The Gresham’s Enterprise Team have now received shipment of Gresham’s pins with the new design and have started selling them at all events. They have also set up a pop-up shop in Tig’s Café, located in the Britten Building, every Saturday.

Year 13 pupil Aidan gave his legendary Chapel talk, promoting the new product, which boosted their sales.

Further, Year 12 pupil Willem has created a new order form for all Enterprise products. To access the form, and place an order, please click here. 

Make sure to order while stocks last!

Georgie Coles, a member of The Paper Birds Theatre Company, came to Gresham’s on February 23rd to host a drama workshop with Year 12 Drama A Level and IB1 Theatre pupils. As A Level pupils, they have chosen to use The Paper Birds as the practitioner for their first performance exam piece exploring the dangers of social media. The workshop was an excellent way of giving all pupils involved an insight into how the theatre company create their plays. It also allowed them to generate scenes and ideas that can help to develop their performance exam piece. In this workshop, they did a wide variety of activities: from choreography, to verbatim by using each other’s opinions on social media and creating a performance using those exact words. With the skills they gained, they made a scene which would work really well in their exam piece. The pupils found The Paper Birds workshop extremely helpful, allowing both A Level and IB pupils to fully engage and further develop their acting skills.  

Pupils from across the School have been contributing to a mass participation art installation which features around 800 paper doves suspended above the West end of the Chapel.

Last week every pupil in the school was given the opportunity to write messages or prayers for peace onto a paper dove as we discussed the current situation in Ukraine. Together these doves have created a stunning display and a wonderful visual point of reflection for our community.

It has been wonderful to welcome back Old Greshamians to talk about their post Gresham’s career journeys and give inspirational talks to current pupils.

OG Lucy Bethell (c &O 1986 – 98) talked about her study and career journey to her role as Environment Consultant with Mott MacDonald.

OG Grace Pitkethly (c&E 2003 – 15) talked about her studies post Gresham’s, degree study of ​Anthropology to her role from 2020 as a statistician with the Civil Service.  She talked about the multitude of roles and opportunities with the Civil Service, an employer of over 450,000 people and the number one graduate employer. 

Gabbie King (OG) spoke to staff and pupils about her career at Accenture as a technology and innovation consultant. Having worked with some large companies world wide including HSBC, Coca Cola, Sky and Virgin Money since graduating with an Economics degree, Gabbie has helped them use technology to better connect with their customers (sustainability is a large part of this as well as product enhancement). She joined Accenture’s graduate scheme eight years ago and enjoys using different skills to those that pupils might commonly associate with an Economics degree and is a STEM for women mentor within the company.

This was an engaging presentation for those interested in this area.

Pupils and staff enjoyed a very helpful and inspiring talk from OG Angus Clogg on his study pathway to becoming a qualified Architect and now working for a large London practice.  

Angus explained that the pathway to becoming an architect is a three-part study programme. Part one is to study a bachelor’s degree at a RIBA-validated university. After which you will need to do a year’s work experience. Part two involves studying a postgraduate degree, with further work experience required.  Lastly, part three involves taking a course at a final RIBA validated institution. If you would like to to chat to Angus and have further questions, please contact Mrs Osborne who will put you in contact.

Careers / UCAS

All of Year 13 had a presentation on Applying for University Finance.

If you have any questions please contact Mrs Mousley, Gresham’s UCAS coordinator [email protected]

Gap Year information

Sixth Formers has a Gap Year Information Session on organising a gap year post Covid /the impact of Brexit, together with companies talking about the opportunities they offer. If you would like further information please contact Mrs Osborne, Head of Careers at [email protected]

Eight runners from Gresham’s made the journey to Mousehold Heath in Norwich on Saturday for the second fixture in the East Anglian League Cross Country against Norwich School, Ipswich and RHS. On a perfect day for cross country running, runners in all age categories performed strongly, despite problems in the squad with injury and covid isolation. In the intermediate boys, Sam G finished a creditable third place. The Gresham’s girls all distinguished themselves with Grace H finishing second, Maya P third, Lily C 4^th and Molly P 5^th. In the senior boys’ race, Ned P notched up his second consecutive victory and there were also strong runs for veterans Joe O (4^th) and Archie K (6^th).

Congratulations to Ben W and Ben P for remaining on the Nottinghamshire Cricket Academy for another year. Year 12 pupil Ben W is a ‘batting all-rounder’ cricket player and has made seven appearances for Notts’ Under 18s. Year 11 pupil Ben P is a ‘fast bowler’ and was a consistent threat for Notts’ Under 18s in 2020, finishing the season as his side’s third-highest wicket-taker with 11 scalps across ten matches. Both players have proven themselves during appearances for the team in previous years and their continuation with the academy sets them up for further improvement within the sport.

Charlie H has also excelled in securing a place in the Northamptonshire Academy Junior Pathway and will be on the team for the first time this year. With all three pupils working hard to secure their places on the teams, we look forward to watching them develop as players throughout the year.