Spotlight - 2021/22

Welcome

to the 2021/22 edition of Spotlight

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Another year has flown by and I, once again, have the pleasure of sharing our Spotlight magazine crammed with the adventures and achievements of our wonderful students. It would be impossible to include in these few pages all of the action from the year so this is just a taste of some of the highlights of the girls’ successes and will hopefully give you a good idea of what makes our School such a special place.

In Autumn Term we were hopeful of a more stable year ahead, with the ability to have our pupils working together across classes and year groups and we have not been disappointed. Showing the tenacity and fortitude we relish in our students, they jumped straight into the new school year with aplomb taking part in trips to Thornbridge, Scarborough, London, Leeds and the National Space Museum amongst other things and supporting the School in our journey to achieving our Unicef Rights Respecting School Silver Award.

We hit the headlines after being ranked in the Top 5 independent schools in the North in the Times Parent Power Survey and we were absolutely thrilled when we received the top possible outcome – ‘Excellent’ – in our ISI Inspection.’

A long overdue return to in-person Christmas activities saw us cap off a brilliant term with wonderful Nativity performances and a heart-warming carol concert at St Marie’s Cathedral.

Spring Term proved just as actionpacked, as our pupils took part in Science Week events, Design Days and numerous sporting competitions and tournaments. We celebrated with our Under 19s Elite trampolinists after their win at the National Finals and supported our netballers as they took part in the Sisters in Sport competition and headed off to their eagerly-anticipated residential at Condover Hall. Our new Head of Careers Mrs Metcalfe-Murgatroyd,

launched our new Live Lunch alumnae speaker series, and we saw the culmination of a six-month art project as our Year 11s unveiled their Porsche Art Car at a busy function at Porsche Sheffield. One of the most exciting moments of Spring was the delivery of our musical extravaganza Wind in the Willows. After such a long absence from the stage – and for our parents, from the school – it was wonderful to see the girls in action and everyone back together enjoying such a fantastic performance.

Summer Term arrived in a flash and we joined the rest of the country in celebrating the Queen’s Jubilee, planting 15 trees across the school site as part of the ‘Queen’s Green Canopy’ campaign. Despite not having sat formal public exams before, our Year 11 and Year 13 students showed their usual level of resilience and determination as they sat their GCSE and A Level exams in May and June.

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It’s hard to imagine a more positive end to the academic year, but as usual, our pupils raised the bar yet again in August, impressing us all with outstanding GCSE results and the best A Level results we have ever achieved, ranking us as one of the top achieving schools in the country.’

On 1st July we came together as the whole school celebrated our Climate Action Day. Intended to inspire thinking about the challenges facing our planet and the small changes we

can all make to have a big impact on the environment, the day was a special opportunity to pause, share ideas and learn new techniques, as well as enjoy seeing some of us senior staff in fancy dress. Fun-filled Sports Days at EIS and Woodburn Road Stadium have capped off our sporting year bringing the year to an end in energetic style.

Alongside our focus on getting back to ‘business as usual’, this year has been about family and community and whilst we have been lucky to celebrate the numerous achievements listed in these pages, perhaps what has been most notable this year has been the return to school of our whole family.

It has been a joy to welcome parents, grandparents, siblings, carers, alumnae, partners, governors and staff back on site. We have continued in our efforts for charity, raising over £7,000 for the Childrens’ Hospital, various Ukraine charities, Bluebell Wood Hospice, Roundabout and other organisations and seeing our Seniors working alongside younger pupils as part of our SHINE community programme and Springs Academy partnership. Our teachers and support staff continue to go above and beyond, to deliver the best possible opportunities for our pupils and every day, despite the challenges we’re all facing in the wider world, I see the values of our School – Positivity, Courage and Kindness – exemplified within our school community.

Happy reading.

Nina Gunson, Head

Achievements and Highlights

The 2021/22 academic was truly a year of celebration for everyone at Sheffield Girls’. We are proud to share some of our highlights from the year and the outstanding achievements of our students and wider school community.

Sheffield Girls’ achieves top rating in ISI inspection

In October we celebrated achieving the top standard in our inspection by the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI).

At a time when it is increasingly difficult to achieve the top ratings from ISI, we were thrilled to learn that, after completion of the ‘Regulatory Compliance and Educational Quality Inspection’, pupils’ academic and other achievements were rated ‘Excellent’ and the quality of pupils’ personal development was also rated ‘Excellent’ – the highest judgements possible.

Our pupils were praised for their attitudes to learning, their proactive and positive support of others and their ability to work collaboratively and independently, amongst many other things.

‘Pupils have a positive impact upon their school community, relishing the opportunity to take on responsibilities and make a difference to the happiness of all, pupils and adults alike.’

Our students’ curiosity and love of learning, as well as their confident and autonomous use of technology across the curriculum, were also highlighted as standout qualities. The team of inspectors, who spent four days with us in September, noted that students at Sheffield Girls’ showed great commitment to the wider school community, were willing to take on additional responsibilities and leadership roles and demonstrated exemplary behaviour.

Head, Mrs Nina Gunson said: ‘We are delighted with the inspection outcomes and felt incredibly proud when reading the ISI report. The strengths

recognised by the inspectors were a super validation that Sheffield Girls’ successfully achieves its aims, which are: to nurture a love of learning and curiosity that encourages our girls to explore, question and challenge and to enable our pupils to develop confidence and pride in themselves as they prepare to take their place and make a difference in an ever changing world.’

‘From an early age, pupils are exceptionally good listeners, showing interest in the views of others; they are confident speakers and articulately express themselves in a range of contexts.’ Regulatory Compliance and Educational Quality Inspection Report

Moonlight Movie Night

We were thrilled to host our Sheffield Girls’ Movie Night in September, for the first time since Covid-19 restrictions were lifted. We invited our girls, their friends and family onto school grounds to enjoy a film, eat tasty food, and share a wonderful evening together. The weather was glorious, and our audience was captivated by Raya and The Last Dragon. We can’t wait for next year’s Movie Night where we will be screening Danny DeVito’s Matilda.

Above: Pupils on stage at the Octagon Centre.

Celebration of The School Year

In July, we were delighted to welcome our entire school community to join us in a celebration of the School year at the Octagon Centre.

Family Quiz Night

In June, we welcomed families and students, who will be joining Year 7 in September, to our Family Quiz Evening.

Alongside the general knowledge challenge, where parents competed against their daughters, the evening featured a uniform fashion show, a ‘top tips’ for Senior School session, a delicious buffet and most importantly, the time and space for our new starters to meet each other, relax and make new friends. It was a wonderful evening to connect with current and new families.

Alongside members of staff, our 2022/23 Head Girl team meticulously planned a fantastic celebration of achievements from the past academic year, also featuring our School Value and student voted awards. We really value these opportunities, where we can invite our pupils’ families and the wider school network to share in their achievements over the past year and celebrate together as a community.

‘Sheffield Girls’ Celebration Of The School Year was a sparkling end to the Summer Term. It was wonderful for the Junior and Senior Schools to have their own event at such a fitting external

venue as The University of Sheffield’s Octagon Centre. Students, staff, parents and friends of Sheffield Girls’ witnessed literally an all singing, all dancing yet poignant review of the year. The performances, presentations, speeches and awards had the shimmering steely threads of Positivity, Kindness and Courage as a central core. The Sheffield Girls’ spirit and sense of community were palpable throughout!’

Elizabeth Rodgers, Assistant Head (Co-curricular).

FIND OUT

The winners of the School Value and student voted awards on page 72 .

‘Next year’s COTSY will be the hottest ticket around.’ Elizabeth Rodgers, Assistant Head (Co-curricular)

Pre-Senior Baccalaureate – a year on

As the only provider in the region, we were delighted to launch the Pre Senior Baccalaureate (PSB) this year for our Year 7 and Year 8 students.

The PSB brings together a vibrant, engaging and relevant academic curriculum with character education, co-curricular involvement, community activities, and roles of responsibility and leadership.

The PSB curriculum encourages our students to develop their ‘soft skills’, readying them for the challenges and opportunities they’ll experience in our Senior School and beyond. Our Year 12 mentors supported our Year 7 and 8 students throughout the year, hosting discussions about leadership, collaboration, independence and communication.

We have been thrilled to see our Year 7 and 8 students, working alongside their older peers, to develop the core skills the PSB programme offers and look forward to offering this opportunity to future students to equip them with useful skills for personal and academic life.

Right (both): Year 7 and Year 8 pupils with their Sixth Form PSB mentors.

UNICEF Rights Respecting Schools Silver Award

In September we were delighted to welcome a representative from Unicef, who met with a number of our Junior and Senior pupils to learn more about our ongoing work to embed awareness of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) across our curriculum and extra-curricular activities.

Since we achieved our Bronze award in 2020, we have been working together to further develop our knowledge and understanding of the articles within the Convention and reflect on how they affect us within School and our wider community.

Our students were able to provide examples of lessons, assemblies and activities they have been taking part in which have covered topics related to the ‘Article of the Week’ and we were also able to explore how the rights in the Convention are covered within our day to day curriculum as well.

Here at Sheffield Girls’ our pupils are empowered to enjoy and

exercise their rights and to promote the rights of others locally and globally. Our ‘Rights Respecting Champions’ meet regularly, deliver assemblies and promote the UNCRC. A range of other committees allow pupils to take on leadership roles in relation to areas such as teaching and learning, sustainability, charities and school meals.

We’re incredibly proud of what our pupils and staff have achieved and look forward to continuing our journey to becoming a Gold Award Rights Respecting School in the near future.

ACHIEVEMENTS

Throughout December, our school community were invited to #BeAMagicMaker and spread festive joy in form times, lessons, co-curricular clubs, events and everyday kindness.

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Below: Infant nativity.

Left: Neelum with her penguin card design.

Above: Thea with her snowman card design.

Our Junior pupils visited Lifestyle House care home to sing carols for their elderly residents, festive jumpers were worn to raise money for charity and our girls took part in a school-wide card design competition. Year 5 Thea designed a bright and striking snowman, and Year 11 Neelum created a lovely penguin using watercolours. Girls across the entire school contributed to a food bank and gift drive for local food banks and in support of Hallam FM’s Mission Christmas.

Clay club spent their lunchtimes creating decorations in the shape of stars, Christmas trees, Christmas puddings, reindeers and more. Our Top of the Tree pupils gained the highest number of achievement points in the Autumn Term and decorated the Christmas trees around our School. Our Year 10 Food Preparation and Nutrition cohort hosted their annual, delicious, festive gateaux competition, congratulations to Alanna for her winning cake.

Our Infant School nativity, Hey Ewe!, treated audiences to a magical performance, we all let our hair down at the Senior School Christmas Concert, joining in with the sing-along numbers and it was amazing to celebrate our girls’ amazing talents at Movement Evening. Choirs and readers from across the school performed at our annual whole school Carol Service at St Marie’s Cathedral.

It was delightful sharing the magic of the festive season with our school community and seeing so many of our parents and carers at these events.

Below: Top of the tree competition winners. Right: Gateaux competition. Above Right: Alanna with her winning creation.

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About our fabulous Movement Evening on page 40

Sheffield Girls’ rated in top 5 independent secondary schools in the North

In December, Parent Power, The Sunday Times Schools Guide 2022, ranked Sheffield Girls’ in the top 5 independent secondary schools in the North. Widely acknowledged as the most authoritative survey of the country’s highest-achieving schools, we have been recognised as one of the best performing in the region.

Parent Power is a fully searchable national database that ranks the highest-achieving schools in the UK, and creates regional rankings that allow parents to compare school performance, examination results and inspection reports on a local level.

‘We are absolutely delighted to be placed in the top 5 independent secondary schools in the north and feel incredibly proud to see the extraordinary efforts of our pupils and staff reflected in this way.’

Silver Democracy Award

In May, our Peer Mentors accepted the School’s Silver Democracy Award from Sheffield City Council, as a result of 70% of our student community participating in the recent Youth Cabinet Elections.

The Peer Mentor team were instrumental in promoting the election and collating the results, which have helped to shape the new Youth Cabinet who will be leading on a number of initiatives including votes at 16, greater wellbeing and reforming the curriculum.

We empower our girls to stand for what they believe in and it is wonderful to see them so actively involved in shaping the future for not only themselves, but for generations to come.

Inspirational Women of Sheffield Awards

We were delighted to be involved once again in the Inspirational Women of Sheffield Awards, held on Thursday 12th May.

There were 11 award categories covering topics ranging from Creativity, Sport, Engineering, Science, Community and Entrepreneurship. It was an incredible evening, celebrating the outstanding talents, efforts and fortitude of a huge range of women from right across the city. These women, in the course of their ‘day-to-day ordinary’ lives, make extraordinary contributions to their communities and to other people’s lives, sometimes overcoming incredible obstacles in the process.

Year 8 pupil Natalie, who was invited to provide musical entertainment on the night. She was a little nervous but her rendition of Fields of Gold left barely a dry eye in the house.

this through her many roles, both professionally and personally.

The event embodies much of what we strive to model for our own pupils, and speaks directly to our own School values of Positivity, Courage and Kindness. Congratulations to all of this year’s nominations and winners.

Top Right: Our Peer Mentor team accepting the Silver Democracy Award during Senior School assembly. Right: Natalie Fooks at the IWOS Awards.

Sheffield Girls’ was proud to sponsor the Mary Ann Rawson Award for Education and we were thrilled to present the award to winner Usma Saeed. From childhood, Usma had always been taught the value of hard work, determination and service to the community. Her approach is always about the “Education of the whole child” and she demonstrates

Mrs Gunson, Head

‘I was so excited to perform for an audience full of such inspirational and impressive women.’ Natalie, Year 8

Mental Health Awareness Week

In May, we celebrated Mental Health Awareness Week across the School and this year’s theme centred around loneliness and building meaningful connections.

During the pandemic many of us were separated from our friends, families and communities and here at School we were so pleased when we could welcome our students and wider community back on site to be together again.

Our students have jumped straight back into a full and busy school life and MHA Week provided an opportunity to take time out of our School schedule and strengthen connections with those around us. We hosted a number of workshops throughout the week including an interactive graffiti display, where students were invited to share a positive quote, a worry they want to get off their chest or a helpful tip, as well as a student-led workshop on imposter syndrome and a lunchtime session which invited students to enjoy a tasty homemade snack and talk with peers and pastoral staff about anything that may be on their mind.

Positive mental and physical wellbeing is fundamental in our School and is something we frequently discuss with our students, whether it be in assemblies, focused lessons, specialised clubs or part of the wider framework of pastoral support. There

are many ways our students can find information and seek support should they need it, including:

• Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) lessons, where students learn about navigating friendships, challenges of teenage years, self esteem, body image, media portrayal of mental health and stress management.

• Our school counsellor, who is on hand every week and provides specialist one-to-one confidential sessions.

• Parent information evenings hosted by our pastoral team, which highlight useful resources for parents and provide an opportunity to raise any queries.

• Our student Wellbeing Prefect, who guides and delivers wellbeing support for their peers and manages a student wellbeing resource page full of useful tips, videos and information about help and support in and out of school.

• The Year 13 Peer Mentor team, who provide friendship and support for our younger pupils who may benefit from a friendly ear to discuss their worries and concerns.

Visit the Pastoral Care page on our website to find out more about the programme of support and guidance provided at Sheffield Girls’ www.sheffieldhighschool.org.uk/why-us/learning-support

Children In Need

In November we celebrated Children In Need across the School, our girls donned their Pudsey ears for the occasion!

Anti-Bullying Week

In November we also celebrated Anti-Bullying Week, our students focussed on sharing with the school community one of our school values – kindness. The PSHE Committee presented during assemblies in the Senior School, and our Infant and Junior School slipped on their odd socks to raise awareness.

Above (both): Children In Need activities.

Climate Action Day

It was an incredible day full of activities, events, collaborations, and even teachers in fancy dress. We donned our flower power outfits, challenged our thinking about fast fashion with Dr Amna Khan (Senior Lecturer in Consumer Behaviour and Retailing at Manchester Metropolitan University), built wind turbines to power our cities of the future, hosted a green festival and considered the benefits of Fair Trade and renewable energy.

Kindness is one of our three School Values, and the day was a fantastic opportunity for us all, staff and students alike, to consider the many ways in which we can make small changes to make a big impact, and ultimately be kinder to our planet.

During the Summer Term all of our girls came together for our Climate Action Day.

(all): Climate Action Day activities.

The Queen’s Green Canopy

As part of the Queen’s Green Canopy initiative, to mark Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee, our Eco Reps and a number of our other students planted 15 trees across the School grounds.

In this, our Year of Sustainability at the GDST, our pupils considered the ways in which our behaviours and decision-making impact the wider world. In an assembly to mark the Jubilee celebrations, Mrs Gunson asked students: ‘What legacy would you like to leave for the future?’. We’re confident that, whichever path they choose, our students will make their mark and contribute to our local and global communities.

We’d like to thank Spear & Jackson for their kind donation and support for this project.

Welcome to our new Head Girl team

Our Sixth Form students are exceptional role models for our school community and we are extremely proud and delighted to introduce our new 2022/23 Head Girl team, led by Samira and Isobel, along with their deputies Vanessia and Alyssa. We can’t wait to see you all in action over the next year!

Vanessia Ogedengbe, Deputy Head Girl Studying Biology, Chemistry and Drama

I am most looking forward to supporting and connecting with peers in my role, helping them. It’s incredible that I can help peers and students in our School with any ideas or issues they may have. One of my favourite quotes is from Mulan: ‘A flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of them all.’

Isobel Sibree-Dolan, Head Girl Studying French, Chemistry and Biology

I am honoured to be the next Head Girl at Sheffield Girls’ and incredibly excited to get really involved with the role! My favourite quote is: ‘Be the Rainbow in Somebody Else's Cloud’.

