!” Kaila Y3

Marlborough: The Twits by Olivia, Keira and Anya Wellington: Fantastic Mr Fox by Lilah, Beth and Arabella Gordon: James and the Giant Peach by Coco, Bethany, Ottie, Chiara and Shireen

“ It was so much fun, and everyone cheered on all the teams and showed great sportsmanship. All the houses played exceptionally well showcasing all their netball skills. Congratulations to the year 3 on your first interhouse netball, you all played brilliantly. In year 4, the passing was super quick and there were some fantastic goals scored. We can’t wait until next year’s interhouse netball. Well done to Marlborough, Wellington, and of course the overall winners Gordon.” - Andrea Y4

Congratulations to Marlborough who were the winners! Our judges, Mrs Kingsmill Moore and Mrs Maher, thoroughly enjoyed the performances and found it difficult to choose a winner!

“We made some great passes to each other and scored a few goals. Everyone played fair and showed good sportsmanship.” - Noor Y3

Year Five and Six Interhouse Netball On Tuesday 10th March, Year Five and Six took part in the annual Inter-House Netball Competition. After we got off the bus everyone piled onto the court and were jumping up and down with excitement, fixing last-minute face paint up and getting their posters ready on the side of the two courts. Gordon, Marlborough and Wellington lined up in their houses and Miss Humble explained the rules. The games started in a hurry, balls were passed, and goals were scored. Everyone was cheering everyone, no matter their year level or house. Great sportsmanship was shown throughout the games, and everyone played their hardest. Then the IAPS team played against the teachers: everyone chose a team to support and was very excited to watch. We wanted to congratulate the teachers who had never played netball before, especially Miss Broughton as she scored the teacher’s first goal. Before we knew it, the match was over with the IAPS team successful in beating the teachers 2-1. Then it was time for the results, and everyone sat down quickly and quietly buzzing with excitement. Miss Humble thanked everyone for taking part and the teachers for helping on the sidelines. Well done to Wellington for coming third, Marlborough came second, and Gordon won! The day ended with three cheers for each team and everyone got back on the bus in good spirits. Agathe and Alicia Year Six

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I feel very privileged to have been chosen as swim captain this year. Although our Swim Squad have not been able to participate in as many competitions as usual due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we have still managed to maintain our team spirit throughout the year.

competed at the 2012 Olympic Pool for the IAPS and finally when we were just finding out we moved onto the next round or when we placed in the top three. It is disappointing that we have missed out on our interhouse gala this year. But throughout the inter house galas I have been to; I have never seen so much solidarity between the swimmers and even with the other teams. Glendower not only congratulates their teammates but they also all make sure they take time to say well done to their competitors.

I remember my first swim competition in Year Three when we competed against Bute House. It was nervewrecking, racing for the first time with school. I remember the moment after I finished my first race, I could not wait to get back in the water to race again. It was so fun cheering everyone else on and swimming with different year groups who I got to know well.

I am sure everyone will agree that swimming has been one of the most enjoyable things to do at Glendower. I have never seen a bored face amongst any swimmer at Glendower. Swimming with Glendower always feels good, whether training hard, clowning around in the water or just reflecting upon and helping each other out with our skills.

Over the years I have done a lot swimming; it is definitely my favourite sport. The way it is taught at Glendower is not only enjoyable, but we have also become much better swimmers individually and as a team. Our continuous success is proof of the devotion of the teachers and squad members.

I wish I was able to swim more in my last year at Glendower, but I am so thankful for the amazing Glendower PE staff who have taught everyone else at Glendower and me in such a brilliant and unique way. I will miss being in the Glendower Swim Squad and I look forward to hearing about their future successes and seeing future swimmers representing the school in an incredible way.

The team spirit is really what has kept me going. I personally train a lot and it is sometimes really challenging and physically exhausting. However, the support from the Swim Squad members and the sound of their cheering always seem to give you extra energy. Seeing Year Three girls star swimming competitions for the first time really makes me reflect on how I was once in their shoes, anxious and scared but it is great seeing everyone swimming their hardest and winning all the races.

