Meet this year's Head Boy and Head Girl

Towards the end of each academic year, staff and students vote for who they would like to form the next Prefect Team.

The School's Head Boy and Head Girl are the student figureheads of our School community and play a vital role in supporting the day to day activities that go on across the Junior, Senior and Sixth Form from welcoming prospective families at open events to taking leading roles in School activities.

This year, Emma Herritty and Adithya Manigandan were chosen as our 2021-2022 Head Prefects.

The Prefect Team also consists of the following students: Rosie Bennett, Oliver Brookes, Arun Giri, Cian Gopal, Josh Harris, Morgan Lathbury-Cox, Lucy Munson, Olivia Roberts, Anya Rogers and Beth Seager.

Fact file: Adithya Manigandan

• Adithya joined Wolverhampton Grammar School in 2015, in Year 7, from the Old Hall School in Telford. Emma and Adithya were in the same form with Mr Wood in 7Q!

• Adithya is currently studying Maths, Physics and Geography at A Level and will be going on to study Aerospace engineering at university.

• He can often be found in the sports hall either using the cricket nets with Mr King or using the multi-gym.

• Adithya loves sports, playing centre back in the football 1st XI as well as being cricket captain.

• Did you know that Adithya really enjoys skiing and has been to Austria three years in a row in Years 8, 9 and 10 on the School ski trip?

Fact file: Emma Herritty

• Emma is studying English Literature, Religious Studies and Theatre Studies.

• She is a member of the National Youth Theatre after completing her intake course in August 2021.

• After Emma has completed her A Levels, she plans to take a gap year with plans to travel and focus on some passion projects before going to university.

• In the seven years she has been at the School, Emma has been in every school play available to her.

• Did you know that Emma knew she wanted to be Head Girl since Year 7? She feels very lucky to have achieved this goal after working incredibly hard during her time at school.

School celebrates Founder’s Day

First held by the School in 1902, the purpose of the Founder’s Day Service has always been to reflect upon and celebrate the generosity and altruism of our founder, Sir Stephen Jenyns, as well as other benefactors who have helped the School over its 500 year history. Back in St Peter’s Church after a one year break due to Covid, the service was attended by students in Years 10 – Upper Sixth. A specially recorded version of the service was shared with all other year groups in school. Special thanks to Reverend Michael Loach for his interesting and engaging address highlighting the importance of love and community, and to Reverend David Wright and all of his team at St Peter’s Church.

Rapper and Poet Inspires Young People on National Poetry Day

In celebration of National Poetry Day 2021, we were delighted to welcome rapper, poet and educator Breis into Big School to conduct a wonderfully entertaining poetry workshop with Year 9 students.

Breis stressed the importance to our students of writing on topics about which they are truly passionate. He went on to engage his audience by performing examples of his own rap poetry, which culminated in a freestyle poem linked to the items that our students had in their pockets. The end result of this final performance was particularly impressive leaving our students fully inspired and motivated to explore more poetry by Breis.

Following Breis’ workshop he and Annie Everall from Authors Aloud UK

Join a community like no other

The start of term saw the launch of our new 'Work with us' webpage and staff recruitment video. This all formed part of our mission to encourage more people to register their interest for job alerts, as well as to promote the benefits of working for one of the oldest schools in the country.

If you would like to watch our new video and register your interest for future job alerts, visit: www.wgs.org.uk/work-with-us/ were guest judges for the School's Poetry Live Final in Big School. Congratulations to everyone who took part, but a special mention goes to our three winners for their expert performances and imaginative poems:

Ammar Saherwala in Year 7

Devina Sharma in Year 11

Laura Partha Sarathi in Lower Sixth