STOP PRESS! - SCHOOLS CHALLENGE QUIZ TEAM MAKES IT TO NATIONAL FINALS
In a tight Inter-Regional match against Queen Margaret's, York, our Schools' Challenge Team won a very narrow victory 560-530, taking them through once more to the National Finals at the end of April.
Well done to James Harrison, Kyle Lam, Christian Cummings and Luke Sperry - and good luck for the finals!
British Biology Olympiad competition 2010
The results have been announced for the British Biology Olympiad competition. Well over 1800 of the best candidates from the top schools across the U.K. were entered, and the standard of answers on the Theory paper was apparently outstanding.
Congratulations to all our entrants:
Gold Award: Simon Berry*
Chris Heining*
Arun Nachiappan**
Bronze Award: Matthew Wilson
Highly Commended: William Foster
Louis Resnick
Chris Thomas
Commended: George Watkinson
*Simon, Chris and Arun were all placed in the top 40 in the UK after the first round, and were asked to sit a second set of theory papers. This is a fantastic achievement.
**This week it was announced that Arun had made the final 12 contenders for the British Biology Olympiad.
He will now spend 3 days after the Easter break, at BirminghamUniversity, undergoing theoretical tests, extra training, and practical skills tests in order to pick the British Team of four. Hopefully he will be following in Ted Pynegar’s footsteps, and will be representing the UK in Korea in July 2010!
Gold, Silver and Bronze award medal winners have been invited to receive their medals from Professor Steve Jones at Imperial College London in June.
EMACT LATIN AND GREEK READING COMPETITION
On Wednesday, 3rd March Nottingham High School hosted the EMACT Latin and Greek reading competition. Nine schools took part and there were 140 students involved which meant that there was a high standard across the 6 categories and the competition for prizes was fierce.
21 students from NHS (from Yrs 7-13) took part.
In the Novice Latin Section Kuda Nyatsuro & Archie Mann were placed second.
In the Junior Latin Section Edward Limb & Harry Bateman and Sanjay Puri & Alexander Taylor were highly commended.
In the Senior Latin Section Thomas Sims was highly commended and Richard Hill won the second prize.
Finally, in the Senior Greek Section both Thomas Sims & Kyle Lam were highly commended.
Well done to all those who took part!
SCHOOLS CHALLENGE QUIZ TEAM RETAINS REGIONAL TITLE
In the Schools Challenge National Quiz competition's regional final, which took place on Tuesday, 23rd February, the NHS A team defended their Regional title once again. There were 9 teams in total competing for the Regional title, including an A team and a B team from NHS.
In the first round our A team (James Harrison, Kyle Lam, Christian Cummings, Luke Sperry) beat Boston Grammar School's B team 830-430 and our B team (Chris Heining, James Pell, Callum Giberson, Edward Limb) beat Spalding Grammar School's A team 550-430 which set up an all Nottingham High School semi-final.
In a tightly fought semi-final our A team narrowly won by 710 to 620 to set up a final against Boston Grammar School's A team, which we won 820-460. Our B team also won the 3rd place play-off against Spalding Grammar School's B team by 870-180.
It was an excellent competition and well done to both our teams.
MICHAEL WINS COUNTY CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIP
Michael Costante (Year 9) won the U15 race at Berry Hill to become County Cross Country champion. He led the race from start to finish to defeat a large field. He goes on to represent Nottinghamshire in the English Schools National Championships in March in Manchester. Well done, Michael, and to the U13, U15, and U17 teams who also had medal-winning success at the event.
ANUJ WINS COVETED TITLE OF NOTTS JUNIOR SPORTSPERSON OF THE YEAR
Last Friday evening, in a prestigious ceremony at the East Midlands Conference Centre, Anuj Dal (Year 9) was crowned Junior Sportsperson of the Year at the Notts Sports Review.
The event was attended by some of the most influential sportspeople from across the county, including boxing champion, Carl Froch who won the Sportsperson of the Year award.
Member of the England U16’s Indoor Cricket Squad, Anuj was one of five finalists at the event who had been chosen from an initial 40 nominations. Also finishing in the Top 3 was squash champion Oliver Holland (Year 11), and the Year 10/11 badminton team, last years’ national champions, were in the final five of the Junior Sports Team of the Year.
Congratulations to all our finalists, and especially to winner, Anuj!
JAMES SELECTED AS MEMBER OF WORLD CLASS TALENT SQUAD
School Captain, James Taylor, has been selected for the British Orienteering's inaugural World Class Talent Squad. This is a fantastic achievement! The World Class programme has recently been launched to recognise talent and potential, grouping athletes by ability rather than by age. The programme begins with the Talent Squad, whose aim is to identify talent and those who have the potential to become a successful performance athlete. Well done, James - and good luck at the international training camp in Portugal at half term!
ASTRONOMY ON HAWAII
As part of a Physics Club project, two year 7 students, Ben Mills and Carter Newbury, have used the Faulkes Telescope on Hawaii to obtain stunning images of the galaxy M101, often referred to as the “Pinwheel Galaxy”. The Faulkes Telescope is a robotic telescope that can be operated remotely via the internet.
The image of M101 shows the central bright nucleus made up of millions of low mass old stars. Away from the nucleus, spiral arms are seen which show up as blue. This blue colour is produced by young, very large stars that radiate huge amounts of energy in the blue and ultraviolet region of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Both Ben and Carter aim to use the telescope again in the near future to gain more beautiful images.