Amelie Swimming Captain

I cannot think of one swim competition where Glendower has not excelled. We have done exceptionally well in every competition but a few memorable moments for me are, when we travelled all the way up to Sheffield to compete in the ESSA, when we

IAPS Swimming

London League

Another amazing year of swimming has passed with new records and brilliant results. Unfortunately, due to the coronavirus, Glendower Swim Squad have missed out on some of our end of year swimming competitions.

On Friday, 22nd November, Glendower’s swim squad Years Three to Six competed in the first round of the London League swimming competition. Although we swam at Bute House, against 5 other schools, this gala was a virtual gala, which means we also competed against another 16 schools swimming from a different gala. We swam very well and cheered each other on very enthusiastically.

However in February, Glendower competed in the IAPS qualifiers held at Latymer. The IAPS is a huge national swimming competition with swimmers competing from across the country, over 180 swimmers per event. Last year we even had swimmers join us from Nigeria. Swimmers from year 5 and 6 competed in Medley and Front crawl relays and individual races. To qualify to the finals, you must be placed in the top 20. Unfortunately, the finals were cancelled due to COVID-19. But, we can still celebrate our results and those that did qualify. Congratulations to following swimmers who qualified for their individual races: Year Five Chloe 25m Backstroke Olivia 25m Butterfly

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Year Six Mati 50m Backstroke Alexia 50m Breaststroke Amelie 50m Butterfly

19th (joint) 16th 6th

The competition started with the 100m Individual Medley, and then Years Three to Five swimming 25m backstroke races. All the Year Six races were 50 m apart from the Butterfly event. In the relay, Glendower continued to swim their very best. The last race was a squadron race, where four swimmers from Years Four to Six swam in a freestyle relay. This was a tough competition and we gave our best. When the results came in, we found out that we placed 2nd out of 22 schools and moved onto round two. Well done Glendower!

In the relay events, both Year 5 and Year 6 teams qualified for the finals. Year Five Front Crawl Team Medley Team

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Year Six Front Crawl Team Medley Team

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The 2nd round took place on Friday 31st January. We knew this round was going to be very competitive. Competing against 5 other schools, we needed to place in one of the top 3 positions to qualify for the finals. We were excited and nervous at the same time. We started the gala strongly, but the judges were very strict, and we suffered a few disqualifications. We could see our chances slipping away. But we held strong, optimistic and gave it our best. After the final race, we waited anxiously for the results and heard Glendower placed 3rd overall. It was a tough round, but we persevered and made it through. Well Done to all the swimmers for an incredible London League. Unfortunately, due to COVID 19, the final was cancelled. We were pleased to know we had made the finals and hope to continue the success of our swimming in the new academic year.

Heathfield Gala On Wednesday, 11th March, 6 swimmers from Year Four and 6 from Year Five, competed in a swim gala against 5 other schools. Year Five Olivia, Chloe, Talia L, Kiara, Chiara, Emily Year Four Summer, Hannah, Emilia, Liana, Alice B, Olivia The races started promptly, and we cheered each other on throughout the event. It was competitive and challenging, but we gave it our very best and had much success. Chloe broke the backstroke record and Olivia the butterfly record. Liana in Year Four also did very well by winning her breaststroke race, even though she was trying out. After all the races and much excitement, we gathered in the dining area with some lunch and snacks while we waited for the results. Year Four came first in their category, coming home with a gold medal. Year Five also came first in their category, coming happily home with a gold medal . Well done to everyone who participated. What a great team effort!

Friendly Galas On Friday 27th September, Glendower attended our first swim competition of the year against Bute House. Everyone swam an individual race and put in an amazing performance and were very supportive of the other swimmers. 32 out of 36 swimmers all achieved personal best times for their individual races. In the relays we also did extremely well, winning most of the races with brilliant times. In the end, Year Four scored 67 points, Year Five scored 68 points and Year Six scored 72 points, meaning together we scored 207 points. Although we scored a few points less than Bute House-we had a strong performance as a team. We had so much fun that we even competed again with Bute House and Kew College again on Friday 24th January. Our competitors were very strong and competitive. We all swam our best, finishing all our races strongly and beating our personal bests from the previous competitions. We made sure we were always supportive of our teammates and always cheering each other on. Although we placed 2nd, just behind Bute House, we did very well in everything, especially our relays. Well done to the team for fantastic results in both competitions.

