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The pupils and staff from Ahmed House have worked hard this year under exceptional circumstances taking part in the Interhouse competition. Historically our events have been team based, practical, physically demanding and more socially interactive. The challenge this year was for pupils to participate in a socially distanced competition, relying on their hard work, resilience and honesty while taking part in challenges online. Ahmed House staff have done a fantastic job and delivered many exciting challenges which have kept pupils engaged, brought them together to socially interact in online teams, and developed our pupils beyond their classroom lessons. Fun and engagement has been at the heart of our events, which included mystery kidnappings, code breaking exercises, my personal sporting best, guess the teacher/historical figure/place/object, and quizzes testing knowledge of different subject areas throughout our school. The Ahmed House Captains have been fantastic. Samer Baqla is an aspiring young gentleman who is conscientious and has been dedicated to doing the best for our House. Nadeen Yousif Khalil is a young lady who is intelligent and always happy and willing to take the lead. All our Captains and Vice Captains have led by example, participating in planning House events. It has been clear to me that all members of our team, including our Charity and Representatives in have wanted to do as much as possible this year to get involved, through our meetings discussing participation and engagement, and by each taking responsibility to lead events taking place in school. I look forward to working with all of our Representatives next year, and to welcoming new pupils who choose to develop themselves through taking leadership roles.
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The best Ahmed House pupils participate with all members of our House demonstrating kindness and creativity. My favourite memories of Interhouse this year have been when walking into rooms with pupils talking, laughing, and smiling together. Experiencing the creative work done in art projects or seeing how pupils represent themselves through their character boxes. I have listened to teams trying to break codes and analysing clues to solve mysteries. And after these sessions I have received messages from different pupils telling me how they each enjoyed their experiences. By focusing on the similarities that bring us together, as well as the differences which make all of us unique, our House becomes stronger. Life is all about doing your best. If you are blessed with the character to happily enjoy working, learning, exploring creativity and experiencing together, then you can win any competition
Well done for keeping strong and doing your best in Interhouse 2021.
One team, one vision!
This year was different to any other year; it was strange and unusual however, Ahmed House still made it incredible to experience. While participating in Interhouse with my year or leading the Year 11s, we showed teamwork and resilience to complete the different quizzes or doing the my personal best activity. I am very proud to be part of Ahmed House who never fail to make me laugh and create such a positive atmosphere. Thank you to everyone who participated and helped whenever they could, I am so happy that I was a house leader this year.
Nadeen Yosif Khalil, Year 12 - Senior Vice Captain
Interhouse events have been quite different this year due to the circumstances, but they have still been absolutely amazing. I really enjoy when we all get together as a House and try to solve the various challenges and puzzles thrown our way. Both the staff and pupils have put loads of effort into making these work and it awesome to see. I have made some great memories from Interhouse, the most recent of which being the guess who, what and where challenge. This Interhouse was so much fun and it was great to see everyone trying to guess the answer before the next clue. I am really proud to call myself a part of Ahmed house and it been incredible seeing how well everyone works as team this year.
Rebecca Mathew, Year 9 - Middle Captain
Interhouse events this whole year have varied between brain teaser quizzes to Olympic challenges. However, amazing memories have been made throughout every Interhouse event. But my favourite memory made was when classes would share their creations they made in the arts and crafts challenge, even though everyone was in different houses. Being a part of Ahmed House is an amazing responsibility, and I am so glad to be a part of it. It is always a blast to have everyone working so hard as a team during events.
