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Spring Term Excellence Book

Senior School | Sixth Form

01 April 2022

We are constantly amazed by the high quality of work produced by pupils of all ages here at EHS. In recognition of that talent and hard work, each term teachers are asked to nominate outstanding or excellent work to the Excellence Book. This term, we have once again seen work of an extraordinarily high calibre produced by girls in every year and across a range of subjects. Congratulations to the following students in the Senior School and Sixth Form for some exceptional work.

ART

Norehan Elkhazin (Y9)

An excellent acrylic painting inspired by the Day of the Dead Festival.

Hannah Gray (Y9)

Completed this painting of a Poppy Seed in Art as an extension activity. A true masterpiece.

ART GRAPHICS

Anna Litchfield (Y12)

For stunning graphics work. The detailed captured in her Graphics artwork was extraordinary.

DESIGN TECHNOLOGY

Seville Turkay (Y10)

For a beautiful design work and for explaining her ideas with clarity.

Elisa Calebiro (Y8)

For a fabulous detailed poster on the designer Vivienne Westwood. The use of fabrics on the poster was a particular highlight.

Amrita Dhillon (Y8)

For a wonderfully detailed and informative piece of work on Vivienne Westwood. Amrita captured the essence of Vivienne’s life and work. Very impressive.

Manahil Saeed (Y8)

For a lovely poster on Vivienne Westwood charting her work from 1971-1999. Excellent detail and careful presentation.

Lana Khan (Y8)

For an exquisite booklet that Lana created on the designer Mary Quant. Lana made the booklet herself and then populated it with lots of information and pictures of Mary’s life and work.

Kate Stockton (Y9)

For her Teen Vogue article on Cotton production. The detail, thought and effort that went into producing the article was excellent.

Tiffany Latham (Y8)

For an excellent and informative poster on Vivienne Westwood. Tiffany researched the rebellious side to the designer and thought carefully as to how she would present the information so that Vivienne Westwood’s iconic colour themes ran throughout.

Lily Mobasher (Y10)

For excellent design work and development of her ideas. Lily’s final design of a blue panelled dress was stunning.

ENGLISH

Jaikirit Bindra (Y10)

For an outstanding essay on the novel ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’. The detail and analysis of the theme of bravery and courage in the novel was fantastic.

Aava Avari (Y10)

For a fabulous essay on bravery and courage in the novel ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’. Wonderful use of language to convey great understanding of the novel and themes.

Isabella Jackson (Y7)

For an excellent Macbeth diary entry. Isabella captured the character very well and her work was wonderfully detailed.

Zoe Teredesai (Y7)

For a first rate piece of work capturing the confusion and ambition of Macbeth. Zoe’s teacher called the diary entry ‘detailed and dynamite’.

Sana Mirza (Y8)

For conveying Maggie’s voice in Hobson’s Choice exceptionally well and for using interesting language to bring energy to her writing.

Ruqayyah Hanif (Y8)

A fabulous and detailed diary entry showing how much Ruqayyah has understood the storyline of Hobson’s Choice.

Amrita Dhillon (Y8)

For an interesting depiction of Maggie that conveys a side of her that we do not at first always see. Powerful emotions conveyed through wonderful descriptions.

Simar Bharya (Y8)

For writing a very detailed diary entry that showed Simar’s understanding of Hobson’s Choice. She captured the voice of Maggie very well.

Manahil Saeed (Y8)

A fabulous and detailed diary entry showing how much Manahil has understood the storyline of Hobson’s Choice.

Ifeoma Onwunaje (Y8)

For capturing the voice of Maggie in Hobson’s Choice brilliantly in her creative writing.

Year 8

Ester Aliyu, Niamh Crosbie, Jessica Brodie, Eleena Ahmed, Christie Johnson, Milly Wood, Manasa Sundar, Elsie Fraser, Alyzah Hussain, Tiffany Latham, Anya De, Lily Clarke, Harleen Garcha, Anika Dhopatkar, Ali Croke-Lennon, Zhian Rahman-Jackson, Humna Khan

Students analysed the Play ‘Hobson’s Choice’ and decided to bring the play to life as it would be today. TikTok videos were created which showed an excellent understanding. This was celebrated in the Hexagon and videos were showcased and explained brilliantly.

Safa Iqbal (Y8)

For working independently to produce a wonderfully creative and existing ‘Story in a Jar’

Isla Batchelor (Y7)

For a fantastic modern version of the dagger speech in Macbeth. Isla translated the Shakespeare text very well and conveyed an accurate tone to the character of Macbeth.

Abigail Hedges (Y7)

For an excellent, detailed and accurate modern version of the speech. Abigail’s understanding of the characters and language of the lay shone through.

Rhiana Rafeeq (Y8)

For creating an excellent Story in a Jar called ‘Journey in the River Sea’.

FOOD & NUTRITION

Olivia Whittaker, Sophie Robinson and Aliya Soonsara (Y7)

For fabulous Christmas Pudding shaped truffles give to Mrs Macro before Christmas.

 

 

GEOGRAPHY

Manahil Saeed (Y8)

For an incredible detailed and engaging fact file poster on the Matis Tribe. Manahil researched the tribe extensively and was particularly interested in the use of frog poison.

Tiffany Latham (Y8)

For an excellent poster fact file on the Yanomami Tribe. Tiffany selected a wide variety of information to record and displayed it in an engaging way.

Jasmine Kalirai (Y9)

For a wonderful poster on tourism in Iceland. Jasmine went with the ‘Land of Fire and Ice’ themes.  Excellent detail and fact included.

Norehan Elkhazin (Y9)

For producing a detailed and beautiful poster on Tourism in Iceland. The drawings were lovely and there was excellent attention to detail.