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IAPS Netball

Year Six - Newland Place Tournament

On Thursday 27th February 2020, the Year Six Netball Squad had an amazing day playing in the IAPS regional netball tournament held at Queen Anne’s school in Reading.

On the 25th of January, the Year Six Netball Squad played in a tournament, in Twickenham, at Newland House. We had an early start from Glendower, but the girls were really excited to play a full day of netball. We played a total of 9 matches, against different schools. The competition was very strong, we had to use all the tactics we had learnt and work as a team to be successful.

We set off from Glendower at 7.30am, with blankets, hats and lots of warm drinks as we anticipated it would be a blustery and potentially rainy day. We have been working hard all year for this one event and I was so pleased to be leading the squad. They split us into 6 pools, Glendower were in pool 1. We had some extremely tough opponents in our pool, but we did not let that worry us. The whistle blew for the start of our first game and we all played fantastically, winning 8-0. We knew we still had a long day ahead of us but this was a very good start.

Our last match of the day was playing for 3rd place, the opportunity to walk away with medals, the squad were so excited at the prospect of this - it was a must win game. It was a nail-biting match, we all played exceptionally well and skipped off the court triumphantly. We were thrilled to receive our medals as it was a great team effort.

We continued to play well, but with the wind it was making it hard for our shooters to score. Nonetheless we preserved. Our passing hit some great rhythm, we moved quickly on the court and we performed great footwork. Our last game as a squad ended with a 2-1 win to us. It was a tremendous way to end the day!

The medals to us were a bonus, but what ment the most was working as a team and showing great sportsmanship.

Thank you to Miss Humble and Mrs Payne for taking us to this event. Maddy Netball Captain

Year Five - Norland Place Match The Year Five Netball Team played against Norland Place. Despite the rainy conditions, everyone came out and tried their hardest. It was a tough match with a score of 1-1 at half time, and we were determined to do our best in the second half. We had some great interceptions and passed well. Both teams alternated shooting goals, and we finished the match with a draw of 3-3. We were then treated to some scrumptious cookies by our supportive and wonderful coaches Mrs Payne and Miss Humble. We are working on balancing the court better to help us win in future matches!

Year Three - Garden House Match On 24th February, Glendower participated in a Year Three netball fixture against Garden House. The Glendower team played splendidly, and everyone had tons of fun. We showed great sportsmanship and both games ended in a tie. Considering this was the first match against another school for Year Three, the day was a huge success. We are thankful to garden house for being fair and friendly competitors and to our teachers for their support, guidance and encouragement. We can’t wait until our next netball match!

Year Four - Falkner House Match Year Four attended a netball match against Falkner House, on Wednesday 4th March 2020. Although it was raining, we really enjoyed playing in the rain. All the teams showed great sportsmanship and encouragement. Glendower played some amazing netball, but we still have to work on balancing the court. We were triumphant in all 3 matches and cheered each other on. A special thank you to Miss Humble and Mrs Payne for supporting us.

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What did Glendower students do during the global pandemic of 2020? Well, they kept fit and carried on! PE, like many subjects, was significantly impacted during the pandemic, with virtual lessons looking very different to our usual programme. However, despite this, the importance of staying fit and healthy had never been more important. Like most things, our Glendower students took these challenges in their stride, and they continued to put great effort and energy into the remote learning programme. Our focus concentrated on understanding the benefits of physical activity and keeping active, through a mix of theoretical and practical lessons. Students enjoyed participating in weekly physical activity challenges (60-second challenges), skills lessons on cricket and athletics, as well as live Zoom workouts with their teachers!

