CGA July 2010 Newsletter
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“Excellence in Education for All”
Newsletter July 2010
Sue Kayser’s long
association with John
Kelly Girls’ Technology College and more
recently The Crest
Girls’ Academy, began
in 1990 when she
became head of the
modern languages department. She taught
German and led a large and thriving
languages department.
While continuing as head of department she
took on a new role in initial teacher training
at the SSAT and when this became a full
time job Sue left John Kelly.
However she did not stay away for long.
When she returned she fulfilled a number of
roles; Assistant Principal, Head of 6th form
and the college bursar.
Sue believes that our students’ lives should
be enriched by a diverse range of activities
which they would not normally be exposed
to. As head of department she organised
trips abroad and when she became a local
magistrate she set up workshops for pupils
in Brent to experience the workings of a
magistrate court first hand.
One of Sue’s great passions is horse riding
and she has enabled our students to have
the opportunity to attend horse riding
lessons, an activity that was unique to
pupils in Brent when it started. Hundreds
of girls have attended the weekly lessons,
taken part in competitions, participated at
events in Wembley and helped with fund
raising activities.
Some girls are still members of the riding
club they were introduced to in year 7.
Since Sue ‘retired’ from teaching she has
been busier than ever. Already on the John
Kelly board she became Chair of Governors in 2008 and when John Kelly became The
Crest Girls’ Academy she continued in this
role.
Always a ‘hands on’ person she has worked
tirelessly to ensure that the transition from
John Kelly to The Crest Girls’ Academy has
been as seamless as possible. Her
innovative ideas about the new academy
buildings and structures will form part of
her legacy.
Whatever Sue decides to take on next she
will surely pursue it with her customary
enthusiasm and zeal and of course she will
be continuing the weekly horse riding
lessons at The CGA.
Mrs P Webber, Assistant Principal
Year 10 GCSE art students were invited to
take part in an art competition based on
the theme of ‘Hate Crime’. The competition
was organised by Brent police and fourteen
schools in Brent took part.
The students investigated the theme and
came up with a wide variety of different
ideas.
The competition was judged at Capital City
and Anastasiya Kurlovich came second.
Ethel Fuenzalida , Mehrun Shah, Kristen
Beaumont and Samana Gurung were all
runners up.
Sue Kayser Stands Down as Chair of
Governors
Year 10 Brent Art Competition
‘Hate Crime’
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by Anastasiya Kurlovich
The Year10’s attended an awards ceremony
at Al-Khoei Foundation on 7th July.
The ceremony began with a speech by the
Mayor of Brent and was followed by
speeches by other notaries. The girls really
enjoyed the speech by Chris Preddie from
Crime stoppers. Sarah Teather, MP for
Brent gave out the awards.
After the ceremony the girls were given
lunch and prizes; a £10 voucher for the
cinema and Anastasycia received art books
from the Tate Gallery. Anastasycia will now
be helping at the Willesden Gallery for the
day with Lorenzo Belenguer helping him
mount his next exhibition. This will give her
an interesting insight into the working practice of an artist.
The five runners up also went to the South
London Gallery on the 18th July for a day of
workshops and art events. Well done to
them all.
Ms C. Blackburn, Curriculum Leader
Expressive Arts
The Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship
(NFTE) five day programme gives year 9 an
opportunity to learn about how to start and
run their own business.
Day 1 was a fun packed day full of
inspirational business ideas. The students
had to complete a pre-task called the NFTE
win, lose or draw. The students had to
take £1 and try and make profit from it.
Razieh Mohammed from 9E purchased a
scarf for £1 and sold it for £3. She then
took the £3 she had made and purchased
another three scarves and sold them for £3
each. Razieh kept going back and forth to
buy and sell her scarves.
NFTE Win, Lose or Draw
The £1 Game
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She made SALES of £120 and a PROFIT of
£119!
Razieh donated all the money to charity
(even the £1 she started off with!).
Ms Halai, NFTE coordinator
Twelve of our year 8 gifted students
participated in the Brent and Harrow
Science and Technology Challenge day held
on Thursday 24th June 2010.
They worked in teams with other schools on
a rota basis and completed three of the four
challenges on the day; bridge building,
programming a toy robot, building a model
car and designing a floating buoy. The
students did very well and enjoyed the day.
We had yet another successful year giving
primary school pupils the opportunity to
visit The Crest Girls’ Academy and
experience working in a laboratory.
The topics this year varied from micro
organisms with Wykeham Primary school to
states of matter with Brentfield Primary
school.
The students are always very eager and
they participated in all the activities with
great enthusiasm.
