A big welcome to our new year 7 & 12 students starting today. We look forward to seeing everyone else again tomorrow.

And the winners of the Times Shield are...Pierson! See you all in September 😀

HBS Week: As term comes to an end, 19 Sixth Form students along with Mr Thorp, Miss Rainbow and Mr Merrison have started a 3 week adventure to Malaysia, You can follow their trip via the school website. On Wednesday the Year 7s returned from the 4 day Isle of Wight Kingswood trip. They took part in a range of activities, including water sports and a scrapheap challenge. 25,003 merits have been awarded this year to students in KS3. Congratulations to Finley Dawson Year 7, Joe Adams Year 8 & Callum Drummond Year 9, who were the prize winners! On Monday and Tuesday Year 9 & 10 had their house cricket competition. Tomorrow we will find out which house has won the overall shield. School finishes tomorrow at 12:30. Before then there will be the sports assemblies and the final whole school assembly on the quad.

HBS Week: This week the new 6th form prefect team have organised a charity week to raise money for the British Heart Foundation. There have been cake sales, non-uniform day, penalty shoot-outs against the staff, live music and a mobile splat the rat. This afternoon international Para-badminton player, Gobi Ranganathan has been in giving a talk to Years 7 to 10. Three years ago he was found to have a serious heart condition and had to have open heart surgery. That hasn’t stopped him either – he has fought his way back to fitness, and is once again representing GB in para-badminton. On Tuesday there was the Year 8 & 10 house cricket. The inter-house athletics started on Wednesday and finished this morning. This afternoon has seen the house quiz. On Monday the Year 12 Geography trip returned. On Tuesday Year 9 went to Whipsnade Zoo. On Wednesday there was a Young Enterprise trip to Google and the Bank of England Museum. On Thursday 170 Year 6 students arrived for their Secondary transfer day. They had a great time in their new forms and enjoyed a range of lessons in the afternoon. Auditions have started for next years production of Spamalot and this morning 2 Year 10's gave an assembly on our new radio station.

Boys in years 7-10 enjoyed an assembly this afternoon given by Paralympic badminton star Gobi Ranganathan and Janet Woodall from the British Heart Foundation, this year's national charity selected by students. The Senior Prefect team organised a range of fund-raising activities this week, including a cake sale and 'Wear it Red' non-uniform day. Year 12 student and County badminton player Max had the chance for a quick game with Gobi in the hall between assemblies.

House sports day in full flow. Field events on Friday after the wet weather this morning.

The HBS Summer Ball, held on Saturday 1st July in a marquee in the school quad was a great success, with over 200 tickets sold for the event. Entertainment from 'The Definitive Ratpack' helped things to go with a swing and the Casino and Funny Photo booth were busy all night. The Head Boy and Senior Prefect team worked very hard to sell raffle tickets and raise money, but also had time to join in some of the fun. Our provisional total profit is over £7,000, which is a tremendous sum. Many thanks to all who supported it, and helped with all the arrangements. See you all again in two year's time!

HBS Week: Year 12 Geography students are currently in the Lake District. Year 8 & 9 students spent last weekend in Belgium & France on a Warfare trip run by the History department. Year 10 have been on work experience and we look forward to hearing their stories when they come back in next week. Year 11 came back in for 3 days of sixth form induction, trying out lessons and a range of different group sessions. Year 7 & 9 had their house cricket competitions and Year 8 became District Champions with a 53 run victory over Marriotts. The Year 10 Athletics team followed up their National Championship by winning the Hertfordshire County Athletics Final. The Year 8 team were also amazing and finished 4th.

Congratulations to our Intermediate Athletics team, number one in the country! English Schools National Athletics Champions 2017. Great effort and dedication by all the athletes, Mr Bajak and the PE department.

HBS week: Today is Founders Day when we celebrate the foundation of the school in the 1630's and the end of the school year for our Year 11s and 13s. Years 11 to 13 went to St.Mary's church with students from the girls school. Key Stage 3 had a celebration assembly in the main hall and Year 10 in the tennis centre. Year 8 & 9 had cricket matches and our athletics team was all conquering at the district athletics. Tomorrow our intermediate athletics team takes part in the national final, heading into this ranked number one in the country. On Wednesday we welcomed more Year 6 students. Year 10 had a PSHE morning and there was a science and technology trip to the Big Bang Fair. Thursday saw the arrival of the Herts Air Ambulance. We also had the house science competition and this afternoon year 7s will take part and watch the house swimming gala.

All ready for Founders' Day...