– Maya Angelou

I love it because kindness is so valuable and will take you far!

Above L-R: Millie Sadiq, Aida, Alisa, Alyssa, Isobel, Mrs Gunson, Samira, Vanessia, Lene, Millie Brock, Ella

Samira Sanders, Head Girl Studying English Language, Biology and Chemistry

I’m so excited to be part of the new Head Girl Team. I’m passionate about promoting social justice and hope to be a voice to all students within our School and can often be found terrorising other students with my constant singing! One of my favourite quotes is from Merida in Brave:

‘If you had the chance to change your fate, would you?’

Alyssa Ramlakhan, Deputy Head Girl Studying Biology, Chemistry and Maths

Hi, my name is Alyssa, and I am excited to be a Deputy Head Girl in the upcoming year. I am an avid reader and love to dive (not the scuba kind!). I am looking forward to getting to know everyone within the school community and hear all the great ideas. My favourite quote is ‘The best things in life, the very best things, happen unexpectedly’. – Mamma Mia

Ella Payne, Senior Prefect Studying English Language, Economics and PE

I’m looking forward to supporting the younger students in School, offering advice and being on hand if they have any questions or concerns. My favourite quote is ‘Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching’.

– C. S. Lewis

Aida Tesfaye, Senior Prefect Studying Biology, Chemistry and Maths

Aside from A Levels, I love socialising with my friends, going to Sheffield United football matches (the better Sheffield team) and probably watching the Office and People Just Do Nothing on repeat with a Nutella bar in my hand! I’m looking forward to helping out at many events and departments and interacting more with everyone in the School community, students, friends and teachers! Feel free to stop me for a chat.

Millie Sadiq, Senior Prefect Studying Biology, Chemistry and Religious Studies

I’m excited to be able to work with both teachers and students to improve our School and be able to act as a relatable figure for students and give my advice and tips with the hindsight I now have. One of my favourite quotes is

‘Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way’

– Dr Seuss

It is very motivating and encompasses the values that our school strives to teach about determination and achieving your goals.

Millie Brock, Senior Prefect Studying Economics, Geography, and Maths

I enjoy playing the flute, piano, singing and volunteering outside of school at my local scouts. I’m very excited to be on the senior prefect team and can’t wait to see you all around school. My favourite quote is

Alisa Ivanov, Senior Prefect Studying Biology, Chemistry, Physics and German

As often as it is said, but I always did look up to the older years. I am really excited that I can step up to be the person that the younger years look up to, and I look forward to getting to know the younger years on a more personal level! One quote I would choose would be:

‘The only way to fail is not to fight. So fight until you can't fight anymore’.

– Amelia Shepherd, Grey’s Anatomy.

Lene Marsden, Senior Prefect Studying Politics, Sociology and Philosophy, Religion and Ethics

I’m hoping to study Sociology & Politics at Sheffield University next year, and go into Politics as my career. I am so honoured to be a Senior Prefect and can’t wait to get involved in everything. Whether that’s at Open Days or other school events, but also being a role model for younger students. By having this opportunity, it enables me to be able to have a greater presence amongst the School community, which is really important for me!

Infant and Junior School Head Girls

We are also thrilled to share that our Infant and Junior School Head Girls for the next academic year will be Chiedza Ushewokunze and Annabelle Seymour.

‘We are looking forward to working together as a team, especially on different events and with the younger girls. We are so excited to be Head Girls!’

Year 7

Experience Day

To prepare for life in the Senior School, our Year 5 pupils had fun making new friends with visiting pupils in the Senior School, whilst participating in exciting workshops including Careers, Maths and Art.

International Women’s Day

In March we came together to celebrate International Women’s Day across the School and #BreakTheBias. This year, our Year 12 Peer Educators delivered lessons on how to challenge gender stereotypes, our Head Girl team hosted an assembly about internalised misogyny and our Infant and Junior School pupils explored women’s literature in their library. We value being able to come together as a through school community to celebrate women’s achievements, raise awareness against bias and take action for equality.

– from the poem Leisure, by W.H. Davies.

‘What is this life, if full of care, We have no time to stand and stare?’

Left: Chiedza and Annabelle after being awarded their Head Girl badges.

ACHIEVEMENTS

STEM at S heffield Girls’

From Robotics to Space Technology to the TeenTech Awards, STEM at Sheffield Girls’ continues to grow every year and we are so proud of all that our students have achieved this year.

Science week

Our Infant and Juniors donned their lab coats to explore and discover. Creating sweetie rainbows offered them the chance to look at soluble solutions, whilst setting up sparkly explosions was all part of the fun when looking at mixing acids. The girls also considered the structural integrity of shapes as they trod on eggshells and built triangle towers. To wrap up the week our Infant and Junior School pupils hosted an interactive and informative science fair for their fellow classmates, parents and carers. Their investigations ranged from animal habitats, to the growth and development of the human body, with each display showcasing an in-depth knowledge of their chosen topic. It was wonderful to see our pupils passionately sharing their learning with their family and friends.

Focusing on the theme of ‘Growth’, pupils from across the Senior School learned about brain development in our assembly, about the wonderful world of fungi in form periods and then planted sunflower seeds in the school grounds.

A group of our Year 9 students enjoyed workshops at Sheffield Hallam University, testing the quality of their hand washing with UV light, researching technology originally developed by NASA to improve the efficiency and sustainability of chocolate production and looking at equipment used in rice production to reduce damage and waste. This was a great opportunity for our girls to explore careers for women in science and engineering within the food production industry.

Above: Year 9 visiting the labs at Sheffield Hallam University.

Below Left: Sunflower seed planting on the back grass.

Below: Year 9 students using UV light to test the quality of their hand washing.

In March, we enjoyed our whole school Science Week and also celebrated International Day of Women and Girls in Science.

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We caught up with our Robotics leads Dawn Pooley and Lucy Williams, from the Infant and Junior School, and Jackie Morton, from the Senior School, to hear about the highlights from this year.

Infant and Junior School

In 2018, we were fortunate to be awarded funding from HSBC UK which allowed us to purchase World Educational Robots (WER) and develop a curriculum using the robots for our pupils. Within a year Sheffield Girls’ was seen as the leading World Educational Robotics (WER) primary school in the UK. This year pupils in Years 4 to 6 continued to use WER alongside their curriculum to develop their problem solving, reasoning, resilience and programming skills. Year 5 developed their ability to programme robots to line follow

around a mat, which can be used to send messages to alert people about natural disasters.

We expanded our use of BBC Micro:bits in school and pupils as young as Year 2 have enjoyed learning about programming. The BBC Micro:bit is a small but powerful piece of technology that allows pupils to use block programming to develop their computing skills. From programming a simple rock, paper, scissors game to using it as a tool in Science lessons, the BBC Micro:bit has further enriched our curriculum. We are looking forward to developing the use of the BBC Micro:bit in the curriculum, including using it to introduce Year 6 pupils to Python, using the accelerometer and exploring data logging

In addition to the robotics provision for our own pupils, we run the UK Primary WER hub for our wider

community, with collaboration and support for WER teachers, primary schools and external organisations being at the heart of this project. When schools join our hub, they gain free access to teacher training, a class set of WER robots for a term, curriculum planning, teaching resources and ongoing help and advice to enable robotics and programming to be accessible for as many pupils as possible.

We ended the year on a high, hosting our regional WER competition. The event provided an opportunity for our pupils and pupils from schools across the city to showcase their robotics and programming skills in front of their peers, parents and judges from the STEM community. We were delighted to host so many passionate participants and look forward to future events and collaborations next year.

Left: Robotics programming at our WER competition.

Our Computing and Robotics curriculum extends across our entire School, enabling pupils to develop key life skills, computational thinking and programming skills in both Computing lessons and extra curricular activities.

Senior School

Tomorrow’s Engineers UK Robotics Challenge

For the last six years we have taken part in the Tomorrow’s Engineers UK Robotics Challenge. This requires students to work together as a team to solve real-world engineering, technology and computing challenges. In preparing for the challenge, our students use robotics, design and discovery to design, build, programme and control LEGO robots to complete a series of short missions set each year by the challenge organisers. This year’s competition was based upon an environmental theme, giving students the opportunity to discover what engineers can do to create a cleaner, more sustainable world.

This year our robotics team was made up of Karen Shendy from Year 7, Aliza Ghafoor from Year 8, Amara Ramlakhan and Emily Phillips from Year 9. They were supported by Rania Delaimi from Year 10 who helped to run the Robotics Club as the leadership element of her Silver Duke of Edinburgh award. The team enjoyed designing and programming their Lego robot to solve a range of challenges around the theme of improving the environment. In addition to the programming and design skills that taking part in the competition requires, our students developed a wide range of related skills such as team work, problem solving, resilience, and gained an understanding more about the careers available in engineering. They learnt into how engineers can use technology to improve quality of life and specifically how robotics and programming can be used to provide solutions to a range of real world problems.

At the regional competition day, our team presented on how genetically modified organisms and

bioengineering can be used as a way to create stable food supplies in the future, linking to other areas of their STEM learning. The team worked hard on refining their robot design and programming to meet both aspects of this challenge, and were delighted to be awarded the Bronze place in the regional competition.

Bebras Computing Challenge

In our Senior School Computing lessons, students have continued to develop their programming and computational thinking skills through a range of problem solving and logical thinking activities. All our Senior School students take part in the annual Bebras Computing Challenge, sponsored by Oxford University, which tests computational thinking. This year we were delighted that 27 students from Year 7 through to Year 13 achieved in the top 10% nationally. They were awarded the Gold Award and were invited to take part in the Oxford University Computing Challenge. Jorja Plummer in Year 13, Jessica Harrity in Year 9 and Myra Soni in Year 8, went on to achieve a highly commendable Merit level in their age group of this prestigious competition.

GDST Space Technology Programme

This year our Year 12 students took part in the first GDST Space Technology Programme. This is a joint project between Sheffield, Sutton and Oxford High Schools. The purpose of the project was to enable students to develop their programming skills through working on projects linked to real-life problems in the space industry.

It covered a range of computer science related disciplines including communications, electronics, data analysis, and of, course programming and also linked more widely to other STEM areas such as Mathematics, Physics, and Astronomy.

Rina Yokoyama-Nichols and Zahra Ahmad are both studying A Level Computer Science and were keen to take part in this extra-curricular project to broaden and deepen their understanding of the subject. They took part in weekly seminars which involved understanding an aspect of space technology and then looking at how data capture, data analysis, and programming skills can be used to store and process data in order to produce useful information for space scientists and engineers.

They also took part in a visit to the University of Hertfordshire where they gained insights into undergraduate level programming projects, as well as trying out landing a plane in the flight simulator. The project culminated in a conference at GDST Head Office which was attended by various space industry professionals, including staff from NASA. The students carried out an investigation set for them by the NASA experts and presented their findings back to the panel of professionals. We were delighted our students were able to participate in such an exciting and innovative project, alongside pupils from other GDST schools, to expand and consolidate their Computer Science learning.

Zahra, Year 12

The Computing and Robotics curriculum at Sheffield Girls’, starts right from our Year 2 pupils programming BBC Micro:bits, through to Year 13 students programming solutions to solve problems in the space tech industry, it provides our students with a broad understanding of the importance of this subject area, as well as an extensive range of skills that will prepare them for future careers and Post-18 life in an everchanging world.

Above: Rina at the GDST Space Technology programme.

‘Its helped me to develop the skills I’ve already learned in Computer Science lessons and helps me to meet other people from GDST schools.’

Above: Treak Cliff explorers. Right: Winta and Nong presenting their project in London.

TeenTech Awards

Over a four month period, three teams from Sheffield Girls’ worked to develop an innovative solution to a real life problem in a variety of different STEM categories as part of the TeenTech Awards.

The event presents a powerful opportunity for our students, alongside 18,000 young people from across the UK, to develop their potential and showcase qualities which are appreciated by both employers and Higher Education.

Sophie Li-Heathcote and Chuxuan Liu were awarded Silver for developing an app that was designed to reduce waiting times in A&E departments.

Suhani Kansra, Hadzher Masteva and Lucy Walters came up with a design for a floating house, as a sustainable solution to areas of the world where flooding is becoming more problematic. They were awarded a Gold Award and were invited to the finals awards event.

Geology in the Junior School

Our Senior School Geology teacher Mr Speed led a series of rock classification lessons with our Year 3 pupils.

Categories like hardness, porosity and appearance were considered, and our girls took to the tasks with lots of enthusiasm.

Mr Speed also hosted a Geology club for our Year 5 pupils over the Summer Term and they took an exciting trip to Treak Cliff to put their learning into practice.

We really value the time our Senior School teachers take to give our Infant and Junior classes a taste of what subjects are on offer as they get older. It’s a fantastic benefit of being a through school from Reception to Year 13, and we love to see pupils experience learning beyond their own curriculum.

Winta Surafel, Ishita Nagineni and Nong Mi Yu developed an app and website for their product, Securify. This is a product designed to support older people, and those who are less technologically savvy, with cyber security. As well as being awarded a Silver in the Security category they were also highlighted as national finalists in the BT Digital Skills category. The team had a super trip down to London where they presented their idea to judges who were specialists in the area. They received outstanding feedback and we were delighted that they were selected winners in their category.

A taste of Senior School Science for our Junior School pupils

Over the past year our Junior School pupils have taken part in exciting experiments in the Senior School Science labs.

Our Year 6 pupils donned their safety goggles and lab coats, and extracted DNA from strawberries in the Senior Biology labs! Supporting their curriculum learning, the experiments involved mashing up strawberries, straining the liquid, and adding an enzyme to pull the gloopy DNA from the strawberry mixture.

Later in the year our Year 4 pupils visited the Senior School for an exciting workshop about all things electricity with Mr Brewer and Mr Carter.

Our Year 5 pupils had a super, and slightly slimy, trip to the Chemistry labs for a Custard Chemistry workshop.

Year 7 test their Mathematical thinking outside the classroom

In June, the Maths department hosted our annual Year 7 Mathematics activity day. Our students participated in a variety of fun and challenging puzzles, problems and tasks throughout the day, which provided an excellent opportunity to develop and support mathematical thinking skills.

Our Year 7s collaborated in their house teams, supported by teachers and Year 12 helpers. They were awarded marks based on accuracy, presentation and their ability to work as a team.

We were delighted to welcome parents and carers to join students in the afternoon for a presentation of prizes to celebrate all their hard work and application of mathematical skills and techniques.

Anya, Year 6

Above Left: Custard Chemistry in the Senior School labs.

Left: Electricity workshop in the Senior School labs.

‘It’s lovely to see the pupils before they become Seniors.’

Miss Crowther, Senior Biology Teacher

‘It’s the immersion into the experiment, it makes them excited to learn.’

Miss Rutkowski , Year 6 Teacher

‘I never knew science could be so much fun!’

Year 11 students achieve CREST Awards

CREST Awards is a national scheme that inspires young people to think and behave like scientists and engineers. At the start of the year, two of our Year 11 students, Grace Mitchell and Rebekah Hald completed their Silver CREST Awards. Grace gained her award for the completion of her project ‘The Calm Collar’, which involved researching and developing a dog collar that plays music to control dog behaviour. Rebekah’s project focused on ‘Fairground Physics’ using Lego, construction materials and minifigures, to investigate different parameters that affect fairground rides. CREST Award submissions develop our students’ ability to be independent and reflective learners and we are looking forward to seeing our students’ future investigations and innovations as part of the Awards.

Nina Gunson and Christepher Hald appointed Visiting Fellows at STEM Learning

We’re delighted that our Head Nina, and Head of Infant and Juniors, Christepher are taking up prestigious positions at the largest provider of STEM education and careers support in the UK.

STEM Learning works to develop and support the expertise of teachers and school and college leaders; inspire groups and communities; and engage employers and industry. Nina and Chris will be joining a highly successful organisation with a vision to achieve ‘a world-leading STEM education for all young people across the UK’.

As experts in their field as both Science teachers and School leaders, and in their new capacity as Visiting Fellows, our School Heads will support the next phase of development at STEM Learning ensuring that their support packages engage senior leaders to raise the quality of teaching and learning of STEM subjects for all young people.

The initial fellowship period will focus on: the evaluation of STEM Learning’s current Continuing Professional Development and support offer; developing communication strategies to target senior leaders across the sector; and raising the quality and impact of STEM education.

Reflecting on her own career and her appointment with STEM Learning, Nina said:

Operation Vulcan

Operation Vulcan is an innovative project for primary and secondary schools. Funding has been secured for a new Vulcan XH558 museum. Sheffield Girls’ Year 8 pupils, Isabelle, Inayat, Freycinet and Kaiyan and Year 10 pupils, Emily, Manya, Maryam, Sophie and Priyanka, were invited to play a part in designing the way artefacts are displayed and showcased in the new purpose built facility. We value the partnerships we have with our wider community and the opportunities they present our girls to put their learning into practice.

‘As teachers, I believe, we all go into education to make a difference to the lives of young people. As a Science teacher,

I wanted my pupils to develop the same enthusiasm for science that I have, to recognise how transferable scientific skills are and to see how many careers are open to someone with a science degree. As a school leader, I have been able to play a more strategic role and have had the privilege to work in partnership with other schools and universities to improve city wide experiences and results. I still want my pupils to share my love of science, but above all, I want them to be equipped with the skills to be the innovators, the policy makers and the society shapers of the future.

To have the opportunity to join STEM Learning as a Visiting Fellow and play a leadership role across the national STEM Learning network is something I am incredibly excited by. Whilst I hope the contributions and insights Chris and I can offer will be of value to STEM Learning, I am confident that we too will learn a great deal and this can only be of benefit to Sheffield Girls’.

