Eco-Schools Awards

Highgate School is delighted to have received the Eco-Schools Green Flag at today's award ceremony in Nicosia. The Green Flag is awarded to schools which have implemented a programme of environmental awareness and responsibility in their curriculum. We are particularly proud as this is the second time we have received this award.

Visit to Garden Centre

Our Reception, Rec/Year 1 and Year 1 classes recently paid a visit to the Solomou Garden Centre as part of their work about Plants. They all enjoyed the visit very much and were able to plant their own flowers to take home.

Creative Writing Awards

We were delighted to welcome today the winners of the recent Island wide Creative Writing Competition, hosted each year by Highgate School. Prizes were awarded to children in each year group from Years 1 to 9. The title for the Primary School was A Day in the Life of....., and for the Secondary Adulthood: Embrace it or Hate it. Entries came from English-medium schools across the island, most of which were represented among the winners.

Highgate is particularly proud of our own winners:
Year 1 - Ioanna (First Prize), Year 2 - Annie (Second Prize), Year 3 - Alexandra (First Prize) & Katia (Second Prize), Year 4 - Lika (Commended)

Congratulations also to Karim (Foley's School) and Sofia (American Academy, Nicosia) who were given the Promising Young Writer's Award in recognition of their outstanding pieces of writing.

Book Week

During Book Week this year, our visiting author was Sheilla Helliwell, author of the Magic Murphy Stories and Children's Short Stories. Sheila visted all the classes in the Primary School on Tuesday 16th March, reading stories to the pupils and helping to inspire our young writers!

Recording Stars!

Pre-Reception went to a recording studio yesterday to make their very own CD! Their recording can be heard by clicking the link to our Podcast site.

Stars of the future!!

Annie's boat

Year 2 and 3 are going on a trip to Ayia Napa tomorrow to visit a man who has been building a boat. Annie made this lovely model as a present for him. Well done, Annie!

Tag Rugby Competition

Highgate is extremely proud of its Tag Rugby teams, following the National Competition held yesterday in Limassol. Our two teams - Under 9s and Under 12s - played schools from many other schools.


 

Although we have only been playing rugby for a few months, our teams played magnificently and showed great determination and team spirit. Congratulations also to Ms. Emma, our chief coach and team motivator! Well done everyone!