60 Second Challenge Winners Around the World Jasmine (Y2), Thandiwe (Y2), Andrea (Y3), Summer (Y4) Clap and Catch Lavinia (Y2), Sophia (Y2), Ines (Y3), Emilia (Y4), Giulia (Y5), Lauren (Y6) Figure of Eight Lavinia (Y2), Sophia (Y2), Ahana (Y3), Mia (Y4), Sonia (Y5), Mati (Y6) Speed Bounce Ines (Y3), Elora (Y4), Ava Sev (Y5), Polina (Y6) Tap Up Tennis Ahana (Y3), Mia (Y4), Giulia (Y5), Sophia (Y6) Star Jumps Sophia (Y3), Emilia (Y4) Ava Sev (Y5), Polina (Y6) Climb the Mountain Annabell (Y3), Hannah (Y4), Ava Sl (Y5), Georgia (Y6) Skipping Sophia (Y3), Summer (Y4), Talia G (Y5)

Our competitive sports programme was devastated by the lockdown restrictions, resulting in the cancellation of many of our favourite events, including the Interhouse Swimming Gala, Sports Day and the IAPS National Swimming Finals. However, as soon as we are able to, we will once again be back on the court and in the pool, representing our great school! And we can’t wait! Miss Jessie Humble Head of Physical Education

0 2 0 2 r e m m u S Prize Giving

Lower School Awards

Progress in Drama Sophia Labrande Jane Robertson Cup for Maths Emma Lanza French Cup Lavinia Longo Stephanie Hoppen Cup for LS Art Amelia Kazakova Happiness Plate Ottilie Edwards

Upper School Awards English Samantha Strauss Cup for Creative Writing Katherine Retty Cup for Compostition Winn Moon Cup for Poetry Rebecca Instance Cup for Literature Ispahani Cup for Shakespeare

Agathe Metternich-Ratibor Elysia Goekjian Beatrice Crachilova Paulina Calo Alica Rowan

Year Six Year Six Year Six Year Six Year Six

Maths Mathematic Achievement Ilaria Colombo Year Six Mathematic Progress Juliana Jansen Year Six Drama Stella Ritchie Cup for Potential in Drama Vivienne Elborne Cup for Verse Speaking Jacqueline Aslan Cup for Drama Participation Simon Raison Cup for Drama Achievement

Sonia Kazakova Amalia Cassel Thompsoon Gabriella Sauvel-Porter Lauren Yuen

Year Five Year Six Year Six Year Six

Science Back House Cup for Science Potential Year Six Excellence in Science Zohrab Prize for Progress in Science Year Five Excellence in Science Year Four Excellence in Science Year Three Excellence in Science

Surina Krishanthan Maya Krishna Mira Johnsson Ryka Krishna Elora Thaker Elizabeth Petrow

Year Six Year Six Year Six Year Five Year Four Year Three

ICT Chloe Bennet Cup for Computer Studies

Raahi Radia

Year Six

Humanities Laura Benjamin Cup for History Maddy Trusted Year Six Geography Cup Hannah Nizar Year Six Kenyon Cup for RE Chiara Tondo Year Six Languages Curran Cup for Spanish Jessica N Adam Cup for French Writing Frank White Cup for French Progress

Chiara Tondo Liza Myshkina Hope Muir

Year Six Year Six Year Five

Music Charlotte Hochmann Cup for Musical Diversity Alison Raison Cup for Singing G Courteney-Evans Cup for Y6 Musical Progress Hadsel Cup for Y5 Musical Progress Min Nolan Cup for Y4 Musical Progress

Lauren Yuen Agathe Metternich-Ratibor Alexia Naydenov Celestine Korschelt Keira Asad

Year Six Year Six Year Six Year Five Year Four

Art and DT Oldham Handowrk Cup for Design Technology Carola Adam Cup for Y6 Art Year Four/Year Five Art Cup Charlotte Hochman Cup for Fine Art