‘I am so proud of what the team achieved. Our pupils worked together independently to research, reflect and then produce what is a really inspirational vision of a sustainable, community garden. They put in a huge amount of work at a very busy time of the academic year and I was absolutely delighted that they were justly rewarded with the Best Overall Project.’

In July, our Year 9 Bronze Industrial Cadets team, Amara Ramlakhan, Sophie Hutchinson, Sophie Hurst, Joy Zhang and Samira Rahman, competed against over 35 other schools and were crowned the North of England Winners at the EDT Bronze Industrial Cadets regional awards ceremony.

The Industrial Cadets Bronze project helps students develop key skills for learning, life and work, as well as highlighting the exciting careers and opportunities available in STEM.

Our team, directed by project manager Amara, worked on the project Our Green Garden and produced a website (designed and built by Sophie), poster, video and written report to support their team presentation. The team were supported by mentor Joe Veale from Sheffield Forgemasters who visited our school to advise them on the viability of making their vision a reality. They were also invited to attend a tour of the main Sheffield Forgemasters site, where they saw the vast range of engineering skills required to cast huge objects that

had a range of uses, including in nuclear submarines.

Project manager Amara, said ‘During the project not only did myself and my team learn about time management, report writing skills, perseverance and gain more knowledge on topics that interested us, but we also developed a bond that strengthened the more we met together. I cannot choose only one thing that I enjoyed the most, as all the different aspects excited me equally. From the build-up to the final project, our visit to Forgemasters and

the visit to the finals where we got to show our project to other schools and take part in the challenger award and found out that we had won the award for Best Overall Project! This was such a great opportunity for us all to take part in and I know I speak for my entire team when I say how much we benefited from this project.’

Alongside their award our students graduate as Bronze-level Industrial Cadets, a nationally recognised award that they can use as evidence of their experience and take forward to complement their future applications and career journeys.

Year 9 students announced as North of England champions at Industrial Cadets Bronze STEM project awards

Mrs Hill, Head of Science and Industrial Cadets mentor

Above: Bronze Cadet team at regional awards.

Art, Music and Drama

It’s been another exciting and busy year across our Art, Music and Drama departments. Our girls seized the opportunities to be involved in live performances, trips, a collaboration project with an iconic brand and much more.

Lights, camera, action!

In March, we were thrilled to welcome guests from across our School community to three exciting musical performances of The Wind in the Willows. Students from across Years 7-13 delighted audiences with a spectacular display of music, singing, dancing and acting.

Our students and staff worked incredibly hard in their preparation and across the live performances, we were delighted to see our girls work together and express their passions outside of the classroom with such confidence and professionalism.

The musical gave our pupils the opportunity to come together, meeting and making friends with students across other year groups, something they have missed out on over recent years. Keeley Morton, Head of Drama, said:

‘We have really missed the buzz of having a live audience and the excitement and the build up. We’ve not done a musical for a few years so it was a new and exciting challenge’.

We were so proud to see our older students being excellent role models for our younger pupils, offering support, guidance and encouragement throughout the preparation and performances.

We are looking forward to sharing next year’s school play with our community and our students can’t wait to take to the stage again.

‘It was one of the highlights of this year.’

Ellie Styan, Year 10

‘I’m already excited for the next play because it’s a really nice community and atmosphere.’

Natalie Fooks, Year 8

Top and Right: The Wind in the Willows cast performing live on stage.

Summer Serenade

Audiences were dazzled at our annual Summer Serenade concert in June, which featured music from our Key Stage 3 ensembles and choirs as well as many talented soloists. We were so proud to see so many of our girls’ exhibiting our School Values, supporting each other to have the confidence to perform in front of a live audience.

Pirates of the Curry Bean

Our Year 6 girls ended the Summer Term on a high, dazzling audiences with their fantastic singing, acting and dancing at the Year 6 end of year production

Pirates of The Curry Bean. It was a great opportunity to share their final performance as Infant and Junior School students with friends and family, before they move onto our Senior School. Our girls also put on a special performance for their younger peers, and we are sure their courage to perform in front of a live audience has inspired our next generation performers.

The Music Department takes on Alton Towers

In May, for the first time in three years, we were delighted to reinstate our annual Alton Towers Music Fun Day Out. 92 of our students were rewarded for their commitment to Music throughout the year, including extra curricular clubs and the Wind in the Willows production. We were grateful to Riya Nagaraja in Year 8 for winning another unicorn mascot for the Music Department, who we have named ‘Mrs Towers’!

Sheffield Young Artists exhibition

In May, students from across the School participated in the Sheffield Young Artists Exhibition, which aims to promote Sheffield as a ‘City of Excellence for Young People’s Art’.

This is the largest exhibition of its kind in the country, with over 1,000 pieces of young artists’ work displayed to the public each year. Submission categories include drawing, painting and mixed media and we were thrilled to see a selection of our students’ artwork exhibited from Key Stage 1 through to Key Stage 5.

This year, the Sheffield Young Artists Exhibition model was adopted by Sheffield’s sister city Bochum in

Germany. As part of their first exhibition, several pieces of our students’ artwork were displayed in Bochum, including pieces by Year 5 pupil Sapphire and Year 12 pupil Alex.

Congratulations to all of the pupils involved. We look forward to seeing a selection of their artwork from this exhibition displayed at The Great Sheffield Art Show and Art In The [Botanical] Gardens in the coming months.

Botanical Gardens art trip

Inspired by their Henri Rousseau topic, in January, our Year 5 pupils took a trip to the Botanical Gardens, working on their sketching skills in beautiful surroundings. We value being able to utilise the local area to enable our girls to expand their learning outside the classroom.

Photography Enrichment

All members of Year 12 take part in one hour of timetabled enrichment activities every week, choosing from a range of classes from Marketing, to Model United Nations, to Sport, Fitness and Leadership.

Enrichment focuses on broadening personal skills and offering students another opportunity to follow their passions.

This year’s photography enrichment students have created a photography website showcasing a selection of work from their projects, including information about the techniques used and background behind each project.

Art in the Gardens

In September, our Junior artists showcased their work at the Art in the Gardens Young Artists Exhibition, one of the North’s largest outdoor art markets. It was a great way to celebrate our girl’s work with family and friends!

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‘I am very proud of the effort and output of these wonderfully talented photographers.’

Kevin Mowatt, Teacher of Art

The Paper Birds Theatre Company visit Year 10 Drama lessons

The Paper Birds is a devising theatre company, with a social and political agenda. They are recognised as UK leaders in verbatim theatre. In February, they helped our students shape material for their own devised assessment and take it to a more sophisticated level. It was a really great day and the students are now armed with a whole host of techniques to strengthen the quality of their own performances.

Gloria in Excelsis

In May we were delighted to welcome pupils from Birkdale School, as part of our joint Sixth Form Choir, for a spectacular performance of Vivaldi’s Gloria. Our choir, alongside instrumentalists from both schools, treated audiences to a polished and impressive concert. We were delighted to welcome our wider community to enjoy a wonderful celebration of performing arts.

A Partnership with Porsche

This year, in a unique collaboration with Porsche Sheffield, our Year 11 and Year 13 Art students designed and created an iconic Porsche Art Car.

With the aim of introducing students to the huge range of career opportunities open to women within the automotive industry, our girls spent six months working in groups, to a brief set by the team at Porsche, creating themes and mood boards before pulling their ideas together to create a unique design that has been wrapped on a Porsche Taycan electric car.

Students explored themes of emancipation, women’s rights and ‘reclaiming the feminine narrative’ to inspire their collaborative design during this partnership project.

The car was unveiled at the Porsche Sheffield showroom in March 2022 and guests heard from Year 13 Art prefect Maria, who outlined the feminist themes captured within the imagery as well as viewing an exhibition of Year 12 portraiture work.

Porsche UK CEO, Sarah Simpson, also spoke to guests about her own experiences in the automotive industry and the many avenues open

to school leavers and graduates looking for a challenging career within the field.

Nina Gunson said, ‘This partnership project has given our students the opportunity to collaborate with an iconic brand and explore the power of art and design to convey meaning and challenge thinking, as well as find out more about the huge range of careers open to women in the automotive industry.

Our students have worked incredibly hard to produce a beautiful and thought-provoking piece of art, which we look forward to seeing around the streets of Sheffield in the coming weeks.’

‘A fantastic initiative bringing together a very talented group of young women to produce a stunning piece of art that reflects diversity and inclusion.’

Sarah Simpson, CEO Porsche Cars GB

Designers, artists, and creative minds came together in February for our annual Year 9 Design Day

Designed to allow Year 9 to learn more about the varied career paths that can stem from studying art, the girls hear from a variety of artistic and creative professionals, before completing a sustainable design challenge together in the afternoon.

In the morning, our pupils heard from alumna Kat Payne, a silversmith who works in an acclaimed workshop based in Sheffield. Another one of our wonderful alumna, Holly Smith, talked about her Masters studies in Art Law at the University of York. Professor Abigail Harrison-Moore presented about her specialism of Art History and Museum Studies, at the University of Leeds where she is based. Matthew Stripling from Porsche Sheffield talked about design and creativity in the automotive industry.

Our students were able to ask questions and learn more about artistic and creative career paths, to better understand how our guest speakers got to where they are today.

In the afternoon, the year group created accessories and costumes made from sustainable and eco-friendly materials and processes, and strutted their stuff down the catwalk! We were thrilled to see so many creative and interesting looks, and the girls certainly enjoyed their experiences.

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Raisa Hasan, Year 11

Isabel Andrew Pickles, Year 11

Isabel Andrew Pickles, Year 11

Neelum Ahmed, Year 11

Isabella Thorpe, Year 11

Raisa Hasan, Year 11

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Charlotte Wadsworth, Year 11

Anavi Hosaangaadi, Year 11

Isabella Thorpe, Year 11

Anavi Hosaangaadi, Year 11

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Mahsa Rahimi, Year 13

Alex Lam, Year 13

Alex Lam, Year 13

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Mahsa Rahimi, Year 13

Maria Christofilopoulou, Year 13

Maria Christofilopoulou, Year 13

English, Languages and Humanities

Anyaa and Maddison awarded Pearson and Silver Award for Classics

In May, we were pleased to announce that Year 11 student Anyaa and Year 12 student Maddison had been awarded a GDST Pearson and Silver Award, recognising their passion and dedication to studying Classics.

The award recognises enthusiasm and academic excellence in studying Classics. All students at GDST schools are eligible to apply, and the winners receive financial contributions towards studying a course with classical content. When asked about what motivated her to apply for the award, Anyaa said, ‘I really enjoy studying Latin and learning about Classical Civilisation. I wanted to take the opportunity to further my knowledge. Much of the work I have done in Latin has been on language. I found this really fascinating because of the way sentences can be structured. Finding out about different suffixes and prefixes helped me to understand where words in English came from.

I was awarded an Academic Scholarship in Latin for Sixth Form; I chose to do this exam in Latin because it is a subject I enjoy and translating Latin texts into English feels almost like second nature to me.’

Below: Anyaa and Maddison receive their awards.

Maddison said ‘I’m proud to have been awarded a Pearson Award from the GDST this year. I will use the money to attend a two week Latin summer school program in Harrogate. I am excited to explore more Latin beyond the curriculum, as well as meet more like-minded people of a similar age and learn from a brilliant programme of guest speakers.’

When asked about her passion for Latin, Maddison said ‘I have been able to go off on my own research tangents (which have led to a Classics based EPQ). It’s helped me realise that in many ways people today aren’t too different to 2,000 years ago.

Maddison, Year 12

‘Being able to study ancient languages in the supported school environment has allowed my passion to thrive.’

GDST Chrystall Prize Success for Year 11 Suhani

Year 11 student Suhani triumphed at the GDST wide Chrystall Prize public speaking competition in March, with her speech in the final entitled The concept of equality is too complex to be attainable.

The esteemed Chrystall Prize competition brings together Year 11 students from across GDST schools, to voice their opinions on the most prevalent debates in modern society. Set up in memory of former GDST Deputy Legal Secretary, Chrystall Carter, the competition holds extra meaning for the girls. Chrystall had a strong belief in the power of reasoned argument, and this competition provides a platform for girls to build confidence and have their voices heard.

Suhani’s final speech to the judges alluded to the notion of being fair, highlighting that although we may never achieve complete equality in society, we should aim to build a world in which we treat people with integrity and fairness.

‘Winning the prize felt amazing. After all the hard work and effort I had put in, it felt like such a huge reward and it was nice to get comments from the judges afterwards as they are really inspirational figures.’

Suhani, Year 11

Asha awarded GDST Poetry Prize

In July, we were delighted to hear that Year 8 student, Asha, had been awarded one of the GDST’s longest running prizes – the GDST Laurie Magnus Poetry Prize for her poem, Window.

It was established in memory of Sir Laurie Magnus, a GDST Council member from 1907, and Chairman from 1929 until 1933. The poems, with entrances in six age related categories from across the GDST, were judged by Claudia Daventry, who’s poetry and essays have been published in review, anthologies and poetry magazines around the

A snippet from the poem, Window:

‘For the first time, I looked up.

The window was open.

The World’s Gone French

In December, our Year 7 students had the chance to watch a French play called The World’s Gone French. It was a fantastic opportunity for Year 7 to immerse themselves in a foreign language and develop their skills further. It was enjoyed by all, even those who have not previously studied French!

National Foreign Languages Spelling Bee

We were delighted that Year 7 students Kara-Mae, Aimin and Tithkar, competed against over 1,700 students across the Yorkshire and the Humber region and made it to the national finals of the Foreign Language Spelling Bee. In June, they participated in a challenging final at Cambridge University, competing in French, Spanish and German.

world. Reflecting on Asha’s poem, Claudia said: ‘Window – a poem de nos jours about being enslaved by social media. I was impressed by this poet’s ability to elevate a prosaic, daily-newsfeed type subject to the status of poetry. Once again, the natural world saves the day. Let’s hope the enslaved are inspired.’

Year 10 Jomana placed in the top 5 in national languages competition

Soft purple crocus heads danced with suppressed joy.

Clouds hurried away across the horizon.

Rain soaked trees opened their arms to the sky.

I looked up.’

Year 10 student Jomana Khamas competed in the national secondary school competition, Nutty Tilez in June. This tough competition involves translating a range of words and structures in timed conditions against other students, offering Jomana an opportunity to put her language’s learning to the test. Jomana’s hard work paid off and we were thrilled that she placed 5th out of 10,595 students who took part.

Right: Suhani receives her award.

Business and Enterprise

Our budding entrepreneurs and economists have excelled this year, participating in a number of challenging competitions and extra curricular programmes to put their learning into practice.

Success at YES!

The Young Economic Summit – YES! is a new national competition for UK schools, that focuses on developing a solution to a current topic in economics, politics, society and the environment.

Following a competitive application process, our team (Isabelle Watts, Priya Choker, Amran Bains, Jasmine Barry and Millicent Brock) was selected as one of five in the UK to work with German researchers to promote cross border cooperation in support of solving current issues.

Our team have been working with Steffen Müller, from Universität Hamburg, to find solutions to the problem of discrimination and integrating migrants within society. The team have used a scientific approach and recent academic research to devise a targeted approach to tackle misinformation.

They have developed a two fold solution, including a PSHE programme for primary schools to tackle misconceptions about migrants and a social media campaign to target older age groups.

Our team attended the final stages of the competition at Warwick University at the beginning of the summer break and we were delighted to hear they placed in the top two UK teams, meaning they will go on to represent the UK in the international finals which are taking place in Hamburg in September.

Good luck team!

Above: Our YES competitors enjoy the sun after a long session on Zoom.

BiG Challenge 2022

The BiG Challenge is an enterprise competition open to all Year 7-9 students in Sheffield.

Each team has the opportunity to design and grow a business from a £25 start up loan.

The BiG Challenge 2022 Awards event, held at the Cutlers’ Hall in March, celebrated the top teams from this year’s competition. The awards recognised achievements in a range of categories including creativity, marketing and sustainability.

We were elated that Year 9 pupil Charlotte won The Harvey Morton Digital Award for Marketing and Sales and several of our teams were recognised in the following categories:

Best Ad: Tote-ally Music – Angel Sandhu, Joanna Gun, Alysha Ferreira, Melissa Muzulu, Rosie Sparks

Best Ad: Woolfully – Charlotte Hellewell, Violet Fox-Smith

Best Media: Bloom – Janice Du, Jasmine Billing, Chensy Chen, Tegist Gebrhiwot

Best Sales Pitch: Tote-ally Music – Angel Sandhu, Joanna Gun, Alysha Ferreira, Melissa Muzulu, Rosie Sparks

Best Branding: Bake It Frame It – Anjali Verma, Havanna Holmes, Aanya Shadija, Namratha Naveen

Above: Charlotte collects her award.

Lahari attends prestigious summer school thanks to a GDST bursary

We were delighted that Year 13 student Lahari was awarded a GDST bursary in partnership with the London School of Economics, to attend their summer school programme.

Lahari, alongside students from across the GDST, submitted an application letter about her aspirations and motivations for attending the LSE summer school, and we were delighted that she was selected for this opportunity to further her experience and learning in an area she is passionate about. Lahari will attend a three week Strategic Management course, which includes lectures, seminars and assignments, providing her with a certificate of achievement upon completion and invaluable experience to prepare her for the next stage of education.

When asked about her motivation to apply for the programme, Lahari said:

‘I wanted the opportunity to further my knowledge in management, an area that I am very passionate about, ahead of starting my undergraduate studies at Oxford in September, and experience the different teaching styles from experts in their field at a world class university. It helped me to gain an understanding about how degree level courses are taught and the environment.’

Young Enterprise Regional Champions

This year, as part of Young Enterprise, a team of eight students created a business called AquaTherm. Their idea was to create an insulated water bucket holder which would stop water left outside from freezing during the winter, a common problem in the equine industry.

