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January 27th, 2012
On Saturday 21st January, 25 Young Enterprise Companies from the Watford area went to The Harlequin to market and sell their own products.
Chameleon, one of this year’s Young Enterprise Companies from St. Helen’s, were awarded the top prize for “the best overall company” in the Watford area. Judges from the Young Enterprise Board questioned Chameleon about every detail of their product and company. Chameleon were awarded the best overall company prize due to their great customer service, attractive trade stand and above all their excellent product. Their product is the ‘cushion packs’ and their range includes the Sleepover, Office and Travel Editions. If you would like to find out more about Chameleon and the cushion pack then please email customerservices(at)remove-this.chameleon-ye.com or visit www.chameleon-ye.com
Our other Young Enterprise Company this year is Seedlings and they were also amongst the prizewinners last Saturday, winning the award for the “Most Environmentally Aware Company”. Their products include gift cards and soon to be launched letter sets made from seeded paper and other post-consumer materials, thus guaranteeing that no trees were harmed during the production of the paper. There is no doubt that this innovative bio-degradable, eco-friendly material which is paper embedded with plantable seeds made a very positive impact on the judges.
Congratulations to everyone involved!
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January 27th, 2012
Over the Christmas holidays, Cadets from all 3 sections of Merchant Taylor’s CCF once again gave up their time to raise money in support of Help for Heroes.
From 22nd to 24th December, over 45 Cadets were involved, assisting shoppers at the checkouts of Waitrose in Northwood and collecting over £5500.
Together, with the money raised by those who marched at Vicarage Road back in November, this means that the cadets will be able to present a cheque to Help for Heroes of £7500.00 for this year. The Cadets will also be able to present £230.00 to the Colne Valley Special Sailors, Waitrose Northwood’s Charity of the Year, as a thank you to Waitrose for allowing us to bag pack over festive season.
A huge thank you to all the Cadets who were involved in this amazingly successful event, and also to Meg Orloff who came back from University to supervise us over the 3 days. Thanks also to past Cadets Sumye Fung, Roshni Versani and Olamide Oshunniyi for coming back to support us, also to Pilot Officer Giblin and Lieutenant Colonel Colley who came along to see their Cadets in action.
Please look out for future CCF events in aid of Help for Heroes and if you would like to be involved in such events, please contact organisers Courtney Orloff or Michael Stera with your name.
If any parents would like to offer sponsorship for future events please email Courtney at courtney.orloff@sthn.co.uk
It is still not too late to donate, please visit our just giving page: http://www.justgiving.com/MTSH4H
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January 24th, 2012
Year 12 girls that embarked upon the IB programme this year took part in the World Entrepreneur’s Breakfast Club (WEB) as part of their induction. This programme was run by Mrs Bowman (IB Co-ordinator) and Mr Crowley (CAS Coordinator) and concentrates on a business venture aiming to raise money for charity.
Each girl was provided with a £10.00 start-up fund, which they were required to turn into £100.00 in ten weeks. We began with a brain storming breakfast session in which we decided to divide into three groups. The next stage was to come up with ways to raise money, although investing our capital was easier said than done…
Iman Datoo in Group 1 decided to exploit her talents for art and produced some pieces that could be sold at markets and fairs. She has raised money previously by doing this and was able to sell her artwork at a gallery opening. This worked well, as the money could be used to buy the art supplies, whilst the labour was free. The ten week window left plenty of time to plan when to complete the art pieces around other work.
In Group 2, Kerry Leyton and I found it difficult to establish what we could purchase with just twenty pounds and make a tenfold profit. We decided to take a risk and ask for additional donations of goods which we would use towards a raffle held over half term. We drafted letters explaining the programme with signatures from our teachers to validate our claims. We targeted beauty salons, clothes shops and cinemas sending countless emails. The response was incredible. With prizes in hand we began selling tickets throughout the term to girls and teachers alike.
Jen Lim, Alysha Chelliah and Enora Lecureley-Peran in Group 3 were less decisive about how to raise their money. From their Economics lessons, they soon realised the potential of re-investment through multiple schemes. Their initial fundraiser was a cake sale which involved nearly 300 cakes; some were donated, but most were baked. The sale was a great success and in one break time they raised (minus costs), £190! It seemed that the St. Helen’s girls’ hunger for anything sweet didn’t let them down! Luckily, Calendar Sale fell before the end of the ten weeks, so they used their £190 to invest in producing beautiful handmade Christmas cards and gift sets, which were also very successful.