Polina Milekhina Ava-Valerie Hellmich Emilia Read Charlotte Hilton

Year Six Year Six Year Five Year Six

Sport Crouch Cup for Commitment to PE Sophia Siniki Brennan Cup for Gymnastics Anastasia Zorova Clio Geordiadias Cup for Swimming Contribution Amelie O’Neill Clare Timlett Cup for Progress in Swimming Eesha Bahl Horlick Netball Plates for U11 IAPS Netball Eeesha Bahl, Mati La Magna, Sophia Sinik, Hannah Nizar, Alexia Naydenov, Amelie O’Neill, Polina Milekhina, Maddy Trusted (C), Chiara Tondo, Sasha Buvat Academics Martyrossian Cup for Academic Endeavour Alexandra Chubini Amara Ogle Cup for Academic Excellence Alexia Hansen Dawson Cup for Presentation of Work Stephanie Saran-Martin Best Academic Record in Year Five Eva Bowes Best Academic Record in Year Six Lara Devi Saigal Marguerite Jackson Project Award Andrea Saad

Year Six Year Five Year Six Year Six Year Six

Year Six Year Four Year Six Year Five Year Six Year Three

General Humber Cup for All-round Leadership Kindness and Good Manners Laura Hodd Cup for Perserverance Lowson Cup for Academic Effort Lowson Prize for Significant General Progress Eleanor Wheeldon Cup for a Good Role Model Silver Jubilee Trophy for Sports Girl of the Year Parents’ Association Head Girl Award

Mati La Magna Ava Slesinger Shehrbano Cheshti Maithri Krishna Isha Khemka Keira Asad Amelie O’Neill Mati La Magna

Lower School Form Prizes

Upper School Form Prizes

Anja Baros Anaya Singh

Personal Achievement Progress

Nancy Walmsley Anantika Lakhani

Personal Achievement Progress

Riya Unadkat Cassie Mayne

Personal Achievement Progress

Eloise Whyatt Melanie Kabysh

Personal Achievement Progress

Vittoria Fumo Deniz Yurdakul

Personal Achievement Progress

Bethany Wynter Harper Beckham

Personal Achievement Progress

1LK

Sabreen Duggal Katherine Moore

Personal Achievement Progress

Krishna Sunak Emilia Callanan

Personal Achievement Progress

Victoria Yuen Olivia Csidei

Personal Achievement Progress

Laura Nurock Lyla Ondyak

Personal Achievement Progress

Emilia Sewell Molly Wynter

Personal Achievement Progress

Chloe Zaimi Talia Gordon

Personal Achievement Progress

Hannah Nizar Sophia Sinik

Personal Achievement Progress

Polina Milekhina Mira Johnsson

Personal Achievement Progress

Year Six Year Five Year Six Year Six Year Six Year Four Year Six Year Six

r e m Sum 0 202 Staff

Mrs

Nina Kingsmill Moore Headmistress Mrs Sharon Maher Deputy Head Miss Laura Rodgers Deputy Head, Academic Mrs Melanie Mills Head of Teaching and Learning Mr Dominic Tucker Head of Lower School Mr Anthony Hawksley Bursar Ms Philippa Baker Assistant Bursar Mrs Nicole Fulton Mrs Aneta Gupta Mrs Nicola Bahar Miss Clare Lloyd-George Mrs Millie Kalisher Miss Daisy Greenlees Miss Katherine Lock

Miss Yubi Broughton Maths Teacher Miss Sophie Mogridge English Teacher Post 11+ Co-ordinator Ms Sooha Park Music Teacher

Form Teacher (R1) Form Teacher (R2) Form Teacher (1B) Form Teacher (1LK) Form Teacher (1LK) Form Teacher (2G) Form Teacher (2M)

Mrs Charlotta Karara Form Teacher (3K) Miss Anna Slater Form Teacher (3S) Curriculum Enrichment Mr Quinton van Rooyen Form Teacher (4R) Head of Humanities Mrs Donna Sweeney Form Teacher (4S) Y4 English/Maths Mrs Clare Cadenhead Form Teacher (5C) Head of English Miss Sarah Martin Form Teacher (5M) Head of Drama Mr Julian Ludwick Form Teacher (6L) Head of Maths Mrs Neeta Verma Form Teacher (6V) Head of Digital Learning Mrs Nicola Cox Miss Jessie Humble Mrs Caroline Marley Mrs Sophie Metro Miss Helena Ross