Our AquaTherm team was Harmony Harrop, Emily-May Cutler, Ella Payne, Elinor Cropley, Isabelle Watts, Priya Choker, Gaganjit Khaira and Sophie Berry. The team navigated every stage of setting up and running a business, they raised finance by selling shares and holding fund raising events, carried out extensive market research to find out exactly what their target market wanted, created a number of different prototypes ranging from polystyrene jackets to an insulated spray foam mould and after much deliberation the team decided these ideas

were not sustainable enough, and so, they started to contact local manufacturers. Working in conjunction with Eadon, an engineering business with expertise in design and analysis, the team produced a flat packed product made from recycled plastic, with the option to use sustainable insulating material such as lambs wool.

The team worked extremely hard in the competition and we were delighted that they were announced as the South and West Yorkshire champions and also received the award for Innovation at the Regional Finals. Maybe one day you will see AquaTherm on Dragon’s Den!

Above: Lahari Paladugu.

Above (both): AquaTherm’s prototypes.

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This year we were delighted to resume our clubs, practices, fixtures, residentials and trips. It has been wonderful to see the girls reignite and develop their passions in both the curricular and co-curricular sports activities we offer at Sheffield Girls’.

Movement Evening

Our annual Movement evening at the Octagon Centre was back in full swing in December and we really valued being able to welcome our School community to join us and celebrate the hard work and talent of everyone involved. Our girls from across the Infant, Junior and Senior School, were tumbling, bouncing, leaping and spinning across the stage, showcasing the hard work and commitment they had put in during the Autumn Term. The event is led by our dance captains and senior sports leaders and it was wonderful to see them acting as excellent role models for our younger pupils. We can’t wait to see the performances at next year’s event!

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Skateboarding

Building on the Summer’s Olympic excitement and the success of GB skateboarder Sky Brown, we enlisted our friends at The House Skatepark to offer all Year 9 and Year 10 students the opportunity to try out skateboarding. We were astounded by how much progress the girls’ made in their sessions, displaying great balance and even attempting ramps at speed unaided. It was brilliant to see our girls seize the opportunity to learn a new skill and we look forward to introducing further co-curricular opportunities.

Infant and Junior School Sports Day

Our Infant and Junior School girls had a wonderful time at their Sports Day in June. We were delighted to welcome parents and carers to the English Institute of Sport for an exciting day of track and field events. Two of our wonderful parents, Helen and Amy, made hundreds of house coloured accessories for our girls to wear on the day, and future house events.

Above (both): Movement Evening at the Octagon Centre. Above Right: Skateboarding session. Right: Infant and Junior School Sports Day at the EIS.

Condover Hall Residential Weekend

In March, our Year 6 and Year 8 girls attended the Condover Hall GDST Netball residential weekend, a highlight in the sporting calendar for our students and the first sporting residential since the pandemic. The girls were super excited, along with the staff, and we saw outstanding performances across all five squads. The weekend saw the girls taking part not only in netball, but high rope courses, leaps of faith, laser quest, climbing and abseiling, pushing themselves out of their comfort zones, which most definitely called on our school value of courage! The opportunity for girls to compete and play alongside their GDST peers, whilst building bonds and creating memories with their teammates, was invaluable and we can’t wait to attend again next year.

Wimbledon trip

We were delighted to offer 40 pupils the opportunity to attend a trip to Wimbledon. Girl’s were quick to snap up the opportunity and enjoyed the opportunity to visit Centre Court, stand in the player’s box, watch all play on outdoor courts, enjoy spectating from Henman Hill and allocated seats for play on Court Two which included watching Jamie Murray in the Men’s Doubles competition. Our pupils have learnt lots of new techniques to put into practice in their tennis lessons and had a wonderful time making memories to last a lifetime!

Senior School Sports Day

Sports Day is back! And what an amazing day it was. The weather was glorious and we saw our girls having fun, embracing being back together and showcasing their sporting abilities for friends and family. This year we welcomed Year 6 to join us, giving them a glimpse into the Senior School events they’ll soon be enjoying. They got thoroughly stuck into all the events and we hope it will help their transition into Year 7. Our Year 12 girls put lots of effort into their fancy dress outfits and really made sure they brought the fun factor for all our pupil, staff and parents! Years 7, 8 and 9 had not yet experienced a Senior School sports day so it was extra special to share this day with all our girls. Congratulations to everyone who took part and to our overall winners Stanley House.

Below: Senior Sports Day.

Above: Our pupils at Wimbledon.

Left: Netballers at Condover Hall.

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Early Years at Sheffield Girls’

Whilst teaching core skills and concepts such as reading and numbers is fundamental to what we do in Reception, there is so much more to our curriculum. Our Fusion Curriculum creates an environment for challenging and creative learning whilst building skills and knowledge. It is bursting with opportunities for the girls to develop a lifelong love of learning, with a focus on not just what girls need to learn but how they learn it. Here’s a snippet of what our Infant School got up to over the past year.

I’m encouraged and supported to have my own ideas

I am resilient and persevere when things are tough

I’m proud of what I achieved

I’m keen to have a go and try something new

I can find more than one way of doing something

I make links and connections with my learning

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SEND support at Sheffield Girls’

At Sheffield Girls’, we want to ensure that all our pupils achieve their potential through the removal of barriers to learning and participation. Our Learning Support team is a crucial part of ensuring the full integration and inclusion of all pupils in the life of the School and to maximise their learning potential.

We visited the Learning Support hub, based in the Infant School, to ask Michelle Bates and Zoë Holmes, our through school SENCo’s, about learning support across Sheffield Girls’.

What is your role at Sheffield Girls’?

From September, we will be sharing the role of Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENCo) across the whole school (Reception to Year 13). Miss Holmes will also be continuing her role as Learning Support Teacher for part of the week and we also have another Learning Support Teacher, Mrs Godbole, who works across the Infant and Junior School.

How do we identify when a student may require additional support?

We use a variety of sources to help us identify pupils with additional learning needs, including:

• Information from parents about existing learning difficulties

• Teacher observations

• Information from previous educational settings

• Entrance examination results

• Ongoing teacher assessment

• Cognitive ability tests in Year 7 (MidYIS)

• Screening tests for spelling, reading and writing (Year 7 and Year 9)

• Screening tests for Examination Access Arrangements (Year 9 onwards)

In addition, pupils now feel confident and comfortable to approach us if they feel that they may have additional learning needs.

How do we celebrate difference at Sheffield Girls’?

Neurodiversity Celebration Week was a huge success this year! We delivered assemblies and produced materials for pupils to explore different types of neurodiversity and to learn more about the strengths of those who are neurodivergent.

Neurodiversity isn’t a taboo subject at Sheffield Girls’. Some of the pupils with autism have been sharing their experiences of being neurodivergent with their peers or with younger pupils to provide a support network. This has deepened understanding and allowed pupils to further embrace their differences.

How do we support our pupils?

We are lucky to have a wonderful Learning Support Hub where pupils feel welcome and supported both academically and emotionally. We are in the process of creating a sensory zone to provide a sanctuary to those with autism or for those who may be feeling emotionally overwhelmed.

Staff are provided with pupil profiles for all pupils who have an additional need. This indicates the areas of challenge for those pupils and gives strategies for the teachers to follow to ensure that each individual’s needs are met. From September we will be starting to develop the role of the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Champions in the Senior School. These are teacher representatives from each department who will help us to ensure that the needs of pupils with SEND are fully met within their curriculum area.

In the Infant and Junior School, we provide 1:1 and small group intervention for pupils who need additional support – this can be academic or pastoral. In the Senior School we have an open door policy and make the pupils aware that they can email us at any time to discuss any concerns or support requests. We also drop in to lessons to check in with pupils on a regular basis.

Finally, our wonderful Year 13 SEND prefects help us to run a weekly lunchtime homework club that offers

Senior pupils support with homework tasks, organisational skills and revision. We also have a team of Year 12 volunteers who are Reading Buddies for our Infant and Junior pupils.

How do we work alongside parents/carers to support a child’s needs?

At Sheffield Girls’ we value the knowledge parents/carers have of their children and use this to enable us to provide effective learning support. Equally we will always

inform parents of any concerns we have and discuss fully any action we feel is necessary. We know that students thrive when there is a strong partnership between us and their parents/carers, establishing these relationships is a key part of our role.

What part of your job do you enjoy the most / what are you most proud of?

It is often the small gains that mean the most to us! Seeing a

Community and belonging

It’s extremely important to us to provide a platform for our girls to share their opinions and passions.

This year, we asked our Year 9 pupils what the word ‘Community’ meant to them.

We are delighted to share with you an article by Sophie Hutchinson, which discusses her thoughts on community at Sheffield Girls’.

As part of human nature, we must use words to define ourselves and everything around us. Everything has its own name. Within this, there are more than 7,000 different languages in the world with their own unique words. Each language, each community, has its own way of expressing things. For example, the Maori word for autism, “Takiwatanga”, translates to “in my/his/her own time and space”. This beautiful way that we, as humans, are able to define ourselves and the people around us is what creates a sense of a community and belonging.

‘At Sheffield Girls’, the diverse array of pupils from all different backgrounds and from an abundance of different communities is something that we pride ourselves on.’

At Sheffield Girls’, we see our school community as a place that individuals belong and feel a sense of unity and togetherness within.

Back in May 2021, I received a diagnosis of autism. I was able to give part of my identity a name, and along with this came a community of people who I could relate to.

Instead of feeling I’d had a label thrust into my hands, I simply saw it as a small addition to my identity

which I was proud of. Peers within school continued to treat me with the same kindness they always had, as well as adapting to suit my needs. I was introduced to the school’s SEN coordinator, who helped make the changes within school that I needed to make me feel comfortable, and I was welcomed into the community with open arms.

As well as neurodiversity, there are many other communities within school, big and small, and many of these overlap with one another. Figures suggest individuals with autism and/or ADHD are more likely to be part of the LGBTQ+ community, and despite these communities often facing discrimination or having negative connotations in the media, within school these are seen as something to be proud of. Not long ago, a close friend of mine, who is also neurodiverse, came out, and everyone supported and praised her for being openly part of the community. She instantly felt accepted amongst her friends and peers, and the school staff also treated her with equal support and kindness.

On a wider scale, a recent example of communities within school interacting was our production of Wind in the Willows. The drama, music, art, and technical departments

pupil overcome a challenge that initially seemed overwhelming gives us an enormous amount of job satisfaction. We have shed many a happy tear in private after witnessing such moments!

To us, examination results are only a small part of a pupil’s success; it’s our mission to see them leave school feeling empowered by the personal and emotional growth that they have experienced as an individual.

all contributed to put together our amazing musical, and the outcome was not just a wonderful performance, but a community of like-minded people coming together to do what they enjoy.

‘To those reading, I want you to ask yourself, “Where do I feel I belong?” Is it out playing a sport with a team? Is it playing an instrument in a band? Is it within your school? Is it with your friends or family?’

Here at Sheffield Girls’, not only do we appreciate these communities that help define you, but we do everything we can to show our pride and acceptance.

To bring this article to a close, I will give another Maori phrase for autism: “Kura Urupare”, meaning “treasure in around your head”. As individuals we should treasure the words used to describe our identity and the communities we fit into. Sometimes it can be beautiful.

and Trips

From day trips, to residentials, to Duke of Edinburgh expeditions, we’ve been delighted to see our trips resume in full force this year. Trips and visits provide an invaluable opportunity for our girls to form stronger bonds with their peers, develop new skills, challenge themselves, put their learning into practice and have fun!

Bronze, Silver and Gold DofE expeditions

It’s been another groundbreaking year for our Duke of Edinburgh (DofE) expeditions, with over 250 students taking part in their Bronze, Silver and Gold Awards since September.

Our DofE teams have enjoyed a number of expeditions across the Peak District and beyond, and our Gold DofE team undertook a particularly challenging and fun canoeing expedition along the Rivers Soar and Trent.

The DofE Awards allow our pupils to learn new skills, build stronger bonds with peers, support the local community, grow in confidence and recognise their potential. We are so proud of our students for taking up this challenge alongside their studies and we look forward to offering the opportunity to many more students next year.

Feedback from assessors:

‘Her confidence has developed enormously during her time at Tea Time Club. She has developed her communication skills and has become an effective leader whilst leading games with the children.’

‘She implemented a programme in which she supplied one Victoria Sponge Cake each week to a household that qualified as a member of the village Senior Citizens Club (aged 80-99 years). The benefit of this during the pandemic lockdown has been clear to see and is demonstrated by the “Thank You” letters she has received.’

Team bonding at Thornbridge

In September our new Year 12 cohort had an activity filled orientation trip to Thornbridge in the Peak District. Split into form groups, our girls completed team building activities in the great outdoors, including an orienteering challenge and a high ropes course in the trees. It was a great chance for those who continued from Year 11 and our new starters to get to know each other in our wonderful local countryside.

Kelham Island Museum

Year 6 consolidated their curriculum knowledge on a visit to Kelham Island Museum, investigating historical evidence and enjoying role play about life on the Home Front in WW2 for women and evacuees. We value having places on our doorstep that allow our girls to expand their knowledge.

‘She has proved herself to be a real asset to the Rotherham Parkrun team and has completed a variety of roles in a diligent and efficient manner.’

Assessor

Hakuna Matata

In March, Year 4 took an exciting trip to London, as part of their Art topic ‘The Kingdom of Benin’. They visited the Benin Bronzes at the British Museum and worked on sketches of decorated cast plaques, commemorative heads, animal and human figures, items of royal regalia, and personal ornaments, and also enjoyed a performance of the Lion King live on the West End. Our girls were delighted to be on one of their first trips since the pandemic and took advantage of the opportunity to expand their knowledge.

Managing studies alongside Co-curricular activities

At Sheffield Girls’ Co-curricular opportunities are an integral part of school life. We empower our girls to follow their passions and seek out new and challenging opportunities to further their personal and academic development.

In 2021, Scarlett Archer became a presenter for the Sky network series Sky Kids News – FYI, and during her time so far, she has reported on the Ukraine invasion (visiting Poland), interviewed Boris Johnson at Downing Street, and attended Geneva for the Young Activists Summit. Scarlett manages her cocurricular workload alongside her studies, to be able to pursue her love for presenting, which she hopes to continue as a career.

Above: Scarlett interviewing Boris Johnson at Downing Street.

To maintain her academic attainment whilst filming, Scarlett said:

‘My teachers send me work for the lesson and Miss Carter my Head of Year collects it for me.

Sheffield Girls’ definitely teaches you to be proud of who you are and if you have a goal then go for it… The school has given me a lot of confidence to do it.’

Scarlett Archer, Year 9

Year 1 trip visit Abbeydale

Industrial Hamlet

Our girls enjoyed stepping back in time to meet Florence Nightingale and journeyed to Scutari where they completed their nursing training and tended to wounded soldiers in hospital. Florence was extremely impressed with our group’s knowledge, thinking skills and caring natures.

Sleeping under the stars

Our Year 7 and 8 students took on an adventure into the wilderness during the Summer Term, for their Bushcraft camping residential at Castle Howard.

Our students developed new and practical skills, including tent peg carving, shelter building and fire lighting. Some of our students even braved the elements, sleeping under their handmade shelter! We value being able to offer our girls new and varied learning experiences outside the classroom, to expand and develop their skill sets.

Year 5 virtual cookalong with Masterchef contestant

In March, Year 5 took part in an exciting virtual ‘Cook along’ with former Masterchef participant Raheel Mirza.

Curry and rice on the menu as the girls took over their kitchens at home, sharing live video as they completed their dishes. We love to learn about healthy food and nutrition at Sheffield Girls’ and Raheel was delighted with what our mini chefs produced.

Years 4 and 5 join forces for their residential at Thornbridge

Raheel Mirza, Masterchef contestant

Our Year 4 and 5 girls had an amazing time together at their Thornbridge residential in July, activities ranged from bouldering, problem solving, weaselling, bike riding, climping and building campfires. Our girls seized the opportunity to try out new experiences and got stuck into every activity with confidence.

All aboard!

Our Infant girls took an adventure to the Tramway Village in Crich September. They learnt how trams have changed through time, rode on real trams, and explored the nature trail. The rainy weather did not put the group off having an ice cream to end the day on high.

‘It has been a pleasure and privilege to cook with you all this evening.’

‘It smells divine’

Annabelle

‘I can’t wait to eat it!’

Francesca

‘mine looks scrumptious’

Sarika

Careers

Introducing Sarah Metcalfe-Murgatroyd

I joined Sheffield Girls’ in September as Head of Careers and can honestly say that I have the very best job in the world. I get to speak to enthusiastic, resilient young women everyday about their future dreams and aspirations, and help play a part in making it happen.

My own career in education started after graduating from The University of Liverpool with a BA Hons Degree in English before completing a Postgraduate Certificate of Education in Secondary Teaching at The University and Sheffield. I then embarked on a wonderful career as an English teacher. I also fulfilled many pastoral roles including Head of Year, then Assistant Headteacher with responsibility for Head of Sixth Form and Careers. After realising I was enjoying the careers aspect of my role more and more I finally made the big decision to immerse myself in the world of careers fully by joining Sheffield Girls’ as Head of Careers.

This is a decision that I have not regretted for one minute. The future world of work is changing so rapidly and our young people need more support than ever to be prepared to take their place confidently in the world. University applications are at an all time high due to the impact of deferrals from Covid and the natural increase in the number of 18 year olds. Employers are telling us that more and more young people are graduating with excellent qualifications but lack the employability skills they need. It is because of this that I am looking forward to building on our existing excellent careers programme to ensure that no stone is unturned in preparing our students for this competitive landscape.