Ms van der Walt, science teacher
The geography department took forty two
year 10 students to the seaside in
Worthing, West Sussex on Monday 12th
July.
The students collected data for their GCSE
coursework as well as enjoying the sea and
the tourist attractions of the town.
Everybody had a wonderful time – Amina
Adan wants to go again as soon as
possible!
We look forward to taking the new year
10’s there next year.
Mrs Sheehy, geography teacher
Year 10 Geography Trip to Worthing
Science Primary Outreach
Brent and Harrow Science and Technology Challenge
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On Tuesday 13th July eighty students from
year 7 and year 11 went on a day trip to
France with seven members of staff. We
left at six o’clock in the morning and
returned at ten in the evening.
We travelled on the ferry to Calais and then
drove to Wimereux, a lovely town by the
sea. The students played by the sea and
ate their lunch on the promenade. Some
students used the French they had learnt in
the classroom to buy ice-cream from the shops.
Then we went to City de l’Europe, a
shopping centre where girls bought lots of
souvenirs and sweets for their friends and
family.
The students were well behaved and
enjoyed their very long day, but they were
very tired in lessons the next morning.
Ms Hemamda, Curriculum Leader,
modern foreign languages
On 20th July the EMTAS and SEN
departments organised a trip to Greenwich.
Fifty girls took part in this ‘new experiences
day’. Some girls had never been to central
London before and this trip gave them the
opportunity to encounter a whole new
world.
We took the underground to Westminster
where we looked at The Houses of
Parliament, Big Ben and the London Eye.
From there we took a boat and had a
guided commentary along the river
Thames. Not only did we learn a lot about
the surrounding buildings but we were
greatly amused as the presentation was
very humorous.
On arrival at Greenwich we admired The
Royal Naval College and had a picnic in the park. We played and ate ice cream.
EMTAS/SEN Trip to Greenwich
Day Trip to Wimereux, France
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For our return journey we took the DLR
which allowed us to have a close look at the
beautiful buildings in Canary Wharf.
The day was full of fun and everyone
enjoyed it immensely.
Ms Stoyanova
On Wednesday the 8th July all of year 8
participated in a Stop the Clock day
workshop organised by Mr Mackenzie and a
team of Brazilian facilitators.
Inspired by images taken by a group of
street children from Rio de Janeiro, the day
involved learning about aspects of Afro-
Brazilian history and participating in some
cultural activities. These were then used to
explore some of the difficulties faced by the
poorest and most vulnerable groups in
Brazil today.
Through these activities, which include
‘Capoeira’ (a Brazilian martial art form),
percussion, theatre and image analysis, the
girls saw how culture is being used
creatively to challenge negative stereotypes
and empower young people in Brazil.
With an increasing number of Brazilian girls
now in the academy it also provided a good
opportunity for the rest of the girls to learn
a little bit about the history and culture of
their new friends.
Mr MacKenzie, Spanish teacher
On 9th July The Crest Girls’ Academy
completed their first sports day at Willesden
sports centre. There was glorious sunshine
which made the day special. The girls took
part in a variety of events from football to a
tug of war tournament. Other events
included 100m, 200m, 300m, long jump, 3
legged race, space hopper race and finally
the 4x100 relay.
The event which caused the most stir was
the bucking bronco competition. It was so
popular that even the staff joined in on the
fun.
The houses became alive throughout this
event and a real sense of pride and
belonging became more apparent. There
were house songs and banners and looking
down the stands all you could see was a sea of colours. The girls poured their heart
and souls into their events with Turquoise
House becoming overall house champions.
The First Crest Girls’ Academy Sports
Day Year 8 Brazil Stop the Clock Day
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Thank you to all students and staff for
making The Crest Girls’ Academy first
sports day so special.
Ms T Ayles, Year Director of Learning,
year 8
From September
2010, we are finally
opening the doors to
our Food Academy
for all students. This
has been a 2 year
project for the Design Technology
department and we are very excited that
we are now ready to start cooking!
Licence to Cook is an entitlement for all
students in secondary schools in England. It provides a programme to enable students
to learn to cook and understand the
principles of diet and nutrition, health and
safety and wise food shopping.
More details to follow….
Mr McGill, Assistant Principal
On Thursday Evening
15th July fifty actors,
musicians and dancers
presented a “Cabaret!” in the main
hall at The Crest Girls’
Academy. Led by
Chante Joseph and
Elleyne and Elham
Asghari as our
incomparable hosts, the audience of
families and friends were presented with a
whirlwind of famous scenes and songs from
stage and screen.