HISTORY

Nethara Rajapakse (Y9)

For a fantastic poster about winning the vote in 1918.  The detail is incredible and Nethara has expertly captured the propaganda style of the day.

Daisy Drake, Matilda Goodrham, Phoebe Hughes, Daisy-Mae Thompson (Y7)

For a fantastic Horrible Histories entry that was so much fun and educational. It quite made Mrs Macro’s day watching it.

Kiri-Anmol Sandhu (Y8)

For a fantastic video presentation with an accompanying model demonstrating the Tudor religious rollercoaster. Wonderfully informative and imaginable.

Humnah Khan (Y8)

For creating a fantastic and original film on religious rollercoaster of Tutor times. Excellent and expert IT skills shown, as well as being fun and informative.

Anya De (Y8)

For creating a boardgame from scratch to demonstrate the Tudor religious rollercoaster. It demonstrated effort and originality. Anya also made her own dice – that worked!

Zoe Teredesai (Y7)

For completing a fantastic extension piece on the French Revolution. Her research and understanding of such a complex part of French History was excellent.

MATHEMATICS

Samara Kulatunge (Y9)

For creating a newspaper style piece of homework entitled ‘The Mathematician’. Sumara went above and beyond what was asked and taught both Mrs Lee and Mrs Macro something new in the process.

Hafsa Butt and Jannah Hussain (Y10)

For creating a fantastic video resource on how to solve quadratic equations by The Quadratic Formula. Mrs Macro particularly enjoyed the jaunty music playing in the background.

Maia Kanagaratnam and Dhruti Modhvadia (Y10)

For creating a brilliant video on ‘similar’ shapes that could be used as a teaching/revision resource. Mrs Macro was taken back to her GCSE Maths days.

Ruby Gayle, May Hadley, Pavi Ventakatramaiah (Y10)

Produced a fantastic Maths Podcast. The podcast was funny, highly informative and wold be an excellent resource for teaching Trigonometry. The work was produced for extra homework in Maths.

Shanya Kulatunge, Karishma Mangal (Y10)

Produced a fantastic Maths Podcast. The podcast was very informative and included some amazing sound effects. It was both fun and detailed. A great way to teach Simultaneous Equations.

Liyah Hasseb, Guneet jandu, Manahil Saeed, Emily Shalabi (Y8)

For conducting excellent research on the smallest thing in the human body and linking this to topics covered this year.

MODERN FOREIGN LAUGUAGES

FRENCH

Hannah Gray (Y8)

Excellent pieces of writing homework on cinema and myths.

Abigail Tomlinson (Y12)

For two outstanding pieces of French written work, one of the film Au Revoir les Enfants and one on preserving World Heritage sites. Abigail writes with finesse, understanding and an ability to easily manipulate another language. Exceptional work.

GERMAN

Alyzah Hussain and Maya Ramirez Sidhakumar (Y8)

For an excellent homework in German where they wrote about her favourite day.

Maya Sidhakumar Ramirez (Y8)

Truly excellent written homework, with great detail, accurate and beyond what she had been taught in class. Best thing ever!

Rasunpreet Kang and Elizabet Marton (Y9)

For their amazing resulst of 100% in the recent assessments.

RELIGIOUS STUDIES

Elsie Fraser (Y8)

Elsie provided an outstanding TED style talk explaining the Buddhist view on suffering. Exceptional effort and exceptional attitude to RS.

Alyzah Hussain (Y8)

 

Alyzah provided an outstanding TED style talk explaining the Buddhist view on suffering. Exceptional effort and exceptional attitude to RS.

OTHER

Layla Majid (Y9)

For being a wonderful role model to Prep girls. As part of her Prep Liaison role she helps out on the playground ensuring that the girls have someone to talk to and play games with.

Bethan Harris (Y13)

For sharing her revision techniques and highlighting different ways to approach learning a huge amount of content for examinations.

Elizabet Marton and Alice Huo (Y8)

For excellent participation in an Audience with EHS, answering both pre-prepared questions and ones from the floor.

Charlotte Bragg and Zhian Rahman-Jackson (Y8)

For excellent participation in an Audience with EHS. Both Charlotte and Zhian thought that the event was helpful for prospective pupils.

Marlah Gill, Sarah Gray, Lottie Holloway, Isabella Jackson (Y7)

For excellent contribution in an Audience with EHS. They fielded questions from the floor very well and showed great adaptability.

Shanya Kulatunge, Charlotte Linford, Karisham Mangal, Carmen Sanchez Diamente, Amy Sargeant (Y10)

For excellent contribution in an Audience with EHS. They adapted easily to the event being online were able to engage with the audience in a warm and welcoming manner.

Hilde Perkins, Tabitha Stuttard, Freya Taylor (Y7)

For excellent participation in an Audience with EHS. The girls showed adaptability and quick-thinking.

Tiffany Latham (Y8)

For being selected to represent EHS at the English Schools’ Swimming Association National Championships. This is a fantastic achievement and a great honour for both EHS and Tiffany.

Sakinah Rahman (Y9)

Sakinah was commissioned to write a poem for the year group assembly. It was commended by all.

Amelia Groves, Anna Litchfield, Abida Mohamed

For helping out in Q&A session in Prep assembly. The ‘triple’ as they are now known as in Prep answered lots of questions on life in Senior school and were wonderful ambassadors.

Alice Coles, Anjali Doal, Daisy Drake, Phoebe Hughes, Layla Majid, Daisy-Mae Thompson, Matilda Goodrham (Y9)

For an outstanding assembly on Adele. They spoke, danced and sang beautifully. A really excellent and polished performance.

     

 

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