The main highlights for me this year include being welcomed so warmly into this wonderful family at Sheffield Girls’ and being part of

the new Live Lunch series, where alumnae were invited into school to speak informally about their own careers and answer questions from our students. We look forward to continuing this series next year.

Following our successful revalidation of Careermark this April, I have plans to introduce a Careers Passport for Years 7-11 students to allow them to capture their experiences throughout school, and a Skills Builder with Years 9-11 to help students develop their employability skills even further. I am also very excited about a new enrichment programme for Year 12 students, which involves partnering with the Botanical Gardens, giving students the opportunity to plan and host a live event in the gardens. Finally, look out for the publication of our new interactive Careers Map, which will be available to view early next academic year on our website. This resource will illustrate an overview of careers support across the School, from PSHE lessons in Reception to UCAS and Apprenticeship workshops in Year 13.

I have been so impressed with the value and importance that Sheffield Girls’ already places on our careers programme and it has been an absolute pleasure to be able to contribute even further to ‘Teaching her everything so she can be anything’.

If you have any careers queries, please do not hesitate to get in touch at s.metcalfe-murgatroyd@ she.gdst.net

Quality in Careers Standard Accreditation

This year we were delighted to retain the national Quality in Careers Standard accreditation, recognising the expertise and breadth of career support and advice available throughout school including individual guidance, information evenings, enterprise days and employability workshops.

Our Alumnae Network offers our students direct access to advice and expertise from our alumnae.

Our new speaker programme, featuring guests from the School’s alumnae community.

Students from across the Senior School and Sixth Form have had the opportunity to hear from industry experts about their careers, developing employability skills and advice for the world of work.

Our students go on to so many different and interesting careers after they leave school, and it has been wonderful to invite them back as alumnae to hear from them about their journey since leaving school.

Statistics show that every interaction with an employer makes a young person more employable. The advice and expertise that our guests have given us this year are relevant to students irrespective of their career aspirations.

‘The talk with Frances was incredibly interesting, as she gave great advice. She has taught me that changes of direction will not mean that you won’t reach the same destination.’

Gabby, Year 12

We have some really interesting speakers lined up for next year and we encourage all students to come along and learn something new!

Journalist Emma Firth (Class of 2003) spoke about her time working for BBC Look North and BBC Breakfast before moving to Denmark for four years. Emma is now back in Sheffield working as a freelance journalist and raising her three daughters.

Oxbridge Conference

In April, we hosted an Oxbridge Conference for Year 12 students from across Sheffield. Joined by Dr Bell, who has experienced being an academic and student at both Oxford and Cambridge, gave us his unique perspective, and provided helpful insights into applications, courses and the collegiate system.

LEARN MORE

About the Alumnae Network and our alumnae on pages 62-65.

GP Frances Yarlett (Class of 2007) spoke about her career as a GP, working for tech startup The Lowdown, an online women’s health advisary service. She was joined by her young daughter.

‘We are so lucky to have opportunities like this where we can explore our options after sixth form and find out more about universities. It‘s great that we’re encouraged to consider every option – no matter how daunting it may seem – and to do this along with lots of pupils from other schools as well.’

Samira Sanders, Year 12 student

Sixth Form

Taster Day

Business leader Debbie Harrison OBE (Class of 1988) joined us to speak about her role as Managing Director of Pricecheck. She gave students invaluable career advice, emphasising the importance of an entrepreneurial spirit and a strong LinkedIn presence.

In November, our Year 11s got a chance to experience being a Sixth Former. Taking part in Sixth Form lessons, learning A Level content for the first time. Our current Sixth Formers shared their top tips. We believe it’s important for our future Sixth Formers to feel prepared for their life in Year 12 and 13, and events like this throughout the academic calendar give our Year 11s the best possible heads start.

CommunityPartnerships

Community is a key foundation of life at Sheffield Girls’. Each year we value every opportunity to grow our community and work alongside amazing organisations.

Above professionals attend conference at Sheffield Girls’ Juniors.

Early Years Conference

A chance to reconnect: Sheffield Girls’ hosted the British Association for Early Childhood Education, as they welcomed Early Years professionals from across the city to their conference.

We were delighted to work with the British Association For Early Childhood Education (BAECE) and Sheffield Hallam University (SHU), to support the delivery of an Early Years Education conference in June, which focussed on sharing best practice and new ideas, as well as providing a long-overdue opportunity for networking as we emerge from the challenges of the pandemic.

Hosted at our Infant and Junior School, and organised by the Sheffield Institute of Education at SHU, the event included a full morning of workshops, presentations and networking activity, providing attendees with new approaches and resources to take back to their early years settings.

Sessions covered a range of topics, including: science in a bag, outdoor maths, storytelling, yoga and mindfulness, and much more, and were aimed at both career starters and those with longer term experience in Early Years provision.

Dr Sally Pearse, Director of the Early Years Community Research Centre at SHU said: ‘We know that high quality early years care and education provides a firm foundation for future development and learning. This event enabled practitioners from across the region to come together and experience elements of practice

that they can take directly back into their schools and settings and provide rich learning opportunities for the children in their care. It was fantastic to have a venue like Sheffield Girls’ where we could all meet and feel nurtured and valued.’

At Sheffield Girls’ we pride ourselves on our supportive, nurturing and tailored educational offer for girls in Reception and beyond and are always keen to explore partnerships across the Early Years community. Christepher Hald, Head of the Infant and Junior School said: ‘We were really thrilled to be able to support the Sheffield Institute of Education in hosting this conference. As an early years provider ourselves, we know how incredibly important excellent teaching and learning experiences are for our youngest pupils. In linking with local practitioners we are looking to create a vibrant early years learning environment; sharing good practice, exploring exciting activities and resources, and hearing about current research and pedagogy.’

Easter Egg Hunt

Our Infant and Junior pupils enjoyed a charity Easter egg hunt before the end of Spring Term, raising £272 in aid of PDSA Sheffield and Macmillan Cancer Support.

Fundraising and charity highlights

We asked Katharine Salmon, our Senior School Charities Coordinator, what her highlights were this year.

We celebrated the 20th birthday of SYEDA (South Yorkshire Eating Disorders Association) by wearing purple across the school and were delighted to raise £500. We also welcomed Hope Virgo, multiaward winning mental health campaigner, author and founder of Dump The Scales, a social organisation campaigning for greater governmental support for sufferers. Hope spoke to our Year 7-13 students about eating disorders, having a healthy mindset around eating, how to be a good ally to

Charities afternoon

friends who may be struggling. She also spoke about coping strategies and how to deal with social media pressure.

A group of our Year 11 students sold cakes and sweets regularly throughout the Spring Term and at a variety of events, raising over £500 to support people in Ukraine.

Alisa Ivanov and a team of Year 12 students made yellow and blue ribbons for Ukraine with the help of Dr Mac and raised over £600.

In July our Year 5 and 6 pupils planned and hosted a charity afternoon for the entire Infant and Junior School, raising just over £930 for their chosen charities PDSA (People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals) and Macmillan Cancer Support.

DEC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal

In June, Year 5 pupil Julide and a group of our Year 3 pupils hosted a fundraiser for the DEC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal. It’s wonderful to see our girls working together on projects they are passionate about. They did an amazing job at organising and running this event and raised almost £350.

DEC Appeal said:

‘Thank you Julide and all Sheffield Girls’ for raising so much money for the DEC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal! Your donation will help meet the immediate and longer term needs of families in Ukraine and neighbouring countries as they face an uncertain future. Well done!’

We had excellent fun trying out their creative stalls, some more slimy than others! We were proud to see our girls working together as a team in aid of charities they had selected and were so passionate about.

Macmillan Cancer support said: ‘It looks like you had a fun afternoon and even the sunshine came out to join you. Thank you to everyone for your amazing support.’

PDSA said: ‘This looks like it was a lot of fun! Thank you so much for fundraising for our charity and the poorly pets in our care! We appreciate your support.’

On the same afternoon, our students in Years 7-9 ran stalls on the back

grass to raise money for Bluebell Wood, including a chocolate fountain, apple bobbing and bursting water balloons, a great way to cool down on a hot afternoon! This was a wonderful opportunity to come together as a community with our older students and staff in support of a fantastic charity.

Sheffield Girls’ Golf Day

Our annual School Golf Day took place at the Hallamshire Golf Club in May and despite some very windy conditions that made the course challenging on the day, it was a great opportunity to bring our community of parents and friends together.

We were particularly proud of Esme in Year 9 who captained her team for the day.

Thanks to the generous support of players and sponsors on the day, including main sponsor Blenheim Park Estates, we were delighted to raise over £3,000 for local youth homelessness charity Roundabout and the Sheffield Girls’ Bursary Fund.

TAKE PART

We’re already looking forward to next year, if you’d like to enter a team please get in touch enquiries@she.gdst.net

Springs Academy Partnership

This year, a group of our Year 11 students worked on a Nebula partnership with Sheffield Springs Academy to deliver a programme with a focus on Classics and STEM for a number of their Year 7 students, as part of their ‘Nebula’ programme.

Using techniques learnt throughout guided home learning, they planned and delivered an eight week online programme, sharing their passion and knowledge of Classics with a group of children at Springs Academy who are taking part in their ‘Nebula’ programme. The project gave our students a valuable opportunity to enhance their leadership skills, whilst providing a platform for students to expand their learning in a new and interesting subject area.

Our ‘Nebula Partnership’ group Isabella Round, Anavi Hosaangaadi, Imogen GrausSumpner and Lily Ward shared their thoughts on the programme: What was the purpose of the Classics Nebula programme?

We delivered our project to the Nebula group of students at Springs Academy as a part of their wider gifted and talented STEM program. Whilst our sessions were on Classics, we incorporated lots of STEM links to show all the important influence of classical civilisations on areas of science and technology today, from inventions and mathematics to medicine.

What topics did you cover?

We tried to cover a wide range of topics from the Greek alphabet and Latin derivations to Roman baths, and from the legendary story of Odysseus and Circe to ‘a day in the life of a Roman’. We tried to show STEM links with each topic, such as the many scientific words we have in English that are derived from Greek, and also wanted to show why it is still worth studying ancient civilisations today.

What preparation did you do?

All four of us chose topics that we would like to discuss, some we knew a lot about and some that we wanted to find out more about ourselves, so we each had roughly the same workload. Everyone made slightly different preparations but mainly they included a presentation with information for the students and an activity so that they could apply what they learnt. There was a mix of more academic lessons and some more creative ones so the students could explore the topics in different ways. Although each lesson was mainly delivered by one Year 11, there was often another there to act as an assistant to ensure everything

2021-22 Sixth Form mentors SHINE again!

SHINE’s principle aim is to raise aspirations for children living in Sheffield, through a 10-week educational programme on Saturday mornings for girls and boys in Years 5 and 6. The Saturday morning sessions are designed to make learning fun, ignite imaginations and inspire curiosity in environments where excellence and enquiry is the norm.

Executive Headteacher at Arbourthorne Community Primary Vanessa Langley said:

‘SHINE is singularly the most successful programme and partnership our school has had the privilege to engage in. Our children emerge from this programme with strength of character, determination and confidence to overcome fear of change, to look outward to the future and to know that they something special.’

ran smoothly and to assist the main presenter if they needed help. We tried to prepare a lot since we were really passionate about exposing the children to Classics as a whole as it is such an interesting topic but not something that everyone will be exposed to.

What did you enjoy most about working with the students from Springs Academy?

Whilst it was great to be able to do our own research and create online resources, I think we would all agree that our favourite part of the project was the celebration we held on the final session – it was amazing to be able to work with all the students in person! We helped them to put on mini plays in Latin and of course presented everyone with a certificate to congratulate their achievement. We really enjoyed being able to talk to all the students and see how much they enjoyed and engaged with the sessions.

Above: Springs Academy Nebula programme team.

Above: Our SHINE mentors.

Alumnae & the Bursary Fund

Since its foundation in 1878, Sheffield Girls’ has been committed to educating girls from all backgrounds and this is possible thanks to donations from alumnae, former staff and friends to the Sheffield Girls’ Bursary Fund.

The Sheffield Girls’ Bursary Fund – The Gift of Opportunity

Year 12 Bursary Ambassador, Lene joined Sheffield Girls’ in Year 7 and shares with us a bit about her time at school and her aspirations for the future.

Can you tell me a bit about your time at school?

My mum wasn’t in a financial position to fund my education, but I’d known about Sheffield Girls’ for quite a long time and it was my ambition to join the school.

I wanted to be in an academic environment, and a place where I had opportunities and I never felt that I was in the right environment when I was in primary school. My mum applied for a bursary and I was so excited when I found out I’d been accepted.

Being a student here has made me truly grateful for having such an amazing education, and it has made me aware of how important it is to be in a supportive environment. I vividly remember coming home after my first week of Year 7, and my mum was so surprised at how quickly I had settled and adjusted into the school, and I think that’s when she really noticed how I was exactly where I needed to be.

‘The Bursary Fund has truly given me so many opportunities that I otherwise would never have had, and it’s something that I am grateful for every single day. Without it, there is no way I would be the person I am today, and it has truly set me up for life.’

Lene

What have been some of the highlights of your time at school?

For me, the highlights of my time here have definitely been my friends, and also my incredible teachers. They truly have shaped my experience here, and many of them I really look up to. I absolutely love my A Levels and my subject teachers have helped me realise that my passion in life is education, and that I ultimately aspire to be a teacher too. Aside from that, I have really discovered my love of working within the local community, particularly with children, and being a part of both SHINE and Cool to Be Clever have been the highlights of my school experience.

You’ve been really involved in the Bursary Fund at Sheffield Girls’, can you tell us a bit about this?

When I started Sixth Form, I really felt like it was my opportunity to make a difference and to raise greater awareness of the Bursary Fund. I’ve loved speaking to former students, former staff and parents who support bursaries and in my last year here I really want to speak to as many people as possible who help to support the Bursary Fund, even if it is to simply express my gratitude for their generosity. I really look forward to being a part of the events to try and make people more aware of the impact that the bursary has had not only for myself, but also so many others within our school community. For me, being involved

in the Bursary Fund has been a way to give back and really show how grateful I am for having had this experience.

You’re on the Senior Prefect Team next year, what are you looking forward to doing in that role?

I am extremely honoured and grateful to have been chosen to be a Senior Prefect this year, and I really look forward to seeing where the role takes me. In particular, I am excited to support younger students, whilst also acting as a role model for other girls who may be on a bursary. I know for me personally when I was in Year 7, I loved being able to see girls who held leadership roles within the school, who were in a similar position to me. I am also equally honoured to be a SHINE Prefect, and look forward to supporting the next cohort of Year 12 SHINE mentors next year.

‘Lene has received an incredible education and achieved amazing grades and has a bright future ahead of her. I’m so grateful that she was afforded the opportunity thanks to the bursary that she received.’

Ms Marsden, Lene’s Mum

HEAR MORE

From Lene on the website at www.sheffieldhighschool.org.uk/alumnae/the-bursary-fund

Philanthropy in Numbers

Pupils received bursary support in 2021/22 79 £128,714

Donations made to the Bursary Fund in 2021/22* *including gift aid

Largest gift to the school:

Former Head Girl’s gift to the next generation

Former Head Girl and Class of 1966 alumna Jane Goodman, was a hard working and dedicated student, who made friends across the year group and kept in touch with them throughout her adult life.

After leaving school, Jane left to go to London and trained at Guy’s Hospital in Dentistry and went on to be a leading figure in Paediatric Dentistry. In 2019 at the age of 70, Jane sadly passed away from a brain tumour.

After her death, her close friends set up the The Jane Goodman Charitable Trust in order to be able to fund projects close to Jane’s heart, in her memory.

Donors to the Bursary Fund in 2021/22

In September 2022, a new student will be joining us in Year 7 on a fully funded bursary in Jane’s name.

‘Thanks to Jane’s generous legacy, we are looking forward to welcoming a new student to the school on the Jane Goodman Bursary Award. A gift like this is truly transformational and will give another girl the opportunity to immerse herself in her subjects, discover her passions and make friends for life, just as Jane did when she was at school.’

Nina Gunson, Head

A legacy to Sheffield Girls’

‘I was a ‘scholarship girl’ in 1957 and looking back on those scary but rewarding times has caused me to realise that all girls deserve to get the chance I had.

That’s why I’ll be donating my assets to the school on my death. Your schooldays may be well behind you and you may not feel they benefited you – but I’m sure they did. And that benefit needs to be continued and spread as widely as possible, so go on and support the Bursary Fund.

And let more girls fly, like I did.’

Carolyn Tallett, Class of 1964

I would most probably not be where I am today if I had not been able to go to Sheffield Girls’. There are wonderful, hard working children that just need to be given the opportunity to thrive in school with the helping hand of a bursary or financial support.’

Francesca Makey (née Nicholson), Class of 2002

Lead Orthotist at Sheffield Children’s Hospital

The Sheffield Girls’ Bursary Fund – The Next 150

In 2028 Sheffield Girls’ will celebrate 150 years since four inspirational women – Lady Stanley of Alderley, Maria Grey, Mary Gurney and Emily Shirreff – believed that girls should have the same educational opportunities as their brothers, founded our school in Sheffield.

As part of the celebrations to mark this occasion, we will be launching a campaign that, through our endowment fund, will provide a lasting gift to girls into the future through bursary support.

‘The Next 150 Campaign is the legacy our generation can leave to future girls: our school community can all play an important part in celebrating this significant birthday as we enter a new chapter in the School’s history.’

Q & A

How are donations to the Bursary Fund used?

We always aim to offer as close to an 100% bursary as possible to ensure that it provides a transformational opportunity for a pupil. Bursary recipients also receive provision for travel, uniform and curriculum based trips so that they can participate fully in school life.

What is the difference between a bursary and a scholarship?