Highlights included scenes from “Titanic”,
“Finding Nemo”, “Blood Brothers” and there
was a surprise highjacking by the evil Dr
Zorg (who looked uncommonly like a
teacher in the technology department…)
Thank fully the twins were armed with
unlicensed nuclear accelerators strapped to
their backs and they saved the world from
imminent destruction by Dr Zorg’s ray-gun.
There were moments of real tenderness,
especially in the scenes presented by the
year 10 drama class. We were taken to the
trenches of World War 1 to that special
Christmas Eve when there was a voluntary ceasefire, and then to the drawing room of
a soldier’s wife who shared a letter with us
from her husband, and who never made it
home from the front.
But – as Chante so aptly put it – “life is a
cabaret old chum!” and the evening
finished on a high note with Siti Awled and
Maryam Osman leading the great Queen
song “Somebody To Love”.
Food Technology comes to the CGA
CABARET Expressive Arts Performance
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It was a mammoth undertaking at such a
busy time of year and thanks must be
made to the students behind the scenes,
without which, the evening would never
have been a success.
Special thanks to Shilan on the sound desk,
April on audio-visual, Baiyan and Koular on
lighting, Shukri and Charlotte for stage
management, the sixth form girl’s film crew
and the front of house girls.
Thank you also to the expressive arts team
and supporting cast, Mr Kaveris, Mr
McDonnell, and Mr Tydda.
We couldn’t have done it without you!
Ms K Whitlocke, head of music
On Thursday 22nd July the students and
staff celebrated their third celebration of
the year. Our special guest was Sue
Kayser, performing her last task as Chair of
Governors. The hall was full of students
eagerly anticipating the result of the house
point competition. But first we were
treated to acts from the ‘Cabaret’
performance from the night before.
Many students received prizes and
certificates from their heads of house and
Ms Kayser.
Finally, the moment had arrived… the
announcement about the winning house,
who had gained the most house points –
Turquoise had won. Congratulations!
This has been a fantastic first year for the
new house system and especially thanks
must go to the heads of house: Ms Ahmed
and Ms Appah (acting head of house for
two terms), Ms Ercan, Ms Halai, Ms Hartley,
Ms Patel, Ms Pindoria, Ms Seymar, and Ms
Shepherd.
Mrs P Webber, Assistant Principal
The Third CGA Celebration Assembly
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Fourteen years ago, in 1996, a young girl,
an Afghan refugee arrived in the UK with
her family. They had emigrated here to
escape the war in Afghanistan.
The young girl’s name was Muska Khpal.
She arrived; unable to speak a word of
English and she came right here to The
CGA, then known as John Kelly Girls’
Technology College.
Muska quickly established a reputation for
herself, studying very hard, and learning
English with such alacrity, that she was
soon top of the class in not only that
subject, but virtually every other subject
too. Teachers and staff remember her as a
cheerful student, always asking advanced
questions about her subjects.
She passed her GCSEs with flying colours,
getting some of the best results of her
year, and joined the sixth form to study
biology and chemistry. Her ambition was to
become a doctor and build hospitals to
treat children in Afghanistan.
Muska was an all round student, who
embraced everything positive that life had
to offer. She did not have a privileged
background, but that didn’t stop her from
attaining her goals.
Hence, in 2004, Muska’s continuous hunger
for new learning experiences found her
being chosen to participate in a Channel 4
Documentary “My Shakespeare”. Produced
and directed by Baz Luhrmann and
Paterson Joseph, this was a production of Romeo and Juliet, using young amateur
actors, some, like Muska, who had never
acted before.
Muska won the coveted role of Juliet, and
four weeks later went on to become a star
receiving standing ovations at a RADA
Theatre, when she played “Juliet” to
perfection. The documentary was shown
on Channel 4 in December 2004.
Muska Khpal’s ‘A’ level results were again
amongst the best the school had seen, and
she was given the opportunity to study
medicine at the highly esteemed St.
Georges University of London Medical
School.
Muska first spent a year working at JKGTC
as an LSA, helping students who were in a
similar situation to herself, when she first
arrived in the UK.
Muska Khpal worked very hard indeed. Her
idea of rest and relaxation was continuing
her interests in acting, and subsequently
appearing as an actress in the film
“Exodus” in 2007.
This summer, 2010 – Doctor Muska Khpal
graduated from St. Georges University.
Muska is an inspiration to every student, in
every school, regardless of race, colour or
creed. She has taught us that through hard
work and ambition, you can achieve your
goals, your dreams.
Her legacy to us is simple; work very hard
and you can achieve anything!
Mr T. Akinbule, ICT Systems
administrator
A Tribute to Muska Khpal Medical Doctor
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