We are thrilled to announce the 2022 Girls’ Leadership Group (GLG) and Prefects team, which provides a platform for our students to have a real impact in the school and the wider community.
For the 2022/23 academic year, we have created three new roles within the GLG, which will resonate with students' interests and passions. We are excited to be introducing a Sustainability Captain; a Diversity and Inclusion Captain; and a Junior School Captain, together with their corresponding Prefects.
Oluwatobiloba Apesin has been named as the Head Girl. Serving alongside her will be Scarlet Stokes (Deputy Head Girl, Operations). Alishba Khalid will be Diversity and Inclusion Captain, Alice Hartshorn will become the Sustainability Captain and Anna Mathew will be the Junior School Captain.
Kimya Ghods will be heading up the Sixth Form’s charity work as Service Captain, Athena Kurtti has been named Arts Captain, and Amy Hall will be in charge of Sports.
House captains have also been appointed, with three prefects supporting each captain, Head Girl and Deputy Head Girl.
House captains: Leah O’Reilly (Austen), Avani Tambe (Chanel), Aimee King (Franklin), Mimi Seward (Hepburn), Eliza Constantine (Nightingale) and Emily Armitage (Parks).
View the full GLG list here.
Outgoing Head Girl, Masooma Sultana reflects on her time of leadership: “On behalf of the GLG, I would like to congratulate the incoming GLG in their new roles. Having the opportunity to interact with students in the Lower Sixth this year and seeing the hard work they have put into making their mark on BGS, I have no doubt the new GLG will work well together to achieve their goals and campaign. It will be a refreshing change on the road back to normalcy for the GLG to work closely throughout the school, and I am confident that they will thrive in the new situation. I cannot wait to see all that they achieve!”
Incoming Head Girl, Oluwatobiloba Apesin said: “I joined BGS in Year 7, and since, I had always aspired and looked up to the previous Head Girls, to me, they were the people I aspired to be: confident yet approachable. These students made such a huge impact on me growing up and definitely helped shape that person I’ve become and am continuously becoming.
“It is such a privilege to be made the Head Girl for the upcoming 2022/23 academic year. I hope to have the same positive impact the previous GLG had on me and on the younger members of the BGS community. I want to promote the idea and sense of person and identity that the previous GLG instilled in me: to be capable of standing confident and sure in themselves regardless of what I may face in the future, to lead with kindness and to be empathetic to the needs of others. I don't know what my lasting legacy is going to be but as long as I can make a difference in one girls’ life and schooling experience, that will be enough for me.”
The formal changeover will take place after Easter with the incoming GLG assuming their roles at the start of the Summer Term. We thank our outgoing GLG for the excellent work that they have done during another extraordinary year.