Bursaries are awarded based on financial need and academic ability. All awards are meanstested and assessed by the Girls’ Day School Trust. Scholarships are awarded on merit, irrespective of financial means and are not funded by philanthropic gifts.

How can I make a gift to the Bursary Fund?

Making a gift online is quick and simple through the online donations portal www.gdst.net/ donate/sheffield. 100% of all donations, including Gift Aid, go directly to support pupils at Sheffield Girls’.

For more information about the Sheffield Girls’ Bursary Fund visit www.sheffieldhighschool.org.uk/alumnae/the-bursary-fund or contact Rebecca Mills r.mills@she.gdst.net

ALUMNAE

Nina Gunson, Head

Our Alumnae

Restless Development and worked with refugees in the Netherlands.

the Sheffield community to model at London Fashion Week.

Kazna Asker, Class of 2015 Designer

Tell us about your career after leaving Sheffield Girls’?

After my A Levels (Maths, Art & Economics), I took a one year Art Foundation course at college – which I would 100% recommend! You are able to do different art-related subjects such as graphics, fine art, fashion and textiles for a year so you have a clearer idea on what creative industry you would like to go into. Afterwards, I decided to do a BA in Fashion at Manchester, I was able to travel to Japan, complete a two month placement in Amsterdam, win a design award and showcase my BA collection in Beijing.

After completing my degree, I decided to focus on community work for a year. My parents are Yemeni immigrants and as Yemen is facing the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, I am extremely passionate about charity and community work. In Sheffield, I have co-organised community projects to raise money for Yemen and Palestine. I have worked in Nepal alongside youth-led charity

My goal has always been to combine my community work with Fashion. I have also designed and sold t-shirts to raise over £7,000 for humanitarian aid in Yemen. I believe the Muslim community is not represented authentically within the Western media, so I design clothing to change the narrative associated with our community. I combine my British upbringing with my Yemeni heritage and create a combination of tracksuits and hoodies alongside Islamic abayas and thobes.

What are you doing now?

I recently completed an MA Fashion at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. I designed and made a matching menswear and womenswear collection, which was showcased at London Fashion Week and was the first hijabi collection to ever be shown at the Central Saint Martin’s show. I was also awarded the British Fashion Council scholarship to fund my collection.

I have now recently got my own studio in London and I am in the process of starting my own brand and building on the foundations of community and fashion.

What has been the most rewarding part of your career?

The most rewarding part of my work is representing people that look like me in places where we are not usually represented – providing a voice for the voiceless and bringing my community along with me! I have created short films based on them, included their interviews within my collection and even got models from

‘Alongside enjoying what you do, my advice would be to enjoy the moment. There is always so much pressure on what to do next and what you should do in the future! But, don’t put too much pressure on yourself to know what’s next – everything will always work its way out!’

Computational Fluid Dynamics and Climate Change Projection Specialist at Arup

Guneet was recently recognised in the Top 50 Women in Engineering (WE50) Awards, by the Women’s Engineering Society.

What have you done since leaving Sheffield Girls’?

After leaving Sheffield Girls’, I went to study Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Leeds and after graduating, joined Arup in 2017. Whilst studying my degree, I was fascinated by the topic of fluid dynamics, and how air interacts with aircraft. However, I wanted to take the principles I learned and apply them to a broader range of problems. Now I am a fluid dynamics engineer working on a wide range of engineering challenges, such as looking at how airflow in buildings affects human comfort, how water moves in our sewage systems, the aerodynamics of sports equipment and much more.

I’m always looking to learn new things and expand my knowledge, and over the past few years I have

Left: Kazna’s work at London Fashion Week.

Guneet Kohli Class of 2013

also been working in the climate change space. My role involves looking at huge amounts of data from complex meteorological models of the Earth to understand how our climate is changing. We have a responsibility to ensure what we are designing and building will withstand our future climate, and I help projects all around the world understand what this means for them and how to incorporate this into their solution.

I feel like I have two careers – one in fluid dynamics and one in climate change resilience. This makes every day at work different, and I feel so lucky I get to work in two areas I am passionate about!

What advice would you give Sixth Form pupils at Sheffield Girls’ today?

Never stop learning. This is advice I am constantly giving myself even today. The world around us is changing so fast, we need to keep learning to keep up. Doing this even throughout your career is so important and helps keep you innovative, engaged and ready to face new challenges. It has allowed me to work in the climate change space, where I had little previous experience and as a result develop a secondary career path.

With a membership of 70,000 women across the world, students can access advice, mentoring and opportunities for professional development while they are in school, and throughout their career.

We love seeing alumnae back at school and our door is always open. From careers support for current students, supporting a student through the Bursary Fund, coming back for a reunion or just popping in for a cup of tea, there are so many ways for our alumnae community to keep in touch.

Amelia Winterburn Class of 2019

Physics Researcher in the Openreach Research team at BT

Tell us a bit about your career after leaving Sheffield Girls’

After sixth form I went to The University of York to do a four year course in Natural Sciences. In my third and final summer I did an internship in BT’s Applied Research department focusing on new ways of sending information over the existing copper network. I had lots of debates with myself about whether to go straight into industry or do a PhD. In the end I went back to BT on the Technology Graduate Scheme and now I work full time in Applied Research working on innovative network technologies, applying fundamental physics to develop high-risk high-reward solutions to emerging real world issues. I love my job and I’m still doing research every day.

What have been the biggest challenges so far in your career?

And the most rewarding parts of your job?

I struggled with the self-discipline a full-time jobs needs, especially when we started working at home. Once I got over that it’s a lot better. I have an awesome job. I get to do so many different things; different research topics, different styles of working. Sometimes I’m in the lab, sometimes I’m coding, sometimes I’m writing papers. I love the variation and how engaging research is. There’s always more to do.

What advice would you give your younger self?

Don’t worry about the future. It will be brilliant. Oh, and learning to code is a good idea.

What advice would you give to current sixth form pupils?

Pick something you’ll enjoy, not just something you think you should do, and take every opportunity you can.

Olivia Beavers Class of 2015

Assistant Curator of Vertebrate Zoology at World Museum Liverpool

After leaving Sheffield Girls’ I went to study Geoscience at Keele University. I also volunteered at the Stoke Potteries Museum and Art Gallery in their palaeontology department. I continued studying at Keele for an MSc before taking on the position of Assistant Curator of Natural Science at the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery – looking after the zoology, palaeontology, petrology and mycology specimens.

I am now the Assistant Curator of Vertebrate Zoology at World Museum Liverpool. I research and care for specimens related to birds, mammals, fish, reptiles and amphibians. I also work on creating temporary displays and exhibitions in the museum.

LEARN MORE

Full profiles, along with stories and advice from many other members of our alumnae community can be found on our website at www.sheffieldhighschool.org.uk/ alumnae/our-alumnae

ALUMNAE

Celebrating the School’s Birthday

In March, we welcomed alumnae, former staff and friends back to school to celebrate our 142nd birthday. As our first in person reunion in three years it was wonderful to see so many friends returning to school. Guests had the opportunity to meet students and staff and to have a tour round the school.

The Class of 1994 joined us for the school’s birthday reunion. They are organising their 30th anniversary reunion in 2026 so if you’d like to be included on the list, please get in touch with Rebecca Mills r.mills@she.gdst.net

Top: Class of 1996. Below: In February, Class of 2012 alumna Ashni Lakhani returned to school to talk to Year 12 Sociology students about her career as a producer and director for the BBC. Below Right: Emma Taylor.

The Alumnae Network

The Sheffield Girls’ Alumnae Network, alongside the wider GDST Alumnae Network, is the largest women’s alumnae network of its kind.

With a membership of 70,000 women across the world, students can access advice, mentoring and opportunities for professional development while they are in school, and throughout their career. We love seeing alumnae back at school and our door is always open. From careers support for current students, supporting a student

through the Bursary Fund, coming back for a reunion or just popping in for a cup of tea, there are so many ways for our alumnae community to keep in touch.

To join the alumnae network or to find out more about accessing support from the network, contact alumnae@she.gdst.net

Cyber Security expert returns

Class of 2012 alumna Emma Taylor returned in December to talk pupils about her career as a Cyber Security Consultant at Accenture.

Emma spoke to Year 10, Year 11 and Year 13 pupils about the importance of cyber security and the huge skills gap in the industry. Emma focussed the abilities that are needed in her job, many of which are the soft skills that she started developing during her time at school, in swing band and other co-curricular clubs.

‘We cover cyber security as part of the GCSE syllabus but hearing about Emma’s day to day work really brought it to life for the students and gave them the opportunity to ask questions.’

Jorja in Year 13 attended Emma’s lunchtime seminar

‘I was previously undecided on what type of job I’d like to pursue in the world of technology, however after hearing about the kind of work Emma carried out regarding digital forensics, I have developed a huge interest in this career path!’

Jackie Morton, Head of Computing

Creating Connections

A huge benefit of the Sheffield Girls’ Alumnae Network is the connections that are made between current students and alumnae in the world of work. Our Senior School pupils are able to make contact with former pupils to ask questions and seek advice on career options and opportunities. Thank you to all of our alumnae who volunteer to mentor in this way every year!

‘I wanted to learn more about the legal profession first-hand from somebody who had actually been through the application process, as found there was a limit to how much information the internet could provide.

Sophie (class of 2015) was really helpful and gave me some extremely useful advice. We talked about A Level choices and she recommended some really beneficial work experience opportunities.’

Suhani, Year 11

‘After discovering an interest in policing and wanting to learn more, I remembered a few years ago I heard Lucy (class of 2005) speak at my first school prize giving and was fascinated by her speech on how the school had helped her achieve so much in the police through it’s values, especially as a woman to feel more empowered. I found Lucy through the Alumnae Network and she shared knowledge into the world of policing and how I could achieve where I want to be. The Network's an extremely useful tool for anyone wanting to understand their career choices and I was extremely grateful for the advice and insight it brought me.’

Imogen, Year 11

‘I found the experience of mentoring a Sheffield Girls’ student extremely rewarding. I remember how valuable I found speaking to those who had paved their way into law before me and feel so happy to be able to give advice and support to the next generation of girls.

I would strongly encourage all alumnae to get involved – it’s a privilege to be able to give the advice you needed when you were in Sixth Form!’

Sophie Aitmehdi (Class of 2015), Solicitor at Macfarlanes

‘I was thrilled to hear from Imogen after she took the initiative to get in touch. She had heard me speak some time ago at Prize Giving where I talked about having the confidence to not be sure about what exact career path you want to take and having the trust that school has already given you everything you need to navigate your way, whatever direction it takes. I was so impressed with Imogen’s manner and maturity throughout our meeting and I’m certain she will find success no matter where her personal journey takes her.’

Lucy Garside (née Marriott), Class of 2005

Celebration ofAchievement

We are so proud of everything that our girls have achieved over the last year.

YEAR 6 AWARDS 2021-22

These girls have been recognised for their contributions to the life of the school.

School Values and Growth Mindset

SHOSHA Cup

For all-round contribution to the School. Involvement in all aspects of school life, showing the school values in actions, words and deeds.

Positivity Award

For having a positive view of the diversity of school life, and exhibiting positivity; for having the right mindset to individually aim high and persevere.

Kindness Award

For showing respect and empathy through their actions and behaviours, and promoting the good name of the School not only within its walls but in the community; for having supportive relationships.

Courage Award

For taking risks and being brave, having integrity which involves being honest, responsible and accountable, and acting ethically and respecting themselves and others.

Growth Mindset Award

For exhibiting the characteristics of Growth Mindset in their approach to learning, all aspects of school life and with their relationships with others.

Creativity

Creativity Trophy for Art

For exceptional skill in aspects of Art.

Creativity Trophy for Drama

For exceptional skill in Drama and Performance.

Creativity Trophy for Music

For exceptional skill in Music.

Musical Spirit

For all-round, positive participation in the musical life of the school. Showing musical aspiration and enthusiasm.

Roberta Mcfarlane

Sporting

Sporting Spirit Shield

For all-round, positive participation in the sporting life of the School.

Sporting Excellence Shield

For exceptional participation in sports, excelling in skills, strategy and tactics; having an excellent sense of gameplay, competition and fairness.

Excellence in Netball

For exceptional skill in netball.

Excellence in Hockey (shared)

For exceptional skill in hockey

Excellence in Gym/ Trampolining

For exceptional skill in gym and trampolining.

Excellence in Athletics

For exceptional skill in athletics.

Academic Poetry Award

For exceptional skill in the composition or performance of poetry.

Creative Writing Award

For producing consistent, exceptional standard in aspects of creative writing.

Maths Excellence Award

For having an exceptional approach to mathematics, as evidenced by excellent results and application.

STEM Trophy

Georgiana Morritt

For having an exceptional approach to STEM as evidenced by excellent results, application and understanding.

Progress in a New Language Award

For having excellent progress in the study of a MFL or for an EAL student’s excellent progress.

Ava Johki and Teagan Ferreira

Head Girls

Areej Anser and Riha Ganesh House Captains

Grey Roberta McFarlane and Sophie Storey

Stanley Daisy Haworth and Trinity Everett Sherriff Bella Cotton and Mya Wray

Gurney

Mia Smith and Fenella Dyde

Hannah Inayat

Trinity Everett

Alexa Stenson

Bella Cotton

Ogochukwu Idaboh

Julia Hufton

Isabelle Gibson

Fenella Dyde

Sara Nasim

Sophie Storey

Riha Ganesh

Aarna Dwivedi

Sarah Gabr

Mia Smith

Noor Akram

Daisy Haworth

Darcey Bond

LEGACY PRIZES

Our Historic Legacy Prizes are pledged to the school from a variety of past staff, parents and members of the school community.

Special Prizes 2022 Winner

Performing Arts Cup

Awarded to a pupil from any age who has achieved a high standard in at least two of the disciplines of art, dance, drama and music.

The Poetry Cup Awarded to the most outstanding poet.

Soroptimist Prizes

Awarded to girls in any year group for Service in the wider community.

Loyalty and Service to School Sport

A student who shows great loyalty through all round involvement and support of younger students and peers.

Technical Theatre Award

Awarded to a pupil who has given an outstanding contribution to one of Stage Management, Lighting, Sound, Stage Crew

Anne Hogg Prize for Languages

Year 10 who has achieved an excellent standard in at least two modern foreign languages.

David Wraith Award Awarded to a promising Mathematician.

The Bradbury Drama Cup Outstanding contribution to drama from one of the senior year groups.

SHOSA Music Prize

Awarded to a girl in Year 10-13 with outstanding flair for music.

Senior All Rounder in Sport Awarded to a girl in Year 10-13 who has shown outstanding all-round sporting ability.

Key Stage 4 Drama Cup Ellie Styan

Alex Reid Memorial in Recognition of Kindness

For a selfless approach shown with genuine support and kindness shown to others over a sustained period of time. Awarded to a Year 11

Mrs Ames’ Spoken English Prize

Awarded to a girl who has shown promise in public speaking.

Beth Lomax Memorial Year 12 student who has shown enthusiasm, commitment, and involvement in at least two of Art, Drama and Music.

Newton Biology Fieldwork Award

Awarded to a Year 12 student who excels in the Fieldwork element.

The Birkhead Biology Award

To be awarded each year to a girl in Year 12 who shows an exceptionally high level of enthusiasm and commitment in Biology

Miss Grayson’s Shakespeare Prize Sixth Form student who has shown excellence in the written word.

Natalie Fooks

Olivia Strudwick

Anna Jellinek

Hannah Blyth

Gabrielle Hobson and Eleanor Clark

Jomana Khamas

Sasha Goodwin

Alice Lumb and Amelie Hillier

Chuxuan Liu

Elinor Cropley

Hannah Blyth

Suhani Kansra

Vanessia Ogedengbe

Alicia Clegg

Isobel Sibree-Dolan

Samira Sanders

Special Prizes 2022 Winner

Escott Memorial Prize Awarded for outstanding service to the school.

The Head ’s Award for Service to School These can be awarded to girls in any year group.

Webster Humanities prize Year 13 pupil who has excelled in at least one humanity.

Sheffield High School University Scholarship Awarded to a Year 13 girl who has made a significant contribution during the Sixth Form.

Hanlon prize Year 13 award for outstanding research

Mrs Turner’s Junior, Miss Leggett’s Inter, Senior Maths Cups Awarded to the highest placed student in the three age categories of the Maths Challenge.

Junior Drama Cup Awarded to a pupil in Key Stage 3 showing outstanding potential in drama.

The Martin Award Awarded to a promising linguist Year 8.

The Music Cup Awarded for outstanding potential and commitment to music in Key Stage 3

Rising Star trophy

Year 8 pupil who has made outstanding progress in all areas – showing value added from Midyis to Year 8 Rankings.

Mary Elliott Prizes for Art Awarded to the most outstanding artists in each of the Year 9 classes.

Junior All Rounder in Sport Awarded to a Year 9 pupil who has shown outstanding all-round sporting ability.

Young Linguist’s Prize Awarded to the best linguist at Key Stage 3 – end of Year 9.

GDST Laurie Magnus Poetry Prize

GDST Pearson Classics Award

Alex Reid Memorial in Recognition of Kindness These are now Pastoral Prizes and are the pupil voted awards.

