Year 8 visited London this November on a cultural visit to the capital accompanied by Ms. Poyser, Sr. Quintana and Ms. Brunton. There were so many highlights for our students but for the staff, the stars of the week were the BSGC pupils themselves. Wherever we went, the children were complimented by members of the public and everybody we met on their outstanding behaviour, manners and desire to learn; they made their teachers feel so proud of them.

Our itinerary for the week was packed solid. So, we hardly had time to rest with theatre visits, museums, sightseeing, a boat trip, playing in the park, bowling and lots, lots more. We were thrilled by Harry Potter, amazed at the Natural History Museum's Variety Show and had the fright of our lives in the London Dungeons.

To find out more about our journey of discovery, check out our Twitter page at @Londontrip2018.

On Tuesday 6th November, Tafira's Year 6 came into school dressed for a British WW2 experience day. We took part in drama activities, worked out our rations for the week and wrote diaries as evacuees. Each pupil was given their ´British´ name and was given a tag to identify them as evacuee children would have had during the war! They also made carrot cookies to help them ´see in the blackouts´ and learnt a wartime classic song, to keep spirits up! The experiences, whilst very enjoyable, were invaluable in helping them to understand more about this period in history and empathise with the children who were separated from their families for a long stretch of time during the 1940s.

On Saturday 20th October the junior hockey team (who train at the after-school hockey club on Mondays and/or Thursdays) participated in their first tournament of 2018-19. Accompanied by their parents, they played on the hockey pitch in 7 Palmas against several other local schools.

They made it to the final where they were unfortunately beaten. Nonetheless, they played well as a team and were cheerful even in defeat. They showed a good level of sportsmanship which reflects well on the school.

During the judging of the KS3 Tutor Display Board Competition on Wednesday 24th October, we were very impressed with the effort that had been put into each board. All tutor groups came up with interesting and eye-catching designs. Well done all!

We were really pleased to see how much effort the students had made with their boards. It was great to see that across all the tutor groups one of the main messages was about the importance of knowing and caring about each other. This is so important in our daily school life and a great message to share with all students.

In the end, the winning tutor group was 8MS as we felt their board was the most engaging and included lots of important and fun information about the tutor group. Second place went to 7CB who particularly impressed with their "Star of the week" initiative and the Cupcake idea for birthdays! 8TP claimed third place, especially for their use of the Periodic Table due to the fact that their teacher is Miss Pallaris.