LGBTQ+ History Month Challenge

There were some creative entries in this competition, view them HERE.

Aleena Azam (Year 7) - Austen, won with her informative and beautifully designed poster on Neil Patrick Harris an American actor. Aleena quoted Harris saying that ‘sometimes you can have the smallest role in the smallest production and still have a big impact’ which we see such evidence of in our co-curricular programme.

In second place was an entry from Anya Pawar (Year 9) – Hepburn, who focused on fictional LGBTQ+ icons in her wall display/poster.

In third place was Leila Kurta (Year 9) – Franklin, with her poster ‘Pride is not defined by only one flag’ poster.

ACS Food Glorious Food

Following the ACS Food Glorious Food Event, we joined the Bake Off with a bonus round where girls could make an African or Caribbean dish to enjoy with their cookies. We have had some fantastic entries ranging from Caribbean rice and peas with jerk prawns to an entire African Feast! It has been a pleasure to judge the bonus round. Hopefully, we will be able to taste all the brilliant dishes next time.

If you would like to cook an African or Caribbean dish at home, you can browse our Food Glorious Food Booklet here for some inspiration.

Winners:

Staff - Mrs Sonia Barber (Head of Business and Economics) – Franklin.

Senior School - Eleni Zorn (Year 10) – Chanel.

Junior School - Lucy Melvill (Year 6) – Nightingale.

Highly Commended:

Staff - Mrs MacKenzie (Marketing and Development Officer) – Franklin.

Senior School - Holly Stuart (Year 7) - Parks and Jessica Parrish (Year 8) – Chanel.

Junior School - Aarna Naran (Year 3) – Nightingale.

BGS Thank You NHS House Bake Off – Week 6 – Cupcakes

It’s been raining cupcakes this week throughout the BGS community.  There have been some spectacular cupcake entrants with some very imaginative designs.  Great baking all round.  Well done to all entrants.

Overall winner – Reyah Rizwan (Year 7) – Franklin. Reyah has worked so hard on her cupcake decorations and she has clearly triumphed. What a wonderful display of amazing cupcakes.  Such an amazing tribute to all the workers of the NHS

Senior School

1st Place – Senior School – Leigh-Ann Cudjoe (Upper Sixth) - Hepburn. Leigh-Ann’s cupcakes have been decorated with precision and really embody our thanks the wonderful workers of the NHS.

Joint runner up – Charlotte Sanders (Year 11) – Hepburn.

Joint runner up – Holly Stuart (Year 7) – Parks.

Junior School

1st Place – Francesca Woolley (Year 5) – Chanel. We loved the decorations on Francesca’s cupcakes, all hand made.  Well done Francesca, they look delicious.

Runner Up – Ottilia Reger (Year 3) – Chanel.

Existing Competitions

There are plenty of House Points up for grabs in the penultimate week of the BGS Bake Off competition. The final deadline for this week’s decorated cake competition is Monday 15th March

The Bake Off competitions can be entered on Google Classroom using the following code: r7y4sgk

Line by Line Project created by Karissa Singh (Upper Sixth)

This is an exciting project for any student in the senior school to take part in, to add a little creative spark to your lockdown life. It's called LineByLine and it's a chance to unify all our voices in one large poem that will be displayed in the school as a legacy to our lockdown life

Please see Mrs Axford’s email for the details. Enter HERE.