Ella Ducker, Ashwini Garneti, Cordelia Hurrell, Lahari Paladugu

Claudia Cole, Freya Grant, Soniya Mahapadi

Abbie Littlewood

Melika Gramy, Jorja Plummer

Maria Christofilopoulou

Junior – Kaiyan Zhang Intermediate – Bethany Gunn Senior – Bowen Zhang

Erin Baker, Holly Henser-Fisher

Freycinet Morritt

Anna Jellinek

Dilneet Sangha

Amara Ramlakhan, Skye Webster, Ella Gardner Thorpe, Jae Hui Tan, Emily Bamforth

Hana Jokhi

Melissa Muzulu

Asha Chib-Lewis

Maddison Maxwell and Anyaa Shekar

Hannah Blyth

VALUES AWARDS

Year Positivity

Year 7 Olivia Robinson-Mensa Katie Halsey Isabella Holmes Isabella Acheson

Year 8 Eleanor Swann

Inayat Budhiraja Natalie Fooks Anna Goebel

Year 9 Ruby Pocock Rumbi Ushewokunze Sylvie Radatz Caoimhe Kent Zoe Christofilopoulou

Year 10 Sophie Bromley Millie Saywell Connie Howarth Amelie Goodson Priyanka Sankaralingam

Year 11 Imogen Graus Izzy Ryder Issy Riley Lizzie Chung Ruvimbo Ushewokunze

Year 12 Maddie Maxwell

Praniti Harikrishnan Alicia Clegg Mia Wheatley Rose Fearn Samira Sanders

Year 13 Lara McColl Salma Ibrahim Neve Wilkie Soniya Mahapadi Jessica Nolan

SCHOLARSHIPS 2021-22

Year 7 Music Scholarship

Siloam Tesfamariam Milli Gleadhall-Romañach Maya Gupta Nousha Jackson

Year 7 Sport Scholarship

Milli Gleadhall-Romañach Georgia Burlton Hannah Lone Isabella Stoddard

Kindness Courage Peer Voted Award

Stella Fong Hannah Lone Pippa Bramall Maddison Barker

Asha Chib Lewis Hannah Naylor Mia-Rose Scott Lida Ariyan

Camilla Addy Scarlett Chadwick Evie Brook Angel Sandhu Millie McLoughlin

Lily Wheatley Maryam Jebour Maia Carter Jorjia Morris Manya Gupta

Claire Lin Suhani Kansra Neelum Ahmed Eimaan Khan Keira Dunn Isobel Dunigan

Amelia Lowe Grace Byard Amelie Jouan Ellie Cropley Mandy XIao Millie Wiles

Amy Simpson Jorja Plummer Evie Hunter Cordelia Hurrell Maria Christofilopoulou

Harriet Gwynne Siloam Tesfamariam Hattie Wells Freya Gillett

Liza Boiko Emily Stirrup Lucinda Gilert Freya Morrow

Rosie Sparks Charlotte Grady Olivia Stols Ruby Murphy Sophie Hutchinson

Ellen Hockham Winta Surafel Simone Williams Aimee Lashen Ellie Gill

Syeda Sadeque Ella Richardson Bethany Gunn Lydia Drabble Kasie McDevit

Isobel Sibree-Dolan Gabby Hobson Miriam Gunn Alyssa Ramlakhan Lola Lucas Polly Woodhouse

Freya Grant Zhang Bowen Anna-Dora Swain Ella Ducker Grace Sheppard

Stoddard Student Award – Kara-Mae Hattersley

Marriott Student Award – Esme Goodson

Marriott Student Award – Melissa Muzulu

Ruby Burrell

Hannah Blyth

Year 12 Academic Awards

Isobel Sibree-Dolan Alisa Ivanov Abigail Holden Laura Edwards Maddison Maxwell Samira Sanders Aimee Leighton Millicent Brock

Samira Sanders

Year 12 Subject Awards

Malaika Sadiq – Drama

Lene Marsden – Religious Studies

Vanessia Ogedengbe – (Honorary) Drama Elizabeth Lumb – Art Georgia Robertson – Sport Elinor Cropley – Sport Ella Payne – Sport Greer Jackson – Art Grace Byard – History Aida Tesfaye – Maths

ACHIEVEMENTS AND PARTICIPATION IN CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES AND CHALLENGES 2021-2022

Every year we’re incredibly proud of the dedication, hard work and skill our pupils put into every aspect of their school life, from in-classroom work to co-curricular challenges and opportunities that are encouraged and delivered by the School. The next few pages of Spotlight are a record of the competitions, awards, and events from different subject areas from the academic year 2021-2022.

STEM (Science, including Computer Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics)

Activity/Challenge/Competition Students

Geological Society of London’s

National Schools Challenge

Entrants

PESGB National Schools Poster Competition

Emily Urpeth, Madeleine Thomas, Victoria Gomez-Madden

1st Prize Emily Urpeth

Science Silver Crest Award

Rebekah Hald, Grace Mitchell and Emily Phillips

Science Bronze Crest Award Winta Surafel, Ishita Nagineni

Industrial Cadets

Bronze Award and Competition winners Amara Ramlakhan, Sophie Hutchinson, Sophie Hurst, Samirah Rahman, Joy Zhang

Teen Tech

Finalists and National Digital Skills Champions

Biology Challenge competition Year 10

Finalists and National Digital Skills Champions

Gold Silver Bronze Highly Commended

Commended

Intermediate Biology Olympiad Year 12

Gold Silver Bronze Highly Commended Commended

Participation

Senior Physics Olympiad Challenge

Bronze

Winta Surafel, Ishita Nagineni, Nong Mi Yu

Emily Thomas and Ellie Styan

Chuxuan Liu, Olivia Strudwick, Sanjana Sampath, Esme Woodhouse Florence Goodson, Winta Surafel, Ellen Hockham, Aimee Lashen, Manya Gupta Magda Elmalik, Esme Beckett, Jomana Khamas, Priyanka Sankaralingam, Sophie Li-Heathcote, Ishita Nagineni, Nongmi Yu Ruby Burrell, Maryam Jebour, Safi Ismail, Blythe Brock

Antonia Chung and Jess Timmins

Samira Sanders and Isobel Sibree-Dolan Oindrila Kar, Alicia Clegg, Alisa Ivanov, Millie Wilkes, Ify Anumba, Lucy Xu Jilan Zaki, Gabrielle Hobson and Emily Huang

Praniti Harikrishnan, Aida Tesfaye and Hayley Squire Annabel Anderson and Anjali Tamhankar

Abigail Holden and Alisa Ivanov

Activity/Challenge/Competition Students

Year 11 BPhO Intermediate Physics Challenge 2022

Gold Silver Bronze

Year 11 and Year 10 BPhO Junior Astrophysics Challenge 2022

Gold Silver Bronze

Intermediate Maths Challenge

United Kingdom Mathematics Trust (UKMT)

Gold Silver Bronze

Senior Maths Challenge

United Kingdom Mathematics Trust (UKMT)

Gold Silver Bronze

Elizabeth Chung, Grace Mitchell and Isabella Round

Neelum Ahmed, Naima Ali, Jenna Al-Sahab, Isabel Andrew, Kira Baxter, Grace Bolsover, Felicity Brown-Meehan, Naina Buggineni, Sophia Day, Lydia Drabble, Isobel Dunigan, Keira Dunn, Emily Edwards, Lydia Fixter, Kinysha Gavai, Imogen Graus, Bethany Gunn, Khushi Gupta, Suhani Kansra, Eimaan Khan, Malika Khan, Ellie King, Hadzher Masteva, Kasie McDevitt, Imogen Pieters, Adithi Ravishankar, Maia Read-Farmer, Molly Shah, Anyaa Shekar, Imogen Sibree-Dolan, Rebecca Surafel, Sara Syed, Hannah Taylor, Isabel Tupholme, Charlotte Wadsworth, Lucy Walters, Scarlett Warburton, Eloise Welch

Zara Alford, Cara Bacigalupo-Cookman, Sanah Batt, Charlotte Bianchi, Hannah Blyth, Carys Fleming, Ananya Gaitonde, Katia Gardner-Thorpe, Eleanor Gibson, Eva Gutierrez Robson, Raisa Hasan,Alina He, Emily Hindmarsh, Emily Kong, Georgina Leveckis, Claire Lin, Evie Lobley, Melissa Lowe, Varsha Prakash, Stephanie Radatz, Sophie Radatz, Jessica Rodgers, Isobel Ryder, Imani Schawsmidth, Leah Senior, Tabitha Smith, Charlotte Spooner, Amber Studer, Annabel Townsend, Ruvimbo Ushewokunze, Eleanor Walker, Sophia Whitford, Yifan Zhang

Adithi Ravishankar

Elizabeth Chung, Emily Edwards, Khushi Gupta, Amelie Hillier and Suhani Kansra Eve Anderson, Grace Bolsover, Naina Buggineni, Sophia Day, Magda Elmalik, Eleanor Gibson, Imogen Graus, Hadzher Masteva, Molly Shah, Olivia Strudwick and Lucy Walters

Bethany Gunn, Adithi Ravishankar, Isabel Andrew, Eleanor King, Elizabeth Chung

Sophia Day, Stephanie Radatz, Isobel Ryder, Grace Bolsover, Grace Mitchell, Lucy Walters, Molly Shah, Sanah Batt, Imogen Pieters, Anyaa Shekar

Neelum Ahmed, Eleanor Speight, Kira Baxter, Rebecca Surafel, Yifan Zhang, Lily Ward, Riasa Hasan, Ananya Gaitonde, Suhani Kansra, Isabella Round, Malika Khan, Isabel Tupholme, Eloise Welch

Jorja Plummer, Mara Sergienko, Bowen Zhang

Antonia Chung, Abigail Holden, Emily Huang, Ji-Hyung Choi, Holly Styan

Sophie Berry, Anna-Grace Berry, Harmony Harrop, Stephanie Li, Alyssa Ramlakhan, Aida Tesfaye, Ang Xiao, Fangyi Xu, Abigail Chua, Lara MacColl

Samantha Au, Nethra Buggineni, Georgia Burlton, Zyva Butt, Sienna Chung, Milli Gleadhall-Romanach, Jiya Hira, Lucy Home, Nousha Jackson, Banin Jaffar, Amba Jaiswal, Tithkar Khamas, Cecilia Li, Joyce Lin, Isabella Noble, Emilia Seymour, Karen Shendy, Reilly Stahl, Aimin Tabina, Deborah Tedros

Ananya Ashok, Ruby Bacigalupo-Cookman, Erin Baker, Iris Buxton, Isobel Carter, Deena Gelli, Aliza Ghafoor, Holly Henser-Fisher, Ellie Lawton-Nicholls, Katie Lynn-Jones, Alice Pieters, Tiffany Roberts, Eleanor Swann

Stella Fong, Ruby Houlding (Best in the Year)

Zemaye Aliyu, Isabelle Antony, Inaaya Awan, Sophie Hopton, Nina Meiring, Freycinet Morritt, Emily Stirrup, Bethel Tedros

Inayat Budhiraja, Ayla Iqbal, Myra Soni, Kaiyan Zhang (Best in the School)

Inayat Budhiraja, Aliza Ghafoor, Zemaye Aliyu, Myra Soni

Emily Phillips, Karen Shendy, Aliza Ghafoor, Amara Ramlakhan

Activity/Challenge/Competition Students

Bebras Computing Challenge Gold Award

All students in Year 7-9 took part

Zyva Butt, Lucy Home, Ruby Houlding, Molly Hughes , Isabel Peberdy, Karen

Shendy, Aimin Tabina, Ananya Ashok, Katie Lynn-Jones, Myra Soni, Evie Brook, Ahna Chowdhury, Jerusalem Gebrekristos, Jessica Harrity, Sophie Hurst, Sophie Hutchinson, Namratha Naveen, Samirah Rahman, Amara Ramlakhan, Freya Richards, Esme Singh, Jae-HuiTan, Anjali Verma, Sophie Wild, Kaiyan Zhang, Elizabeth Chung, Jorja Plummer

Oxford University Computing Challenge (OUCC)

Entrants (open to students achieving Gold Bebras)

Merit

Highly Commended

GDST Space Technology Diploma

Supra-curricular project for Year 12 Computer Science students. The Space Computer Science project in conjunction with Sutton High School, Oxford High School, Uni of Hertfordshire and NASA education

Same as above

Year 7 – Aimin Tabina, Year 8 – Myra Soni, Year 9 – Jessica Harrity, Year 13 – Jorja Plummer

Year 9 – Sophie Hurst, Namratha Naveen

Rina Yokoyama-Nichols and Zahra Ahmad

BUSINESS AND ENTERPRISE

Activity/Challenge/Competition Pupils

Big Challenge 2022

Year 9 Media and Marketing Awards

Best Ad: Tote-ally Music – Angel Sandhu, Joanne Gunn, Alysha Ferreira, Melissa Muzulu, Rosie Sparks

Best Ad: Woolfully – Charlotte Hellewell, Violet Fox-Smith

Best Media: Bloom – Janice Du, Jasmine Billing, Chensy Chen, Tegist Gebrhiwot

Best Sales Pitch: Tote-ally Music – Angel Sandhu, Joanne Gunn, Alysha Ferreira, Melissa Muzulu, Rosie Sparks

Best Branding: Bake It Frame It – Anjali Verma, Havanna Holmes, Aanya Shadija, Namratha Naveen

Big Challenge Overall Winner – Category

All of the Above

Young Enterprise

Regional Finalists and winner of Innovation Award

Young Economic Summit

National Finalists

Year 12 IEA Monetary Policy Competition

Entrants

Young Financial Journalist

Entrants

Charlotte Grady

Harmony Harrop, Isabelle Watts, Priya Choker, Ella Payne, Eleanor Cropley, Emily May Cutler, Gaganjit Khaira, Sophie Berry

Isabelle Watts, Jasmine Barry, Millicent Brock, Priya Choker, Amran Bains

Isabelle Watts, Priya Choker, Amran Bains, Millicent Brock, Jasmine Barry

Ellen Hockham, Manya Gupta

Geology Society National Schools’ Challenge Yorkshire Champions and National Finalists

HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE

Activity/Challenge/Competition

Model United Nations

Three day conference run by The London School of Economics Honourable Mention Award Research Award, Ukraine Outstanding Delegate, Mexico Research Award, Mexico Best Delegate, DW News

Pupils

Zahra Ahmad, Alisa Ivanov, Anjali Tamhankar Aida Tesfaye Praniti Harikrishna Katerina Goebel Grace Byard

LANGUAGES, PUBLIC SPEAKING, DEBATING AND DRAMA

Activity/Challenge/Competition

GDST Chrystall Public Speaking Competition

Pupils

National Winner Suhani Kansra

GDST Laurie Magnus Award

National Winner Asha Chib-Lewis

Foreign Language Translation Bee National Finalists

Foreign Language Spelling Bee Competition (for Year 7 students)

Aanya Shadija (German) and Sophie Hutchinson (Spanish)

National Finalists Aimin Tabina, Tithkar Khamas and Kara-Mae Hattersley

Nutty Tilez – International Language Competition 5th place Jomana Khamas

Leeds University Classical Reading Competition

Winner of category Olivia Strudwick

GDST Pearson and Silver Award for Classics Recipient of award Maddison Maxwell and Aanya Shekar Classics partnership with Year 7 Springs called Nebula Classics

Year 11 Student Mentors and teachers

Art Competitions, Projects and Exhibitions

Sheffield Young Artists, Chinese Society – University of Sheffield, SYA Christmas card competition, Cavendish cancer care, online art exhibition during lockdown.

Isabella Round, Imogen Graus, Anavi Hosaangaadi, Lily Ward

Porsche Art partnership Year 11 Art students

Photography Enrichment

DRAMA COLOURS

Full

Millicent Brock, Eleanor Clark, Anjelita Dhanoa, Brooke Finch, Isobel Formby, Makanaka Gono, Emily Huang, Maram Khan, Aimee Leighton, Annika Philips, Alice Prescott, Millie Wilkes, Laura Edwards

Process

Vanessia Ogedengbe Alice Lumb Year 7 – Maya Gupta Year 8 – Natalie Fooks Year 9 – Meenakshi Paniker & Melissa Harrower

Ellie Styan

Rebekah He

MUSIC

Name Achievement

Olivia Strudwick CSYO, Senior Orchestra Music Hub

Natalie Fooks

Solos with Sheffield Oratorio Chorus and The Robins Singers

A Night at the Musicals tour including Buxton Opera House

Performed at Inspirational Women of Sheffield awards

Runner up at David Clover Festival of Singing, Musicals class

Performed for Sri Lankan United Nationalities Friendship Organisation

Siloam Tesfamariam Sheffield Music Hub Choir and Youth Strings

Erin Baker

Sheffield Music School concert for UEFA Women’s Euros

Roles in Matilda, Aladdin and Grease with Verve Academy

Roles in Name in Lights and Beauty and the Beast with Splinters Theatre Group Kaiyan Zhang SYO

Simone Williams

Alice Pieters

Sheffield Music Academy, soloist in Vivaldi Gloria concert

National Children’s Orchestra

Rodolphus Choir Junior Choral course

Alice Carr Rodolphus Choir Junior Choral course

Amelie Hillier British Youth Music Theatre

Steel City Choristers

National Youth Music Theatre Company

Sheffield Music Hub Senior Orchestra

David Clover Runner Up

Imogen Pieters

Sheffield Music Academy, soloist in Vivaldi Double Cello Concerto

Chloe Lai Sheffield Music Academy

Chloe Preston Most improved player award, Oughtibridge Community Band

Lydia Campbell CSYO

Isobel Ryder

Recording for Rail Britannia

National Youth Training Choir Scholarship at Razzamataz Theatre School

Anyaa Shekar Verve Academy of Performing Arts

Praniti Harikrishnan Runner up at David Clover Festival of Singing, British Song

Anna Jellinek Winner at David Clover Festival of Singing, Sacred Song And Runner up in Recital Class