In the end, we all thoroughly enjoyed raising money – although it was very hard work at times. We were provided with invaluable support and advice in our monthly meetings with our teachers and overall the experience was extremely rewarding.
In ten weeks, £100.00 had been raised for the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity (Group 2), £315.00 for RAFT or the Restoration of Appearance and Function Trust (Group 3) and £103.00 for the East Africa Appeal (Group 1).
Thank you to everyone who supported us.
Esme Stallard (Year 12)
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January 13th, 2012
On Wednesday 11th January, Madeleine Graydon, Katherine Ladd and Felicity Wareing of Year 10 participated in the English Speaking Union Public Speaking Competition at the John Lyon School in Harrow.
Madeleine gave a five minute speech on the strengths and weaknesses of this country’s justice system. Madeleine was knowledgeable and balanced in her speech, Katherine was a very effective chairperson whose summary was impressive and Felicity was challenging, considered and fair-minded in her questioning.
The girls were spirited, professional and articulate in their performances and, to their great delight, were declared the winners, beating five other schools in the process! They now go through to the regional final at ESU headquarters at Dartmouth House in Mayfair, London on Wednesday 28th March.
Well done girls!
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December 6th, 2011
Little St. Helen’s girls have been getting into the festive spirit this week by decorating a rooted Christmas tree with their thoughts on how they can help the world.
As part of the school’s focus on environmental issues, girls in Years 1 and 2 wrote down their thoughts on the ways they could help the world on little coloured leaves, which they used to decorate the tree, with a globe made out of an old ball replacing the traditional star at the top of the tree. They plan to reuse the tree each year.
The tree has now been submitted to the Christmas Tree Festival being held at Northwood Methodist Church this month, so that others can see the girls’ thoughts on how they would like to help save the planet.
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November 28th, 2011
The big highlight of last week at St. Helen’s School was the outstanding joint production of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, which took place in the Rowland Brown Hall for three consecutive nights.
St. Helen’s girls were joined by pupils from Merchant Taylors’ School and with the support of a dedicated stage crew, they created a fantastically moving and compelling production.
The play itself was set in 2050, in a London divided by gangs and competing families. The cast worked extremely well together and with a great amount of energy.
Well done to everyone that took part!
Click here to view more pictures…
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October 21st, 2011
The Eco Council in Junior School decided to invite some girls from Year 2 to plant acorns with them on Wednesday; they have now been named the Eco Elves! They are: Mya, Alex and Katya. They really enjoyed their visit and even put ideas in our Eco Box. Mr Thom, the Gardener, gave the girls a little talk about acorns and how they grow into mighty oaks. The girls hunted for their perfect acorns and planted them in their own pot. When the planting had finished, our Eco Warriors, Amirah and Tania, invited the Eco Elves to our next Eco Council meeting.
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October 14th, 2011
As part of Earth Week, environmentally friendly fashion became the focus on Monday 10th October, as St. Helen’s girls from Year 11 staged an impressive Eco Fashion Show! The show took place at lunchtime, and the girls showed off their imaginative outfits on the catwalk in the RBH. All the costumes were made out of various recycled materials and fabrics, including bin liners and plastics.
The costumes were very imaginative and the judges, Mrs Connell and Miss Rynne declared that the overall winner was Georgina Brown (11L). Runners up were Sophie Tan (11N) and Savannah King (11N) who came in second place and Martha Taylor (11T) in third place.
Congratulations girls and a big well done to all that took part!
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October 7th, 2011
Here is an update from the Sign2Sing event in February 2011:
On February 9th 2011 at 2.45pm, 94,489 people took part in Sign2Sing.
As the previous record was 13,418, the World Record has been broken!
Well done to all that took part!
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October 7th, 2011
The Sixth Form Art trip to the Royal Academy of Art to see the Degas exhibition took place on Friday 30th September on one of the hottest days of the year! The girls all had a really great time!
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