to evaluate two new digital story apps this year, for the Children’s Digital Book Award. The competition aims to reward apps, e-books and other digital interactive products, using children as part of the judging panel.

The newly-formed Queen’s Gate Digital Book Club set to work in the Summer Term, meeting one lunchtime a week to explore and evaluate two shortlisted interactive story apps, the ‘Children’s Intel Agency’ app and ‘The Famous Five Adventure Game’.

Girls then created videos reviewing the strengths and weaknesses of each app; alongside submitting posters and forms to give a thorough overview of their thoughts and feelings. The club concluded that their favourite app was ‘The Famous Five Adventure Game’, based on Enid Blyton’s celebrated series of the adventures of Julian, Dick, Anne and Georgina, and of course Timmy the dog.

Much to our delight, the ‘The Famous Five Adventure Game’ was announced as the overall winner on Friday 12 July at the UKLA international conference, where the School was also awarded with a special certificate, in recognition of all the hard work that they put into the judging process – the only school to be granted this honour.

Show to enhance their gardening knowledge, pupils have been taking part in a charity project in partnership with Thrive and Grow for Life. The two charities provide therapeutic gardening opportunities for those with learning difficulties or suffering with mental health difficulties, and our girls have been volunteering their time and skills to create magical fairy gardens at Thrive Battersea ready for a summer children’s programme.

Continuing their hard work outside, pupils hosted the annual Queen’s Gate Flower Show in the Senior School rooftop garden on Thursday 4 July, in aid of the two charities. The show was a colourful success, raising over £200 and it was wonderful to see what they have been cultivating this term!

had an excellent start to their Biathlon careers at the Whitfgift Summer Biathlon. It was an incredibly successful day of competition, with every QG pupil placing and receiving a medal. Well done to all involved!

U12 Girls

Silver medal team – Ella, Izabel and Ava

U13 Girls

Individual 2nd place – Cecilia

Individual 3rd place – Mika

U14 Girls

Gold medal team – Hannah, Melinda and Eleanor

Silver medal team – Gioia, Chloe and Ines Mathais

Individual 3rd Place – Melinda

They sat on various committees including the Security Council, Finance, Human Rights, Health, Disarmament, and Environment, competing against more than 170 students from 15 schools. As always, the girls had prepared thoroughly beforehand and had accumulated a considerable amount of information on their allocated countries.

The topics debated ranged from the Israel-Palestine conflict to the question of water security, and the financial inclusion for women to the elimination of medical black markets, to name but a few. The QG delegations played a full part, proposing motions and amendments, making points of information and voting on the resolutions.

In the afternoon, they also took part in a global ‘crisis’ and were asked to respond to a topic that was unknown to them prior to the conference: the fictitious breaking news that Iran had invaded Israel and had used chemical weapons. The girls had to think on their feet and their debating skills were tested, always mindful that the role of the UN is to avoid war.

It was a hugely successful MUN conference and the QG delegations won two highly coveted individual awards out of the 12 available at the MTSMUN.

Congratulations to Luna Middleton-Roy and Diane-Sophie Capelle, who received the prestigious ‘Best Delegate’ award – both girls dealt exceptionally well with the pressures of representing France and displayed confidence and impressive maturity throughout.

Taking part in an MUN conference requires a huge amount of preparation beforehand, as well as the courage to stand up and make your voice heard in a competitive debating environment. Dr Lee.

Best of luck to the pupils taking part in the final conference of the academic year, at The Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School in mid-March!

prevented our girls from achieving success. This year our results have been a mixture of letters and numbers, with over 80% of the results being graded A*/A or their equivalent 9/8/7 in the new system. 37% of the results were given the new grade 9. Almost half of UV gained all A*/A or their equivalent and five girls achieved all A*s or 9s.

Principal, Mrs Kamaryc, commented, ‘We are very proud of all our girls’ achievements today at GCSE. Many congratulations to all the girls who have worked hard and deserve their success, but thank you also to our staff who too have worked hard and offered tremendous commitment, and to our parents who have supported their daughters and staff on the journey to GCSE – an excellent team effort! The staff and I send the girls our warmest congratulations and good wishes for Sixth Form and A Levels – well done, all of you!’

achieve these excellent results and they all deserve our congratulations.

Mrs Kamaryc, the Principal, commented, ‘We are sad to say goodbye to such an excellent cohort, but they have exciting new adventures ahead as they set off to University, both in the UK and States, Art Colleges and Gap Years. The staff and I congratulate all the girls and wish them every success and happiness in the future – remember that you will always be Queen’s Gate girls and we look forward to your visits back to School!’