Grey Coat Issue 9: January 2011 Jack Petchey Award winner


Melita Emanuel-Carr has won the November Jack Petchey award for her outstanding work as an athlete, student and coach. She currently trains up to 6 days a week with her basketball team and England basketball team.


She recently won the Westminster Future Champion Award.


She has made huge contributions to the PE Department for example when the basketball coach was not available to attend a game she supported the department by coaching the team. There were new players on the team and she shared her enthusiasm and motivated the team players. She is a gifted athlete and coach. Last year she demonstrated very impressive coaching skills. She used a piece of paper, drew out a tactic/strategy to outwit opponents and explained it to her team mates. She then got her team to practise whilst waiting for the other game to finish. She is a fantastic sports leader.


We are all very impressed with her commitment to sport, education and community. Ms Parish 3


Year 10 students display their public speaking skills


Assembly on Wednesday, 20th October, provided a further occasion for a quartet of Year 10 GCH girls to demonstrate their public-speaking strengths by giving a speech to Upper School students. Whilst admiration was expressed for Molly Clark's structure and Bethany Walker's lively delivery, the new panel of judges Mrs Allard, Mrs Pickard and Ms Maljee - chose Lois Cobblah to represent GCH at the Borough Final on 14th December. As a close second to Lois, Thomasin Adams was selected as the reserve.


At the end of school on Tuesday, 14th December, Lois and Thomasin prepared to travel to Westminster Academy to join representatives from the other


High praise


I would like to praise the girls listed below for their excellent efforts during the Year 9 assembly.


Year 10 : Holly Jones Thomas Adams Molly Clark Lois Cobblah


Westminster and RBKC schools for a pre-competition warm-up session. By 6pm, parents and contemporaries had gathered to offer moral support. The group of GCH girls applauded loudly after Lois, accorded an early slot, had delivered clearly and confidently. Sadly a later speaker could not overcome his nervousness and was unable to utter more than a single sentence.


The adjudicators ranged from Angela Drizi, Westminster's Director of Schools and Learning, to the media columnist, Virginia Ironside, from farmer and motivational speaker, Wilfred Emmanuel Jones, to Christopher Skilton, the Archdeacon of Lambeth, from


Westminster EBP Satbinder Kooner to Inspector Graeme Ironside and John Bottomley of 4 Acre Trust. Announced first was their choice for third place, Holland Park's Dan Kreson who had described 'Being Bosnian'. The speech given by Ohemaa Kyei Darkweh on 'Individuality' had most impressed the judges but great was the GCH joy when Lois was declared second. Unlike Ohemaa, Lois will not progress to another round but she did receive the prize of a i-pod nano. Lois can be seen and heard on: http://www.speakoutchallenge.com/ pages/regionalfinalsnorthtwentyten


Ms McMellan


Year 9: Tiffany Campbell Jordan Campbell-Weedon Olivia Sewell-Risley Omaima ElLabakh


The girls presented a debate on the motion that “Parents should be punished for the crimes of their children”. I was very impressed with the confident way that the girls spoke in front of the year group, their


ideas and the structure of their debate. They are excellent role models for Year 9 and I wish them the best of luck with their competition.


I would also like to thank Sarah Nwandu (Year 13) and Ms McMellan for their help in setting this debate up, it was great for Year 9 to see the debate in action and I look forward to them coming into a Year 8 assembly in the future


Miss Shaw


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