Head of Art Head of PE Head of Music Head of French Head of Science

Mrs Sarah Dennis Mrs Elysee Enness-Laporte Mrs Alicia Payne Miss Holly Probert

Miss Flo Greensted Mrs Fiona Hayes Ms Valerie Isaia Miss Antonia Leslie Mrs Nicola Milne-Home Mrs Alison Moran Mrs Caroline Nash Miss Jennifer Pierpoint Mrs Jo Samols Ms Nikala Short Ms Jennie Trigg Miss Emily Webb

Teaching Assistant Teaching Assistant Teaching Assistant Teaching Assistant Teaching Assistant Teaching Assistant Teaching Assistant Teaching Assistant Teaching Assistant Teaching Assistant Teaching Assistant Teaching Assistant

Miss Hannah Fisher Mr Louie Roberts

Gap Year Student Gap Year Student

Mrs Emine Alagoz Miss Cassandra Batchelor

Playground Assistant Playground Assistant

Mr Floyd Ball Mr Arman Zonuzi

IT Manager Site Manager

Mr David Callaghan Registrar Miss Sophie Lambert School Secretary/ Marketing Mrs Laura Pennick Head’s PA/Office Manager Miss Natasha Sookrah Reception/Admin Assistant

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Mr Maciej Jaskulski Mrs Dinah Adjei-Djan Mrs Susie Kaminsky Mrs Bridgett Powell Mr David Weah

Kitchen Manager Kitchen Staff Kitchen Staff Kitchen Staff Kitchen Staff

PE Teacher PE Teacher PE Teacher

Mrs Emily Anderson Mr Jason Anderson Miss Amanda Forbes

Clarinet Teacher Piano Teacher Voice Teacher

s t ul s Re 11+

Well done to all the Year Six students for their hard work, dedication and perserverance throughout the 11+ process. Whist the usual Year Six leaving events could not take place due to Covid-19, we wish them the best of luck in the future and in their new school. The girls performed outstandingly in their exams and we are so prooud of their results and scholarship awards. Goodbye and good luck Year Six!

Total Number of candidates: 36

Number of pupils accepting Day School places: 29 Number of pupils accepting Boarding School places: 7

Scholarships and Awards

Francis Holland North (Academic) x2 Francis Holland North (Academic Exhibition) x2 Francis Holland South (Academic) x5 James Allen Girls’ School (Academic) Kensington Park School (Art) Kensington Park School (Sport) Putney High (Academic) Queen’s College (Major Academic) x2 Wycombe Abbey (Academic)

Agathe Metternich-Ratibor Alexia Naydenov Alicia Rowan Amalia Cassel Thompson Alexandra Chubini Amelie O’Neill Ava-Valerie Hellmich Beatrice Crachilova Liza Myshkina Charlotte Hilton Elysia Goekjian Chiara Tondo Gabriella Sauvel-Porter Eesha Bahl Georgia Huggett Hannah Nizar Ilaria Colombo Lauren Yuen

St. Mary’s Ascot City of London Wycombe Abbey Wycombe Abbey American School London Latymer Upper Francis Holland South Putney High Godolphin and Latymer Kensington Park School Godolphin and Latymer Francis Holland South Putney High Putney High North London Collegiate Francis Holland South St Paul’s Girls School Sylvia Young Theatre School

Isha Khemka Maddy Trusted Juliana Jansen Maithri Krishna Lara Devi Saigal Mati La Magna Maya Krishna Mira Johnsson Rahi Radia Samara Singh Paulina Calo Sarina Kaladeen Polina Milekhina Sasha Buvat Shehrbano Cheshti Sophia Sinik Stephanie Saran-Martin Surina Krishanthan

Godolphin and Latymer Wycombe Abbey Francis Holland South Latymer Upper St Paul’s Girls School Wycombe Abbey Latymer Upper North London Collegiate Wycombe Abbey St Paul’s Girls School Godolphin and Latymer Francis Holland South Godolphin and Latymer City of London Kensington Park School St Mary’s Ascot Kensington Park School Godolphin and Latymer

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