Melissa Harrower Beauty and the Beast with MK Theatricals

Joy Zhang CSYO

Sophie Hutchinson SYO Kaiyan Zhang SYO

Rebekah He Sheffield Music Academy

Sophie Li-Heathcote Sheffield Music Hub Senior Orchestra

Mentors to younger groups

Name Group

Sophie Hutchinson

Jorjia Morris

Year 7 Ensemble and Junior Orchestra

Angel Delight

Eden Joel-Drennan Angel Delight

Name Grade Result Year

Lucy Xu 6 Pass Year 12

Lucy Bamforth Initial Distinction Year 6

Ivona Ogbuagu Lumin Prep Year 6

Alicia Villalba Ramos Prep Year 4

Rishika Sarkar Prep Year 5 Pranathi Naveen 2 Merit Year 4 Yuge Wang 2 Merit Year 5

Jameela Schawsmidth Prep Year 5 Sophia Abbasi Initial Distinction Year 5 Julide Senior 1 Distinction Year 5

Aanya Saxena 2 Merit Year 5 Millicent Brock 7 Pass Year 12 Alina He 6 Distinction Year 11

Namratha Naveen 2 Distinction Year 9

Anjali Verma 5 Distinction Year 9 Elsa Conroy 4 Merit Year 8 Hannah Blyth 5 Pass Year 11

Anyaa Shekar 4 Pass Year 11 Chuxuan Liu 8 Distinction Year 10

Amelie Hillier 5 Pass Year 10

Voice

Maya Gupta 5 Distinction Year 7 Natalie Fooks 5 Distinction Year 8 Melissa Harrower 4 Distinction Year 9

Erin Baker 5 Distinction Year 8

Isobel Ryder 8 Distinction Year 11 Phoebe Emmans 7 Merit Year 13

Anyaa Shekar 2 Pass Year 11 Theory

Lucy Xu 5 Pass Year 12 Hannah Blyth 5 Distinction Year 11 Cello

Kaiyan Zhang 7 Merit Year 8

Isabella Taylor 1 Distinction Year 5

Anna Jellinek Diploma Pass Year 13 Clarinet

Marianne Pummell

Isobel Ryder

Merit Year 12

Distinction Year 11

Name

Lucy Walters

Lily Godbole

Madeleine Thomas

Mya Wray (Junior)

Georgie Morritt (Junior)

Sanah Choudry

Halsey

Chloe Preston

Chung

Sumner

Amelie Hillier

Lydia Campbell

Adithi Ravishankar

Year 6

Year 6

Year 8

Year 7

Year 8

Year 11

Year 5

Year 10

Pass Year 12

Year 11

Lily Godbole

Merit Year 10

Year 13 Connie Howarth

Carlotta Bailey

Year 4 Harp

Asha Chib-Lewis

Year 8

Isabel Andrew Pickles

Aurelia Ashley

MUSIC COLOURS

Year 13 – Anna Jellinek, Ji-Hyung Choi

Year 12 – Katerina Goebel, Ellie Cropley, Marianne Pummell, Rosie Clarke, Jasmine Barry, Harriet Johnstone-Pratt, Gabrielle Hobson, Millicent Brock, Abigail Holden, Florence Baker, Praniti Harikrishnan, Aimee Leighton, Samira Sanders, Hevi Gun

Year 12

Year 11 Aida Tesfaye

Pass Year 10

Year 11 – Georgina Leveckis, Lucy Walters, Isobel Ryder, Elizabeth Chung, Hannah Blyth, Anyaa Shekar, Imogen Pieters, Rebekah Hald, Adithi Ravishankar

Year 9 – Sophie Hutchinson, Sophie Hurst, Cecily Hutchinson, Joy Zhang, Emily Phillips, Hannah Godkin-Haywood, Rosie Sparks, Anjali Verma, Havanna Holmes, Jasmine Billing, Jae-Hui Tan, Charlotte Green, Abiha Hassan, Charlotte Hellewell, Violet FoxSmith, Anandi Mittar-Chandran

SPORT

Gymnastics and Trampolining 2021-2022

SFSS Under 9 and Under 11 Novice Champions

SFSS Under 9 Individual Novice Champion – Amelie Carr

SFSS Under 9, Under 11, Under 13, Under 15 Closed Champions

SFSS Under 9 Individual Closed Champion – Erin Denton

SFSS Under 11 Individual Closed Champion – Anashe Vera

SFSS Under 19 Individual Closed Champion – Alice Prescott

SFSS Under 15 Individual Elite Champion and Memorial Trophy Winner – Caitlin Burlton

SFSS Under 11 Individual Elite Champion – Emily Slight

SFSS Under 11 Elite Champions

Yorkshire Under 11, Under 13 and Under 19 Gymnastics Milano Regional Team Champions

Yorkshire Under 11 Milano Individual Champion – Isabella Cancello

Yorkshire Under 11 Floor and Vault Champions

Yorkshire Under 11 Novice Team Champions and Runners up –Trampolining

Yorkshire Under 11 Intermediate Team Champions

Yorkshire Under 15 and Under 13 Novice Runners up

Yorkshire Under 14 and Under 19 Intermediate Champions

Under 11 Yorkshire Inters 1st Individually – Emily Slight

Under 11 Yorkshire Novice 2nd and 3rd Individually – Isobel Riddle and Isabella Cancello

Under 14 Yorkshire Inters – 2nd and 3rd Individually – Georgia Burlton and Nirja Das

Under 19 Yorkshire Inters – 2nd and 3rd – Holly Tillyer and Ezaania Mayor-Choudry

North of England Under 19 and Under 15 Trampolining Novice and Intermediate Level Silver Medalists

North of England Under 19 Elite Trampolining Champions

North of England Under 11 Novice Silver Medalists

North of England Under 11 Novice Individual Champion – Isabella Cancello

North of England Under 11 Intermediate Bronze Medalists

North of England Under 11 Intermediate Individual Bronze Medalist – Emily Slight

National Under 11 Milano Gymnastics Bronze Medalists – Emily Slight, Isabella Taylor, Isabella Cancello, Trinity Everett

National Under 19 Milano Gymnastics Finalists – 4th place – Freya Grant, Alice Prescott, Rina YokoyamaNichols, Jessica Rodgers, Mia Wheatley, Rebecca Vega, Phoebe Prescott, Holly Tillyer

National Under 13 Milano National Finalists – Louisa Slight, Imogen Hasan, Milli Gleadhall-Romanach

National Under 11 Floor and Vault Finalists – 4th Place – Emily Slight, Isabella Taylor, Isabella Cancello, Trinity Everett, Isobel Riddle, Harriet Addy

National Under 11 Novice Bronze Medalists – ChiChi Ushewokunze, Annabelle Seymour, Isabella Cancello, Isobel Riddle

National Under 11 Intermediate Silver Medalists – Emily Slight, Harriet Addy, Erin Denton, Bella Cotton

National Under 19 and Under 15 Novice Finalists – Lydia Campbell, Alice Prescott, Ezaania MayorChoudrey, Imogen Todd, Madga Elmalik, Alexis Bell, Phoebe Prescott, Lana Jaiswal

National Under 19 Elite Trampolining Champions – Freya Grant, Caitlin Burlton, Rebecca Vega, Ella Payne

National Under 14 Intermediate Bronze Medalists – Louisa Slight, Georgia Burlton, Nirja Das, Ella Gardner-Thorpe

National Under 13 English Novice Champions – Georgie Morritt, Sarah Maatouk, ChiChi Ushewokunze, Rose Tricklebank

National Under 11 English Novice 6th Place – Bella Cotton, Ria Gupta, Annabelle Seymour, Anashe Vera

National Under 9 English Novice –4th Place – Nicole Waring, Mihaela Lumin-Ogbuagu, Amelie Carr, Erin Denton

Hockey 2021-22

Under 12 SFSS City winners

Under 13 Winners county round In2Hockey tournament. 3rd North East tournament

Under 14 SFSS City winners and County champions

Under 15 SFSS City winners. North East Champions. Qualification into North Round – 3rd overall

Under 16 SFSS City winners and County Champions

Badminton 2021-22

Key Stage 3 SFSS Tournament

Runner Up Meeknakshi Paniker and Henna Shuji-Ud-Din

Under 17 Yorkshire 1st Team

Madeleine Cropley

Under 13 National Doubles Champion Mia Fox

Under 15 England Gold Doubles Champion Mia Fox Grace Sachdeva

Under 15 England – Captain

Under 15 England Girl’s Doubles National Champion

Under 15 England Mixed Doubles Bronze Medal

Under 17 England Girl’s Doubles Silver Champion

Netball 2021-22

Under 16 SFSS Tournament winners, 5th At Regional Round, National Schools

Under 15 SFSS Tournament winners

Under 14 SFSS Tournament winners 5th at Regional Round National Schools

Under 12 SFSS runners-up

Under 10 SFSS Tournament – 2nd and 3rd place

Under 11 SFSS Tournament – 3rd place

Under 9 Mylnhurst Invitational Champions

Under 11 Mylnhurst Invitational Champions

Under 11 SFSS League runners-up

Primary Cross Country

Year 3/4 SFSS Cross Country City Champion – Carlotta Bailey

Year 3/4 SFSS Cross Country League Champion – Carlotta Bailey

We congratulate the following girls on special achievements:

Sophie Flint on selection for the England Under 18 Hockey Team

Eleanor Walker – Under 16 England Rounders Team Player

Libby Davidson – Under 15

Loughborough Lightning Netball futures squad and Under 17 Loughborough Lightning NPL squad

Holly Styan – Under 18 Loughborough Lightning squad and GDST Select squad

Georgia Robertson, Charlotte Bianchi and Sophie Bromley –swimming at British Championships.

Charlotte Bianchi – Junior British 200M breaststroke champion (Achieved in April 2022)

Mia Fox and Grace Sachdeva –Playing at National Representative

level in badminton. Grace was the most successful England female player at the six Under 17 Badminton Nations in April 2022 (team was 4th overall)

Eleanor Hartley – GDST Athletics Champion – Long Jump, 100M, 300M

Imogen Pieters has been selected to represent Great Britain at the European Youth Championships in Hungary from 1st-4th July and at the Junior World Orienteering Championships from 9th-17th July in Portugal

Carlotta Bailey (Under 10) –Wakefield Duathlon – runner-up. Harrogate Aquathon Champion. Huddersfield and Holmfirth Triathlon – runner up. These meets came under the umbrella of the Yorkshire Triathlon series.

School Sports Awards

Hockey progress cup – Kat Melson and Anika Kacker

Netball progress cup – Libby Davidson

Gymnastics Progress – Rebekah He Trampolining Progress – Rebecca Vega

Badminton progress – Hena ShujjaUd-Din

Rounders progress – Maddie Cropley Tennis progress – Blythe Brock

Junior All rounder – Katerina Melson and Hana Jokhi

Senior all rounder – Elinor Cropley Loyalty to school sport – Hannah Blyth

Athletics

Hockey Hana Jokhi Alysha Ferriera Georgia Leek Eleanor Hartley Amelie Nourry Sophie Stewart Gabrielle Leek Leila Allcroft Isabel Peberdy Isabella Stoddard Katie Halsey

Netball – Under 15 Amelie Goodson Freya Lobley Aanya Shadija Kat Melson Louisa Slight Under 17 Libby Davidson Ellie Styan Elinor Cropley Under 18 Holly Styan

Swimming Charlotte Bianchi Sophie Bromley Georgia Robertson

Gymnastics Jessica Rodgers

Orienteering Imogen Pieters

Golf Lucia Maturi

Badminton Grace Sachdeva Mia Fox

Tennis Blythe Brock Hockey Sophie Flint

Badminton Maddie Cropley Grace Sachdeva Mia Fox

Cricket Maya Gupta – Under 13 Yorkshire

SPORTS COLOURS

Full Colours

Netball – Holly Styan

Hockey – Izzy Watts

Badminton – Anjali Tamahankar

Gym – Mia Wheatley, Rina Yokoyama-Nichols, Alice Prescott, Holly Tillyer, Phoebe Prescott, Rebecca Vega

Trampolining – Alice Prescott, Lydia Campbell, Ella Payne, Caitlin Burlton, Rebecca Vega

Hockey Anika Kacker Kat Melson Sophie Stewart Phoebe Emmans

Trampolining Caitlin Burlton

Rounders Eleanor Walker

Half Colours

Gym – Louisa Slight, Milli Gleadhall-Romanach, Imogen Hasan

Trampolining – Phoebe Prescott, Imogen Todd, Holly Tillyer, Holly Archbould, Ezaania Mayor-Choudrey, Holly Richards, Magda Elmalik, Georgia Burlton, Nirja Das, Ella Gardner Thorpe, Louisa Slight

Rounders – Libby Davidson, Eleanor Hartley, Elissa Tailor, Safi Ismail, Amelie Goodson, Ellie Styan, Maddie Cropley, Phoebe Walton Athletics – Eleanor Hartley

County England Talent Pathway Region (Yorkshire and Humberside) Country

DUKE OF EDINBURGH AWARDS

Bronze Silver Gold

Priyanka

Sankaralingam Caitlin Burlton

Amelie Spedding

Olivia Abraham Neelum Ahmed Zara Alford Kira Baxter Amani Choudhry Elizabeth Chung Isobel Dunigan Lydia Fixter Kinysha Gavai Emily Hinchliffe Suhani Kansra Eleanor King Varsha Prakash Sara Syed Sophia Whitford Emily Edwards Anyaa Shekar Sanah Batt Scarlett Warburton Eloise Welch Imogen Todd Sophie Li-Heathcote Isabella Day Ruby Burrell Isbah Ahmad Eleanor Speight Sophie Mirza Daisy Kirby-Baker Jorjia Morris

Jomana Khamas Nong Mi Yu Blythe Brock Millie Saywell

Amelie Goodson Phoebe Walton Constance Howarth Thea Kerry Elissa Tailor Elizabeth Hunter Daria Vasile Alice Lumb Manya Gupta Bethany Ibbotson Eden Joel Drennan Pippa Simpson Ezaania MayorChoudrey Isabella James Ananya Gaitonde Ellie Styan Isabella Wright-Coe Millie Coldwell Camilla Addy Maha Gohar Pranavi Pindiprolu Millie Haworth Joanna Gunn Freya Richards Alysha Ferreira Jasmine Lone Emily Bamforth Rosie Thaw

Isabelle Watts

Katerina Goebel

Marianne Pummell Stephanie Li Alisa Ivanov

Millicent Brock

Isobel Sibree-Dolan Isabelle Patterson Alicia Clegg Jessica Timmins Ang Xiao Millie Wilkes

Amelia Lowe Abigail Holden Fangyi Xu Eleanor Rose Clarke Antonia Chung Samira Sanders Amelie Jouan Gabrielle Hobson Alyssa Ramlakhan

Hannah Blyth Rebekah Hald Grace Mitchell Hannah Taylor Isobel Ryder Molly Shah Lucy Walters Lily Ward Carys Fleming Georgina Leveckis Khushi Gupta Jessica Nolan Chioma Uchegbu Adithi Ravishankar Sophia Day Ifeyinwa Anumba Charlotte Hardy Jilan Zaki

Alice Marsden Felicity Eady Georgia Wakely Alison Thompson Holly Styan

Welcome to the world…

We welcomed…

We were delighted to invite some fantastic new members of staff into the Sheffield Girls’ community this year.

Samuel Andrews

Part-Time Teacher of English (Temporary)

Imogen Fraser

Teacher of Psychology (Temporary)

Sarah Grantham Junior School Teacher (Temporary)

Katherine Keeley

Teacher of EAL

Rachel Manders

Teacher of English Sarah Metcalfe-Murgatroyd Head of Careers

Mrs Agar welcomed Charlotte Elizabeth Agar on Wednesday 22nd December 2021

Benjamin Plowman Head of Mathematics

Declan Bower Catering Assistant

Jessica Barnsley Chemistry Technician

Louis Garnham Physics Technician

Jecasta Parish Tea-Time Club Assistant

Patrick Nabarro

Part-Time Teacher of English

Gillian O’Connell

Teacher of Biology (Maternity Cover)

Thomas Hillman

Teacher of Classics

Alice Fernandes

Supply Teacher

Helen Ryan Head’s PA & HR Officer

Caroline Rodrigo Supply Teacher and Teacher of Science

Sophie Usher Music Leader (Infants & Juniors)

Benjamin Reed Caretaker

Conor Ramskill AV Technician

Ophelia Parish Communications Officer

And we bid farewell to…

We unfortunately had to say goodbye to some of our faces and we want to thank them for all their hard work.

Joanne Hibberd Catering Assistant

Mr Mowatt welcomed Arran Matthew Mowatt on Monday 4th April 2022

Daniel Caprice IT Technician

Inderpal Ponsford Biology Teacher (Supply) Susan Ashworth Uniform Shop Manager

Melissa Saunders Science Technician

Christina Mycock Head’s PA & HR Officer

Hannah Bloomer Art Technician

Dagmar Ruhmkorf Head Of German Sophie Wright

Digital Marketing Officer

Bill Marriott Cover Supervisor

Mrs Burne welcomed Alice Julia Burne on Friday 3rd December 2021

Michael Hukins AV Technician

Katherine Hurdley Music Leader (Infants & Juniors)

Abigail Barker Librarian

Gary Rogers

ICT Operations Manager

Samuel Andrews

Teacher of English (Temporary)

Mireia Barrachina Plo

Teacher of MFL & EPQ Co-Ordinator

Jeremy Carter

Teacher of Physics

Lauren Rutkowski KS2 Teacher and Maths Lead

Helen Simpson Head of Cookery and Nutrition

Fiona Torr Teacher of Mathematics

Andrea Wright Senior Science Technician Gillian O’Connell

Teacher of Biology (Maternity Cover)

Jecasta Parish

Tea-Time Club Assistant Sarah Grantham Junior School Teacher

Rachel Manders

Teacher of English

Imogen Fraser

Teacher of Psychology (Temporary)

Ayse Storr Head Of Psychology

Sue Hogg

Infant and Junior Learning Assistant