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Bromley High Sixth Form news
DUKE OF EDINBURGH
GOLD AWARDS
Congratulations to Ursula Goddard and
Anna Myers who have now received their
Gold Duke of Edinburgh Awards.
This is an exceptional achievement.
Ursula and Anna (recent BHS Leavers July
2015) received their Gold Duke
of Edinburgh Awards from Prince Philip.
The Awards Ceremony was held at St
James’ Palace.
‘Today was amazing! The presentation was
done very nicely, Prince Philip was on good
form and the palace was lovely too, we were
sat in The Throne Room! The guest was
Brooke Kinsella, who set up charity after her
brother was fatally stabbed eight years and she
spoke very nicely too. All in all it was a very
successful day.’
Ursula Goddard
‘I am really proud of what the girls have
achieved and anticipate more Gold’s next
Year.’
Mr Evans DoE coordinator,
Bromley High School
‘It was a lovely day
indeed.’
Anna Myers
GDST YOUNG LEADERS’ CONFERENCE
In October Bromley High’s Head Girl team attended the annual Young
Leader’s Conference held by Royal High School in Bath.
Two incredibly influential and inspirational speakers: Ann Francke and
Debra Searle, spoke to us about what they had learnt as leaders and how
they had learnt to work in teams. Fully equipped with this new wisdom,
we were divided into our mixed teams for the weekend and introduced to
our charities; these were Barnardo’s, Plan, The Lilly Foundation, and Jo’s
Cervical Cancer Trust. Our task was to invent a fundraising event or
campaign that our charities could use along with all the advertising, a 30
second promotional video, and accurate finances.
In our teams we tried some team-building activities led by the British Army.
Activities like attempting to build a standing structure only out of logs and
rope that could support four members of our group helped to break the ice
and give an indication of which people were suited for what roles.
This helped us easier allocate roles by the end of the day.
Early the next day we started to better embellish our ideas. However our
first deadline was already at half nine, so we had to work quickly. By
lunchtime we had concluded our trip to Bath town centre and thus had
finished our market research. For my team, this meant we had asked several
pedestrians questions to do with the appeal of our event, our prospective
name, and whether or not they had heard of our charity. Taking on board
these comments, we continued planning our overall campaign, designing
the adverts and physical product (which for us were hampers to be sold in
supermarkets) and recording our finances. Having secured a sponsorship
from Sainsbury’s, our product looked as though it would generate a lot of
revenue.
By 4pm the pressure was on, as other teams’ Twitter accounts went live
across the big screens in the Royal High’ s Sixth Form centre. Presentations
for the next day were being planned and rehearsed, and every team’s
projects were in their final stages. Sunday morning right through to lunchtime
was dedicated to each team giving their presentation to a panel of
judges and all the other teams. Two of the teams containing Bromley High
Head Girl team members won a prize: Kat Chrysostomou’s team won for
Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust, and Laura Johnston’s team won for resilience in
the face of numerous technical difficulties.
Although we were all tired on the journey back we fervently discussed the
skills we had learnt while at the conference, and how we were going to
apply these lessons to our own team. As director of my team, I learnt how
manage large groups of people. Overall, the conference was highly informative
and incredibly relevant, as well as being entertaining and excitingurging
us to throw ourselves even further into our Head Girl Team roles
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